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Adrienne Barbeau (on the east coast) and Eva Longoria (on the west coast) have headed casts of this crazy, slapstick farce which takes pre-wedding jitters to nightmare proportions. In a posh New York hotel, just before Walter and Wendy are scheduled to say "I do, " Walter's zipper becomes attached to his bride's sister's dress during a last-minute act of infidelity. Meanwhile, Wendy is having a fling with the best man. This finely-tuned exerci...

Jason Kingsley is treasurer of a billion-dollar patent medicine corporation that requires its officers to be married. Jason claims his wife has a rare disease that prevents her from entertaining or attending corporate functions. A cure is accidentally discovered in one of the company's patent medicines, and Jason's ecstatic boss is arriving any minute with the company doctor to administer the cure and then bask in the publicity. Jason, however...

A zany tale of a warmhearted girl who mistakes a telephone repairman for a burglar, tries to save him from his life of crime, and ends up having to pretend he's her husband - dismaying her strait-laced sister's evangelist fiancé. This play had critics and audiences cheering both at the Maryland and the Chicago premiere productions.

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From the nationally recognized Educational Theatre Association's Thespian Playworks competition come four short scripts - all created by high schoo laged playwrights! Included in this volume are: 507 by Natasha Sowka, Circuits by Rachel Lepore, South of Someplace by I.B. Hopkins, Shelf Life by Beth Seeley

Alvi and Sam, partners and pals, have run a sporting goods store on New York's West Side for forty years. It's Memorial Day and they are taking stock of their inventory and their options. The neighborhood has changed, the yuppie landlord is raising the rent, and the customers don't know the first thing about sports. Sam wants to renovate, Alvi doesn't want to change a thing. As the two old friends struggle over their future, they reveal their ...

Tolstoy's story of life seen through the eyes of Strider, a piebald horse, has been brilliantly and magically adapted to the stage, and it makes Strider seem both equine and thoughtfully human. Despite his maverick coat, Strider is a thoroughbred and a champion. He tells his story to the other horses in the stable, it is one of unexpected triumph and undeserved despair, running much the same as his master's, a dissolute prince. Strider is also...

This most successful of Anouilh's works in the United States is an excellent lark loaded with humorous whims, romance, and masquerades. The scene is a palatial home where two attractive young girls reside. The home is invaded by three affectionate thieves, on the one hand, and by a country bumpkin on the other. A lovely romance blooms instantly between one of the girls and the youngest thief. Being a very honest fellow, he cannot in good consc...

This impious comedy is about a family of well-to-do crooks who are shocked when the son, an excellent forger, quits the fold to go straight. The reason is not long hidden: he has met a girl. He takes a job in a bank (his forged references are excellent). The family makes every eff ort to get him back into his ancestral profession, to no avail, until it is discovered that his fiancée, the daughter of a Scotland Yard inspector, is a first-class ...

Her talent is legendary, her true story more electrifying than you'd ever imagine. She is Judy Garland. Adrienne Barbeau starred in this fictional backstage account of Judy's final concert appearance. With her wicked wit, Judy dishes the dirt on her MGM co-stars, her husbands, and more...taking us down the yellow brick road of her incredible life.

The story of the development of a humorless young Scotchman whose great political success is due entirely to his wife. A young and very earnest Scotch youth steals into the home of well-to-do people in order to get books to help him get on in the world. He is caught in the act and makes an agreement with the family whereby they are to support him until he gets his start. In return for this, he is to marry the very plain daughter of the family....

A truly Grand Guignol play, with rapacious servants, venomous Dobermans, meat hooks, and mutilations. In a gothic mansion in England lives a grande dame with three servants and, on this occasion, a small grandson whose parents are traveling abroad. Two men masquerading as telephone repairmen abduct the grandson for ransom, and the grandmother, in order to keep hidden certain family skeletons, readily pays. But then the bloody machinations begi...

This intimate musical revue is a zany, hilarious spoof dedicated to satirizing every conceivable aspect of show business. Among the many skits are a pointed parody of theatre party ladies, a wrestling match between the "Elephant Man" and the paraplegic hero of Whose Life Is It Anyway?, the traumas of a suburban couple getting to and going from the theater, a madrigal on the popularity of British plays and performers, and takeoffs on critics an...

When these one-acts were produced Off Broadway in New York, they were hailed as plays that bend your perceptions of theatre. In One for the Money, a man walks in asking the audience for donations. What does he really want? Moroccan Travel Guide is a visceral show and tells of a journey that begins in a boat in a dark cave. In The Queen of the Parting Shot, a woman desperately searches for an old memory. A runner-up contestant in The Audition i...

A husband and wife are caught in a complicated and perverse spiral of sexual fantasies that enable them to keep their marriage alive.

Three career girls who share an apartment make an agreement that one night a week two must clear out, leaving the third one free to cook dinner for her boyfriend. Maudie doesn't have a boyfriend, but pride prompts her to invent one. She borrows clothes from the male tenant upstairs to provide circumstantial evidence. The evidence proves too circumstantial for comfort, and the arrival of the wife from upstairs precipitates a crisis.

A hit Off Broadway and later a film starring Russell Crowe, this play by gifted Australian writer David Stevens explores the volatile relationship between an aging widower and his gay son. After meeting in a local pub, Jeff and a young gardener, Greg, hit it off and begin to date. When he meets Jeff 's stubborn, opinionated dad, however, Greg begins to back off. Meanwhile, Dad also has a new flame: a woman he met through a dating service. Put ...

A collection of short plays selected by New York theatre critics, professionals, and the editorial staff of Samuel French, Inc. as the most important plays of the 17th Annual Off Off Broadway Original Short Play Festival, sponsored by Love Creek Productions. This collection includes: Correct Address by Judd Silverman, Cowboys, Indians & Waitresses by Raymond King Shurtz, Homebound by Lyndall Callahan, The Road to Nineveh by Le Wilhelm, Your Li...

A collection of short plays selected by New York theatre critics, professionals, and the editorial staff of Samuel French, Inc. as the most important plays in the 13th Annual Off Off Broadway Original Short Play Festival, sponsored by Double Image Productions. The Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival fosters the work of early-career writers, giving them exposure through publication and representation. This collection includes: No...

A professor of Classics becomes obsessed with a female student who challenges the relevance of his course and finally leads him into an overnight affair. Meanwhile, the dean of the department, joining her in the attempt to bring the curriculum up-to-date, has become involved in a sly relationship with the professor's mysterious wife. The play is saved from a tragic ending by a sudden surprising discovery.