Plays by Nation - American Plays

Gillette

William Hauptman

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 4 Female

The year is 1981 and Mickey Hollister and young Bobby Nobis have drifted into the oil boom town of Gillette, Wyoming, in search of freedom, love and big coin They meet a spaced out tool pusher, two travelli...

$10.99

Ghost on Fire

Michael Weller

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 4 Female

After showing dazzling promise at school but no success in Hollywood, director Dan Rittman sufered a breakdown and quit film-making Cameraman Neil Toomie, a hilarious, irreverent lapsed Catholic, shows up f...

$10.99

Life in Refusal

Ari Roth

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 3 Female

When Alison, an adventurous young political scientist, travels to Russia to document the dawning of glasnost and perestroika, she meets Benjamin Charney, a rocket scientist whose applications to emigrate hav...

$10.99

The Wake

Steve Allen

Dramatic Publishing

5 Male 7 Female

"Most everyone knows that funny man Steve Allen has a serious side. Less well known is the story of Allen's childhood in Chicago, lived out against the bleak background of the Depression and the equally haz...

$9.99

The Last Ten Miles of Avery J Coping

Doug Delaney

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

After a lifetime of globetrotting, an aging invalid finds himself in a tiny Kansas town under the care of his domineering sister. This rewarding play has delighted audiences from coast to coast "Award winni...

$10.99

Roosters

Milcha Sanchez-Scott

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

Dramatic & powerful exploration of the problems of an Hispanic-American family living in the rural Southwest, and particularly the growing conflict between failed father and rebellious son. . "...Ms. Sa...

$13

The Church of the Holy Ghost

Ludmilla Bollow

Broadway Play Publishing

2 Male 3 Female

A Stephen King-like thriller involving a haunted church, super-natural happenings, and--of course--a homicidal maniac. From the best-selling playwright of the THE WOMAN WITH 27 CHILDREN (to access, click he...

$12.99

The Rabbit Foot

Leslie Lee

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 4 Female

This play is about a troupe of rag tag black vaudevillians travelling through the rural south shortly after World War I and about a black sharecropper family. Both groups are divided about moving north "Exp...

$10.99

Horowitz and Mrs Washington

Henry Denker

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

Sam Horowitz, a rich, retired Jewish widower, has been mugged, slashed with a knife, and had a stroke. Home from the hospital and in a wheelchair, he's cheerful about nothing and very anti Black the color of...

$10.99

The Marriage Counselor

Joey Ouellette

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 3 Female

A traveling vacuum salesman wanders into a marriage counselor's office. Susan and Tiger burst in, arguing so fiercely that the salesman can't get a word in edge wise They mistake him for the counselor and h...

$10.99

The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek

Naomi Wallace

Broadway Play Publishing

3 Male 2 Female

"...Naomi Wallace, the 38-year-old Kentucky playwright at work here, received a MacArthur `genius grant' last week, and TRESTLE AT POPE LICK CREEK, her lovely, strikingly poetic Depression-era play...certai...

$12.99

Quiet on the Set

Terrell Anthony

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

$10.99

Speaking of Murder

Audrey Roos & William Roos

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 5 Female

When Charles Ashton brings home his second wife, he fails to notice the hate and jealousy in his secretary's eyes. He is unaware of the dangers that threaten his wife as his secretary turns the full force of...

$10.99

Knock Knock

Jules Feiffer

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 1 Female

Take a pair of old Jewish bachelor recluses, throw in Joan of Arc who also in another life was Cinderella add another character who appears in various guises and you have the entire cast but not the story of...

$10.99

Fault Lines

Stephen Belber

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 1 Female

When Jim and Bill get together to celebrate Bill's thirty-ninth birthday, they meet Joe, who's slightly older and odder, and their boys' night out quickly turns sour Whole Foods, mini-hot dogs and Edie Bric...

$13

Teach Me How to Cry

Patricia Joudry

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 7 Female

" ... a delicately written relationship between a self-conscious, proud youngster who guesses - correctly - that her not-quite-bright mother was never married There is a troubled, only reluctantly hosti...

$13

Flesh and Blood

William Hanley

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

"Here was the family of an aging steelworker, living in a New York tenement about to be torn down, getting ready to mark the departure of his brother and the arrival of a new year The steelworker, a happy-go...

$13

Put Them All Together

Anne Commire

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 5 Female

Maggie Lowery is married to a young Navy officer and has a young son who is hyperkinetic. Maggie is told that the boy's psychological problems are her fault She tries desperately to cope, but it is no use. ...

$10.99

Captive

Jan Buttram

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

A hilarious take on a father/daughter relationship, this off beat comedy combines foreign intrigue with down home philosophy Sally Pound flees a bad marriage in New York and arrives at her parent's home in ...

$10.99

The Road to the Graveyard

Horton Foote

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 3 Female

The place is a small town in Texas, the time 1939, shortly before the onset of World War II. India, a spinster who is resigned to the task of caring for her aging, and increasingly senile, parents, is hop...

$13