Publisher Dramatists Play Service

The Gimmick and Other Plays - My Red Hand My Black Hand & Beauty’s Daughter & Monster

Dael Orlandersmith Published by Dramatists Play Service

The Gimmick tells the story of Alexis and Jimmy, a pair of outsiders who forge a friendship through their shared passion for art. Theirs is a love more powerful than the ghetto gimmicks that devastate…

The Beggar’s Opera

Large Mixed Cast Male, 3 Female

John Gay adapted John Caird and Ilona Sekacz Published by Dramatists Play Service

John Gay's great comic masterpiece is generally agreed to be the first ever musical. Written in 1728, The Beggar's Opera is a savagely funny satire on marriage, money and morals — as relevant and biting…

Still More Solo Readings

Marjorie Seligman & Sonya Fogle - eds Published by Dramatists Play Service

This is the last of the series of three Solo Readings — booklets, by Marjorie Seligman and Sonya Fogle, which follows the plan of the first two in the series This volume contains a large number of short…

Getting Away With Murder - DPS ACTING EDITION

7 Male, 4 Female

Stephen Sondheim & George Furth Published by Dramatists Play Service

Sondheim's first non-musical play is a whodunit which opens on a stormy night on Manhattan's Upper West Side as a group therapy sessions gathers ... ... only to find their Pulitzer prize-winning psychiatrist…

You Can’t Take It With You

9 Male, 7 Female

Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman Published by Dramatists Play Service

Tony, attractive young son of the prosperous Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore home - but on the wrong evening! The horror sustained by the Kirbys,…

The American Dream & The Sandbox & The Death of Bessie Smith & Fam and Yam

Edward Albee Published by Dramatists Play Service

The American Dream Mommy and Daddy sit in a barren living room making small talk Mommy, the domineering wife, is grappling with the thought of putting Grandma in a nursing home Daddy, the long-suffering…

The Cryptogram - DPS Acting Edition

1 Male, 1 Female

David Mamet Published by Dramatists Play Service

A young boy, John, comes downstairs to tell about his upcoming trip with his dad to the family friend, Dell Mother, Donnie, is in the kitchen making tea. Soon the three are discussing the excitement of…

The Women

0 Male, 35 Female

Clare Boothe Luce Published by Dramatists Play Service

This brilliant play has assumed the status of a modern classic Aside from the novelty of its involving a large cast of women (35 female, no male characters at all) it is an immensely entertaining panorama…

Cliffhanger - A Thriller

3 Male, 2 Female

James Yaffe Published by Dramatists Play Service

Mingling suspense and humor, this ingeniously plotted thriller follows all the unexpected twists and turns which result when a seemingly mild-mannered professor of philosophy is driven to apparent murder…

Deathtrap - DPS Edition

3 Male, 2 Female

Ira Levin Published by Dramatists Play Service

This ingenious award-winner offers a rare and skilful blending of two priceless theatrical ingredients - gasp-inducing thrills and spontaneous laughter ... It concerns unknown dramatist Clifford Anderson…

Shakespeare’s R and J

4 Male, 0 Female

Joe Calarco Published by Dramatists Play Service

Four young prep school students, tired of going through the usual drill of conjugating Latin and other tedious school routines, decide to vary their very governed lives After school, one breaks out a copy…