Plays by Nation - American Plays

Catholic School Girls

Casey Kurtti

Samuel French Inc

This follows the lives of four covent girls - Maria Theresa, Colleen, Elizabeth and Wanda (Shona Sneddon) - through Grades One to Seven The nuns are either tough or mentally addled, the girls are alternatel...

$10.99

A Single Act

Jane Bodie

Nick Hern Books

Scott and Michelle meet in a bar. On the other side of town, Neil returns home to find Clea still alive But are any of them safe? Four separate trajectories. One single moment that will help to define ...

$16.99

Elliot Loves

Jules Feiffer

Grove Press

Elliot is a bachelor in his late thirties whose new girlfriend, Joanna, is everything he ever wanted in a woman - intelligent, beautiful, warm, independent - and yet terrifies him for precisely that reason...

$7.99

Approaching Simone

Megan Terry

Samuel French Inc

8 Male 4 Female

Simone Weil was a French Jewish girl whose death in 1943 was caused primarily by self imposed starvation. The play highlights the development and struggles of her mind and spirit from the age of five until h...

$10.99

Trudy Blue

Marsha Norman

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 6 Female

This engaging play stars a popular author who has grown disillusioned with her family life. She has retreated into conversations with her alter ego, Trudy Blue, who is the heroine of her novels When a medic...

$10.99

Flight

Arthur Giron

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 1 Female

The author doesn't claim it happened exactly this way; he has just taken five real life characters and some basic biographical facts and supposed what it was like for Orville and Wilbur growing up in the dys...

$10.99

The Dying Gaul

Craig Lucas

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 1 Female

$10.99

The Downside

Richard Dresser

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 2 Female

American business is the target of this hilarious and cutting satire originally produced at Long Wharf Theatre. A pharmaceutical firm has acquired rights to market a European anti stress drug and marketing h...

$10.99

In the Western Garden & Sudden Devotion & Resident Alien

Stuart Spencer

Broadway Play Publishing

4 Male 1 Female

"It's not often you see a space alien in orange Converses and a Wisconsin K-mart employee expound upon Kirkegaard in the woods. RESIDENT ALIEN, a comedy by Stuart Spencer, is filled with such suprisingly fun...

$19.99

Catchpenny Twist

Stewart Parker & Shaun Davey

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 3 Female

This wry comedy is about two Northern Irish songwriters who pursue the long road to big time pop while being dogged by the metaphysical shadows of the Irish Troubles not to mention by some real bullets Flee...

$10.99

A Family Man

Tom Szentgyorgyi

Dramatic Publishing

4 Male 3 Female

A Family Man chronicles the misadventures of Jake, an enthusiastic and completely unreliable young man on the run from a loan shark With his pregnant wife, Sammy, and her young son in tow, Jake travels ...

$9.99

Who Loves You Jimmie Orrio

Cheryldee Huddleston

Dramatic Publishing

3 Male 2 Female

Moonshine and moonlight combine forces with the mildly miraculous in this Southern tale-darkly poignant and comic-of an ageless, mute woman. In a dying Tennessee trailer park in 1966, Melinda wanders through...

$9.99

Table Settings

James Lapine

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

This easy to produce, wildly funny comedy is about three generations of a Jewish family. All the fast paced action takes place around an all purpose dining table, sometimes a restaurant table and other times...

$10.99

When Did You Last See My Mother?

Christopher Hampton

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

Jimmy and Ian share a flat. Jimmy is "straight"; and Ian is "not". Neither are very "gay". One night Jimmy brings a girl home He tries to get Ian and his friend to go out so he can have some privacy but Ian...

$10.99

The Holdup

Marsha Norman

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 1 Female

In 1914 in a remote shack on the New Mexico prairie, two young brothers, Archie and Henry Tucker, await the eventual arrival of a wheat threshing crew Instead they are visited by "The Outlaw," a grizzled...

$13

Nellie Toole & Co

Peter Keveson

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 1 Female

In need of a job, a man answers a help wanted ad, and is told to report to a Second Avenue bar at two in the morning. When he arrives only the bartender and a piano player are there, and they are disturbi...

$13

The Wind Cries Mary

Philip Kan Gotanda

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

Loosely based on Hedda Gabler, this is set on a college campus in the late '60s. Amidst the turbulent anti-war demonstrations and beginnings of Asian-American identity politics, we follow an extraordinary...

$13

Burning Bright

John Steinbeck

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 1 Female

It's at the circus where we first meet the characters: Joe Saul, Victor and Mordeen are trapeze artists, and Friend Ed, a clown. As the play develops, in a cleverly fascinating structure, the setting chang...

$13

Jack Goes Boating

Bob Glaudini

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

Four flawed but likeable lower-middle-class New Yorkers interact in a touching and warmhearted play about learning how to stay afloat in the deep water of day-to-day living Laced with cooking classes, swimm...

$10.99

More Fun than Bowling

Steven Dietz

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

Jake owns the bowling alley in a small Midwestern town. He is sitting on a hilltop where two of his three wives are buried Lois was zapped by lightning while carrying a bowling trophy in a thunderstorm and L...

$10.99