Plays by Genre - Comedy Plays

Freedomland

Amy Freed

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 4 Female

Ages ago, Noah and his wife took their kids to the amusement park "Freedomland." After that trip, Noah's wife ran off and left him to raise the family. Now a retired professor of religion, Noah has marrie...

$13

Private Jokes Public Places

Oren Safdie

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 1 Female

This offers a disturbing and humorous glimpse inside the contemporary world of architecture Margaret, a young Korean-American student, presents her thesis for a public swimming pool to an all-male jury o...

$13

Ripe Conditions

Claudia Allen

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 1 Female

Set in rural Michigan, Ripe Conditions is about Lester and Buster, a pair of bumbling brothers, and Ann, the long-lost love of their lives, who eloped with their kid brother years ago only to return to th...

$9.99

Weekend Comedy

Jeanne Bobrick & Sam Bobrick

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

In this comedy two couples rent the same Catskills cabin for the same weekend by mistake. One couple is staid and middle aged; the other free wheeling and young They decide to share and before the weekend i...

$10.99

Once is Enough

Jack Sharkey

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

Authoress Erika Linden is writing a manual on man-snatching. Erika's secretary, unwilling to expose her fiance to Erika's charms, finds substitute Brian Merrick to aid Erika in her research Brian is actuall...

$10.99

Career

James Lee

Samuel French Inc

$10.99

Squirrels

David Mamet

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

Arthur, a once famous writer, accepts a neophyte named Edmond as an apprentice in this one act comedy At the office Edmond meets Arthur's ex collaborator, who is now his cleaning woman This is a rollickin...

$8.99

Oatmeal and Kisses

Murray Schisgal

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

Schneider has become a glutton, and Roxanne, his pretty, and much younger wife, is surprised by the new method of trimming him down: a live-in, over-zealous, yet attractive doctor, Peter Wellington Thou...

$13

Smudge

Rachel Axler

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

A dark comedy about the changing face of the American family and the limits of love and cheesecake A hopeful young couple gives birth to a smudge Written by two-time Emmy Award winner Rachel Axler "For ...

$10.99

Roman Candle

Sidney Sheldon

Dramatists Play Service

3 Female

Mark Baxter is a young scientist, drafted to work on a new Army missile program. His stay in Washington wins him the rank of Colonel, the cover of a national magazine, and the hand of his next-door neighb...

$13

Three the Hard Way

Linda Eisenstein

Dramatic Publishing

1 Male 3 Female

Three unconventional sisters, separated by geography and their own history, meet in a Reno motel after the sudden death of their colorful gambler father, Albert As they go through his effects and make fu...

$9.99

The Decorator

Donald Churchill

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 2 Female

Marcia returns to her flat to find it has not been painted as she arranged. A part time painter who is filling in for an ill colleague is just beginning the work when the wife of the man with whom Marcia is ...

$10.99

Rush Limbaugh in Night School

Charlie Varon

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 0 Female

Right-wing radio personality Rush Limbaugh seems unstoppable. His daily audience has risen to six million listeners. But Rush's manager, the fictional Barry Granatour, has disturbing news: Limbaugh faces ...

$13

Sally and Marsha

Sybille Pearson

Dramatists Play Service

0 Male 2 Female

Sally, a waif-like young wife and mother originally from South Dakota, has settled into a rather cramped New York City apartment with her two young (and unseen) children, while her husband is on the road s...

$13

The Undefeated Rhumba Champ

Charles Leipart

Dramatists Play Service

The scene is a hospital room where, Archer, a young veteran and amputee, is bent on seducing his prim and proper nurse. He feels that his self-esteem as a man (which has been undermined by the loss of his...

$13

A Tale of Two Cities

Everett Quinton

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 0 Female

In this one act comedy, an aspiring transvestite club performer opens his door and finds "what in the gay hell!?!" a baby left on his doorstep "He's a straight baby, but we can co exist. I know it can be do...

$10.99

The Mystery of Attraction

Marlane Gomard Meyer

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 2 Female

A darkly comic exploration of that primordial force that makes us slow down at the scene of an accident or eavesdrop on a fight in an adjacent motel room When Ray, an attorney badly in debt to the wrong p...

$13

A History of the American Film

Christopher Durang

Samuel French Inc

9 Male 6 Female

A hilarious take off on American films, especially from the 1930s through the 1950s. The principals play a variety of characters. There is a Cagney Bogart Dean Brando type-- and a Fonda Stewart Peck Perkins ...

$10.99

The Fifteen Minute Hamlet

Tom Stoppard

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 2 Female

The world's most famous play in 15 zany minutes ... Following his success with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the author continues his association with H...

$12.99

Fine Line

Janice van Horne

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 2 Female

Two classy ladies make the fur fly (literally) behind the scenes of a Park Avenue party in this one act play Dody and Zee - inseparable since they first confronted each other across a sandbox - strain the l...

$8.99