Plays by Nation - American Plays

The Incomparable Max

Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee

Dramatists Play Service

9 Male 4 Female

The play begins with the appearance of "the incomparable Max" himself - critic, wit, caricaturist and satirist of matchless brilliance The action then moves smoothly on to Max's encounter with Enoch Soame...

$13

Defender of the Faith

Stuart Carolan

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 0 Female

2005 winner of the George Devine Award ... In Stuart Carolan's debut play, an IRA family living in rural Armagh, Ireland, in 1986 come apart under the immense strain put on them when an IRA interrogator vis...

$13

La Bete & Wrong Mountain

David Hirson

Grove Press

David Hirson's La Bete and Wrong Mountain are widely regarded as two of the most controversial and original American plays produced on Broadway in the past decade Critics have compared Hirson, who is kno...

$14.00

The Sisters Rosensweig

Wendy Wasserstein

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 4 Female

This character-study of three very different sisters won the 1993 Outer Critics Circle award for Best Broadway Play "The laughter is all but continuous" ~ New Yorker "Funny. Observant. A play with wit as w...

$13

According to Hoyle

William Gaminara

Nick Hern Books

Five old friends meet for a traditional evening of poker But, as the stakes rise, the deception of the game exposes the deception of their lives "A sharp, entertaining comedy" ~ Guardian

$14.99

Las Meninas

Lynn Nottage

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 3 Female

The true story of the illicit romance between Queen Marie-Therese (wife of Louis XIV) and her African servant, Nabo, a dwarf from Dahomey, and the hilarious consequences that scandalized the French court ...

$13

Bury the Dead

Irwin Shaw

Dramatists Play Service

The time is "the second year of the war that is to begin tomorrow night," and a military burial detail goes about its sad duties The chaplains arrive to say prayers for the dead-but then a groan is heard...

$13

Carol Mulroney

Stephen Belber

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

Carol Mulroney stands on her roof, watching the sparkling lights of the city below Her rooftop is her hideaway, her haven, her solace from the chaotic world below But the roof is being overrun by the inev...

$13

The Big Knife

Clifford Odets

Dramatists Play Service

8 Male 4 Female

Tells of the last few days of Charlie Castle, a top movie star and an idealist, whose years of compromise with his beliefs for the sake of a Hollywood career, have resulted in the slow destruction of his ...

$13

The Water Children

Wendy MacLeod

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 4 Female

Megan is an actress somewhere between "ingenue" and "Mom." When she loses an important role to a younger woman, her agent convinces her to take a part in a commercial for Life Force, an anti-abortion group. ...

$13

Four Short Plays

Lanford Wilson

Dramatists Play Service

The monologue Days Ahead ~ portrays the fraught psyche of a fastidious little man as he confronts the memory of an early love which he perceives as a dusty, crumbling wall through which he must dig (1 man...

$13

The Killings Tale - An Original Mystery

WA Frankonis

Samuel French Inc

London, 1606 Murders that mirror and interrupt Shakespeare's plays are afoot in the Globe Theatre and everyone is a suspect Even William Shakespeare Some even suspect a ghost Now it's up to puritanica...

$10.99

Walking the Dead

Keith Curran

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 3 Female

Maya Deboats, a performance artist, calls together the family and friends of her recently murdered lover, Veronica, for a performance art memorial service that travels seamlessly through the past and pres...

$13

Rosalee Pritchett

Carlton Molette & Barbara Molette

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 5 Female

A group of well-to-do black women are playing bridge, while discussing their coveted accomplishments in the world of white society, and expressing their contempt for the unruly ghetto blacks who make life...

$13

Coming of the Hurricane

Keith Glover

Dramatists Play Service

7 Male 1 Female

Reconstruction. Upon the still smoldering ground ravaged by the Civil War stands Crixus, fabled survivor of countless boxing matches-to-the-death during slavery Now middle age and a newly freed man, Crix...

$13

The Hasty Heart

John Patrick

Dramatists Play Service

8 Male 2 Female

The Hasty Heart tells of a wounded Scottish soldier whose last few weeks of life, spent in a convalescent ward of a hospital in the Orient, are changed by the sympathetic treatment his fellow patients try to...

$13

Alligator Man

Jack A Kaplan

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 5 Female

For years the alligators of the Grand Cheniere swamp have stood idly by while gator men have invaded their territory in search of hides, fortune and fame But when Telesphonte Broussard, proudest member o...

$13

Ascension Day

Timothy Mason

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 5 Female

On the banks of a beautiful lake, nine teenagers pursue the normal church-camp activities: learning lifesaving techniques, enduring "nature tip" lectures and delivering dreaded spiritual "testimonials" B...

$9

New American Short Plays 2005

Craig Lucas - ed

Backstage Books

This volume offers 20 imaginative, challenging and often provocative new plays by some of America's most talented playwrights 20 New Plays including The Second Beam by Joan Ackermann & The Sleepers by ...

$19.99

Chicken

Mike Batistick

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 2 Female

Wendell's wife, Lina, is pregnant His wayward best friend, Floyd, sleeps nightly on their couch And as if things aren't stressful enough, he's under constant pressure to "father" his messed-up neighbors in...

$13