Books from Dramatists Play Service

  • Barefoot in Athens: Manuscript Edition
    By Maxwell Anderson

    Barefoot in Athens: Manuscript Edition

  • The Triangle Factory Fire Project
    The Triangle Factory Fire Project
    By Christopher Piehler, Scott Alan Evans

    THE STORY: Saturday, March 25, 1911. 4:45 P.M. In the Triangle Waist Factory off downtown Manhattan's Washington Square--where 500 immigrant workers from Poland, Russia and Italy toil fourteen-hour days making...

  • The How and the Why
    The How and the Why
    By Sarah Treem

    THE STORY: Evolution and emotion collide in Sarah Treem's thought-provoking and sharp play about science, family, and survival of the fittest.

  • Nickel and Dimed
    Nickel and Dimed
    By Joan Holden

    THE STORY: Can a middle-aged, middle-class woman survive, when she suddenly has to make beds all day in a hotel and live on $7 an hour? Maybe. But one $7-an-hour...

  • Reed's Nautical Almanac: North American West Coast, 1999
    Reed's Nautical Almanac: North American West Coast, 1999
    By Ben Ellison

    Reed's Nautical Almanac: North American West Coast, 1999

  • Living Out
    Living Out
    By Lisa Loomer

    THE STORY: LIVING OUT tells the story of the complicated relationship between a Salvadoran nanny and the Anglo lawyer she works for. Both women are smart, hard-working mothers. Both want...

  • Bourbon at the Border
    Bourbon at the Border
    By Pearl Cleage

    THE STORY: When May and Charlie joined hundreds of other Americans who went to Mississippi in the summer of 1964 for a massive voter registration drive, they had no idea...

  • The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years
    By Pearl Cleage

    THE STORY: In the winter of 1964, ten years after the Montgomery bus boycott, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is planning a massive voter registration drive that promises to put the city back at the center of the Civil Rights Movement.

  • Toys in the Attic: A Drama in Three Acts
    Toys in the Attic: A Drama in Three Acts
    By Lillian Hellman

    Set in New Orleans following the Great Depression, the play focuses on the Berniers sisters, two middle-aged spinsters who have sacrificed their own ambitions to look after their ne'er-do-well younger...

  • Pretty Fire
    By Charlayne Woodard

    THE STORY: The stage is bare except for a wooden loveseat and a young African-American woman.

  • Modern Orthodox
    Modern Orthodox
    By Daniel Goldfarb

    THE STORY: In a Manhattan coffee shop, Ben, an Upper West Side financial consultant, meets Hershel, an Orthodox jewel merchant, to buy an engagement ring. Although both men are Jewish,...

  • Laughing Stock
    Laughing Stock
    By Charles L. Morey

    THE STORY: LAUGHING STOCK is a hilarious backstage farce and genuinely affectionate look into the world of the theatre. When The Playhouse, a rustic New England summer theatre, schedules a...

  • Scandal Point: A Play in Three Acts
    Scandal Point: A Play in Three Acts
    By John Patrick

    "As she awaits her husband's release from prison, it is evident that Joy Desmond has not lacked for male companionship in his absence. Their lawyer, Bruno Capra, has in fact...

  • The Women of Lockerbie
    The Women of Lockerbie
    By Deborah Baley Brevoort

    THE STORY: A mother from New Jersey roams the hills of Lockerbie Scotland, looking for her son's remains that were lost in the crash of Pan Am 103. She meets...

  • Expecting Isabel
    Expecting Isabel
    By Lisa Loomer

    THE STORY: EXPECTING ISABEL is a comedy about the adventures of a New York couple trying to have a baby--by any means necessary. Their difficulties in conceiving lead them on...

  • The Miss Firecracker Contest: A Play
    By Beth Henley

    Set in smalltown Mississippi a few days before the Fourth of July. Carnelle Scott (alias Miss Hot Tamale) is rehearsing for the Miss Firecracker contest. The arrival of ehr cousing...