Plays by Nation - American Plays

A Long Bridge Over Deep Water - LARGE CAST

James Still

Dramatic Publishing

This Play passionately and compassionately wrestles with the question - "How does faith both unite and divide us?" It explores the often invisibility of faith, how we make unconscious assumptions about on...

$10.99

The Gnadiges Fraulein

Tennessee Williams

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

"The Gnadiges Fraulein (translatable as 'The Gracious Lady') is the justification of the word 'Slapstick' in the overall title. It's a far-out tragic-comedy in the genre of the Theatre of the Absurd, with...

$13

The Kramer

Mark Medoff

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 3 Female

Self-assured and unyielding Bart Kramer, after accepting an important business position, inexorably intrudes himself into the lives of his associates Coldly and dispassionately he sets out to "save" it,...

$13

The Grace of Mary Traverse

Timberlake Wertenbaker

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 3 Female

Mary Traverse, the pretty, carefully schooled daughter of a wealthy London merchant, chafes at her pampered existence, and hungers for knowledge and experience of the outside world Leaving her father's p...

$13

Zapata

John Steinbeck

Penguin

The basis for the Oscar-nominated screenplay Viva Zapata!, this newly-discovered narrative by John Steinbeck explores the conflict between creative dissent and intolerant militancy exhibited in Emiliano Z...

$18.99

The Moonlight Room

Tristine Skyler

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

A dark tale of urban adolescence and family life, The Moonlight Room is set in the emergency room of a New York City hospital as two high-school students wait for news on the fate of a friend As the s...

$9

Washington Square Moves

Matthew Witten

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 2 Female

The urban misfits who play chess in Washington Square Park have no money and no home, but they are smart, witty, and above all, terrific chess players Al, a homeless ex-convict, hustles chess for a livi...

$13

True Crimes

Romulus Linney

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 4 Female

Logan Novel is a lazy man, given to reading aloud from various "True Crime" magazines which fascinate him. Fortunately for him, he is also very attractive to women and has mistresses who support him Mar...

$13

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

The Strip

Phyllis Nagy

Used Copy

$19.99

Last Operas and Plays

Gertrude Stein

John Hopkins University

"To Carl Van Vechten's 1949 selection of some of Stein's most important and most produced plays, this reprint adds the essay Plays, in which Stein elaborates her notion of the play as a landscape and, and ...

$22.99

Mamet Plays 4 - Oleanna & The Cryptogram & The Old Neighborhood

David Mamet

Methuen

A collection of outstanding plays from one of America's greatest playwrights Mamet's play suggests that deception is an endless spiralling process that eventually corrodes the soul. But it also harps on a...

$27.99

If It Was Easy

Stewart Lane & Ward Morehouse

Applause Books

Legendary producer, Steve Gallop, suddenly down on his luck, is seduced by the charms of beautiful showbiz columnist, Randi Lester, who's betting she can improve Gallop's Broadway track record with a music...

$11.99

The Life and Times of Tulsa Lovechild

Greg Owens

Broadway Play Publishing

7 Male 6 Female

"Aside from some beautiful dialogue and a delightfully optimistic spirit, the greatest strength of this play is that its characters confound all stereotypes. Most plays about misfits in motels go for easy...

$15.99

Unexpected Guests

Jordan Crittenden

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 3 Female

Harry Mullin comes home to find his wife has left with a door to door cello salesman. If he thinks he'll suffer his misery in solitude, he's very mistaken Within minutes, he has many unexpected guests: a ho...

$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

Death of a Don

Ronald Myroup

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

Godfather Don Giovanni clings to the traditions of a bygone era. He is at a Louis XIV desk in a room filled with bean bag chairs The tired crime lord must battle a pudgy daughter who wants to be a rock star...

$10.99

Shady Business

Robin Hawdon

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 2 Female

Mandy and Tania are sexy but struggling nightclub dancers living in the heart of London's Soho nightlife, and they face a crisis. Will possessive club owner Big Mack find out about Mandy's affair with Gerry ...

$10.99

Good Boys

Jane Martin

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 0 Female

A fierce encounter between fathers, one black and one white, opens a deeply disturbing chapter in their lives. The men relive the school shooting in which their sons died, one a victim and the other the shoo...

$10.99

The Death of the Black Jesus

David Barr

Dramatic Publishing

5 Male 3 Female

"Utilizing video, pop culture, political nostalgia for '60s protest, modem rap's black rage and the current obsession with tabloid TV, playwright Barr sets his two-act play on, cleverly enough, the set of...

$9.99