Plays by Nation - American Plays

Fortinbras

Lee Blessing

Dramatists Play Service

4 Female

Young Fortinbras, a modern man of action, enters during the last scene of Hamlet only to order the bodies of the royal family shuffled off while he devises the best possible media blitz to legitimize his as...

$13

Fen

Caryl Churchill

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 6 Female

This remarkable playwright shows still another aspect of her talent in Fen, which takes place in England's fen country and focuses on a gang of women landworkers. The play looks at their work situation and t...

$10.99

Sun Is Shining

Matt Wilkinson

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

Two people, two cultures and two outlooks equal one unlikely love affair told at the breakneck speed of city life. A recovering alcoholic, she is a petite Scottish artist who likes to look at the stars. He i...

$10.99

Tales of the Lost Formicans and Other Plays

Constance Congdon

Theatre Communications

"If not the best new play of recent years, [Tales of the Lost Formicans is] surely the most imaginative. A travel guide to Middle America conducted by aliens from outer space" ~ Time Also includes: No Mercy...

$22.99

American Buffalo - METHUEN EDITION

David Mamet

Methuen

3 Male 0 Female

A junk shop. Three small-time crooks plot to carry out the midnight robbery of a coin collection. In the hours leading up to the heist, friendship becomes the victim in a conflict between loyalty and busines...

$15.99

The Sea Horse

Edward J Moore

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

Tender, ribald, funny and suspenseful, this complex love story is set in a waterfront bar where seaman Harry Bales spends his shore leave"The Sea Horse" is run by Gertrude Blum, with whom Harry enjoys a pure...

$10.99

A Limb of Snow & The Meeting

Anna Marie Barlow

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 1 Female

"A Limb of Snow ~ the shorter play, is the one that is simply superb; it is also totally original, unlike anything in the contemporary manner It takes place in a cabin in the High Sierras in the 1890s, ...

$13

The Exercise

Lewis John Carlino

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 1 Female

"Playwright Lewis John Carlino has drawn a gripping and completely fascinating portrait of a man and woman, trapped in an unreal and yet hauntingly real world, both at the same time They are actors, caug...

$13

The Crumple Zone

Buddy Thomas

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 0 Female

This hilarious off Broadway hit, set in a run down apartment on Staten Island, concerns three gay roommates coming to crisis during one frantic Christmas weekend Terry, an out of work actor who can't keep a...

$10.99

Beyond the Horizon

Eugene ONeill

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 4 Female

The introspective and sensitive Robert falls in love with Ruth, who is engaged to his brother, Andrew; she marries Robert, and Andrew goes to sea Ruth later discovers that her marriage has been a mistake...

$14

Talking Pictures

Horton Foote

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 6 Female

1929, Harrison Texas. Myra Tolliver makes her living playing the live music for the silent pictures. She makes barely enough to survive, caring for herself and her teenage son, Pete As borders in the home...

$13

Henry (After Pirandello)

Thomas Kilroy from Luigi Pirandello

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 3 Female

Actor Richard McMillan is Henry, a man of enormous wealth and privilege A man who also believes he is the eleventh-century Holy Roman Emperor and German King Henry IV A fortress is built and actors are hi...

$13

Do Lord Remember Me

James de Jongh

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

"Firsthand memories of former slaves, recorded in the late 1930s under the Federal Writer's Project, form the basis [of this] moving evocation of shared servitude" ~ N.Y. Times "The show, which is a collage...

$10.99

The Mistakes Madeline Made

Elizabeth Meriwether

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

What happens if you just stop showering?In this twisted and hilarious coming-of-age story, a girl develops Ablutophobia - the fear of bathing Struggling with a soul-crushing job as a personal assistant, ...

$13

Never the Sinner - The Leopold and Loeb Story

John Logan

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 1 Female

A stunning Broadway hit that transports us back to 1924, Chicago where the Leopold and Loeb murder stunned and fascinated the nation Seduction, deception and murder abound in this study of the boys' friends...

$10.99

Cold Sweat

Neal Bell

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 4 Female

Frustrated in her attempts to deal honestly with terminal patients, Dr Alice Franklin is dismissed from one hospital and moves on to another Only to find herself faced once again with the same dilemma - ...

$13

The Country Girl

Clifford Odets

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 2 Female

"The Country Girl, in this affectionate backstage story, is Georgie Elgin, a lovable, faithful, forgiving woman whose long years of devotion to her actor husband, Frank, have almost obliterated her own pe...

$13

Life and Limb

Keith Reddin

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 2 Female

As the play begins Franklin, a young draftee, and his new bride, Effie, are on their honeymoon, an idyll which ends when Franklin returns to his unit and then goes off to Korea, where he loses an arm Wh...

$13

The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia

Preston Jones

Dramatists Play Service

9 Male 0 Female

A fraternity of Bradleyville's "good ole boys," which meets in the now decrepit Cattleman's Hotel, the Knights of the White Magnolia has long since lost sight of its espoused concern with patriotism and r...

$13

Balcony Scene

Donald Elser

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 4 Female

Winner of Texas One Act Play ContestWinner, First Place, Massachusetts State Festival "Superior" in Nebraska State Inter-High School Contest In this moving fantasy, set at the funeral of a ne'er-do-well,...

$8.99