Plays by Nation - American Plays

The Hyphenated American - Four Plays - Red & Scissors & A Beautiful Country & Wonderland

Chay Yew

Grove Press

In Red, a magical, mysterious drama set during China's Cultural Revolution, a renowned actor stands his ground against a young revolutionary in a struggle that pits politics against free expression and one...

$16

Breaking Up

Michael Cristofer

Samuel French Inc

Breaking up is hard, especially when two people are meant for each other. In a series of scenes, some comic and others sad, Steve and Alice try to separate but each new scene finds the young couple back toge...

$10.99

Flirt

Hal Hartley

Faber & Faber

Flirt is a simple story of love and loss told three times in three different cities. The first story is set in New York. The subsequent two - set in Berlin and Tokyo - seemingly use the same situations and d...

$12.99

The Freak

Granville Wyche Burgess

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 1 Female

World renowned psychic Edgar Cayce is the subject of this immensely moving drama from New York City's WPA Theatre The dramatic question here explored is not whether Cayce's abilities to foretell the future ...

$10.99

Rashomon

Fay Kanin & Michael Kanin

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 3 Female

The wife of a Samurai officer is assaulted and her husband killed by a roving bandit. Contradictory versions of what happened are reenacted at the trial by the bandit, the wife and the dead husband who speak...

$10.99

Public Affairs

A R Gurney

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 3 Female

This full length entertainment from one of America's foremost playwrights is comprised of revised versions of two one act plays: The Open Meeting and The Love Course

$10.99

Windfall Apples

Roma Greth

Broadway Play Publishing

3 Male 3 Female

This gem of a play evokes the days of youth and innocence as young Americans were being shipped off to World War II. Developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and then produced in New York at the I R...

$12.99

The Goat or Who is Sylvia?

Edward Albee

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 1 Female

"The Goat is about a profoundly unsettling subject, which for the record is not bestiality but the irrational, confounding, and convention-thwarting nature of love Winner of the 2002 Tony Award for Best P...

$14

Saved or Destroyed

Harry Kondoleon

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

A challenging, ethereal, celebratory play about the staging of a play, SAVED OR DESTROYED examines the parallels and paradoxes of life and theatre with reverence, irreverence and brilliant insight "This is ...

$13

Cuba and His Teddy Bear

Reinaldo Povod

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 1 Female

Cuba is a small time cocaine and marijuana dealer whose pride and joy is his 16 year old son Teddy Cuba has great hopes for his son; what he doesn't know is that the boy has already succumbed to the lure of...

$10.99

Broken Eggs

Eduardo Machado

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 3 Female

It's 1979 and Lizette Marquez is about to marry a nice Jewish boy in a ceremony at Woodland Hills Country Club that is costing thousands of dollars While she and her extended three-generational family enjoy...

$10.99

Geniuses

Jonathan Reynolds

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 1 Female

In a jungle shack two hundred miles north of Manila a group of maniacs who call themselves film makers are trying to shoot the war epic Parabola of Death The characters include the latest in a series of wri...

$10.99

Beast

Michael Weller

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 2 Female

Two American war veterans, mutilated in a firefight in Iraq, find their way home from a military hospital in Germany Their harrowing and hilarious road trip includes an illegal arms dealer, an Asian pimp, ...

$13

More from Story

Paul Sills

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

Here are more theatrical fables from the author of the ever popular Story Theatre Audiences are delighted by these easy to stage tales from such classics as The Dream of Good Fortune from The Arabian Nights...

$10.99

Mr Bundy

Jane Martin

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

This powerful drama examines the fears of parents driven to do "the right thing" when the safety of their daughter is in doubt A mother and father who learn that the next door neighbor is a convicted child ...

$10.99

One Shoe Off

Tina Howe

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

This comedy about marriage, fidelity, adulterous longings, existential panic and the theatre takes place in Leonard and Dinah's up state New York Greek revival farmhouse where slow moving disintegration is a...

$10.99

The Professional

Dusan Kovacevic & Bob Djurdjevic

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 1 Female

Set in a once powerful publishing house in post communist Eastern Europe, it is the story of a man who walks into another's life knowing more about him than he knows himself The relationship between the int...

$10.99

Sensibility and Sense

Richard Nelson

Faber & Faber

3 Male 5 Female

In a weekend lakeside cabin three elderly representatives of the American intellectual left, friends and collegues in the Thirties, try to resolve in the Eighties the personal, sexual and ideological tension...

$12.99

Unfinished Stories

Sybille Pearson

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 1 Female

Over forty-eight hours in an Upper West Side apartment in Manhattan, four people attempt to bridge the gaps in their lives, heal old wounds and connect across seemingly unbridgeable cultural, conjugal and ...

$13

The Ballad of Soapy Smith

Michael Weller

Samuel French Inc

9 Female

"Col." Jefferson Randolph Smith, known as "Soapy" to his friends and foes, is a notorious con man whose reputation has, alas, not preceded him to the Alaska Gold Rush town of Skagway in 1897 This charming g...

$10.99