Plays by Nation - American Plays

Don't Call Back

Russell O'Neil

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 2 Female

This thriller contains all the necessary ingredients of tension and intrigue. The story begins with the return home of a famous actress and TV personality Miriam Croydon who discovers her pampered son is har...

$10.99

Moon Over Buffalo

Ken Ludwig

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

An acting couple are on tour in Buffalo in 1953 with a repertory of Cyrano de Bergerac and Noel Coward's Private Lives Fate has given these thespians one more shot at starring roles in The Scarlet Pimpernel...

$10.99

Murder on Reserve

Thomas Hischak

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 5 Female

In the small midwestern town of Sanford, the impossible has happened - someone has strangled crotchety old Faulkner Seaton in the reference section of the local library while the dusty old landmark was open ...

$10.99

Children! Children!

Jack Horrigan

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 4 Female

On New Year's Eve a fashionable couple depart for a party with a doctor and his wife, leaving their precocious children 3 pre teen boys and a girl in the care of a new baby sitter whose conscience requires h...

$10.99

The Yellow Jacket

George C Hazleton & Benrimo

Samuel French Inc

$10.99

Grandma Sylvia's Funeral

Glenn Wein & Amy Lord Blumsack

Samuel French Inc

$10.99

Tennessee Day in St Louis - A Comedy

Peter Taylor

Used Copy

Second Edition - pub 1957 - ex University of London Library - very good condition

$40

Take a Number Darling

Jack Sharkey

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Since concert pianist Duncan Latimer and wife, Ellen, famous soap opera star, lead impeccable lives their P.R. lady has no qualms over having a reporter from a scandal magazine interview them But just befor...

$10.99

Blackpool and Parrish

David Belke

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

For five millennia Harry Blackpool has been the agent for all Evil on Earth, while Rachel Parrish has represented Good. These implacable foes meet in a private club every twenty five years With the end of t...

$10.99

The Sloth

Cy Young & Jane Manning

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Nadine Schitzle of Tarzana, California, has a problem: there's a sloth in the eucalyptus tree in her back yard and she's convinced it's her husband, Herman Her neighbor calls Eye Witness News anchor woman S...

$10.99

Emma's Child

Kristine Thatcher

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 8 Female

Jean and Henry Farrell, after years of unsuccessfully attempting to have a baby of their own, decide to adopt. Emma, the birth mother, approves of the couple Now a new waiting game begins - awaiting the ...

$13

Loose Knit

Theresa Rebeck

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 5 Female

Once a week in the heart of New York City five women gather to knit As the sweaters pile up, their lives fall apart. Liz is having an affair with her sister's husband, Gina's lost her job, Paula is having an...

$10.99

Orange Flower Water

Craig Wright

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

Married couples David and Cathy Larson and Brad and Beth Youngquist live with their children in the relatively peaceful town of Pine City, Minnesota David and Beth, after years of maintaining a platonic ...

$13

Six Degrees of Separation

John Guare

Dramatists Play Service

4 Female

Inspired by a true story, the play follows the trail of a young black con man, Paul, who insinuates himself into the lives of a wealthy New York couple, Ouisa and Flan Kittredge, claiming he knows their son ...

$13

Braille - The Early Life of Louis Braille

Lola H Jennings & Coleman A Jennings

Dramatic Publishing

3 Female

Louis Braille was a boy determined to open, once and for all, the doors to literacy and knowledge for the blind The play provides audiences with a thoughtful theatre experience, which illustrates the uni...

$9.99

The Road to Mecca

Athol Fugard

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 2 Female

This unusual drama by a premiere contemporary dramatist focuses on Miss Helen, an old Boer woman who lives alone in the South African boondocks where she creates odd concrete sculptures which she calls her M...

$10.99

Do You Turn Somersaults?

Aleksei Arbuzov & Ariadne Nicolaeff

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

What begins as a doctor patient relationship develops into a full blown romance in this charming love story set on the Baltic coast. Rodion, chief surgeon at a sanitorium, is a crusty widower Lidya's life h...

$10.99

The O'Conner Girls

Katie Forgette

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 4 Female

The O'Conner story takes place in 1997 in Minnesota over the Christmas holiday. Tom O'Conner has passed away, and his wife (Sarah) and children (Liz, Martha and Matt) have reunited to excavate his mountain...

$13

Bosoms And Neglect

John Guare

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 2 Female

Scooper, a successful but emotionally insecure man edging reluctantly into his forties, discovers that his aged, blind mother Henny has been hiding the fact that she is suffering from cancer. With some dif...

$13

Dedicated to the End

Peter DePietro

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 6 Female

Congressman Richfield is giving his acceptance speech on the eve of his election as Governor of New York when bullets start to fly The intended victim is missed, but not for long His wild, irresponsible so...

$10.99