Plays by Genre - Comedy Plays

You Can't Take It With You

Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman

Dramatists Play Service

9 Male 7 Female

Tony, attractive young son of the prosperous Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore home - but on the wrong evening! The horror sustained by the Kirbys, i...

$14

Fair Game

Sam Locke

Dramatists Play Service

8 Male 6 Female

When Susan Hammarlee, an unusually pretty young divorcee, arrives in New York, she learns that she has one idea of what she's going to do in town, but all the men she meets have quite another Susan wants...

$13

Blue Collar Blues

Denise Kay Dillard

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 6 Female

$10.99

Habeas Corpus

Alan Bennett

Samuel French Ltd

6 Male 5 Female

A gorgeously vulgar farce that is a downright celebration of sex and the human body In the home of Dr. Arthur Wicksteed wild and wicked things go on in a Feydeau style fashion Along with the lecherous doct...

$12.99

Thursday Is My Day for Cleaning

Jordan Crittenden

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 1 Female

In this one act play, a housewife on the verge of a nervous breakdown shoots her vacuum cleaner and phones the police to turn herself in, but she is interrupted by a deaf mute vacuum cleaner repairman at the...

$8.99

Whiskey

Terrence McNally

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 2 Female

The title character (who remains unseen) is the equine star of television's longest-running and most popular show, in which he is partnered with "The Lush Thrushes," a cowboy troupe whose members bear the...

$9

A Foot in the Door

Richard Harris

Samuel French Ltd

May Archer, an elderly widow, is entertaining in her London home The"guests" are, in fact, sales people who adopt a different persona they think will persuade their perspective client to buy But May is d...

$12.99

The Dolphin Position

Percy Granger

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 3 Female

In this one act comedy, Jerry Tremendous, advertising wunderkind and ladies' man extraordinaire, awakes to find a stranger his apartment She wears a wedding ring and the drawers are full of her clothes, but...

$7.99

The Tangled Snarl

John Rustan & Frank Semerano

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

To Private Detective Spuds Idaho, life in L.A. is a 24 hour race around a track made of quicksand When the dying Legs Flamingo leaves him a package to deliver, Spuds gets curious Why is Leslie Detweiler mo...

$8.99

Lakeboat

David Mamet

Samuel French Inc

8 Male 0 Female

This fascinating series of vignettes is set aboard a Great Lakes steamer. It focuses in on the crew, the hardhats of the steel waterways, all but one of whom are "lifers" The other character is a young coll...

$10.99

Checking Out

Allen Swift

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 1 Female

"Why is it that a man can live a happy life and ruin it all by dying?" So says Morris Applebaum who wants to get it over with fast, not slowly. He's a vigorous octogenarian, former star of the Yiddish stage...

$10.99

Machiavelli

Richard Vetere

Dramatic Publishing

4 Male 2 Female

Set in Florence, Italy, in 1524, this is a comedy about the famous political thinker, Niccolo Machiavelli, told in a farcical style based on his own play The Mandrake ... When the Medicis take control of ...

$9.99

Something for Charlie

Neville Bryant

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 3 Female

A young, engaged, conservative teacher's life is changed forever when he comes home one night and finds a magnificent blond stranger naked on his bed

$10.99

The Ring Sisters

Charles Laurence

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 3 Female

Silva Ring is a world famous singer with a severe hang up about her age. When a Swedish interviewer produces her true birth certificate, she resorts to increasingly desperate measures to prove him wrong Wit...

$10.99

The Engagement

Richard Vetere

Dramatic Publishing

4 Male 1 Female

Tony, Pat, Jeffery and Tom have been bachelor friends for years They hang out, go to ball games and nightclubs, and take vacations together Everything is about to change, however, when the handsome wo...

$9.99

The Dinner Party

Neil Simon

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Here is a decidedly French dinner party served up in a chaotic mode that only a master of comedy could create. Five people are invited to dine at a first rate restaurant in Paris. They do not know who the ot...

$10.99

A Royal Affair

Luis Santeiro

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 4 Female

Hilda, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, finds work cleaning for retired history teacher, Edna, a serious person with a big heart. Hilda misses her children and works hard to earn enough money to send t...

$13

Fit to be Tied

Nicky Silver

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 1 Female

Zany romantic comedy when lonely mega-rich Arloc Simpson meets the man of his dreams, Boyd, a young orphan runaway. Problem is, Boyd doesn't feel the same way, so Arloc kidnaps him. Then Mom turns up ... . ...

$13

The Kids Left. The Dog Died. Now What?

Carole Caplan-Lonner

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

A musical comedy that salutes those valiantly struggling with divorce on their hands, gravity on their bodies, grandchildren on their self-images and the dating scene on their egos The risks and uncertain...

$10.99

Remember Me?

Sam Bobrick

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

On the surface, Mary and Brian have an ideal marriage. On an ordinary Sunday, Brian leaves to play tennis. While he is gone, Mary's college flame shows up and professes undying love ... or does he? Brian fl...

$10.99