American Plays & Musicals - American Plays

Joined at the Head

Catherine Butterfield

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

Life, friendship and cancer lie at the heart of this sensitive and warm play. "...incontestable achievement..." - New York Magazine. "...refreshing talent...In a manner related to that of Tom Stoppard and Jo...

$13

Baby Grand

David Mark Cohen

Dramatic Publishing

3 Male 1 Female

This suspenseful drama tells the story of two brothers and the influence of their musical, medical and Jewish backgrounds on their lives In the attic of a Boston townhouse, Nathan and Sam form a maligna...

$9.99

Sketching the Soul

Jacqueline Lynch

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 4 Female

Chelsea Logan is an artist struggling with the conflict between her growing celebrity and her Amish upbringing, which she left behind to pursue her ambition, and which she neglected to mention to Mike (he...

$9.99

The Tunnel of Love

Joseph Fields & Peter de Vries

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 4 Female

This play focuses on a suburban husband in a 5 year childless marriage. He and his wife decide to adopt a baby, but a loud mouth neighbor upsets the apple cart when the adoption investigator comes to call H...

$10.99

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

Play Time

Murray Schisgal

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 3 Female

In a neo-naturalistic, comedic style, integrating original songs, verbal banter, dances and vaudeville turns, Play Time explores the lives of five contemporary characters in an age of waning convictions ... ...

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Kindling

Don Appell

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

Larry and Mildred Stoller are staying in a posh Las Vegas hotel. They're there to celebrate their twenty fifth wedding anniversary and to make an attempt at "Swinging." Larry is convinced swinging will "reki...

$10.99

2009 - The Best New Playwrights

Lawrence Harbison - ed

Smith & Kraus

Editor Lawrence Harbison handpicks some of the finest plays by new American Playwrights from the 2008-2009 theatrical season ... American Hwangap ~ Lloyd Suh & Animals Out of Paper ~ Rajiv Joseph &amp...

$24.99

Faithful

Chazz Palminteri

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

This comedy thriller revolves around a hitman and his target. Tony, the cool killer, has his world turned upside down by Maggie, who planned to commit suicide on the night she was to be his victim Distraugh...

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Gideon

Paddy Chayefsky

Dramatists Play Service

"The people of Israel, having worshipped a succession of gods with small success, are about to be overwhelmed by the hordes of the Midianites Gideon, pursuing his inept labors in the fields, is visited b...

$13

This Thing of Darkness

Craig Lucas & David Schulner

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 1 Female

Abbey and Donald, best friends, have just graduated college. Sharing a birth date, Donald travels to visit Abbey and his parents at a remote country house to celebrate their twenty - second birthdays togeth...

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Pen

David Marshall Grant

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

Pen is about a Long Island family at a pivotal moment in their lives ... Confined to a wheelchair, Helen and her son, Matt, are locked in a relationship where love, guilt, recriminations and the ever-presen...

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The Deadly Game

James Yaffe From Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 2 Female

"Three retired men of law on a remote mountain in Switzerland amuse themselves by going through the legal ceremony of prosecuting strangers who drop in An American traveling salesman is their guest on a ...

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The Interview

Peter Swet

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 0 Female

The scene is New York's Lower East Side, the small shop of Abie Moscowitz, an aging Jewish tailor. He is visited by Shannon, an arrogant, brash investigator, who is suspicious as to why Abie wants to incr...

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Compleat Female Stage Beauty

Jeffrey Hatcher

Dramatists Play Service

9 Male 5 Female

In 1661 the most famous portrayer of female roles on the London stage was a performer named "Kynaston" Like every other player permitted to enact such roles, Kynaston was a man A celebrity artist shining...

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Mercy

Laura Cahill

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

On Manhattan's Upper West Side, Sarah decides to brighten her spirits, and those of her friend Isobel, by throwing an impromptu dinner party Sarah invites Bo, a wanna-be singer who, to the dismay of Isobe...

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Seduced

Sam Shepard

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2 Male 2 Female

Henry Hackamore, reputed to be the richest man in the world, is now a bearded, aged recluse, who lives on the top floor of a Caribbean luxury hotel, attended by his bodyguard-nurse, Raul Paranoid, despe...

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Scattergood

Anto Howard

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

The teacher that changed your lifeThe one who brought those old dead words on the page suddenly to lifeThe charmer, the inspirer, the cajoler, the bearer of all wisdom Professor John Scattergood is all t...

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Boom Town

Jeff Daniels

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

Angela Tompkins has a husband, a failing convenience store and a dream of running off to Chicago with her lover, the local banker. In an explosive story that mixes small town politics, love and betrayal, An...

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Digby

Joseph Dougherty

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 2 Female

Digby is a bespectacled, rather mousy young advertising copywriter to whom most women wouldn't give a second glance Which is fine with him, as Digby believes that most modern relationships are "sex masque...

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