Plays by Publisher - The Play Press

Men Are Dogs

Joe Simonelli

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 6 Female

Cecelia is a successful psychologist who, among many sessions, runs a support group for singe and divorced women She's got troubles of her own, but it's her ensemble of neurotic patients who provide the ...

$10.99

Reclining Figure

Harry Kurnitz

Dramatists Play Service

8 Male 1 Female

"Playwright Harry Kurnitz has hit upon a background that generates its own chaos: the sleek, effusive and cheerfully dishonest world of the art experts. He has set up a gullible millionaire who keeps ten-...

$13

Cobb

Lee Blessing

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 0 Female

The character of controversial baseball legend Ty Cobb is split into three differently aged versions of himself: The Peach, aged nineteen, at the beginning of his long career with the Detroit Tigers Ty,...

$13

Tabletop

Rob Ackerman

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 1 Female

During an afternoon in the studio of director/cameraman Marcus Gordon, a crew struggles to get two shots for a fast-food commercial about a thick, pink drink. The producer and assistant director, Andrea, is ...

$13

Heaven Help Me

Joe Simonelli

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

The three Holloway brothers have a problem - their string of casual restaurants is failing, youngest, black sheep brother Rollie owes money to every bookie in town, and they need to sell the family beach hou...

$10.99

The Misandrist

Jean Betts

The Play Press

3 Male 5 Female

A fairy tale wrapped around three Mysteries. four Comedies, a Lecture, two Appalling Tragedies, two Therapies, two school essays on Shakespeare - and a Love Story " ... angry and funny energy ... there are...

$14.99

The Last Good Moment of Lily Baker

Russell Davis

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

Bob and Sam work for the same corporation, but have not seen each other for three years since Sam has been heading the company's new operation in Italy Sam and his wife, Molly, return for a visit to the ...

$13

House Arrest & Piano - Two Plays

Anna Deavere Smith

Anchorage

From the award-winning actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, two teeming, pungent cross-sections of the American experience In the provocative and at times bitterly funny play House Arrest, Smith exam...

$13

Waiting for MacArthur

P. Paullette MacDougal

Dramatic Publishing

0 Male 4 Female

Letters from five continents intersect in this powerful story that explores the deeper meanings of patriotism, heroism, love of liberty and courage under fire It's the 1940s and four women are changed an...

$10.99

Black Eagles

Leslie Lee

Samuel French Inc

This is an extraordinary drama about the Tuskegee airmen, America's first black fighter pilotsThe play opens at a reception honoring the airmen and Gen. Colin Powell As the elderly WWII pilots reminisce, ...

$10.99

The Face of Emmett Till

Mamie Till-Mobley & David Barr III

Dramatic Publishing

7 Male 3 Female

A true-to-life dramatization of the death of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager who, while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, in August 1955, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by two whit...

$10.99

The Wooden Dish

Edmund Morris

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 4 Female

Concerns the cold war between a housewife (Clara) and the father- in-law she has been trying to dislodge ever since she married: a tough, asthmatic old wreck combining all the pride and cunning of his age ...

$13

Freeze Tag

Jacquelyn Reingold

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 2 Female

When Andrea tries to buy a newspaper in New York's East Village, she is thrust into an emotional journey she will never forget in this one act play The newsstand vendor seems to know the most intimate secre...

$8.99

Prescription Murder

William Link & Richard Levinson

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 3 Female

Prescription : Murder provided the inspiration for the much-loved TV series Columbo It tells the story of a brilliant psychiatrist and his mistress who hatch a plot to murder his neurotic, possessive wife ...

$10.99

Catfish Moon

Laddy Sartin

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

The old fishing pier out on the end of Cypress Lake has just fallen under the magic of another Catfish Moon It was the favorite hangout for three best friends when they were kids - skipping school, skin...

$13

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

Flour Babies

Ann Fine with Rachel O'Neill

Collins

How would you feel if you had to go to school and look after a baby? The students in Mr Cartright's class have the chance to find out when they're given an unusual project - to care for six pound sacks of f...

$13.99

The Soul of the White Ant

Snoo Wilson

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Bizarre, surreal and comic, this play is about a racial murder in South Africa and its subsequent cover up by the press and the police. Mabel's husband is away so she takes and then shoots a Black lover Rep...

$10.99

Goodnight Desdemona - Good Morning Juliet

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Grove Press

In this exuberant comedy and original revision of Shakespeare's Othello and Romeo and Juliet -- Constance Ledbelly, a drab and dusty academic, deciphers a cryptic manuscript she believes to be the original s...

$15.99

Domino

Robert Litz

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 1 Female

Short, hilarious scenes reveal what is really going on between Contras, Sandinistas and Noriegas "Excruciatingly funny political comedy.... Hostages are taken; prisoners are tortured; ransoms are paid; wea...

$10.99