Plays by Publisher - Samuel French

The Play's the Thing

Ferenc Molnar adapted P.G. Wodehouse

Samuel French Inc

Turai and his collaborator bring their young composer, Albert, on a surprise visit to an Italian castle with their prima donna, Ilona, who is engaged to Albert The fun includes many acidulous comments on ...

$10.99

Buying Time

Michael Weller

Samuel French Inc

A prominent law firm in the Southwest suffers a crisis of conscience when caught between the demands of a huge industrial client and a pro bono environmental group The firm's idealistic leader - Bennett Tra...

$10.99

A Party to Murder

Marcia Kash & Douglas E. Hughes

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Six people have come in secret on Halloween to play a murder mystery game at a rustic island cottage Invited by writer Charles Prince, they appear set for a weekend of fun until ghosts from the past begin t...

$10.99

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

August Wilson

Samuel French Inc

8 Male 2 Female

It's 1927 in a rundown studio in Chicago where Ma Rainey is recording new sides of old favoritesMore goes down in the session than music in this riveting portrayal of rage, racism, the self hate and exploita...

$10.99

Melody Jones

Nathan Hale & Ruth Hale

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 7 Female

$10.99

V and V Only

Jim Leonard Jr

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 2 Female

The "V and V Coffee Shop" in New York's Little Italy is more than a place to grab a quick cup of espresso; it's a place to pass the time with the proprietor, who is lonely since his wife left In addition, h...

$10.99

The Maturing of Jonathan Pruneberg

Delray Dvoracek

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

A guardian from the other world discovers that Jonathan is a failure because the pages in his ledger are stuck together, and he comically urges him down a path toward success and a blind date

$10.99

Miss Roach's War

Richard Kane from Patrick Hamilton

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 5 Female

A charming adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's story set in 1943 of the elderly people who spend their days in the Rosamund Tea Rooms. Bickering and gossiping leads to minor wars and Enid Roach makes two unfort...

$12.99

Sacrilege

Diane Shaffer

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 3 Female

This riveting drama is about a devout Roman Catholic nun who fights the Vatican to allow women in the priesthood. Sister Grace befriends Ramon, a homeless hustler, and restores his faith in himself, the Chur...

$10.99

The Cat and the Canary

John Willard

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 4 Female

The family of Ambrose West go to his castle on the Hudson to attend a reading of his will at midnight, just 20 years after his death. His will designates that Annabelle West is his sole heir if there is no i...

$10.99

The Rehearsal

Jean Anouilh trans Pamela H Johnson & Kitty Black

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 3 Female

The characters in this haunting play begin little by little to slip from the mid twentieth century into the past The count has decided to present a performance of Marivaux's Double Inconstancy and has cast ...

$10.99

The Contrast

Royall Tyler & Anthony Stimac & Don Pippin & Steve Brown

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

In the first American comedy, written by Royall Tyler in 1787 and supposedly inspired by School for Scandal, the contrast is between Americans who decked themselves in powdered wigs and the more rough and re...

$10.99

The Clone People - Hollywood Finish

Mike Johnson

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 5 Female

Jay Westcott and Nessa Paxton are two of Hollywood's most successful stars and a happily married couple. While filming on location, Nessa sustains an accidental blow on the head and flees to her home in Beve...

$10.99

June Groom

Rick Abbot

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 6 Female

On the eve of Jordan's 30th birthday on July 1, three days after his marriage to Dinah, he tells his friend Marty he's sworn to Uncle Harvey to remain celibate until this birthday to receive a fortune Jorda...

$10.99

Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii

Allan Stratton

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 4 Female

When Vivien Bliss, writer of Harlequin Romance novels, comes to spend a romantic weekend with respectably married school teacher Edgar Chisholm, she starts a train of events which involves all the classic el...

$10.99

Precious Sons

George Furth

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

This finely wrought autobiographical drama is about a Chicago family's financial struggles in the late 1940's Fred Small has a chance for a promotion that would necessitate moving to another city. The young...

$10.99

Last Session

Jim Brochu & Steve Schalchlin & John Bettis & Marie Cain

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

The Last Session gathers a swinging group in a recording studio to lay down a pop/gospel idol's last album With one exception, these are old friends (including an ex wife) and the session is full of warmth,...

$10.99

Chapter Two

Neil Simon

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

Based on part of Neil Simon's own life Chapter Two mixes laughter with heartache. George Schneider, a writer whose wife has recently died, returns to a lonely apartment His younger brother Leo, a theatrical...

$10.99

The Tale of the Allergist's Wife

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

The Tale of the Allergist's Wife is a radical departure for the well known author of extravagant spoofs like Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Psycho Beach Party. Marjorie Taub, the wife of a philanthropic aller...

$10.99

The Prodigious Snob

Moliere adapt Miles Malleson & John Hotchkis

Samuel French Ltd

6 Female

A nouveau riche bourgeois gentleman makes a jackass of himself by trying to impress everyone with his importance and wealth. He will not permit his daughter to marry anyone who is not a nobleman and is quite...

$12.99