Plays by Nation - American Plays

Sorrows of Stephen

Peter Parnell

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 5 Female

Stephen is a headstrong, impetuous, irrepressible romantic unable not to be in love. One of his models is Goethe's tragic hero Werther, but as a young, contemporary New Yorker he's adaptable He believes the...

$10.99

The Flight of the Earls

Christopher Humble

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 3 Female

This engrossing drama is perhaps the definitive troubles in Northern Ireland play. Winner of two American playwriting competitions, it tells the story of an Irish family torn by the political violence Micha...

$10.99

I Never Saw Another Butterfly - Play Version - Full-length

Celeste Raspanti

Dramatic Publishing

4 Male 7 Female

Over 15,000 Jewish children passed through Terezin, and only about a hundred were still alive when Terezin was liberated at the end of the war. One of the survivors, Raja, having lived through it all, tea...

$11.99

Ancestral Voices

A R Gurney

Broadway Play Publishing

3 Male 2 Female

"If the family is the key theme of American drama, A R Gurney's ANCESTRAL VOICES: A FAMILY STORY is a beautiful chamber work in that great tradition. The short play is staged as a concert work, with five pe...

$19.99

Weatherman

Jerry Polner

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Mitzi is the secretary to the director of the National Weather Service. Her job is threatened when a Florida gangster sends his favorite gun moll to seduce her boss and take over the bureau The plan is to m...

$10.99

Tribute

Bernard Slade

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 4 Female

Scottie Templeton's a charming, irresponsible fellow. A sometime Broadway press agent and former scriptwriter, he's everyone's friend, nobody's hero and a great womanizer who's managed to live over fifty yea...

$10.99

The Crazy Time

Sam Bobrick

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

Miles Gladstone has it all: a trophy wife, a successful business and a happy daughter-until his gorgeous spouse takes off, his conniving partner cheats him out of his company and his daughter's marriage star...

$10.99

Lighting Up the Two-Year Old

Benjie Aerenson

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 0 Female

Take three men who each have a lot to lose if a horse farm goes under, and a thoroughbred with a lot of insurance on him, and you have the ingredients of Lighting Up the Two-Year Old, a terse comic drama ...

$13

Quail Southwest

Larry Ketron

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 5 Female

The setting is a boarding house in the mountains of New Mexico, where a group of varied characters have been thrown together by the vicissitudes of fate. They are dominated by Virginia, a strong and passi...

$13

States of Shock

Sam Shepard

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

A wild and scathing anti-war play whose characters embody the conflicts and violent contradictions of America today. Set in a nondescript family restaurant, with bad service and raging customers, the stage...

$13

Shivaree

William Mastrosimone

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

The story concerns a young hemophiliac youth named Chandler who has been kept, of necessity, by his cab driver mother in a very sheltered sort of existence. Chandler is desperate for contact with the world. ...

$10.99

Bad Axe

P.J. Barry

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

In August of 1832, immediately following the Black Hawk Indian war, a woman's life is in jeopardy. During a battle at Bad Axe, Captain Conrad's wife inexplicably shot and scalped him Was she forced by India...

$10.99

Between Us

Joe Hortua

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

Carlo and Joel have been close friends since graduate school days Now years have passed, and together with their wives, Grace and Sharyl, they're buying homes, having kids and growing up But two nights in ...

$13

American Roulette

Thomas McCormack

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

A black man named Sam has come for an interview. The firm is unspecified, described only as "the most powerful firm there is" Two very privileged-looking whites, Charles and Hillary, carry out the inter...

$13

The Whales of August

David Berry

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 3 Female

The scene is a beach house on an island off the Maine coast, where two widowed sisters, Sarah Walker and Elizabeth Strong, have been summering for many years Elizabeth, the eldest and now blind, has gro...

$13

The Cocktail Hour

A.R. Gurney

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

The time is the mid '70s, the place a city in upstate New York. John, a playwright, returns to his family's house, bringing with him a new play which he has written about them His purpose is to obtain th...

$13

To Forgive Divine

Jack Neary

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 3 Female

Filled with warm, perceptive humor and intriguing characterizations, the play brings a refreshingly light touch to a topic of serious consequence in our times - priestly celibacy and the doubts and distracti...

$13

Dandelion Wine

Ray Bradbury

Dramatic Publishing

8 Female

Set in the "down home" locale of Green Town, Illinois, Dandelion Wine is a moving play in which 38-year-old Doug Spaulding must uncork the most wrenching summer of his childhood in order to free himself of...

$10.99

The Sweepers

John C. Picardi

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 4 Female

Bella, Mary and Dotty have been friends and next door neighbors in Boston's North End Italian neighborhood since childhood Husbands and sons are away fighting and World War II impacts the neighborhood, exer...

$10.99

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks

Richard Alfieri

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

A formidable woman hires an acerbic dance instructor to give her lessons in her gulf front condo in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida Antagonism between this gay man and this widow of a Southern Baptist ministe...

$10.99