Plays by Nation - American Plays

In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel

Tennessee Williams

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

"Superficially the play is about the painter - famous, rich and lost - and his wife, who find themselves in a Tokyo hotel The wife, wildly promiscuous, tries to seduce the Japanese barman in the hotel ba...

$13

Love Diatribe

Harry Kondoleon

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 4 Female

Orin, a disenchanted librarian, arrives at his parents' home for dinner to find that his sister, Sandy, left her husband, moved back home and began an affair with Mike, the next-door neighbor, and an old chi...

$13

Freedom Is My Middle Name

Lee Hunkins

Dramatic Publishing

3 Male 3 Female

"You got to have goals and dreams. You got to find love in your hearts!" With these words, and the help of a magic quilt, five urban students are taken on a journey into the past by Stagecoach Mary, an ...

$9.99

Dirty Blonde

Claudia Shear

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

$10.99

Canadian Gothic & American Modern

Joanna M Glass

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

Canadian Gothic is Presented on a virtually bare stage, with the characters speaking sometimes to the audience and sometimes to each other, the play uses language of poetic eloquence and incision to illumi...

$13

The Chalk Garden

Enid Bagnold

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 7 Female

An English gentlewoman lives with her granddaughter and devotes her life to simple if eccentric pursuits. Her chief concern is her garden and her chief diversion is advertising for a companion to her grandda...

$10.99

Marriage Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

Arnold Kane

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

When Eddie's mid life crisis hits, he escapes from his picture perfect family and establishes a swinging bachelor's pad in New York City, complete with the sexy Miss Tush as his roommate His new life is a s...

$10.99

Physical

Buddy Thomas

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

It is the coldest night in November. Owen has shelved his college books and thesis papers to prepare for the date of his life With candlelight, soft music and enough Italian chicken to feed the Northeast co...

$10.99

Bernice/Butterfly - A Two-Part Invention

Nagle Jackson

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

In this theatrical tour de force, two seemingly unrelated plays turn out to be one story, a discovery not made until the surprise ending ... Bernice at Bay concerns itself with Bernice, waitress at the O-Ka...

$13

Abstinence

Lanford Wilson

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 3 Female

The place is the front hall of a very chic Manhattan apartment, where the hostess, Winnie, is giving a party for one of her pet charities - in this case, Liars Anonymous A late arrival, who is intercepte...

$13

Traveler in the Dark

Marsha Norman

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

A brilliant surgeon and cancer researcher, Sam basks in the aura of success and adulation that his career has brought him. But suddenly his world is shattered when his longtime nurse and confidant, Mavis,...

$13

Cakewalk

Peter Feibleman

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 3 Female

Cakewalk follows the labyrinth of laughter and passion that exists between any two people attracted to each other - especially if one of them is 20 years younger and the other a famous femme fatale Lilli...

$13

Little Footsteps

Ted Tally

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

Yuppies Jewish Ben and WASP Joanie are about to become parents for the first time - produced to critical & popular acclaim by New York's Playwrights Horizons "...a total delight from beginning to end, a...

$13

The Hot L Baltimore

Lanford Wilson

Dramatists Play Service

7 Female

A brilliant Off-Broadway success by an outstanding playwright, which brings compassion, humor and arresting theatricality to its imaginative, touching study of lost souls trapped by society's inexorable deca...

$13

Fen

Caryl Churchill

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 6 Female

This remarkable playwright shows still another aspect of her talent in Fen, which takes place in England's fen country and focuses on a gang of women landworkers. The play looks at their work situation and t...

$10.99

Sun Is Shining

Matt Wilkinson

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

Two people, two cultures and two outlooks equal one unlikely love affair told at the breakneck speed of city life. A recovering alcoholic, she is a petite Scottish artist who likes to look at the stars. He i...

$10.99

The Sea Horse

Edward J Moore

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

Tender, ribald, funny and suspenseful, this complex love story is set in a waterfront bar where seaman Harry Bales spends his shore leave"The Sea Horse" is run by Gertrude Blum, with whom Harry enjoys a pure...

$10.99

A Limb of Snow & The Meeting

Anna Marie Barlow

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 1 Female

"A Limb of Snow ~ the shorter play, is the one that is simply superb; it is also totally original, unlike anything in the contemporary manner It takes place in a cabin in the High Sierras in the 1890s, ...

$13

The Exercise

Lewis John Carlino

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 1 Female

"Playwright Lewis John Carlino has drawn a gripping and completely fascinating portrait of a man and woman, trapped in an unreal and yet hauntingly real world, both at the same time They are actors, caug...

$13

Steal Away

Ramona King

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 6 Female

Set in Chicago during the Depression, this farce is the story of 5 upstanding church ladies who raise funds to send young Black women to college by holding bake sales and the like. Their latest beneficiary, ...

$10.99