Plays by Genre - Comedy Plays

Ladies Who Lunch

Tudor Gates

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 7 Female

Wives of three of the world's richest men meet for lunch to do charity work, but then decide to use inside information from the unwitting husbands so they can play the stock market

$12.99

Marcus is Walking - Scenes from the Road

Joan Ackermann

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the car, the play examines the emotional landscape we roam as we travel in our cars. Control, navigation, love and escape, are some of the themes explored ...

$13

Finishing Touches

Jean Kerr

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

Katy and Jeff Cooper have three sons (one a Harvard senior), a comfortable suburban home, and the prospect of a full professorship (English) for Jeff But somehow the bloom has worn off their marriage: Je...

$13

Seventy Scenes of Halloween

Jeffrey M Jones

Broadway Play Publishing

2 Male 2 Female

"...The play is almost a cartoon, a succession of brief scenes--some Stan Mack-realistic, some perfectly absurd--separated by blackouts. A young, hip suburban couple sits at home on Halloween watching T V...

$12.99

Haywire

Eric Chappell

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 4 Female

Alec's plans for an adulterous holiday in Spain with his assistant Liz, without wife Maggie getting suspicious, are thrown into disarray when Alec's mother arrives having discharged herself from her old peop...

$12.99

Play Time

Murray Schisgal

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 3 Female

In a neo-naturalistic, comedic style, integrating original songs, verbal banter, dances and vaudeville turns, Play Time explores the lives of five contemporary characters in an age of waning convictions ... ...

$13

Connie and Sabrina in Waiting

Sandra Marie Vago

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

As this unusual, warm and winning comedy begins, Sabrina, a woman in her fifties, is at a funeral home to play her respects to her dearest and oldest friend, Connie. A flashback moves the scene to the 1960s ...

$10.99

The Young Girl and The Monsoon

James Ryan

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

Growing up is hard to do-particularly if you are a pre-adolescent girl in Manhattan living with a photo-journalist father reeling from a messy divorce Constance is a thirteen-year-old torn by life and st...

$13

Romance in D

James Sherman

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

This takes place in two side-by-side apartments in present day Chicago. Charles Norton, a musicologist, lives in one apartment alone with his books and music. Isabel Fox, a poet on the verge of a divorce, ...

$13

Handy Dandy

William Gibson

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 1 Female

The first of many confrontations between Molly Egan, a feisty, salty-tongued activist nun in her early sevenities and District Court Judge Henry Pulaski, a conservative jurist in his sixties, occurs when ...

$13

In Real Life

Charlayne Woodard

Dramatists Play Service

0 Male 1 Female

After graduating from drama school in Chicago, Charlayne Woodard, a young African-American woman, eagerly packs her bags and heads for New York City to live with her white boyfriend and pursue an acting c...

$13

My Uncle Sam

Len Jenkin

Dramatists Play Service

7 Male 4 Female

Uncle Sam was a novelties salesman who died one night, alone and broke, in a Pittsburgh hotelBut he was also a larger- than-life figure, a mythic hero, to his nephew - who now seeks to discover his uncle's...

$13

A Thousand Clowns

Herb Gardner

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 1 Female

This benchmark of Broadway comedy produced one of the theatre's most beloved roles: a bachelor uncle who is endeavoring to rear his precocious nephew He has tired of writing cheap comedy for a children's te...

$10.99

Arthur Makes a Difference

Kathy Friederici

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

This easy to produce, fun to do little one act play also carries with it a potent message Arthur, a high school boy, is subject - like all high school kids - to intense peer pressures, mostly to do things w...

$8.99

The Maderati

Richard Greenberg

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 4 Female

This focuses on the self-centered concerns of a rather inbred group of Manhattan "yuppies" The action of the play deals with the ultimately hilarious misunderstandings which arise when one of their number,...

$13

Absent Friends

Alan Ayckbourn

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 3 Female

Colin must be comforted in his grief over the death of his fiancee so his friends, who never met the girl, arrange a tea party for him Understandably they are on edge wondering what to say, but there is mor...

$12.99

Ladies Down Under

Amanda Whittington

Nick Hern Books

2 Male 4 Female

This the funny, heart-warming sequel to the enormously successful Ladies Day - following the lasses from Hull on their adventures down under ... After hitting the jackpot at Ladies' Day in York, the ...

$14.99

Cash on Delivery

Michael Cooney

Samuel French Ltd

6 Male 4 Female

This fast paced British farce concerns a con artist who has duped the welfare authorities for years by claiming every type of benefit for the innumerable people he claims live at his address This scam nets ...

$10.99

How Much How Much?

Peter Keveson

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 3 Female

Set in a shabby apartment on New York's West Side, the play centers on an attractive teenage boy who is rescued from a possible mugging by the very nice young daughter of shiftless parents and brought hom...

$13

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