Plays by Nation - American Plays

Heathen Valley

Romulus Linney

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 2 Female

Set in the 1860s, the action of the play centers on the desire of the Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina to bring the word of God to a valley so remote and untamed that brothers marry sisters and the peop...

$13

Lily Dale

Horton Foote

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 3 Female

After the death of his alcoholic father, and his mother's remarriage, young Horace Robedaux remained in Harrison, Texas, clerking in a dry goods store When his mother invites him to visit her and his teena...

$13

Adam Baum and the Jew Movie - SCIROCCO EDITION

Daniel Goldfarb

Scirocco Press

$15.99

The Day the Bronx Died

Michael Henry Brown

Applause Books

Two childhood friends - one black, the other white - struggle to live in a racist world

$7.99

And the Rain Came to Mayfield

Jason Milligan

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 3 Female

A poetic family drama, this play takes place in a small gas station/luncheonette on a Mississippi highway in 1962. The owner's son Carl dreams of going to college but his alcoholic father does not support th...

$10.99

Tour Di Europa

Jules Tasca

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

A full evening of related vignettes that follow a bus load of colorful Americans through Europe "Charming ... entertainment!" ~ Ashland Daily Tidings

$10.99

More than Meets the Eye

Fred Carmichael

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 6 Female

This comedy concerns Stanley Nichols who writes successful children's stories under the pen name of Grandma Letty He is voted "Grandmother of the Year" and his house is besieged by reporters and photographe...

$10.99

Welcome Home

Marty Davis

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 3 Female

Daniel Frame returns home after eleven months in a veterans hospital. His nervous breakdown was brought on by guilt: he thinks he wrecked his daughter's marriage Daniel joins family friend John Barnett and ...

$10.99

Magic Time

James Sherman

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 3 Female

This engaging backstage comedy is about a troupe of actors preparing to give their last summer performance of Hamlet. Cleverly the backstage relationships mirror the onstage ones Larry Laertes resents David...

$10.99

Cabin Fever - A Texas Tragicomedy

Mark Dunn

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 2 Female

Action whirls around one disastrous Memorial Day week end at the Beckle cabin in the Texas hill country. Aubry, his four daughters and Great Aunt Tammy gather there for the first time since Mrs. Beckle's dea...

$10.99

Great Day in the Morning

Thomas Babe

Broadway Play Publishing

4 Male 4 Female

"Thorstein Veblen's theory of conspicuous consumption would find itself cozily vindicated in Thomas Babe's GREAT DAY IN THE MORNING, a new play set in the fin de siecle that also manages to pull the chain o...

$12.99

The Irregular Verb To Love

Hugh Williams & Margaret Williams

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 5 Female

Hedda Rankin, wife of a zoo official, returns home from a spell in prison to find her husband has not been faithful, her daughter will not marry the man she loves and her son, Andrew, has just returned from ...

$10.99

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Georg Osterman

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 5 Female

"Secret Psycho Seized" reads the headline of the Coxsackie Tattler. A mild mannered librarian has brutally butchered sixteen and one half people The distinguished pneuro physicist Dr. Henry Jekyll believes ...

$10.99

Tinker Autumn

Wil Denson

Dramatic Publishing

3 Male 1 Female

Tinker Autumn relates an unusual alliance between two young people - 12-year-old Caitlin Moran and 13-year-old Peter Crichton - in a rural American setting Circumstances have placed both outside the midd...

$9.99

V.I. Lenin Is Missing

T H Tolmasoff

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

This satire introduces four intrepid Russian entrepreneurs who are planning to bridge the gap between socialism and a free market economy by buying and selling contraband Western goods They are clever, they...

$10.99

Exact Change

David Epstein

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 0 Female

Three lifelong buddies, Vietnam vets, are about to pay off a "balloon" on money borrowed from a local heavy. They meet at their New Jersey bar and grill to set up for a celebration: After years of hard wo...

$13

Domestic Issues

Corinne Jacker

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

A probing, dramatically gripping exploration of the mind and soul of a political radical torn between pursuing a conventional life or rejoining "the movement Having been granted amnesty through the effort...

$13

Eric and Elliot

Dwayne Hartford

Dramatic Publishing

3 Male 2 Female

Eric and Elliot is the story of a family's search for healing following a devastating tragedy Eric and Elliot are brothers who set out to seek help for their mother, who has spiraled into a debilitating ...

$10.99

A Light Lunch

A R Gurney

Broadway Play Publishing

2 Male 2 Female

"A R Gurney's tasty new play about our ex-President George Bush, is a model of political theater ... exquisitely self-aware, A Light Lunch uses the theater - and self-deprecating comments about A R Gurney h...

$15.99

Making Book

Janet Reed

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

This hilarious, biting satire centers around a feisty, idealistic teacher whose frustration with textbooks unexpectedly lands her a job as editor of a fifth grade American history book. Ellen wants "to bring...

$10.99