Plays, playscripts, drama
Concord Theatricals Chess
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Samuel French Inc Torch Song Trilogy
Book SynopsisCharacters: 4 male, 2 femaleTony Award Winner, Best Play 1983 Includes: The International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, Widows and Children First! A very funny, poignant and unabashedly entertaining work that, so help me, is something for the whole family...the zappiest evening of theatre you could ask for. - Newsweek Under the tragedy, the play is gorgeously funny. - N.Y. Post
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Samuel French Inc The Cemetery Club
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Samuel French Ltd A Girls Guide to Chaos
Book SynopsisMs. Heimel is a delightful, neo-feminist humorist best known for the hilarious and immortal Sex Tips for Girls. She has taken material from that book and put it into the mouths of three characters in this one: Cynthia and her friends Cleo and Rita. “These are the times that try a girl’s soul,” begins Cynthia, and then she and her friends proceed to tell us why the times are so trying and what they are doing to cope with them. We learn about “The Great Boy
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Concord Theatricals Toyer
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Samuel French Inc Song of Extinction
Book SynopsisDrama / Characters: 5m, 1f 2009 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award - American Theater Critics Association 2008 Ted Schmitt Award for the world premiere of an Outstanding New Play - Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle 2008 Production of the Year - The LA Weekly Awards - Los Angeles, CA Max, a musically gifted high school student, is falling off the edge of the world - and his biology teacher is the only one who's noticed. A play about the science of life and loss, the relationships between fathers and sons, Cambodian fields, Bolivian rainforests and redemption. Max Forrestal is going to fail Biology if he doesn't complete a 20-page paper on extinction by 2pm on Tuesday - but his mother, Lily, is dying of cancer, and school is the last thing on his mind. His father, Ellery, a biologist obsessed with saving a rare Bolivian insect, is incapable of dealing with his wife's impending death, or his son's distress. Max's biology teacher, Khim Phan, tries to figure out why Max is failin
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Samuel French Ltd Remembering Mr. Maugham
Book SynopsisMemoirCharacters: 2 maleRemembering Mr. Maugham is an intimate glimpse into the life of W. Somerset Maugham - one of the most brilliant, prolific and secretive writers of the 20th century. This graceful two-character, one-act play adapted by Garson Kanin from his memoir is a treasure trove of private conversations, amusing anecdotes and candid recollections of his beloved friend and confidant. Through decades of friendship, Kanin and Maugham poignantly reminisce about life, art and the unconquerable human spirit.
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Samuel French Inc John Balls In the Heat of the Night
Book SynopsisCharacters: 8 male, 2 female Acclaimed playwright Matt Pelfrey's adaptation of John Ball's In the Heat of the Night based on the award-winning book that inspired the Oscar-winning film and the Emmy-winning television series. It's 1962. A hot August night lies heavy over the small town of Argo, Alabama. A dead white man is discovered and the local police arrest a black stranger named Virgil Tibbs. The police discover that their prime suspect is in fact a homicide detective from California. As it happens, Tibbs becomes the racially-tense community's single hope in solving a brutal murder that is turning up no witnesses, no motives, and no clues. A tight and timely thriller! -Theatermania.com. It's eminently stageworthy...a tense and exciting story that follows the book's basic plot but offers viewers a distinctly new and different In the Heat of the Night -CurtainUp. The play is taut and startlingly resonant, even as it deals with events taking place nearly 50 years ago. Pelfrey's work
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Samuel French Ltd Emma
Book SynopsisFrom the novel by Jane AustenAdapted by Michael Bloom6m, 6f, plus ensembleComedyPledging never to marry, the mischievous Emma Woodhouse is nevertheless the matchmaker of Highbury. Her newest project, Harriet Smith, has already received a proposal, but Emma insists she marry the eligible vicar Mr. Elton, while, an older family friend, Mr. Knightly, warns her to give up matchmaking. When Emma discovers Mr. Elton is more interested in her, she is forced to fend him off and f
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Samuel French Inc Blue Yonder
Book SynopsisCharacters: 12 female (can be performed by 4f, or any number in between) Monologues & Scenes Dramatic Comedy A familiar adage states, Men may work from sun to sun, but women's work is never done. In BIue Yonder, the audience meets twelve mesmerizing and eccentric women including a flight instructor, a firefighter, a stuntwoman, a woman who donates body parts, an employment counselor, a professional softball player, a surgical nurse professional baseball player, and a daredevil who plays with dynamite among others. Through the monologues, each woman examines her life's work and explores the career that she has found. Or that has found her.
