Plays by Genre - Comedy Plays

Unexpected Guests

Jordan Crittenden

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 3 Female

Harry Mullin comes home to find his wife has left with a door to door cello salesman. If he thinks he'll suffer his misery in solitude, he's very mistaken Within minutes, he has many unexpected guests: a ho...

$10.99

King of the Kosher Grocers

Joe Minjares

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 1 Female

This warm hearted comedy about three men a Jew, a Chicano and an African American shows hope for the races and generations Jamar goes to college and works for Itzy Silvers' market, formerly a kosher deli no...

$10.99

Of Grapes and Nuts

The Illegitimate Players - Doug Armstrong & Keith Cooper & Tom Willmorth

Broadway Play Publishing

4 Male 2 Female

"'It ain't the heat, it's the humility.' That opening line strangely summarizes the heartbreak of GRAPES OF WRATH and sets the tone for this clever show. Irreverent on its surface, hilariously accurate in ...

$12.99

A Mighty Man is He

Arthur Kober & George Oppenheimer

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 5 Female

The "Mighty Man" of this gay, frivolous comedy is a wealthy, aristocratic theatrical producer, and a wolf "The theatre producer, Alexander Smith - who never appears on the stage - has been deceiving his ...

$13

Not With My Daughter

Jay Christopher

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Will Gray suddenly has a problem when his 18 year old daughter appears at his swinging singles apartment door. Will and his neighbor, a velvet voiced radio DJ named Rip have a penchant for juggling girls lik...

$10.99

Stage Door

Edna Ferber & George S. Kaufman

Dramatists Play Service

2 Female

This hugely popular comedy concerns a group of young girls who have come to New York to study acting and find jobs The scene is Mrs Orcutt's boarding house, where we share the hopes and ambitions of sixt...

$13

The Live Bed Show

Arthur Smith

Josef Weinberger

1 Male 1 Female

From the co-author of An Evening With Gary Lineker comes this hilarious boy meets girl tale for the over-30's Live Bed Show finds one couple manoeuvring through a tussle of love, sheets and emotional ping...

$15.99

Snacks

Leonard Gershe

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 1 Female

Set in a small deli on Manhattan's lower East side, Snacks tells the story of a love affair between the street wise young Italian deli owner and a Wasp higher education major at Columbia grad school Will Ma...

$10.99

Round and Round the Garden

Alan Ayckbourn

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 3 Female

Round and Round the Garden is part of The Norman Conquests trilogy, although each Play is complete in itself and can be played as a separate entity Sarah's desperate attempts to have a nice, civilized week ...

$12.99

Freedomland

Amy Freed

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 4 Female

Ages ago, Noah and his wife took their kids to the amusement park "Freedomland." After that trip, Noah's wife ran off and left him to raise the family. Now a retired professor of religion, Noah has marrie...

$13

Private Jokes Public Places

Oren Safdie

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 1 Female

This offers a disturbing and humorous glimpse inside the contemporary world of architecture Margaret, a young Korean-American student, presents her thesis for a public swimming pool to an all-male jury o...

$13

Ripe Conditions

Claudia Allen

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 1 Female

Set in rural Michigan, Ripe Conditions is about Lester and Buster, a pair of bumbling brothers, and Ann, the long-lost love of their lives, who eloped with their kid brother years ago only to return to th...

$9.99

Weekend Comedy

Jeanne Bobrick & Sam Bobrick

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

In this comedy two couples rent the same Catskills cabin for the same weekend by mistake. One couple is staid and middle aged; the other free wheeling and young They decide to share and before the weekend i...

$10.99

Once is Enough

Jack Sharkey

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

Authoress Erika Linden is writing a manual on man-snatching. Erika's secretary, unwilling to expose her fiance to Erika's charms, finds substitute Brian Merrick to aid Erika in her research Brian is actuall...

$10.99

Oatmeal and Kisses

Murray Schisgal

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

Schneider has become a glutton, and Roxanne, his pretty, and much younger wife, is surprised by the new method of trimming him down: a live-in, over-zealous, yet attractive doctor, Peter Wellington Thou...

$13

Smudge

Rachel Axler

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

A dark comedy about the changing face of the American family and the limits of love and cheesecake A hopeful young couple gives birth to a smudge Written by two-time Emmy Award winner Rachel Axler "For ...

$10.99

Accelerando

Lisa Loomer

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 3 Female

This romantic comedy employs twelve scenes to reveal a relationship that spans an entire nighttime, because: A) with the way the world is speeding up now-a-days, a nighttime is really what a lifetime used to...

$13

Dupont Mississippi

Mark Landon Smith

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 9 Female

Verna Dewberry, the evil and dictatorial matriarch of the small town of Dupont, Mississippi has died - a joyous occasion for its citizens Estelle Lock, the local Music Minister's wife who also plays the ro...

$10.99

Almost the Bride of Dracula or Why the Count Remains a Bachelor

Dennis Snee

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 5 Female

The poor Count is only 580 years old and his mother is constantly after him to find a nice girl and settle down ... We see the Count during interludes with Donna, the devout Catholic beauty who expects him...

$8.99

Amateurs

Tom Griffin

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 4 Female

Following the opening night of the Timberly Troupers' musical about undertakers, Dorothy and her slightly daft husband, Charlie, host a gathering of actors and friends The chic opening night party is in ...

$13