Plays by Genre - Comedy Plays

Stars Within

Susan Schooleman & Christopher Sewell

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

An overweight radio talk show astrologer and a Lutheran minister are attracted to each other during an on the air debate Without being preachy, this two act, ninety minute comedy examines how our beliefs ca...

$10.99

Playing Away

Chris Sykes

Josef Weinberger

2 Male 1 Female

Elizabeth is at the centre of a love-triangle - she has a lover in London, Roger Rodgers, and another life in Paris with paramour Pierre But can she carry on having her gateau and eating it ? A sparklin...

$15.99

Mutual Benefit Life

Robert Patrick

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

Having achieved recognition and some success as a playwright, after a long period of struggle and apprenticeship, Scott has undergone a breakdown and memory loss Released from a hospital in Los Angeles, ...

$13

A Lovesong for Miss Lydia

Don Evans

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

Lydia Frazier, a widow in her seventies and a pillar of her church, is living out her life with quiet dignity in her modest Philadelphia home Her circumstances change, however, when, for reasons of lonel...

$13

Room Service

John Murray & Allen Boretz

Dramatists Play Service

2 Female

A nimble-witted producer, living on credit with several actors in a Broadway hotel, is desperately in need of a good script - he finds one, and, by great good luck, he also finds an angel with $15,000 The...

$13

Gym and Tonic

John Godber

Samuel French Ltd

5 Male 5 Female

Don & Shirley visit a Health Spa to relax and revitalise their ailing marriage in this bitter-sweet comedy

$12.99

The Sugar Bean Sisters

Nathan Sanders

Dramatic Publishing

1 Male 4 Female

In this Southern Gothic comedy of romance, murder and alien abduction, the Nettle sisters are determined to escape spinsterhood ... Willie Mae by going to Salt Lake and finding a good Mormon husband and Fay...

$11.99

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

Neil Simon

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 3 Female

Barney Cashman at the age of 47 wants to join the sexual revolution before it's too late, but Barney Cashman is a gentle sober soul with a true blue wife of 23 years and absolutely no experience in adultery,...

$10.99

The Return of Herbert Bracewell

Andrew Johns

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 1 Female

It's 1909 and Herbert Bracewell has retired to the attic of his New York home with plans to stage a comeback in a one-man review of his long, if undistinguished career. He assembles five antique match-lit fo...

$13

Punch and Judy

Bill Svanoe

Dramatists Play Service

0 Male 3 Female

Marina Cliff, a Hungarian-Swiss beauty who is recently divorced from her real-estate billionaire husband, decides she wants to write a novel to amuse herself. She hires Carol Spearman, a smart, reclusive, cy...

$13

The Soapy Murder Case

Tim Kelly

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 5 Female

Life in a soap opera meets life in a New York City penthouse with hysterical results! Old Horatio Tucker, sponsor of television's most popular daytime soap, "The Best Tears of Our Lives", has received an an...

$10.99

Progress

Doug Lucie

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 2 Female

The play is set in the London home of Will, a handsome, well-educated television-documentary researcher, and his attractive, social activist wife, Ronee, who runs a community center in South London Anxio...

$13

Music from a Sparkling Planet

Douglas Carter Beane

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 1 Female

Whatever became of Tamara Tomorrow ? In the early 70s, this local television host in her antennae and space suit made cheery predictions of how exciting our future was going to be Her disappearance from ...

$13

Puberty - The Game Show

Greg Atkins

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

In this game show parody gone berserk, two blameless adolescents are forced to negotiate the horrors and highlights of puberty ... on national television Their categories: Hormone Hijinks, Can't We be Frien...

$8.99

The Great Sebastians

Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse

Dramatists Play Service

The Great Sebastians"is an artfully deliberate combination of the legends of Graustark and the writings of George Sokolsky In it Lunt and Fontanne are a vaudeville combo doing a mind-reading act, and their...

$13

The Riot Act

Will Greene

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 5 Female

Katie Delaney, an upright, hard-working widow, struggles to keep her three grown sons from falling into the clutches of "designing women" The sons, all members of the New York City police force, are far ...

$13

Wife Begins at Forty

Arne Sultan & Earl Barret & Ray Cooney

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 2 Female

George and Linda Harper's 17 year marriage has gone stale, but George doesn't seem to be aware of it When confronted with the problem, he gets a vasectomy, which solves nothing, so he moves out Linda rearr...

$12.99

All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Play

Werner Trieschmann

Dramatic Publishing

3 Male 3 Female

Based on several disastrous theatrical experiences, Bad Play peels back a tattered curtain to examine the process of putting on a show that is less than good A stuffy narrator - what bad play is complete wi...

$10.99

The Sleeper

Catherine Butterfield

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 3 Female

Winner of the 2004 Kaufman and Hart Award A suburban "security mom" finds herself irresistibly drawn to her son's tutor - a handsome young man with political leanings far different from her own Her "awa...

$13

The Philadelphia Story

Philip Barry

Samuel French Inc

9 Male 6 Female

This Broadway hit starred Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord of the Philadelphia Lords, an inhibited and spoiled daughter of the privileged Divorced from C.J. Dexter Haven, she is engaged to a successful young...

$10.99