Plays by Genre - Comedy Plays

Murder's Bad But Monday Can Kill You!

Pat Cook

Dramatic Publishing

5 Male 5 Female

Harry's back! That's right, Harry Monday, that Sam Spade wannabe in the trench coat and gumshoes, is hot and on his latest case. Does he know what he's doing? Who knows? Is he over his head? Of course Es...

$10.99

The First Human Impalement Act in These Here Parts

McAdoo Greer

Dramatic Publishing

5 Male 5 Female

Gunner and Willowdean are on their second marriages and starting life together as retirees in Stateline, Ky., as the sole proprietors of Bingham's Antiques and Tanning Salon - a world of broken tanning be...

$9.99

Flung

Lisa Dillman

Dramatic Publishing

4 Male 4 Female

The four adult Cotter siblings have gathered at the family summer cottage on Lake Michigan two years after their father's death to scatter his ashes from atop his favorite sand dune ... Meryl is on the ver...

$10.99

Legends!

James Kirkwood

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 3 Female

Eager beaver producer Martin Klemmer, a wheeler dealer if ever there was one, has uncovered a terrific commercial script Star Wars: The Play Since he has produced only one Off Broadway project, something ca...

$10.99

The Food Chain

Nicky Silver

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

Anorexic poet Amanda has been married for three weeks but her husband has been missing for two ... REVIEWS "Poisonously funny ... the wittiest talk in town" ~ The NY Times "One of the funniest new plays t...

$13

Winter Glory

Peter Coke

Samuel French Ltd

1 Male 7 Female

Another meeting with the redoubtable quartet of Dame Beatrice and her lodgers who are up to their old tricks. However, this will be positively their last appearance for after some unfortunate slip-ups whilst...

$12.99

Humble Boy

Charlotte Jones

Faber & Faber

3 Male 3 Female

A comedy about broken vows, failed hopes and the joys of bee-keeping. Felix Humble is a Cambridge astro-physicist in search of a unified field theory. Following the sudden death of his father, he returns hom...

$12.99

It Can Damage Your Health

Eric Chappell

Samuel French Ltd

5 Male 1 Female

This comedy traces the fortunes of a disparate trio in a men's surgical ward One is cynical and defensive, one is young and nervous, and the third is a weary hypochondriac They form an uneasy alliance to c...

$12.99

The Knee Desires the Dirt

Julie Hébert

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 3 Female

Mesmerized by Xavier, her seductive (but dead) husband, Christine sleepwalks through her days only surfacing from her other-worldly relationship to deliver impassioned lectures to her college biology clas...

$9.99

Minutes from the Blue Route

Tom Donaghy

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

Minutes from the Blue Route unfolds over the course of one weekend as a family packs and unpacks their house, trying to consolidate four lives into one U-Haul truck While tripping over each other on the ...

$13

Full Moon

Norman Krasna

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

Cathy and David are two young theatre hopefuls who, despite the fact that neither thought they gave a good reading, have been cast in a Broadway play After rehearsing together, and then acting together, t...

$13

Cinderella Confidential

Eric Coble

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 2 Female

The prince has the shoe. He's ready to wed. But who's the woman behind the foot? Two investigative reporters - Deb Jabber from Action News Day Now and Sonny Glamour from Glitter Kingdom Today - compete fo...

$10.99

The Village Fete

Peter Tinniswood

Samuel French Ltd

4 Male 4 Female

The Empson family are an unhappy bunch forced to move to a small country village for the sake of Father's health Their new house is in a state of disrepair, and so they employ Winston, a local handyman with...

$12.99

The Supporting Cast

George Furth

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 4 Female

Ellen, the wife of a successful author, has written a book about friends who are spouses of celebrities and what it is like to be married to Somebody Famous She has invited them to her house on the beach at...

$10.99

Candy and Shelley Go to the Desert

Paula Cizmar

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 2 Female

Heading west in search of romance and adventure, Candy and Shelley suddenly find themselves stranded in the vast emptiness of a western desert when their car boils over Alone under the blazing sun, with...

$13

Only You

Timothy Mason

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 2 Female

Leo is a little intense, planning a lifetime with Miriam on their first date. Even Leo's mysterious whispering mentor, Big Voice, can't succeed in getting Leo to lighten up, and Miriam shows Leo the door ...

$13

Twisted Tales Of Terror

Jeanine Harvey

Samuel French Inc

In a spooky graveyard, the darkly lovely Claudia, a Guardian of Dark Tales, retells famous horror stories much to the delight of her lumpy husband, Igor As she tells classics such as "Dracula", "Frankenste...

$10.99

The Staring Match

Jerry McNeely

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 2 Female

Set in ranch country which is suffering from drought The community is holding a large meeting to pray for rain Mattie Hobbs tries to persuade her husband, Linus, to accompany her to the meeting - Linus ...

$13

Hold Please

Annie Weisman

Dramatists Play Service

0 Male 4 Female

No men are onstage, but their presence is felt everywhere in this office comedy for the new millennium Two generations of women, career secretaries in their forties and entry-level assistants in their tw...

$13

Jungle Rot

Seth Greenland

Dramatists Play Service

8 Male 3 Female

John Stillman is an unassuming CIA station chief posted in the Congo in 1960. His lagging career gets an unexpected shot in the arm when he receives a cable from the Eisenhower White House telling him to ...

$13