Plays by Genre - Comedy Plays

Beginner's Luck

Norman Barasch & Carroll Moore

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

Paul after eight years of marriage decides he wants a night out. He's supposed to be going bowling, but it's another sport an affair with a girl from his office. He arrives at her apartment and everything go...

$10.99

Agatha Sue I Love You

Abe Einhorn

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

Jack and Eddie exist by playing horses but they haven't picked a winner in three weeks. They're broke and the landlady gives them till eleven o'clock to pay the rent Eddie cons Jack into stealing Agatha Sue...

$10.99

Springtime for Henry

Benn W. Levy

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

In this play Mr. Levy gives us the blundering and silly ass character of Henry Dewlip, a wealthy young English bachelor Henry leads a life of ease until he is taken in hand by his apparently prim young secr...

$10.99

Sweet Sue

A.R. Gurney

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

The action of the play is set in Susan's home in a New York suburb - Susan being a romantically-minded, divorced mother of three, and a very successful artist and designer of greeting cards It is summer ...

$13

Mrs Harper's Bazaar

Babette Hughes

Dramatists Play Service

0 Male 8 Female

Reveals the exciting amusement incident to a charity bazaar presided over by Mrs Harper, who has enough troubles this one evening to keep the audience laughing for a long time Most of the action centers ...

$13

The Enchanted

Jean Giraudoux adapted by Maurice Valency

Samuel French Inc

$10.99

Forever Judy

Henry C. Lindsey

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

Judy Jackson, sixteen and having reached maturity, is madly in love with Sandy Sanders - and being engaged he's taken a movie usher job to save money for marriage in this one act comedy Her parents hit the ...

$8.99

Travels with my Aunt

Giles Havergal from Graham Greene

Oberon

This stage adaptation of the popular novel, was first performed at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow before two West End productions and one on Broadway, winning an Olivier award on the way

$18.99

Opal's Baby

John Patrick

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 4 Female

The setting is again Opal's tumbledown home on the edge of the city dump, where Opal has a visitor looking for a tire to fit his 1927 Reo truck Misguided into thinking that Opal is a rich eccentric, the ...

$13

Don't Drink the Water

Woody Allen

Samuel French Inc

4 Female

This affair takes place inside an American embassy behind the Iron Curtain An American tourist, a caterer by trade, and his wife and daughter rush into the embassy two steps ahead of the police who suspect ...

$10.99

Marilyn and Phil

Joyce and Stanley Dyrector

Brooklyn Publishing

1 Male 1 Female

Based on true events. Marilyn Monroe went to New York to study with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, and on her first day in class, she was assigned to do a scene with Phil, a short, 20ish struggling ch...

$7.99

Mojo

Jez Butterworth

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 0 Female

Acting Edition Silver Johnny is the new singing sensation, straight out of a low-life Soho clubland bar in 1958 His success could be the big break for two dead-end workers in the bar, if they play their c...

$13

Breath of Spring

Peter Coke

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 5 Female

When Dame Beatrice is given a mink stole by her maid, she is reminded of the maid's shady past and immediately suspects that it was stolen from the the next flat. A former army officer and other lodgers ende...

$12.99

A Bench in the Sun

Ron Clark

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

Harold and Burt, longtime friends, live in a retirement home and spend their days on a bench in the garden bickering A once famous actress has just moved in, giving them something new to argue over When t...

$10.99

Tough Cookies

Edward Crosby Wells

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 3 Female

Set in the formerly oil-rich desert Southwest, this one-act comedy drama explores the lives of two generations of women living under one roof The story centers on Jo who, after her father dies, takes in her...

$10.99

Years Ago

Ruth Gordon

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 5 Female

"Me," who is Ruth Gordon Jones (later famous as Ruth Gordon), is a young girl living with her retired sea-captain father and her mother near Boston. "Me" is determined to go on the stage, but Mama and Papa a...

$13

Vice as in Versa

David DeBoy

Dramatic Publishing

4 Male 3 Female

Percible Nimby, a witty, refined and oh-so-gentle dress manufacturer, has always been considered the sissy of the family He decides to change that image during a trip to the musty mansion of his wealthy...

$9.99

Top Girls - ACTING EDITION

Caryl Churchill

Samuel French Ltd

0 Male 7 Female

Marlene has been promoted to managing director of a London employment agency and is celebrating The symbolic luncheon is attended by women in legend or history who offer perspectives on maternity and ambiti...

$12.99

An Evening of Culture - Faith County II - The Saga Continues

Mark Landon Smith

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 3 Female

This is the long-awaited sequel to the enormously popular Faith County We're in Mineola County again, where the Community Theatre is producing Romeo and Juliet Even though the cast members don't have thei...

$10.99

The Nut Factory

Jay Christopher

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 1 Female

The McNutt sisters are going nuts The resident psychiatrist of their 'half-way house' for emotionally disturbed adolescents is missing The inspector is due any minute They are one patient under their mini...

$10.99