Plays by Genre - Comedy Plays

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

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

The Cashier

Glen Merzer

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 8 Female

$10.99

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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