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Samuel French Inc Tru
Book SynopsisWinner! 1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show Adapted from the words and works of Truman Capote, Tru takes place in the writer's New York City apartment during the week before Christmas 1975. An excerpt from Capote's infamous novel Answered Prayers has recently been published in Esquire and the author's friends, recognizing the characters as thinly veiled versions of themselves, have turned their back on the man they once considered a close confidant. Alone and hurting, Capote soothes himself with pills, alcohol, and chocolate truffles while musing about his checkered life and career.
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Samuel French Ltd 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche
Book SynopsisIt''s 1956 and the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein are having their annual quiche breakfast. Will they be able to keep their cool when Communists threaten their idyllic town?
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Samuel French Ltd The Whale
Book SynopsisWinner! 2013 Lucille Lortel Award, Best Play Winner! 2013 Drama Desk Special Award for Significant Contribution to Theatre Winner! 2013 GLAAD Media Award, Outstanding New York Theatre Nominee! 2013 Drama League Award, Outstanding Production of a Play Nominee! 2013 Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play Nominee! 2013 John Gassner Award, Oustanding New American Play On the outskirts of Mormon Country, Idaho, a six hundred pound recluse hides aw
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Concord Theatricals A Murder Is Announced
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Samuel French Ltd Clown Bar
Book SynopsisHappy''s junkie brother Timmy is found dead. Now Happy must return to his former life as a clown to ask a few questions. But will Happy be able to go home again without getting sucked into the seedy clown underbelly of vice and violence?
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Samuel French Ltd Melancholy Play
Book SynopsisIn this chamber musical version of Sarah Ruhl's Melancholy Play, Tilly’s melancholy is of an exquisite quality. She turns her melancholy into a sexy thing, and every stranger she meets falls in love with her. One day, inexplicably, Tilly becomes happy, and wreaks havoc on the lives of her paramours. Frances, Tilly’s hairdresser, becomes so melancholy that she turns into an almond. It is up to Tilly to get her back.
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Samuel French Ltd The Curious Case of The Watson Intelligence
Book SynopsisFINALIST! Pulitzer Prize for Drama - 2014Watson: trusty sidekick to Sherlock Holmes; loyal engineer who built Bell's first telephone; unstoppable super-computer that became reigning Jeopardy! champ; amiable techno-dweeb who, in the present day, is just looking for love. These four constant companions become one in this brilliantly witty, time-jumping, loving tribute (and cautionary tale) dedicated to the people-and machines-upon which we all depend.
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Samuel French Ltd Someone From Assisi
Book SynopsisIn this play about the Deadly Sin of Lust, Saint Francis, almost blind and toothless and nearing the end of his life, revisits Assisi, where he encounters Pica, a young girl with the same name as his mother; Mother Clara of Saint Damian''s Convent; and Mona Lucrezia (now a mad woman) with whom he had a love affair when he was a wild, willful young man known as Francis the Frenchman, and she was a young married woman. Saint Francis still seeks expiation for the load of sin with which he has offended God. The play poses questions about the true meaning of love-and, as Wilder wrote, about the ideas of the Erotic as Destroyer and the Erotic as Creative.
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Samuel French Ltd Fun Home
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Samuel French Ltd August Wilsons The Piano Lesson
Book SynopsisWinner! 1990 Pulitzer Prize for DramaWinner! 1990 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding New PlayNominee! 1990 Tony Award, Best PlayNominee! 2013 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Revival of a PlayNominee! 2013 Drama League Award, Outstanding Revival of a PlayIt is 1936 and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with the money right quick. He wa
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Samuel French Ltd August Wilsons King Hedley II
Book SynopsisFinalist! 2000 Pulitzer Prize in DramaPeddling stolen refrigerators in the feeble hope of making enough money to open a video store, King Hedley, a man whose self worth is built on self delusion, is scraping in the dirt of an urban backyard trying to plant seeds where nothing will grow. Getting, spending, killing and dying in a world where getting is hard and killing is commonplace are threads woven into this 1980''s installment in the author''s renowned cycle of plays about the black ex
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Samuel French Ltd August Wilsons Gem of the Ocean
Book SynopsisSet in 1904, August Wilson''s Gem of the Ocean begins on the eve of Aunt Esther''s 287th birthday. When Citizen Barlow comes to her Pittsburgh''s Hill District home seeking asylum, she sets him off on a spiritual journey to find a city in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Gem of the Ocean is the ninth work in Wilson''s ten-play cycle that has recorded the American Black experience and helped to define generations. The Broadway run starred Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad as Aunt Esthe
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Samuel French Ltd Perfect Arrangement
Book SynopsisIt's 1950 and new colors are being added to the Red Scare. Two U.S. State Department employees Bob and Norma have been tasked with identifying sexual deviants within their ranks. There's just one problem: Both Bob and Norma are gay and have married each other's partners as a carefully constructed cover. Inspired by the true story of the earliest stirrings of the American gay rights movement madcap classic sitcom-style laughs give way to provocative drama as two All-American couples are fo
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Samuel French Ltd Blood at the Root
Book SynopsisA striking new ensemble drama based on the Jena Six; six Black students who were initially charged with attempted murder for a school fight after being provoked with nooses hanging from a tree on campus. This bold new play by Dominique Morisseau (Sunset Baby Detroit '67
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Samuel French Ltd Shakespeare in Love
Book SynopsisYoung Will Shakespeare has writer's block... the deadline for his new play is fast approaching but he's in desperate need of inspiration. That is, until he finds his muse – Viola. This beautiful young woman is Will’s greatest admirer and will stop at nothing (including breaking the law) to appear in his next play.Against a bustling background of mistaken identity, ruthless scheming and backstage theatrics, Will’s love for Viola quickly blossoms and insp
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Samuel French Ltd The Moors
Book SynopsisTwo sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. The Moors is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and visibility.
