Plays by Genre - Comedy Plays

The Lady in Question

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

This hilarious spoof of trashy damsel in distress vs. Nazis movies packed them in Off Broadway, where the irrepressible author starred as Gertrude Garnet, renowned pianist and world class hedonist On tour i...

$10.99

The Ninety Day Mistress

JJ Coyle

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 3 Female

An emancipated young lady who has been brought up by her mother to look askance on all men especially since her father had deserted the family before she was born has very well solved the problem of living w...

$10.99

Omnipotence and the Wheelbarrow Man

Alan Haehnel

Brooklyn Publishing

4 Male 2 Female

In this comedy, a bored, egotistical and slightly sadistic narrator seems to think that the audience has come to watch him alone. His demeanor goes from arrogant to miffed to panicked to defeated as contro...

$7.99

Four on a Garden

Abe Burrows from Gredy and Barillet

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Mrs. Dunkelmayer is the rich widow of a delicatessen owner and Max is a former employee. He is back from Alaska, where he fled after the pair conspired to murder her husband, a crime of which he was acquitte...

$10.99

Situation Comedy

Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Mortimer and Cooke, the top writers of British television "sit coms", have lately turned their delightful senses of humor loose on the stage. This live sit com is about two authors of sit coms who are stuck ...

$10.99

Beast of a Different Burden

Faith Whitehill

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

Gladys is pushing thirty and desperate. Her kid sister is getting married and the prospect is humiliating - Gladys will do anything to get a man Enter the new neighbour. He's attractive, charming and, best ...

$8.99

Double Date

Florence Ryerson

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 4 Female

In this one act comedy, the girls plan to outsmart the boys, but Uncle Clay and the boys learn what they are up to and give them a run for their money The girls, who are from south of the Mason Dixon line, ...

$8.99

Take One

James L. Seay

Samuel French Inc

The pared down school budget just won't accommodate Miss Harris' course in the great silent movie comedies The students, however, are fascinated by the subject, and decide to make a movie on their own Then...

$10.99

The Little Theatre's Production of 'Hamlet'

Jean Battlo

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 6 Female

A sophisticated New York director with a successful Off Broadway season under her belt reluctantly travels to West Virginia to direct Hamlet under the auspices of a grant for "under served regions" Only six...

$10.99

The Farmer's Daughter

F. Andrew Leslie

Dramatists Play Service

3 Female

Katrin Holstrom, in the big city to study nursing, is obliged for financial reasons to take a temporary position as maid in the home of the wealthy and politically powerful Morleys Mrs. Morley and her so...

$13

Secrets of a Soccer Mom

Kathleen Clark

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 3 Female

Three engaging women reluctantly take the field in a Mothers vs Sons soccer game They intend to let the children win, but as the game unfolds they become intent on scoring The competition ignites a fierce ...

$10.99

Confusions

Alan Ayckbourn

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 2 Female

Ayckbourn's series of five one-act plays for 4-5 actors typify his black comedies of human behaviour... The plays are alternately naturalistic, stylised and farcical, but underlying each is the problem of l...

$12.99

Scuba Duba

Bruce Jay Friedman

Dramatists Play Service

7 Male 4 Female

"...concerns the misadventures of an American in the South of France. His wife has just gone off with a black skin-diver, and he is trying to be very fair and non-racial about it, although with indifferen...

$13

Evening Primrose in Ohio

Robin Rice Lichtig

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

The Boy who runs Squeeky Kleen's Laundry Lube is deeply disturbed by his cat's untimely, unusual demise so disturbed, that he believes he's rapidly disappearing! He needs someone to validate his existence,...

$8.99

Doing a Good One for the Red Man & Other Plays

Mark Medoff

Dramatists Play Service

Doing a Good One for the Red Man ~ Selected for inclusion in Best Short Plays, this revealing and bitingly funny play projects still another uncomplimentary aspect of our infamous treatment of the American...

$13

Meet My Husbands

Fred Carmichael

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 5 Female

This comic look at advertising and the media finds Elaine Scott - an advertising executive whose position is in jeopardy - in Florida to meet the Mulgrews, European clients to whom she must sell her agency's...

$10.99

Steak Night

Richard Polak

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

This is an amusing yet chilling look at an American family which is doing something about declining family values They have a strict set of rules and, if one is broken, the other family members vote on the ...

$8.99

The Frugal Repast

Ron Hirsen

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 4 Female

It's 1913 in Paris, where renowned art dealer Ambroise Vollard has just published The Frugal Repast an edition of etchings by Pablo Picasso, the rising young star of the Paris art world The art dealer enter...

$10.99

Atalanta

Thomas J. Hatton

Dramatic Publishing

7 Male 7 Female

The feminist movement didn't start last week. Actually, it was already underway in ancient Greece! King Oeneus has a problem. A savage boar is rampaging through his little kingdom, destroying the crops a...

$9.99

Who Shot Willie?

Harold Bassage

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Lights up to reveal the suspicious corpse of Mr William Black Upon seeing her recumbent husband, Henrietta White Black exclaims, "What a pity! Now you won't be able to go to that clambake on Saturday" Wh...

$8.99