Plays by Genre - Comedy Plays

Lend Me A Tenor

Ken Ludwig

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 4 Female

This night in September of 1934 is the biggest in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company world famous tenor Tito Morelli is to perform Otello, his greatest role, at the gala season opener. Saunders...

$10.99

Birthday Suite

Robin Hawdon

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 2 Female

Geoff has arranged a birthday treat for his old friend, Bob - a hotel room complete with fold-up double bed and a young lady called Mimi. But when Kate, a shy woman waiting for an agency date, Dick, who has ...

$12.99

The Comeback

A.R. Gurney

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 2 Female

"While director Paul John Austin, portraying a reporter later identified as Homer, waits for the story to 'jell,' it's like a gay party except for the brooding Telemachus, grousing like Hamlet at his mother'...

$9

Jumping for Joy

Jon Marans

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

In this dark comedy, wily, manipulative Emily Mavin has summoned her uptight Manhattanite brother, Michael, to their family home in Maryland, using the excuse that their father, Samuel, has suffered a mild h...

$13

The Cashier

Glen Merzer

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 8 Female

$10.99

The Liver Birds

Carla Lane & John Chapman

English Theatre Guild

5 Male 4 Female

Stage adaptation from the popular TV series showing Liver Birds Sandra and Beryl still looking for love while keeping their interfering mothers at bay

$7.99

Beyond a Joke

Derek Benfield

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 4 Female

People have a habit of dying at Jane and Andrew's country house! When their daughter Sally brings her new man, Geoff, home he mistakenly gets the idea that there is something more sinister than just mere a...

$12.99

My Friend Miss Flint

Donald Churchill and Peter Yeldham

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 3 Female

A highly entertaining comedy centered on Tom Lambert, who receives a phone call from the Inland Revenue enquiring about his public relations officer, Miss Joanna Flint, who he honestly says he has never met ...

$12.99

A Hole in the Fence

David Foley

Oberon

It's 1919 and the US naval base in Newport, Rhode Island, is mired in 'conditions of vice' Mr Vole has a plan to clean it up - he orders a group of young sailors to infiltrate Newport's dens of depravity a...

$14.99

Rainy Day People

Todd McCullough

Dramatic Publishing

5 Male 7 Female

Rainy Day People takes a comic look at love, sex and other antidepressants Zack Wallis has turned misery into a paycheck, writing a wildly popular newspaper column full of his cynical views on modern ex...

$9.99

The Irregular Verb To Love

Hugh Williams & Margaret Williams

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 5 Female

Hedda Rankin, wife of a zoo official, returns home from a spell in prison to find her husband has not been faithful, her daughter will not marry the man she loves and her son, Andrew, has just returned from ...

$10.99

Last of the Class

Fred Carmichael

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

Two old enemies reunite after forty years to settle an estate which turns out to be a pornographic business In New York City two elderly gentlemen have been summoned to dispose of articles left by a decease...

$10.99

You Have to Serve Somebody

Werner Trieschmann

Dramatic Publishing

3 Male 5 Female

Can you juggle sticky desserts while wearing a big sombrero and singing "Happy Birthday"? Can you placate the customer who says the soup tastes like Lysol? Can you deal with the fact that your dreams ...

$9.99

Pastimes

Brian Jeffries

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 3 Female

Sam and Bill, two middle-aged brothers, live quietly and happily running a cafe in a seaside town until runaway Linda arrives looking for a job - followed by her grandmother Connie who is looking for Linda. ...

$12.99

The Mind with the Dirty Man

Jules Tasca

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 4 Female

Small town leader Wayne Stone is the head of the local film review board. He and his prudish colleagues strive to keep smutty movies out of their small community Hilarity ensues when Stone's underground fil...

$10.99

Running on Empty

Jack Heifner

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

As the play begins, Lilly is pondering which of her designer dresses to burn in the fireplace of her chic if sparsely furnished penthouse apartment The problem is that it is wintertime, the United States...

$13

Invitation to a March

Arthur Laurents

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 4 Female

"It skirts about the fairy story of Sleeping Beauty, but never settles for long in one mold There is social comment on conformity and other failings of our modern civilization; there is satire of the mor...

$13

Is Love Everything?

Edward Dudowicz

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

Tony Arcatti is on the run from the police and a rival mob. He takes refuge in Constance Meredith's basement on New York's East Side. These two strong willed individuals produce many comic sparks in their co...

$10.99

Good Night Caroline

Conrad Seiler

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

At 2 a.m. a burglar climbs into Caroline's and Alfred's bedroom, and hides in the closet. Caroline excitedly calls to Alfred. He must search the house at once She rings for the maid but Selma, terrified,...

$13

The American Dame

Philip C. Lewis

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 3 Female

In setting forth his study of American Womanhood (and how she got to be what and where she is) the author begins at the beginning - with Eve and the apple From this earliest hint of what was to come he m...

$13