Plays by Nation - American Plays

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

Madagascar

J.T. Rogers

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 2 Female

A haunting story of a mysterious disappearance that changes three lives forever ... At three different periods in time, three Americans find themselves alone, in the same hotel room overlooking the Spanish...

$13

Redwood Curtain

Lanford Wilson

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 2 Female

Geri, a seventeen-year-old Vietnamese-American has taken time out from a rigorous touring schedule as a piano prodigy to stay on her Aunt Geneva's Redwood plantation in Northern California She's been com...

$13

The Story of Mary Surratt

John Patrick

Dramatists Play Service

"The play shows - in highly dramatic fashion - how a woman was innocently drawn into the plot to assassinate Lincoln [Mary Surratt was] the unfortunate victim of the hysteria and prejudice of the period a...

$13

Columbus and the Discovery of Japan

Richard Nelson

Faber & Faber

On the deck of his flagship, the expedition commander addresses his men. This play explores the premise that Columbus had a clearer sense of destiny than destination, a premise emblematic of the confusion...

$12.99

Scent of the Roses

Lisette Lecat Ross

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 6 Female

An international art dealer arrives in South Africa in search of early works by an exiled painter and thereby triggering an emotional journey of love and loss. " ... a jewel of a play...a healing play for th...

$13

The Lady with All the Answers

David Rambo

Dramatists Play Service

0 Male 1 Female

"Dear Ann Landers"... For decades, renowned advice columnist Ann Landers answered countless letters from lovelorn teens, confused couples and a multitude of others in need of advice No topic was off-limits...

$13

Murder of Maria Marten or The Red Barn

Brian J Burton

Samuel French Ltd

5 Male 8 Female

In 1827, Willam Corder murdered Maria Marten, the mother of his illegitimate child, and buried her body in the Red Barn Because of his wife's recurring dream, Thomas Marten searched the barn and discovered ...

$10.99

Touch of the Poet & More Stately Mansions

Eugene ONeill

Yale University Press

A Touch of the Poet and More Stately Mansions are regarded as two of Eugene O'Neill's finest plays Companion pieces, linked by characters and themes, they form part of a projected series of eleven inter...

$15.99

The Cemetery Club

Ivan Menchell

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 4 Female

Three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husband's graves Ida is sweet tempered and ready to begin a new life, Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to h...

$10.99

Fabulation or The Re-Education of Undine

Lynn Nottage

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 5 Female

A social satire about an ambitious and haughty African-American woman, Undine Barnes Calles, whose husband suddenly disappears after embezzling all of her money Pregnant and on the brink of social and fin...

$13

Levitation

Timothy Mason

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 3 Female

The place is the front porch of a comfortable old house in suburban Minneapolis, the time a summer night in the late 1970s Arriving home unexpectedly to visit his family, Joe, a would-be playwright who ...

$13

Dark Victory

George Brewer Jr & Bertram Bloch

Dramatists Play Service

7 Male 7 Female

Judith, skeptical, wealthy, loves horses and parties; her existence is bounded by her social world. She learns that she must undergo a delicate brain operation Dr Steele, on the point of retiring, is an ...

$13

A Woman Without a Name

Romulus Linney

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 4 Female

The place is a small American town. The time 1900. As the play begins the characters enter and seat themselves in a semi-circle of antique chairs The last to enter is the Woman, who carries a ledger (he...

$13

Light Up the Sky

Moss Hart

Dramatists Play Service

9 Male 4 Female

The comedy revolves around a group of New York theatre-folk who attend the opening of their new play in Boston The lead actress, the backer, and several others, are in seventh heaven at the prospect of a tr...

$13

Responsible Parties

Jeffrey Sweet

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 2 Female

The scene is the lobby of the Ventura Oasis Motel, in a rundown section of Los Angeles. The owner, Randolph, is debating whether to tear the building down or turn it into a fast-food franchise. In the me...

$13

Summer Brave

William Inge

Dramatists Play Service

7 Male 7 Female

Again, as in Picnic, the setting is a small town in Kansas, and while the characters are essentially the same as in the earlier play, there are subtleties and differences which give Summer Brave a distinct...

$13

The Woolgatherer

William Mastrosimone

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

Rose, a shy five and dime salesgirl whose life centers around reveries and daydreams, lives in a dreary Philadelphia apartment. Into her life saunters Cliff, a hard working, hard drinking truck driver He is...

$10.99

Day Standing on Its Head

Philip Kan Gotanda

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 4 Female

Harry Kitamura, a successful law professor, begins to find his life unraveling when he starts researching a paper about his involvement in a campus strike in the early 1970s Odd characters with violent a...

$13

Babylon Gardens

Timothy Mason

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 5 Female

Bill and Jean are a young couple living in New York's East Village, struggling to overcome the death in childbirth of their first-born Bill's job as a nurse-anesthetist brings him face to face with life...

$13