Plays by Nation - American Plays

Prodigal Daughter

David Turner

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

A lapsed Anglican seeking punishment for having an abortion is hired as a housekeeper for three Roman Catholic priests "Amusing and absorbing.... A richly enjoyable play" ~ Washington Post

$10.99

Total Abandon

Larry Atlas

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 0 Female

A man fights efforts to have his two year old son removed from life support - having himself brutally beaten the boy

$10.99

Not With My Daughter

Jay Christopher

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Will Gray suddenly has a problem when his 18 year old daughter appears at his swinging singles apartment door. Will and his neighbor, a velvet voiced radio DJ named Rip have a penchant for juggling girls lik...

$10.99

The Gingerbread Lady

Neil Simon

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

A popular singer who has gone to pot with booze and sex. We meet her at the end of a ten week drying out period at a sanitarium when her friend, her daughter, and an actor try to help her adjust to sobriety ...

$10.99

Been Taken

Roger Hedden

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

Been Taken opens on the campus of an all-women's college where John, a student at another university, meets Margaret, a student photographer, at a dance The couple return to Margaret's room where they ma...

$13

Four

Christopher Shinn

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 1 Female

On the Fourth of July in Hartford in 1996, June, a sixteen-year-old white boy, meets up with a closeted, married black man he's met over the Internet. On the same night, in the same city, this man's sixte...

$13

The Manager

Darrin Shaughnessy

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

In this full length comedy in one act, a student begs off a date with his girlfriend because of his heavy workload only to discover that the lusty and loquacious female manager of his residence, a boarding h...

$10.99

The Ritz

Terrence McNally

Samuel French Inc

3 Female

$10.99

Laughing Wild

Christopher Durang

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 1 Female

Two monologues - one male, one female - each presenting a witty and insightful look at urban America. Durang rounds this off with a a sharp and funny playlet combining themes and incident from each. "Mr. Du...

$13

Suggestibility

Jon Klein

Broadway Play Publishing

2 Male 1 Female

"In Jon Klein's dark comedy, three young stockbrokers play out a lethally competitive erotic triangle Chad seems at first to be merely a boorish seducer but soon emerges as a manipulator extraordinaire, par...

$15.99

Homesteaders

Nina Shengold

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

It is 1979 on an island in southeast Alaska. Fisherman Neal Raftery returns from a week long stay in town with his deck hand, a New Yorker who calls herself Jake. In Alaska for summer adventure, Jake soon di...

$10.99

The Name Game

Lisa Soland

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

Three misfits form a hilarious romantic triangle. Rose, a vulnerable girl who is full of life and love, is walking home late one night when she is robbed and abducted by an armed man wearing pantyhose over h...

$10.99

The Radiant Abyss

Angus MacLachlan

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

Fuel the feral, dynamic, native smarts of forty-year-old Erin Skidmore, a sexy survivor of an abusive marriage, with the arrival of the shadowy but self-righteous religious men of The Garden of Paradise Cult...

$13

Moon over the Brewery

Bruce Graham

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

Miriam Lipsky, unmarried and living with her thirteen-year-old daughter, Amanda, works as a waitress to pay the bills, but it is her painting that really matters to her Good subjects are scarce in the dr...

$13

Seduced

Sam Shepard

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

Henry Hackamore, reputed to be the richest man in the world, is now a bearded, aged recluse, who lives on the top floor of a Caribbean luxury hotel, attended by his bodyguard-nurse, Raul Paranoid, despe...

$13

Ivory Tower

Jerome Weidman & James Yaffe

Dramatists Play Service

1 Female

"in 1943 an American poet living in self-exile in Paris made several broadcasts to invading American forces urging them to lay down their arms and stop the bloodshed This absorbing and disturbing play po...

$13

Indoor/Outdoor

Kenny Finkle

Broadway Play Publishing

1 Male 2 Female

"Genuine kindness - the type that isn't coated in mawkishness or undercut with irony - is about as rare in the theater as a talking cat Kenny Finkle's Indoor/Outdoor has both ... ... it's the improbably st...

$15.99

Jesse and the Bandit Queen

David Freeman

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

Jesse and the Bandit Queen is an intriguing, many sided saga about the stormy relationship between Jesse James and Belle Starr Interwoven into the play are tales of their outlaw contemporaries and of the pe...

$10.99

None of the Above

Jenny Lyn Bader

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 1 Female

Jamie, 17, a sophisticated New York City private school student, answers the door one day expecting her drug dealer and instead finds her SAT tutor Things degenerate from there ... First Jamie tries to ge...

$13

Letters Home

Rose Leiman Goldemberg

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 2 Female

Since her tragic death, Sylvia Plath continues to fascinate readers of her poetry and her autobiographical novel. Letters Home explores the enigma of the great poet's life by dramatizing the correspondence b...

$10.99