Plays by Author - Thornton Wilder

The Matchmaker

Thornton Wilder

Samuel French Inc

9 Male 7 Female

A certain old merchant of Yonkers is so rich in 1800 that he decides to take a wife. He employs a matchmaker a woman who subsequently becomes involved with two of his menial clerks, assorted young and lovely...

$10.99

Pullman Car Hiawatha

Thornton Wilder

Samuel French Inc

This novel one act play without scenery shows a Pullman car in every possible lightTowns it passes through are personified as well as the eight passengers whose partial life stories are shown within the car ...

$8.99

Collected Short Plays - Volume II

Thornton Wilder

Theatre Communications

Thornton Wilder's short plays are published for the first time in two volumes - this second volume collects his first published book of plays - The Angel that Troubled with Waters and Other Plays - with t...

$18.99

The Alcestiad or A Life in the Sun

Thornton Wilder

Samuel French Inc

$10.99

Childhood

Thornton Wilder

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

In this provocative, sometimes chilling comedy, Wilder renders a child's-eye view of the grown-up world, as a father, a mother and their three children play a revealing game of make-believe in which the chil...

$8.99

Thornton Wilder's Classic One Acts

Thornton Wilder

Samuel French Inc

"If God were to dabble in anthropology, and the recording angels to write with wry humor and infinite tolerance of human folly, this is how the holy books would read" ~ The New York Times This collection of...

$10.99

The Seven Deadly Sins - Seven One-act Plays

Thornton Wilder

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 4 Female

Published for the first time in a single acting edition, Wilder's The Seven Deadly Sins presents a series of short works depicting the complexity and consequences of human frailty The Seven One-act Plays ar...

$10.99

The Angel That Troubled the Water and Other Plays

Thornton Wilder

Used Copy

Includes Nascuntur Poetae & Prosperina and the Devil & Fanny Otcott & Brother Fire & The Penny That Beauty Spent & The Angel on the Ship & The Message and Jehanne & Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came & Cen...

$45

Infancy

Thornton Wilder

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

Takes place in a park with two women pushing baby buggies, and demonstrates their complete lack of understanding of the nature and needs of baby human beings One-act REVIEWS "It is wonderful to have an or...

$8.99

The Woman of Andros - A Novel

Thornton Wilder

Used Copy

Pub 1954

$18.99

The Long Christmas Dinner

Thornton Wilder

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 7 Female

This play covers 90 years and represents 90 Christmas dinners in the Bayard family The development of the countryside, the changes in customs and manners, the growth of the Bayard family, and their accumu...

$8.99

Queens of France

Thornton Wilder

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 3 Female

In New Orleans in 1869, Monsieur Cahusac - a charlatan of a lawyer - preys on vulnerable women, convincing each of them one that she is a legitimate descendant of the long-lost Dauphin, who fled Paris for Ne...

$8.99

The Happy Journey to Trenton from Camden

Thornton Wilder

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

In this one act comedy, one of the characters representing the author leans against the proscenium and reads the lines for a number of minor characters who never appear The simple story of Pa and Ma and the...

$8.99

The Drunken Sisters

Thornton Wilder

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 3 Female

Wilder's conception of the satyr that followed Euripides' Alcestis in ancient Greek festivals Apollo ventures into the land of the three sisters of Fate who control the threads of each man's life and here, ...

$8.99

Our Town

Thornton Wilder

Samuel French Inc

Winner of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize Described by Edward Albee as "... the greatest American play ever written", the story follows the small town of Grover's Corners through three acts ... "Daily Life""Love a...

$10.99

The Skin of Our Teeth

Thornton Wilder

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 5 Female

This is the satiric story of the extraordinary Antrobus family down through the ages from the time of the war any war They have survived flood, fire, pestilence, the seven year locusts, the ice age, the pox...

$10.99

Collected Short Plays - Volume I

Thornton Wilder

Theatre Communications

After a period of decline, Wilder's reputation is on an upswing that this collection of plays will fuel This is the first volume of short plays in a uniform edition, complete and well edited by Wilder's lit...

$19.99