Plays by Nation - American Plays

The Chalk Garden

Enid Bagnold

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 7 Female

An English gentlewoman lives with her granddaughter and devotes her life to simple if eccentric pursuits. Her chief concern is her garden and her chief diversion is advertising for a companion to her grandda...

$10.99

Marriage Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

Arnold Kane

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

When Eddie's mid life crisis hits, he escapes from his picture perfect family and establishes a swinging bachelor's pad in New York City, complete with the sexy Miss Tush as his roommate His new life is a s...

$10.99

Physical

Buddy Thomas

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

It is the coldest night in November. Owen has shelved his college books and thesis papers to prepare for the date of his life With candlelight, soft music and enough Italian chicken to feed the Northeast co...

$10.99

Dirty Blonde

Claudia Shear

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

$10.99

Food for Fish

Adam Szymkowicz

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 4 Female

Bobbie drops the pages from his novel into the Hudson RiverThey tell the story of three sisters - Sylvia, a reporter, Barbara, an agoraphobe (played by a man in drag), and Alice, a scientist with a plan to i...

$13

Boom Town

Jeff Daniels

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

Angela Tompkins has a husband, a failing convenience store and a dream of running off to Chicago with her lover, the local banker. In an explosive story that mixes small town politics, love and betrayal, An...

$13

New York Water

Sam Bobrick

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

A receptionist and a CPA, two single people who have just met, feel living in New York City is holding them back. Linda and Albert try to make a go of it in Davenport, Iowa, and in Los Angeles No longer tog...

$10.99

Sheridan or Schooled in Scandal

David Grimm

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 3 Female

Set in Georgian England, this darkly comic tale explores the friendship between playwright and politician Sheridan and aspiring young poet Lord Byron

$13

Balm in Gilead

Lanford Wilson

Dramatists Play Service

8 Female

One of the milestones of the dynamic Off-Off-Broadway theatre movement, this vivid and powerful play, first produced by La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, illuminates the bleak and terrifying world of young ...

$13

Alterations

Leigh Curran

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 4 Female

Erica, a successful, artistic and outspoken New Yorker, is caught between the needs of Biesel, her frail, willful mother and Phoebe, her distant, spiritual daughter In an attempt to improve her relationship...

$10.99

Election Year & So When You Get Married

Ellen Byron

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 5 Female

Election Year ~ Set during the final months of the Reagan-Mondale presidential campaign, the action of the play is comprised of a series of lunchtime get-togethers between two young, unattached "yuppies" ...

$13

The World Over

Keith Bunin

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 2 Female

Once upon a time there was a country that existed only for one day, and a castaway named Adam who traveled the world over in search of this lost kingdom Reared from infancy on an uncharted island, Adam ha...

$13

Splendor in the Grass

F. Andrew Leslie from William Inge

Dramatists Play Service

Good looking, a star athlete, and son of the richest man in town, Bud Stamper is the prize catch in his high school class, and Deanie Loomis is the girl lucky enough to get him But both Bud and Deanie ar...

$13

The Death of Papa

Horton Foote

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 7 Female

The play begins by introducing the next generation of Robedauxs in the person of Horace's son, Horace Jr., who comes home from school to find that his maternal grandfather, Henry Vaughn, has died suddenly ...

$13

Democracy

Romulus Linney from Henry Adams

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 5 Female

In the presidential society of Washington in the spring of 1875, two beautiful American women are courted by two dashing American menMadelaine Lee, a wealthy widow from New York, and Esther Dudley, an agnost...

$13

In The Garden of Live Flowers

Attilio Favorini & Lynne Connern

Dramatic Publishing

5 Male 4 Female

During the research and writing of her world-changing Silent Spring, Rachel Carson is diagnosed with breast cancer As she struggles to complete the book, she simultaneously fights both her own advancing...

$10.99

The Sleeper

Catherine Butterfield

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 3 Female

Winner of the 2004 Kaufman and Hart Award A suburban "security mom" finds herself irresistibly drawn to her son's tutor - a handsome young man with political leanings far different from her own Her "awa...

$13

The Rose Tattoo

Tennessee Williams

Dramatists Play Service

Serafina delle Rose is a restless widow whose intense and absorbing instinct for love drives everything before it The figure of this extraordinary woman dominates the small town where she and her friends...

$14

Marie and Bruce

Wallace Shawn

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 4 Female

As the play begins Marie and Bruce, a young married couple, are still in bed, he sleeping soundly, she excoriating him and vowing that she will put an end to their marriage It seems that she had thrown a...

$13

The Rimers of Eldritch

Lanford Wilson

Dramatists Play Service

7 Male 1 Female

As Martin Gottfried comments, "It is a simple one. A mystery, really. A man has been murdered. The mystery is, who he is, who murdered him and what were the circumstances? And to solve it, Wilson looks at th...

$13