Plays by Genre - Comedy Plays

The Whole Shebang

Pat Cook

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 4 Female

"I'm a drama teacher," Marge begins, which explains why she now is kept sedated and in a straitjacket "All I had to do was be in charge of the whole shebang" Of course, she is referring to The One Act Play...

$8.99

Break a Leg!

John O'Brien

Dramatic Publishing

4 Male 1 Female

The traditional opening night cry of "Break a leg!" really means "Good luck," but in this comedy send-up of every possible theatrical disaster, breaking a leg is the only thing that doesn't happen Actors...

$9.99

Alice in America-Land

Dennis Snee

Samuel French Inc

Sub-titled or Through the Picture Tube and What Alice Found There, in this fresh and lively update of Lewis Carroll's classic, Alice takes a journey through the picture tube of her family's television, and m...

$10.99

All the Great Books (Abridged)

Reed Martin & Austin Tichenor - Reduced Shakespeare Company

Josef Weinberger

Confused by Confucius? Wish Swift was swifter? Moby a bit quicker? Then prepare to enjoy another outrageous assault on the senses with over 80 of the greatest literary masterpieces brought humbly down to ...

$15.99

The Spa

Edward Chodorov

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 3 Female

After a play by Ferenc Molnar A romantic, bittersweet comedy set in pre-World War I Austria-Hungary, the story deals with Olympia, a charming young princess of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, who is visiti...

$13

Pollyanna

Catherine Chisholm Cushing from Eleanor H. Porter

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 6 Female

An orphan girl is thrust into the home of a maiden aunt and, in spite of the tribulations that beset her, she manages to find something to be glad about and to bring light into sunless lives Pollyanna strai...

$10.99

Four Little Words

Edward Finnegan

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 1 Female

Douglas Fidgit, Broadway producer, is seeking an actress for a one-line part Actresses storm his office They range from a fading First Lady of the Theatre to a forlorn little person who speaks a strange la...

$8.99

Cinderella Meets the Wolfman

Tim Kelly & Jack Sharkey

Samuel French Inc

In this zany musical comedy, Cinderella encounters a Prince who has inherited "The Charming Curse" and as a consequence becomes a wolf every full moon Igor, hired by King and Queen Charming to keep an eye o...

$10.99

Extracurriculars - Scrimmages & Rebuttals - Two After School Comedies

Joseph Fedorko

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 9 Female

Scrimmages - 2m 1f In an empty classroom after school, we find Ruth, who is futilely trying to prepare a speech about the role of women in American society and how it has changed since WWII With the speec...

$10.99

Scapin

Bill Irwin & Mark ODonnell

Dramatists Play Service

9 Male 3 Female

Adapted from Jean Baptiste Molière The crafty Scapin, servant to the household of Geronte, jumps into the story as he first promises to help in the affairs of his neighbor's son, Octave, then to aid in t...

$13

Lemonade & The Autograph Hound

James Prideaux

Dramatists Play Service

3 Female

"The Autograph Hound is a first stage presentation by James Prideaux so funny and unphony that an old hand playwright could be proud of it The play, at the Off-Broadway Jan Hus Theatre, is funny in a comf...

$13

Lafferty's Wake

Susan Turlish

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 3 Female

Our darlin' wild rover Charlie Lafferty is being waked in grand style in his home away from home, the local pub The audience joins Charlie's widow, his sweet daughter and bumbling son in law, the parish pri...

$10.99

For Heaven's Sake - A Comedy in Three Acts

Robert Orth

Samuel French Inc

8 Male 5 Female

Eric was waiting around outside the Pearly Gates for his name to be called when he was sent back to help Gerald, a shy young man who's tongue-tied around girls! When you're that awkward, the last thing you...

$10.99

Charm

Robert MacLean

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

Love can be a strange brew, especially for a Witch and Wizard Tempted beyond her powers, a middle-aged Witch has an unfortunate ... tryst ... with a mortal man Bereft and guilty, she tells her husband, who...

$8.99

Till Death Do Us Part

Billy Vab Zandt and Jane Milmore

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 5 Female

This delightful look at modern marriage in all its marred majesty had them rolling in the aisles at its premier in New Jersey Narrated by a jaded bachelor who knows the bloom inevitably leaves the rose, the...

$10.99

The Square Root of Love

Daniel Meltzer

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

This full length evening portrays four preludes to love from youth to old age, from innocence to maturity. It is best when played by a single actor and actress. In The Square Root of Love , two genius level ...

$10.99

Boeing Boeing

Marc Camoletti trans Beverley Cross & Francis Evans

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 4 Female

Winner! 2008 Tony Award, Best Revival of a Play "This latest edition of a play named for an aircraft soars right out of its time zone and into some unpolluted stratosphere of classic physical comedy. Propel...

$10.99

Squabbles (aka Your House or Mine)

Marshall Karp

Samuel French Inc

Perfect for summer or dinner theatres, this hilarious play pits a father in law against a mother in a comedic succession of squabbles. Jerry Sloan is a successful writer of advertising jingles married to an ...

$10.99

Nourish the Beast

Steve Tesich

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 2 Female

Baba Goya is a loudmouth mother who goes through husbands and orphans like the Turkish coffee she makes in a dirty old soup pan In Queens she presides over a household comprised of a childish orphan who hap...

$10.99

Raindance

M Ribalow

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 1 Female

In a metaphysical wild west saloon are gathered a Black man named Jim Crow, gunslinger John Wesley Hardin, Sitting Bull, arch capitalist J.P. Standard and wicked Falina, the Mexican saloon girl There has be...

$10.99