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Samuel French Ltd The Roommate
Book SynopsisSharon in her mid-fifties is recently divorced and needs a roommate to share her Iowa home. Robyn also in her mid-fifties needs a place to hide and a chance to start over. But as Sharon begins to uncover Robyn?s secrets they encourage her own deep-seated desire to transform her life completely. A dark comedy about what it takes to re-route your life ? and what happens when the wheels come off.
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Samuel French Ltd Tuck Everlasting
Book SynopsisEleven-year-old Winnie Foster yearns for a life of adventure beyond her white picket fence, but not until she becomes unexpectedly entwined with the Tuck Family does she get more than she could have imagined. When Winnie learns of the magic behind the Tuck’s unending youth, she must fight to protect their secret from those who would do anything for a chance at eternal life. As her adventure unfolds, Winnie faces an extraordinary choice: return to her life, or continue with the Tucks on
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Samuel French Ltd She Kills Monsters
Book SynopsisA comedic romp into the world of fantasy role-playing games, She Kills Monsters tells the story of Agnes Evans as she leaves her childhood home in Ohio following the death of her teenage sister, Tilly. When Agnes finds Tilly’s Dungeons & Dragons notebook, however, she stumbles into a journey of discovery and action-packed adventure in the imaginary world that was Tilly’s refuge. In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fair
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Samuel French Ltd Peerless
Book SynopsisAsian-American twins M and L have given up everything to get into The College. So when D a one-sixteenth Native American classmate gets their spot instead they figure they've got only one option: kill him. A darkly comedic take on Shakespeare's Macbeth about the very ambitious and the cut-throat world of high school during college admissions.
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Samuel French Ltd The Wolves
Book SynopsisLeft quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. A portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who just want to score some goals.
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Samuel French Ltd The Doctor in Wonderland
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Samuel French Ltd How to Transcend a Happy Marriage
Book SynopsisAt a dinner party in New Jersey, two couples discuss polyamory as brought up by the introduction of a new temp, Pip, in Jane’s office. When they invite Pip and her two male partners, discussion turns to action and the exploration of unexplored desire turns animalistic, and then Jane’s daughter sees it all. How to Transcend a Happy Marriage blurs the lines of monogamy and asks how deeply friends, lovers, and strangers connect.
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Samuel French Ltd Tiny Beautiful Things
Book SynopsisBased on the best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed and adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos, Tiny Beautiful Things personifies the questions and answers that “Sugar” was publishing online from 2010-2012. When the struggling writer was asked to take over the unpaid, anonymous position of advice columnist, Strayed used empathy and her personal experiences to help those seeking guidance for obstacles both large and small. Tiny Beautiful Things is a play about reaching when you’re stuck, healing when you’re broken, and finding the courage to take on the questions which have no answers.
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Samuel French Ltd Meteor Shower
Book SynopsisCorky and Norm are excited to host Gerald and Laura at their home in the valley outside Los Angeles to watch a once-in-a-lifetime meteor shower. But as the stars come out and the conversation gets rolling, it becomes clear that Gerald and Laura might not be all that they appear to be. Over the course of a crazy, starlit dinner party, the wildly unexpected occurs. The couples begin to flirt and insanity reigns. Martin, using his trademark absurdist humor, bends the fluid nature of time and reality to create a surprising and unforgettably funny new play.
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Samuel French Ltd Imogen Says Nothing
Book SynopsisA revisionist comedy in verse and prose featuring Imogen, a character who only appears in the first folio of William Shakespeare’s Much Adoe About Nothing, speaks no lines, and is probably a typo. A feminist hijacking of Shakespeare that investigates the voices that have been absented from our canon, and the consequences of cutting them.
