Plays by Nation - American Plays

McReele

Stephen Belber

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

When Delaware journalist Rick Dayne meets death row inmate Darius McReele, the articles Rick writes lead to Darius' exoneration from a sixteen-year murder conviction Darius' sympathetic past and magnetic pe...

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Tiny Alice

Edward Albee

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 1 Female

This begins with a venomous exchange between a lawyer and a cardinal whose contempt for each other reaches back to their school days Eventually, the lawyer offers the cardinal $100 million a year at the req...

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Talk Radio

Eric Bogosian from Tad Savinar

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 2 Female

Finalist! 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Drama Barry Champlain, Cleveland's controversial radio host is on the air doing what he does best: insulting the pathetic souls who call in the middle of the night to sound ...

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Brendan

Ronan Noone

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 4 Female

A recent Irish immigrant, Brendan now calls America home He misses his family but works hard to fit into his adopted country and find love and meaning in his new life But his lifestyle goes topsy-turvy whe...

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The Orphan

David Rabe

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 6 Female

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Joy

John Fisher

Broadway Play Publishing

5 Male 3 Female

"A sweet/sharp roundelay charting several students' tangled liaisons. More in tune with Noel Coward or Woody Allen than recent Gen X studies, this precocious work suggests commercial instincts already honed ...

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The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks - FULL-LENGTH

Romulus Linney

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 5 Female

This is the full length version An Army general and his wife have committed a ritual double suicide during a Halloween party in the officers' club at Schofield Barracks And now an official court of inq...

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The Gifted Program

Ruben Carbajal

Dramatists Play Service

9 Male 6 Female

In 1986, at the very bottom of Washington High's social food chain are the last remaining members of the Dungeons & Dragons' club - four maladapted refugees from a defunct program for gifted and tale...

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A Preface to the Alien Garden

Robert Alexander

Broadway Play Publishing

...Robert Alexander's A PREFACE TO THE ALIEN GARDEN is a heart-thumping, gut wrenching peek into one small pocket of drugs, gangs and violence....the poetic beauty of Alexander's script... Alexander's lan...

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The Golem Stories & The Living Methuselah & A Shylock

Edward Einhorn

Theatre 61 Press

Edward Einhorn blends absurdist humor with philosophy in these critically acclaimed plays about legendary Jewish figures Golem Stories retells an old Kabalistic legend. It's a ghost story and a love story...

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Shoppers - Two Plays by Denis Johnson - Hellhound on My Trail & Shoppers Carried by Escalators Into the Flames

Denis Johnson

Perennial Publications

"Perfection is not the basis of what I'm talking about," says a member of the Cassandra family, which forms the center of Denis Johnson's plays, Hellhound on My Trail and Shoppers Carried by Escalators Int...

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Downwinder Dance

Gary Stewart

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 2 Female

Here is a wondrous comic tale of two peculiar people who find romance in a mysterious old barn near a nuclear test site Downwinder Dance is a beautifully constructed and fast paced play about nurturing the ...

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Deadly Nightcap

Francis Durbridge

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 4 Female

Murder and mystery abound in this ingenious play with more than its fair share of blind alleys. A greedy husband plots to kill his wife and make it look like suicide. His plans are thwarted: he, not his wife...

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The Last Ten Miles of Avery J Coping

Doug Delaney

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

After a lifetime of globetrotting, an aging invalid finds himself in a tiny Kansas town under the care of his domineering sister. This rewarding play has delighted audiences from coast to coast "Award winni...

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Horowitz and Mrs Washington

Henry Denker

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

Sam Horowitz, a rich, retired Jewish widower, has been mugged, slashed with a knife, and had a stroke. Home from the hospital and in a wheelchair, he's cheerful about nothing and very anti Black the color of...

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The Marriage Counselor

Joey Ouellette

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 3 Female

A traveling vacuum salesman wanders into a marriage counselor's office. Susan and Tiger burst in, arguing so fiercely that the salesman can't get a word in edge wise They mistake him for the counselor and h...

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The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek

Naomi Wallace

Broadway Play Publishing

3 Male 2 Female

"...Naomi Wallace, the 38-year-old Kentucky playwright at work here, received a MacArthur `genius grant' last week, and TRESTLE AT POPE LICK CREEK, her lovely, strikingly poetic Depression-era play...certai...

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Speaking of Murder

Audrey Roos & William Roos

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 5 Female

When Charles Ashton brings home his second wife, he fails to notice the hate and jealousy in his secretary's eyes. He is unaware of the dangers that threaten his wife as his secretary turns the full force of...

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Knock Knock

Jules Feiffer

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 1 Female

Take a pair of old Jewish bachelor recluses, throw in Joan of Arc who also in another life was Cinderella add another character who appears in various guises and you have the entire cast but not the story of...

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Fault Lines

Stephen Belber

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 1 Female

When Jim and Bill get together to celebrate Bill's thirty-ninth birthday, they meet Joe, who's slightly older and odder, and their boys' night out quickly turns sour Whole Foods, mini-hot dogs and Edie Bric...

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