Plays by Publisher - Dramatists Play Service

Mere Mortals - Six One-act Comedies

David Ives

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

This critically acclaimed evening of six short comedies combines satire, wit, hilarity and intellect - always a winning combination! The entire evening of plays can be performed with 3 men and 3 women. ...

$13

Stage Directions & Spared

Israel Horovitz

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

Stage Directions ~ A man and two women (brother and sister?) meet after attending a funeral (their father's?), a time when so much needs to be articulated and understood. And yet, somehow, they cannot bri...

$13

The Moment When

James Lapine

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 3 Female

This follows five people as their lives intertwine and separate ...Steven, an artist, meets the writer Alice at a fashionable New York party hosted by Paula, a legendary literary agent Paula's young assist...

$13

Room Service

John Murray & Allen Boretz

Dramatists Play Service

2 Female

A nimble-witted producer, living on credit with several actors in a Broadway hotel, is desperately in need of a good script - he finds one, and, by great good luck, he also finds an angel with $15,000 The...

$13

Righting

Ernest A. Joselovitz

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 0 Female

Two writers, a generation apart in age, meet in the older man's study to read over a two-character play which the younger man has written The play deals with men disturbingly like themselves, and as they...

$13

The American Century

Murphy Guyer

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

World War II has ended and Tom, just discharged from the Army, returns to his young wife, Margaret, full of hope and enthusiasm, and dreams of a bounteous future But as they plan their life together they...

$13

Brutality of Fact

Keith Reddin

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 5 Female

Val, a matriarch, comes to live with her daughter, Jackie. Jackie, recently divorced and having lost custody of her daughter, takes her mother in willingly but also enlists her in a crusade to convert eve...

$13

Love and Understanding

Joe Penhall

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

Live-in lovers Neal and Rachel are overworked doctors. They rarely see each other, and their relationship suffers for it Enter Neal's old good-for-nothing friend, Richie, for a surprise visit, straight f...

$13

Buicks

Julian Sheppard

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

Bill isn't sure how he got to this point in his life. He's thirty-five, married with two children and lives in Fresno, California, where he owns a car dealership Life should be full, but Bill is miserable...

$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 First Actress

Ben Orkow

Dramatists Play Service

2 Female

Befriending a group of strolling players who have been thrown into her father's jail, the lovely young Felicia helps them escape She then heads off to London with their promise that they will assist in fu...

$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

Marie Antoinette - The Color of Flesh

Joel Gross

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 2 Female

A dramatic love triangle set during the turbulent years around the French Revolution ... Elisabeth Vigée le Brun, a beautiful, social-climbing portrait painter, uses her affair with Count Alexis de Ligne, ...

$13

Still Life

Emily Mann

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 2 Female

Shaped by the author from conversations with the people whose experience she sets forth, the play explores the way that Vietnam has affected three lives: a Marine veteran, his estranged wife and his mistr...

$13

Scotland Road

Jeffrey Hatcher

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 3 Female

In the last decade of the twentieth century, a beautiful young woman in nineteenth-century clothing is found floating on an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic When rescued, she says only one word...

$13

Minor Demons

Bruce Graham

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 3 Female

Deke Winters has returned to the small town outside of Pittsburgh where he grew up in an attempt to reclaim his life. For many years he was a high-powered lawyer for the Mob in Philadelphia Here he had ...

$13

Back of the Throat

Yussef El Guindi

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 3 Female

Sparkling with intelligence and humor, this is the tale of an apparently friendly visit by two government officials, which soon devolves into a full blown, no-holds-barred probeKhaled, an Arab-American write...

$13

Julie Johnson

Wendy Hammond

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 2 Female

Julie seems to be having a breakdown. Her two teenage children can't get her to stop crying so they send for her best friend, Claire, to help. Julie has, over time, become completely disillusioned with her l...

$13

24 Hours PM

Oliver Hailey & The Writers Workshop

Dramatists Play Service

In this second portion of 24 HOURS, the plays deal with events taking place during the hours of One PM to Twelve Midnight Again the range of subjects and people represented is as broad and diverse as the i...

$13

The Riot Act

Will Greene

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 5 Female

Katie Delaney, an upright, hard-working widow, struggles to keep her three grown sons from falling into the clutches of "designing women" The sons, all members of the New York City police force, are far ...

$13