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Samuel French Ltd Four Old Broads
Book SynopsisRetired burlesque queen Beatrice Shelton desperately needs a vacation – and NOT another trip up to Helen, Georgia to see that “precious little German village for the umpteenth time.” A Sassy Seniors Cruise through the Caribbean may be just the ticket if she can just convince her best friend, Eaddy Mae Clayton, to stop praying and go with her. Unfortunately, things have not been very pleasant at Magnolia Place Assisted Living since Nurse Pat Jones began working there. The newest resident, Imogene Fletcher, is suddenly losing her memory. Maude Jenkins is obsessed with her favorite soap opera and planning her own funeral. Sam Smith, retired Elvis impersonator, keeps trying to bed every woman in the building. A mystery unfolds with laughter as the gals try to outsmart the evil Nurse Pat Jones and figure out why so many residents have been moved to “the dark side,” what exactly IS that mysterious pill, and what happened to Doctor Head? Hilarity ensues as Imo
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Samuel French Ltd Athena
Book SynopsisMary Wallace and Athena are brave, and seventeen, and fencers, and training for the Junior Olympics. They practice together, they compete against each other, they spend their lives together. They wish they were friends.
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Samuel French Ltd The Party
Book SynopsisJanet hosts an intimate gathering of friends in her London home to celebrate her political ascension. After her acerbic best friend and others arrive, some with dramatic news to share, an announcement by Janet’s husband provokes a series of revelations. As the sophisticated soirée starts to unravel, a night that began with champagne soon ends with arguments, shouting, and a pointed gun.
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Samuel French Ltd Dance Nation
Book SynopsisSomewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough, they’ll claw their way to the top at Nationals in Tampa Bay. A play about ambition, growing up, and how to find our souls in the heat of it all.
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Samuel French Ltd Do You Feel Anger
Book SynopsisSofia was recently hired as an empathy coach at a debt collection agency – and clearly, she has her work cut out for her. These employees can barely identify what an emotion is, much less practice deep, radical compassion for others. And while they painstakingly stumble towards enlightenment, someone keeps mugging Eva in the kitchen. An outrageous comedy about the absurdity – and the danger – of a world where some people’s feelings matter more than others’.
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Samuel French Ltd Yoga Play
Book SynopsisJoan has been hired to stabilize Jojomon, a yoga apparel giant, after its CEO is brought down by a fat-shaming scandal. But just as she finds her stride, more trouble surfaces and sales plummet. Joan comes up with a plan so risky that it could make or break the company and her career—and what it requires from her CFO, Raj, is far beyond the call of duty. This sharp comedy asks what it takes to find your own authenticity in a world determined to sell enlightenment.
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Samuel French Ltd Brer Cotton
Book SynopsisLynchburg, Virginia. The former site of a thriving cotton mill is now an impoverished neighborhood. Deeply affected by all the recent killings of young black men like himself, Ruffrino, a 14-year-old militant, incites riots at school and online. As Ruffrino grows more and more at odds with his mother and grandfather, his anger builds beyond containment. Meanwhile, the family home literally sinks into the cotton field, and no one but Ruffrino seems to notice.?
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Samuel French Ltd STEW
Book SynopsisThe Tucker women are up early to prepare a very important meal or at least that's what Mama says. As the day wears on the little dramas that always take place in the kitchen boil over making a mess of everything. STEW explores the substance of that special stuff passed between kinswomen and how the secrets we keep from our mothers eventually become the secrets we keep from ourselves.
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Samuel French Ltd Birthday Club
Book SynopsisFive women get together for their birthdays, each with her own story, to drink, celebrate, commiserate and support each other as they negotiate through marriage, work, divorce, birth and kids, while solving the problems of the world.Cheryl, Karen, Monica and Abbie started Birthday Club five years ago when their friend Jennifer was diagnosed with cancer, as a support group to help her get through it. When Jennifer recently passed away, they had an opening for a new member. However, it''s not easy to join Birthday Club. Birthday Club is very exclusive, and there''s a three-year waiting list. They bring in Sarah as a potential member, but first Sarah must make it through the interview, and agree to abide by the eight rules of Birthday Club, to be considered an official member.One by one, they reveal their personal, work and family issues, and when one of them admits she went out with another''s husband, the vodka hits the fan. The question is: Will B
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Concord Theatricals Rodgers Hammersteins Carousel
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Samuel French Ltd Rodgers Hammersteins The King and I
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Concord Theatricals Leveling Up Virtually
Book SynopsisNew virtual version!From the award winning playwright ofEnd Days Deborah Zoe Laufer comes a story about three twenty-something roommates who are glued to their video games. They are masters of the virtual worlds behind the computer screens in their Las Vegas basement. When one of them uses his gaming skills to land a job with the National Security Agency launching actual drones and missiles online battles begin to have real consequences.Leveling Upis a fresh contemporary look at how we navigate the blurry line between worlds both virtual and real and what it means to grow up.
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