Plays by Nation - American Plays

Wine in the Wilderness

Alice Childress

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

"The drama was woven around a young girl, played by Abbey Lincoln, befriended by an artist looking for a model of a grass roots woman, ignorant and unattractive, for his triptych It opens amidst Negro ri...

$13

The Passion of Josef D

Paddy Chayefsky

Used Copy

First Printing - Random House 1964 - with d/j

$55

Marco Millions

Eugene ONeill

Used Copy

Published 1927

$35

Lynn Riggs - Four Plays

Lynn Riggs

Used Copy

Includes The Year of the Pilar & A World Elsewhere & The Cream of the Well & Dark Encounter - first Edition - pub 1947- ex University of London Library - very good condition

$40

Early American Drama

Jeffrey H Richards - ed

PenguinUSA

A fresh, revealing look at American drama between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars This collection of eight plays introduces readers to an important and neglected area of American literature English profe...

$18.00

Welfare

Marcia Haufrecht

Samuel French Inc

A Puerto Rican high school girl faced with her mother's terminal illness and an eviction notice seeks help at a welfare office She is given comfort and guidance by a radical black Jewish ex teacher, but he ...

$10.99

Collected Plays - Eric Overmyer

Eric Overmyer

Smith & Kraus

Includes Dark Rapture & In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe & On the Verge & In a Pig's Valise

$24.99

Snow White

Edna Kuder & Peter Larson

Samuel French Inc

This enchanting version of the classic story is designed to teach children the joy of being on stage It is perfect to be performed by and for elementary school children The text is easy to learn and the m...

$10.99

Blackout

Gary Lennon

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 5 Female

Blackout takes place on Christmas Eve at an Alcoholics' Anonymous meeting A diverse group has gathered to share their stories of hope and madness They crave strength, integrity and friendship as they stru...

$10.99

Indians

Arthur Kopit - Bantam Books 1971

Used Copy

$19.99

Smoke On The Mountain

Constance Ray

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 3 Female

This toe-tapping, hand-clapping musical has long been a family favorite ... The year is 1938. It's Saturday night in Mount Pleasant, and the Reverend Oglethorpe has invited the Sanders Family Singers to pro...

$10.99

Passing Through

Peter John Bailey

Dramatists Play Service

7 Male 5 Female

The time is 1944, the place Catesville, Kansas. Restless and bored with small-town life, Sarah Carson, an attractive widow of 37, contemplates selling her late husband's dry goods store and pursuing her d...

$13

Kindly Leave the Stage

John Chapman

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 5 Female

The marriage of Rupert and Sarah is on the rocks and their friends Charles and Madge, both of whom are lawyers, agree to handle the divorce After the curtain has been up a few minutes, Rupert forgets his li...

$10.99

Painting Churches

Tina Howe

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 2 Female

Gardner and Fanny Church are preparing to move out of their Beacon Hill house to their summer cottage on Cape CodGardner, once a famous poet, now is retired. He slips in and out of senility as his wife Fanny...

$10.99

Tish

Alice Chadwicke

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 8 Female

$10.99

Lamppost Reunion

Louis LaRusso II

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 0 Female

After twenty years, singer Fred Santora brings his right hand man to his old barroom hangout in Hoboken following his one man show at Madison Square Garden Friends from the past Biggie, the bartender; Mac, ...

$10.99

Judah's Daughter

Jules Tasca

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

Here is a new theatrical form the author calls an "eurythmy" - a system of movements to words with the actors wearing full face masks The piece may also be done as a conventional play without masks The sto...

$10.99

The Servant of Two Masters

Carlo Goldoni trans Tom Cone

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 4 Female

Truffaldino, Brighela, Pantalone they are all here in a delightful version of this commedia dell'arte classic "Cone refurbishing, reshaping, interpreting, polishing is faithful to the Goldoni spirit and wha...

$14.99

The Black Monk

David Rabe

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 3 Female

Kovrin arrives at Pesotsky's estate, where he spent his childhood, to find the orchard filled with smoke and threatened by frost When dawn arrives, the orchard is saved and, in the following weeks, Kovrin f...

$10.99

Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit

David Barr III

Dramatic Publishing

5 Male 4 Female

A celebration of the life and voice of African-American contralto Marian Anderson Taking place on the eve of the First Annual World Negro Arts Festival in Dakar, Senegal, 1966, this play with music pai...

$9.99