Plays by Genre - Comedy Plays

If Sherlock Holmes Were a Woman

Tim Kelly

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 7 Female

Shirley Holmes is named after the famous sleuth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fame and is a fanatic on mystery and crime Her big chance comes when the housemother in her dorm is found dead under peculiar cir...

$8.99

The Ghost Story

Booth Tarkington

Samuel French Inc

This one act comedy about youth, employs the dramatic device of the ghost story to present a sympathetic portrait of young Americans Their breeziness dominates a light and amusing plot A good play for tour...

$8.99

Diana Does It

George Middleton

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 4 Female

William and Belle Dawson are respected citizens of a medium-sized mid-western townWilliam is a bit stubborn at times, however, particularly when it comes to accepting their daughter Diana's dream of becom...

$13

Easy Terms

Frank Vickery

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 2 Female

Vi Davies suffered a stroke one year ago and devoted son Howard gave up his college course to nurse her Vi is now fully able to look after herself but cannot let go of her son Howard finds the situation ex...

$12.99

A Gap in Generations

Jerry Blunt & The Affamati Company

Dramatic Publishing

9 Male 5 Female

This broad, exuberant, comedy-farce, created by a professor and his students, is not only delighting other colleges and high schools but, when invited to open the American College Theatre Festival in Wash...

$9.99

Queen Elizabeth Slept Here - The English version of George Washington Slept Here

Talbot Rothwell & Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman

Josef Weinberger

7 Male 6 Female

This is the English version of George Washington Slept Here

$8.99

The Belle View

Odon von Horvath

Oberon

A riotous political farce set in a seedy hotel in Central Europe in the twenties where the only guest is a drunken, ageing nymphomaniac Confusions and mistaken identity satirise the despair and futility of ...

$14.99

A Month in the Country

Ivan Turgenev adapted Emlyn Williams

Samuel French Inc

8 Male 5 Female

A bored wife living in the Russian countryside falls in love with her little boy's handsome new tutor - just like all of the women in the household The wife's chief rival turns out to be her 17 year old w...

$10.99

The Happy Hunter

Charles Feydeau trans Barnett Shaw

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 3 Female

$10.99

Perfect Pitch

Samuel Taylor

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 4 Female

The author has rewritten "Beekman Place," and makes it even more delightful than the original The story is of a famous violin virtuoso who is determined to retire, but is frustrated in his intentions by his...

$10.99

A is for All - Three One-Act Plays

Marian Winters

Dramatists Play Service

Animal Keepers - as described by the New York Morning Telegraph "It is about the reception room of a veterinarian to which come poor and rich with ailing animals. It is a sensitive play...... with some wit,...

$13

Snowball and Other Plays

Paul Sedgwick

Samuel French Inc

Collection of the silliest plays we've ever seen! Yet lurking behind the absurd antics and comical characters are serious themes such as friendship, loss, belonging, kindness, the meaning of art, and self-...

$10.99

Pothole-tergiest

Conrad Davidson

Brooklyn Publishing

3 Male 4 Female

A poltergeist has taken up residence in the potholes on a friendly neighborhood streetFirst, it forces an innocent young girl named Anne to listen to a recitation of the capitals of obscure nations of the wo...

$7.99

Use Other Door

Jerry Rabushka

Brooklyn Publishing

1 Male 1 Female

Nothing makes you want to open a door more than a sign telling you not to. But this door. this door has a history! No one even knows how long the sign has been there! One young man, determined to flout the...

$7.99

The Warm Peninsula

Joe Masteroff

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

A plain girl from Minnesota meets a friend in Miami who offers to share her hotel room. The friend is a dazzling girl who leads a glamorous life, but who at the moment is unhappily and crazily in love with a...

$10.99

Missing Link

Jack Sharkey

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 6 Female

Lindy Baxter misses Lincoln Sinclair in fact she's been missing Link since World War II when he vanished in the Pacific. A fall puts her into the hands and the arms of orthopedist Simon Fletcher They set a ...

$10.99

Star on the Door

Jack Sharkey & Leo W Sears

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

Cinema legend Doreen Lewis, nervously about to make her Broadway debut opposite her ardent admirer Paul Burnside, intercepts a phone call for her dresser who is secretly wed to Doreen's son confirming that "...

$10.99

Roomies!

Jack Sharkey

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

Hal Mastik, a masseur on the brink of marriage to emerald mine heiress Miranda Kerwyn, learns to his horror that his college roommate Zenobia Poindexter is dropping by Though their relationship had been inn...

$10.99

The Southwest Corner

John Cecil Holm From Mildred Walker

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 4 Female

Marcia Elder, a retired village school teacher, lives alone in her family home in Vermont. She is very happy in her lovely country house, but she begins to think about the possibility of finding a compani...

$13

Cookin' with Gus

Jim Brochu

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

Gussie Richardson is a famous food columnist and cookbook author. Her agent comes to tell her she's been offered her own daily network television show She wants to do it, but her husband Walter is dead set ...

$10.99