Plays by Nation - American Plays

Proposals

Neil Simon

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

This memory play delightfully recalls the last time the Hines family gathered at their retreat in the Poconos. That summer in 1953 was one of animated romantic entanglements that overlap on one idyllic after...

$10.99

The Radiance of a Thousand Suns - The Hiroshima Project

Anne V. McGravie & Dwight Okita & Nicholas A. Patricca & David Zak

Dramatic Publishing

4 Male 4 Female

Radiance presents the events, persons, and deeds involved in the making and first use of the atomic bomb From the actual experiences of those involved, three separate stories are woven into a seamless fa...

$10.99

Whatever Happened to Mrs Kong?

Fred Carmichael

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 4 Female

"Kong keeps them laughing" and "Carmichael scores again" were newspaper headlines following the summer theatre opening Adam and his mute servant, Felix, are on a decaying movie set on a tropical island foll...

$10.99

The Second Death of Priscilla

Russell Davis

Broadway Play Publishing

3 Male 4 Female

" ... a look inside the mind of a woman who's losing it ... a play of shifting reality and poetic beauty ... a childhood story twisted into a metaphorical fairy tale for grownups Priscilla is a woman afrai...

$15.99

Eyes of the American

Samm-Art Williams

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

An American CIA agent gets word of a revolution on a small Caribbean island and poses as a tourist to find out exactly what is going on He meets a taxi driver who turns out to be the leader of the revolutio...

$10.99

On the Mountain

Christopher Shinn

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

A former rock-and-roll wild child, haunted by the suicide of a Seattle rock legend, struggles with the rebellion of her own iPod-obsessed teenage daughter When rumors of the rock star's final, lost song brin...

$13

Cagelove

Christopher Denham

Broadway Play Publishing

1 Male 2 Female

"An accomplished work by a distinctive new voice ... Christopher Denham's gripping new drama does what few new plays do - it tells the truth about a great many things ... those who seek it out will have a ...

$15.99

Pastorale

Deborah Eisenberg

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 4 Female

Melanie has rented a country house where she is joined by her friend Rachel who came for a weekend but forgot to leave and by their school friend Steve They spend nearly a year on the sofa meandering throug...

$10.99

Murdermind

Bart McGullion

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Gloom overhangs Mayhew Manor, touching all who dare enter. One hundred and fifty years of evil is about to be exposed Curtis Mayhew, last male to bear the name, confronts a forty year old double murder. His...

$10.99

American Buffalo

David Mamet

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 0 Female

In a Chicago junk shop three small time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection. Its existence came to light when the collector found a valuable "buffalo nickel" in the shop The three plotter punks ...

$10.99

As Bees in Honey Drown

Douglas Carter Beane

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

Evan Wyler has just finished a photo session with his shirt off. No, he's not a supermodel; he's a twenty-something New York writer savoring the success of his debut novel Defined by the media as the "ho...

$13

Hesh

Matthew Weiss

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 1 Female

The play centers on Hesh, a Bronx father who can't help but further alienate his already withdrawn sons, Sammy and Jacob, and his desperate wife, Bianca Despite all his good intentions, Hesh drives his w...

$13

The Book of Ruth

Deborah Lynn Frockt

Dramatic Publishing

3 Male 2 Female

Celebrating faith and community, family and continuity, The Book of Ruth is a poignant tale of love between generations Separated from the rest of their family, Hannah and her granddaughter, Ruth, sit im...

$9.99

Lunacy - A Bathroom Trilogy

Richard Turtle

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

Three short plays a tragedy sandwiched between two comedies are set in an apartment bathroom on the full moon. Revealed are the hilarious, tragic and touching secrets, dreams and realities of tenants whose l...

$10.99

The Monogamist

Christopher Kyle

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 3 Female

Dennis, a forty-something poet who has never lived up to his earlier promise, has just written a collection of poems concerned with the relevance of monogamy in 1990s America And, in a testament to his n...

$13

Rosebloom

Harvey Perr

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

A neurotic, middle-aged woman, her crippled son, and his sexually seething young wife await the return of Rosebloom, the father of the family, who has been in prison for twenty-six years As they wait, th...

$13

Three Ways Home

Casey Kurtti

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 2 Female

This haunting drama consists of inter locking monologues by a black woman, her disturbed teenaged son, and Sharon, a white social worker. Dawn is a streetwise super mom with four kids The other three are fi...

$10.99

Handy Dandy

William Gibson

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 1 Female

The first of many confrontations between Molly Egan, a feisty, salty-tongued activist nun in her early sevenities and District Court Judge Henry Pulaski, a conservative jurist in his sixties, occurs when ...

$13

The People vs Maxine Lowe

Luella McMahon

Dramatic Publishing

Why does Maxine Lowe refuse to disclose her past when disclosure might clear her of the charge of murder? Why does the young prosecutor change her tactics? Maxine Lowe is on trial for her life for the m...

$10.99

The Great White Hope

Howard Sackler

Samuel French Inc

"A great part a tragic hero, cheated, degraded, and at last brutally beaten. Mr. Sackler has used his hero, a figure based on the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson, as a symbol in p...

$10.99