Plays by Genre - Comedy Plays

Run for Your Wife

Ray Cooney

Samuel French Ltd

6 Male 2 Female

This superb example of the British farce had audiences rolling in the aisles in London and New York! A taxi driver gets away with having two wives in different areas of London because of his irregular worki...

$12.99

Happy Daze

William Gleason

Dramatic Publishing

Julien Thaddeus Springer - J.T. for short-tries to make it as an athlete and, even more importantly, he tries to make it as a person who might interest some girl - any girl! J.T.'s problems begin to upset...

$9.99

Rubies

Billy St John

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 4 Female

If you need a special comedy, Rubies just might be the treasure you're looking for This is a pair of one-act plays that examine the relations between four Southern women at two different times in their live...

$10.99

Tickets to the Desert

Leonard Price

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 4 Female

Bumbling pilgrims come searching for hermits in the Egyptian desert but meet instead an exasperating, quick-witted con-man and two crusty locals who turn their search upside down Things are not what they se...

$8.99

Sordid Lives

Del Shores

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 6 Female

14 DramaLogue awards including Best Production A black comedy about white trash! The author of Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got the Will?) brings you a comedy that was nominated for over thirty awards during its ...

$10.99

Ring Around Elizabeth

Charl Armstrong

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 7 Female

$10.99

Melancholy Baby

Sheila K Adams

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 3 Female

Kate Gaitman, a soap opera villainess, comes home from yet another morning of mass murder at the studio to find her husband has lost the latest in a long line of jobs She kicks him out of the apartment just...

$10.99

The Magistrate

Arthur W. Pinero

Samuel French Ltd

5 Female

Classic 1880s farce involving magistrate Mr Posket who finds himself obliged to sentence his wife to prison

$12.99

That's Not My Father!

Ellsworth Schave

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 2 Female

Three comedies. In Raconteur Mother and son discourage the father from considering himself a peerless wit with contrived boredom In Fettucine bickering parents are almost cured by the son's prospect of marr...

$10.99

On the Same Frequency

Joe Rizzo

Brooklyn Publishing

5 Male 2 Female

Andy McClennon and Jerry Landon are best friends rooming together at Whitman College. When a mysterious package shows up containing a radio and a note instructing them to tune in that night for a chance of...

$7.99

Established Price

Dennis McIntyre

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 0 Female

This timely comedy is a tale of white collar angst in this age of corporate takeovers. The central character, Frank Daniels played in regional productions by both Kenneth McMillan and Jason Robards, is the f...

$10.99

When the Cat's Away

Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 4 Female

Based on a very popular British sit com, this riotously funny play is classic British sex farce ... When Mildred and Ethel go off on a trip to Paris, the "mice will play" Egged on by Ethel's philandering h...

$10.99

The Vain and the Heartless

David J. LeMaster

Brooklyn Publishing

Dueling family businesses, long-lost lovers, double-crossing backstabbers and backdoor trysts, amnesiacs and murderers, philanderers and evil twins - they're all part of this soap opera play See how two fil...

$8.99

The Bride of Brackenloch! A Ghastly Gothic Thriller?

Rick Abbot

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 8 Female

In this cheerily goofy spoof, new bride Daphne is brought to Brackenloch the day after her husband Jabez Thorngall lost his first bride to the family curse which warns any bride at Brackenloch Manor is doome...

$10.99

Black Comedy - Nine Plays

Pamela Faith Jackson (Editor)

Applause Books

This first-of-its kind collection includes a wide range of works, from an early examination and critique of American society after World War II to plays that reflect socio-political concerns that kept pace w...

$19.99

Once Upon a Beginning

E Eugene Perry

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

The Old Testament was never like this! Adam and Eve are feuding (again), cosmetologist-wanna-be Delilah is plotting to make-over Sampson and Noah's nameless Wife is frustrated with her near-deaf husband ...

$8.99

The Misanthrope

Jean Baptiste Moliere trans into English verse by Richard Wilbur

Dramatists Play Service

8 Male 3 Female

Outraged and disheartened by the vain flattery and calculated duplicity of his fellow men, Alceste declares that henceforth he will speak only the truth-no matter what offense this might give His philoso...

$13

Suitehearts

William van Zandt & Jane Milmore

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

A young couple from Pennsylvania check into a posh New York hotel to fill their weekend with bliss, only to have it filled with strangers Timothy and his wife have inadvertently booked the same honeymoon su...

$10.99

Tuna Does Vegas

Jaston Williams & Joe Sears & Ed Howard

Samuel French Inc

2 Male Female

Tuna Does Vegas is the hilarious new installment from the legendary Greater Tuna creative team! It re-unites the lovable and eccentric characters from the 'third smallest town in Texas' as they take a rambl...

$10.99

The Crazy Mixed Up Island of Dr Moreau

Tim Kelly

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 9 Female

Mad scientist Moreau transforms jungle animals into people A group of show people are shipwrecked on the island and Moreau tests their reactions to his experiments with chaotic results The Ape-Man won't st...

$8.99