Plays by Genre - Comedy Plays

A Month in the Country

Ivan Turgenev adapted Emlyn Williams

Samuel French Inc

8 Male 5 Female

A bored wife living in the Russian countryside falls in love with her little boy's handsome new tutor - just like all of the women in the household The wife's chief rival turns out to be her 17 year old w...

$10.99

The Last of Jane Austen

Shirl Hendry

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 5 Female

Two elderly, usually quite proper sisters in a small Midwestern town inexplicably have developed a passion for watching boxing on television. When a shabby transient shows up at their door looking for odd jo...

$10.99

Missing Link

Jack Sharkey

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 6 Female

Lindy Baxter misses Lincoln Sinclair in fact she's been missing Link since World War II when he vanished in the Pacific. A fall puts her into the hands and the arms of orthopedist Simon Fletcher They set a ...

$10.99

Star on the Door

Jack Sharkey & Leo W Sears

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

Cinema legend Doreen Lewis, nervously about to make her Broadway debut opposite her ardent admirer Paul Burnside, intercepts a phone call for her dresser who is secretly wed to Doreen's son confirming that "...

$10.99

Perfect Pitch

Samuel Taylor

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 4 Female

The author has rewritten "Beekman Place," and makes it even more delightful than the original The story is of a famous violin virtuoso who is determined to retire, but is frustrated in his intentions by his...

$10.99

Roomies!

Jack Sharkey

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

Hal Mastik, a masseur on the brink of marriage to emerald mine heiress Miranda Kerwyn, learns to his horror that his college roommate Zenobia Poindexter is dropping by Though their relationship had been inn...

$10.99

Pothole-tergiest

Conrad Davidson

Brooklyn Publishing

3 Male 4 Female

A poltergeist has taken up residence in the potholes on a friendly neighborhood streetFirst, it forces an innocent young girl named Anne to listen to a recitation of the capitals of obscure nations of the wo...

$7.99

Use Other Door

Jerry Rabushka

Brooklyn Publishing

1 Male 1 Female

Nothing makes you want to open a door more than a sign telling you not to. But this door. this door has a history! No one even knows how long the sign has been there! One young man, determined to flout the...

$7.99

The Southwest Corner

John Cecil Holm From Mildred Walker

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 4 Female

Marcia Elder, a retired village school teacher, lives alone in her family home in Vermont. She is very happy in her lovely country house, but she begins to think about the possibility of finding a compani...

$13

Cookin' with Gus

Jim Brochu

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

Gussie Richardson is a famous food columnist and cookbook author. Her agent comes to tell her she's been offered her own daily network television show She wants to do it, but her husband Walter is dead set ...

$10.99

One Sunday Afternoon

James Hagan

Samuel French Inc

$10.99

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Dennis Snee

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 3 Female

Jonathan and Margaret have enjoyed (endured) a marriage of fifty years and a day when we join them for their rocking chair confrontation over past battles and future prospects Bob and Doris, in their 30's, ...

$8.99

Loot

Joe Orton

Methuen

4 Male 1 Female

One of the most enduring comedies of the modern British stage A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They hav...

$15.99

Night of the Living Beauty Pageant

Tim Kelly

Samuel French Inc

Two hucksters, Joe Allen and Steve Bentley, decide to stage a Miss Junior Venus Beauty Pageant in order to attract sponsors and hundreds of high school lovelies who'll pay a large entry fee to make them ri...

$10.99

Exit the Body

Fred Carmichael

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 5 Female

A mystery writer rents a New England house that is also to be the rendezvous point for some jewel thieves A body is found in the closet Which promptly disappears Only to be succeeded by another! The hun...

$10.99

A Time for Madness

Robert S Mulligan & John W Pulver

Samuel French Inc

8 Male 5 Female

Sandra Billings returns from college with Julian Bruce, classmate and self proclaimed poet, whom she says she loves Sandra's boyfriend Jeff refuses to believe she would dump him for this freak A reading of...

$10.99

Wyrd Sisters

Stephen Briggs from Terry Pratchett

Corgi

A zany, crazy parody of MacbethTerry Pratchett's wild Discworld humour is brought to the stage in this large cast adaptation where all that stands between the Kingdom and destruction are three Witches I...

$16.99

Murder In the Magnolias

Tim Kelly

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 6 Female

What happens when you parody characters and plots from almost every Southern play imaginable, and sprinkle them with the flavor of Gone With the Wind? You get the hilarious Murder in the Magnolias ... Col...

$10.99

The Cell Phone Rings for Thee - A Collection of Seven 10 Minute Plays

Werner Trieschmann

Dramatic Publishing

Cell phones, Facebook, cutting-edge shopping carts - all the latest gadgets that bewitch and bedevil us - are addressed in this comic collection of Seven 10-minute plays The Cell Phone Rings for Thee - Is d...

$10.99

A Girl Could Get Lucky

Don Appell

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

A two character play about a taxi driver and a secretary, their romance, marriage, and first months together. Marriage is never easy, and this is a fond portrait of the period of adjustment REVIEWS "Husban...

$10.99