Plays by Genre - Comedy Plays

The Sunshine Boys

Neil Simon

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 2 Female

Al Lewis and Willie Clark played vaudeville as a team for forty three years, but mutual dislike has keep them far apart for the last eleven years. Now CBS wants them to appear in History of Comedy and their ...

$10.99

Keep Your Spirits Up

Francis Swann

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 3 Female

The "Spirits" are the deceased wives of Broadway producer Steven Roland, a firm believer in the occult who employs a live in medium, a sardonic man Friday and a secretary who has been in love with him throug...

$10.99

Table Settings

James Lapine

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

This easy to produce, wildly funny comedy is about three generations of a Jewish family. All the fast paced action takes place around an all purpose dining table, sometimes a restaurant table and other times...

$10.99

An Ordinary Woman Under Stress

Sandra Marie Vago

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Sarah Blackstone Hightower, wealthy but lonely wife of Stanley Hightower, has left her husband of thirty years and checked into a hotel about to be razed She stopped on the way to buy cookies and a gun. She...

$10.99

Moose Mating

David Grae

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

The play follows the romance of Betsy and Michael, a pair of twenties/early thirties, bright, ambitious downtowners who meet at a play and experience instant, overwhelming chemistry - the magic and misery...

$13

Rich and Famous

John Guare

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

$13

The Good Times Are Killing Me

Lynda Barry

Samuel French Inc

$10.99

Ghosts of the Loyal Oaks

Larry Ketron

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

The scene is the backyard terrace at the up-to-date home of Wylan, a once-adventurous young man who has settled down to the small town affluence provided by his family's auto parts stores Wylan has also ...

$13

Death Defying Acts

David Mamet & Elaine May & Woody Allen

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

This long running Off Broadway hit features the work of three gifted playwrights David Mamet's An Interview is an oblique, mystifying interrogation. A sleazy lawyer is forced to answer difficult questions a...

$10.99

Captive

Jan Buttram

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

A hilarious take on a father/daughter relationship, this off beat comedy combines foreign intrigue with down home philosophy Sally Pound flees a bad marriage in New York and arrives at her parent's home in ...

$10.99

Imaginary Lines

Reggie Oliver

Samuel French Ltd

2 Male 3 Female

This is a dotty look at life and love The imaginary lines are the things we wish we could say, or had said usually to the opposite sex Here, they are asides in the dialogue which provide amusing counterpoi...

$12.99

The Chinese & Dr Fish

Murray Schisgal

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 5 Female

The Chinese ~ The scene is the Chinese laundry which is also home for the Lee family - father, mother and son, Chester. The older Lees are quite obviously Asian while Chester (who is usually taken for Jew...

$13

A Hotel on Marvin Gardens

Nagle Jackson

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 3 Female

"All I want is to run everything and always be right; now is that so much to ask?" Thus speaks K.C., the no-nonsense editor of ME magazine, a popular rag dedicated to the upwardly mobile. K.C. lives by herse...

$13

Many Happy Returns & Fast Women

Willie Reale

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 1 Female

Many Happy Returns ~ The scene is a hallway in a swank Sutton Place apartment building. Beth, a thirteen-year-old striving to look much older and more worldly than her tender years would suggest, waylays ...

$13

Neat

Charlayne Woodard

Dramatists Play Service

0 Male 1 Female

In the oral traditions of West Africa and the African diaspora, Charlayne Woodard is a modern-day griot On a bare stage, this magnificent storyteller spins her own exquisite real-life remembrance of her ...

$13

Muzeeka

John Guare

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 2 Female

Muzeeka ~ "It is done almost as a comedy, yet it isn't quite. Jack Argue is the 'hero,' the middle-class man from Connecticut who works for Muzeeka, a piped-music company that inflicts its bland tunes on ...

$13

The Simple Truth

Carl Allensworth

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 5 Female

Emmett Harper is so impressed by the minister's sermon on honesty that he resolves to turn over a new leaf and be completely truthful no matter what is asked of him This poses problems at work, in his fa...

$13

Mosquito Dirigible Aerosol Deodorant

Conrad E Davidson

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

In this one act comedy, Dr. Ballone, a professor of literature, is highly susceptible to suggestion His mind snaps at the mere mention of a possibility or the sight of a picture When he spotted a photograp...

$8.99

Corpse!

Gerald Moon

Samuel French Ltd

3 Male 1 Female

Think of Sleuth crossed with Deathtrap crossed with a Feydeau farce and you'll have an idea of the wild and crazy, unpredictable hijinks in this hit play ... Corpse! is set in London in 1936, and tells the ...

$12.99

Carl the Second

Marc Palmieri

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 2 Female

Midway through a life of living in the shadows of others, city bookstore manager Carl Fraser has found solace and an understanding of his place in the universe with the great also-rans of literature At pe...

$13