American Plays & Musicals - American Plays

Win with Wheeler

Lee Kalcheim

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 3 Female

This satirical farce about campaign dirty tricks and numbskullduggery is set in the hotel room headquarters of a candidate for the Senate The plot revolves around the determined and frantic efforts of Sam D...

$10.99

The Whole World Over

K. Simonov

Dramatists Play Service

7 Male 3 Female

Translated and rewritten for the American stage by Thelma Schnee Produced successfully in New York A delightful comedy about the housing shortage

$13

Pageant

Bill Russell & Frank Kelly

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 0 Female

One of the rowdiest farces ever staged, Pageant pits six beauty queens against each other in the Glamouresse annual extravaganza. Miss Texas, Miss Great Plains, Miss Deep South, Miss Industrial Northeast, Mi...

$10.99

The Downside

Richard Dresser

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 2 Female

American business is the target of this hilarious and cutting satire originally produced at Long Wharf Theatre. A pharmaceutical firm has acquired rights to market a European anti stress drug and marketing h...

$10.99

Dog Sees God - Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead

Bert V. Royal

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 4 Female

When CB's dog dies from rabies, CB begins to question the existence of an afterlife His best friend is too burnt out to provide any coherent speculation; his sister has gone goth; his ex-girlfriend has recen...

$13

Zooman and the Sign

Charles Fuller

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 3 Female

Zooman is a teenage Philidelphia Black youth who senselessly terrorises Blacks and Whites alikeWhen he kills a 12-year old black girl in a street full of people, the witnesses are too frightened to identify ...

$10.99

Doubles

David Wiltse

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 1 Female

Four "muppies" middle aged urban professionals who meet once a week for camaraderie, wisecracks and tennis. Set in the locker room of their tennis club, this is a delightful look at male menopause in all its...

$10.99

The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940

John Bishop

Josef Weinberger

5 Male 5 Female

The creative team responsible for a recent Broadway flop (in which three chorus girls were murdered by the mysterious "Stage Door Slasher") assemble for a backer's audition of their new show at the Westche...

$15.99

Death Suite

Peter DePietro

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 4 Female

Natasha Kutchka, famed Kirov prima ballerina, and Sergei Bolstov, artistic director of the Kirov, are in the United States as part of a Cultural Exchange Or are they? Secret codes are dropped, mysterious ...

$10.99

A Bad Friend

Jules Feiffer

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 2 Female

Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s, A Bad Friend brings us into the household of Shelly and Naomi Wallach They are a middle-aged couple who are as fervently opposed to McCarthyism, anti-Semitism and exploit...

$13

Eating Raoul

Paul Bartel & Boyd Graham

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

The cult film classic has new life as a zany musical. The Blands want to open a restaurant, but they need cash. Suppose they lure weirdo's to their apartment to kill and rob them? Soon, they are a financia...

$10.99

Great Day in the Morning

Thomas Babe

Broadway Play Publishing

4 Male 4 Female

"Thorstein Veblen's theory of conspicuous consumption would find itself cozily vindicated in Thomas Babe's GREAT DAY IN THE MORNING, a new play set in the fin de siecle that also manages to pull the chain o...

$12.99

The Jammer

Rolin Jones

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 3 Female

The Jammer resurrects that greatest of American entertainments, the Roller Derby - half sport, half show, all action In just over an hour, it packs multiple roller-derby sequences, a riot, a roller-coaster ...

$13

Edith Stein

Arthur Giron

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 7 Female

This haunting, passionate drama has played to standing room only audiences. Edith Stein was a Jewish intellectual who converted to Roman Catholicism, joined a Carmelite nunnery and was martyred at Auschwitz ...

$10.99

The Lady from Havana

Luis Santeiro

Dramatists Play Service

0 Male 3 Female

In Act One, Mama, an elegant older woman from Cuba, arrives at the Miami home of her daughter, Marita, with her former maid, Zoila, in tow as well as a host of misgivings about living in exile in the Unit...

$13

More from Story

Paul Sills

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

Here are more theatrical fables from the author of the ever popular Story Theatre Audiences are delighted by these easy to stage tales from such classics as The Dream of Good Fortune from The Arabian Nights...

$10.99

The Country Girl

Clifford Odets

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 2 Female

"The Country Girl, in this affectionate backstage story, is Georgie Elgin, a lovable, faithful, forgiving woman whose long years of devotion to her actor husband, Frank, have almost obliterated her own pe...

$13

One Bad Apple

Raphe Beck & Christopher La Puma & Deborah Wicks La Puma

Dramatic Publishing

3 Male 4 Female

"In the beginning, God created man ... which was Her first mistake"Thus begins this musical comedy that turns the Book of Genesis into the first battle of the sexes In a very corporate world of Creation, ...

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A Family Man

Tom Szentgyorgyi

Dramatic Publishing

4 Male 3 Female

A Family Man chronicles the misadventures of Jake, an enthusiastic and completely unreliable young man on the run from a loan shark With his pregnant wife, Sammy, and her young son in tow, Jake travels ...

$9.99

Pick Up Ax

Anthony Clarvoe

Broadway Play Publishing

3 Male 0 Female

"PICK UP AX ... has a smart, sassy script that's studded with bright, funny dialogue... Clarvoe's very hip script centers on the fortunes of two bright young men, Keith Rienzi and Brian Weiss, who have b...

$12.99