Plays by Nation - American Plays

The Manchurian Candidate

John Lahr

Dramatists Play Service

9 Male 5 Female

Raymond Shaw is a young American hero, the first Congressional Medal of Honor winner since Vietnam. Decorated for saving his troops in a peacekeeping mission in the Middle East Now he has returned to the ...

$13

Love Town

Lauren Gunderson

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

Sea Spray is a charming beach town, perfect for romantic getaways and cliff-side proposals While tourists walk around with stars in their eyes, the locals take their lumps and watch their relationships fray...

$10.99

Bridegroom Of Blowing Rock

Catherine Trieschmann

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 4 Female

Set at the end of the Civil War in a town with split loyalties, this play weaves humor and mythology into a story about women who must find ways to keep hearth and home together in the absence of "full bodie...

$10.99

The Man Who Never Died - A Play About Joe Hill

Barrie Stavis

Used Copy

With Notes on Joe Hill and His Times

$13.99

The Tenth Man

Paddy Chayefsky

Used Copy

First Edition pub 1960

$29.99

Ronald Firbank - Complete Plays - The Mauve Tower & A Disciple from the Country & More

Ronald Firbank - HARDBACK

Applause Books

The Mauve Tower & A Disciple from the Country & Princess Zoubaroff + Notes

$19.99

Kind Lady

Edward Chodorov from by Hugh Walpole

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 8 Female

$10.99

Bocon!

Lisa Loomer

Dramatic Publishing

3 Male 3 Female

Bocon! is a fable filled with humor and mysticism and song, tells the story of twelve-year-old Miguel who flees a repressive military regime in Central America for Los AngelesA natural storyteller and irrepr...

$10.99

Marvin's Room

Scott McPherson

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 4 Female

A hilarious and wondrous account of one woman's commitment to loving others first, and her belief that giving such love has made her life unbelievably rich, even as she faces her own death "...one of the fu...

$13

A Walk in the Woods

Lee Blessing

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 0 Female

The place is a "pleasant woods on the outskirts of Geneva," where two superpower arms negotiators, a Russian and an American, meet informally after long, frustrating hours at the bargaining table The Rus...

$13

Night of the Dunce

Frank Gagliano

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 2 Female

Roads End Branch of the public library is a decaying, ominous place, where no one comes to borrow books any more, despite the efforts of the staff to keep it a going concern But the tension that hangs in...

$13

The Red Letter Plays - In the Blood & Fucking A

Suzan-Lori Parks

Theatre Communications

In the Blood and Fucking A are two haunting riffs on Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter Hester La Negrita of In the Blood is an unapologetic mother of five illegitimate children - "my treasures, my five joys" ...

$17.99

Women Playwrights - The Best Plays of 1994 - Off the Map by Joan Ackermann & Others

Marisa Smith - ed

Smith & Kraus

Off the Map by Joan Ackermann & The Reincarnation of Jaimie Brown by Lynne A1arez & Moe's Lucky Seven by Marlane Meyer & The Family of Mann by Theresa Rebeck & Girl Gone by Jacquelyn Reingold & Hot 'n' Throb...

$24.99

A Bad Day at Gopher's Breath

Al Ver Schure and Lee Ver Schure

Samuel French Inc

After many failures due to ineptitude, the notorious Rawlins gang rides into Gopher's Breath to rob the bank While Rawhide Rawlins dreams of a farm for his ma, Sheriff Crutchwaffle representing all that's r...

$10.99

Horrid Massacre in Boston

Don Nigro

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 4 Female

Jane Lamb, an orphan, finds a home at Mrs. Turley's Bunch of Grapes Inn in Boston during the Revolution The colorful, eccentric and dangerous regulars she encounters there include a demonic roustabout who i...

$10.99

Suburbia

Eric Bogosian

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 4 Female

The parking lot of a mini-mall convenience store is the private domain of three men in their very early twenties: Jeff, Buff and Tim Jeff is a sometime student, Buff an easy-going party animal and Tim a...

$13

The Night of the Iguana

Tennessee Williams

Dramatists Play Service

8 Male 6 Female

"Within the broken down environs of a cheap Mexican resort hotel [Williams] has created a mood of pervading loneliness and despair as intrusive as the Equinoxial storm that stirs sudden lightning flashes ...

$13

Any Number Can Die - A Comedy Mystery

Fred Carmichael

Samuel French Inc

An hilarious take off on the mystery plays of the Twenties complete with sliding panels, robed figures, wills being read at midnight, etc The idioms, costumes, hairdos, and make up of the period add to the ...

$10.99

Oh Dad Poor Dad Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad

Arthur Kopit

Samuel French Inc

A widow and her young son arrive at a hotel with enough luggage for half a dozen bellboys, including the priceless plants, a coffin, and a fish bowl with a live piranha The bellboys are tipped with rare coi...

$10.99

The Cave Dwellers

William Saroyan

Samuel French Inc

The Cave Dwellers explores the adventures of some homeless people who are camping out on the stage of an abandoned theatre that is about to be pulled down for a housing project One who calls herself "the Qu...

$10.99