Plays by Nation - American Plays

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dungeons

David Paterson

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

A catastrophic steam pipe explosion in midtown Manhattan catapults Michael, an anxious, corporate climbing yuppie, and his recently purchased Mercedes several stories below ground into access tunnel 3F on le...

$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

The Cook

Eduardo Machado

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

As Fidel Castro storms Habana, a wealthy Batistlano is forced to flee to America with her husband and unborn child. Adria begs her cook, a proud and loyal woman who values her mistress's friendship, to promi...

$10.99

I Remember You

Bernard Slade

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

Austin "Buddy" Bedford, a lounge pianist/singer who has seen better days, is haunted by a short, passionate affair he enjoyed with an English woman twenty five years ago When a young beauty comes into the l...

$10.99

Third and Oak - The Pool Hall

Marsha Norman

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

The scene is a rundown pool hall next door to the laundromat; the time, again, is shortly after 3 A.M., Shooter, a successful young black disc jockey, stops by to visit the owner, Willie, a bosom friend o...

$13

Later Life

A.R. Gurney

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

Austin has spent his entire life convinced that something terrible is bound to happen to him. One night, at a party, overlooking Boston harbor, he has the pleasure of rekindling a romance begun almost thi...

$13

The Offering

Gus Edwards

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

The scene is a shabby basement apartment on New York's West Side, where Bob Tyrone, an aging black, lives with his young wife, Princess. Now on welfare, Tyrone spends most of his time dozing, or glass in h...

$13

Alfred and Victoria - A Life & Child of Luck & Is He Still Dead?

Donald Freed

Broadway Play Publishing

1 Male 1 Female

ALFRED AND VICTORIA: A LIFE "...how tasteful, elegant and strangely poignant this version of the Bloomingdale-Morgan scandal proves to be. Playwright Freed has wisely elected not to further exploit this ...

$19.99