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David and Goliath; a comedy in two acts by A. R. Gurney, jr.
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- [New York, Hart multi-copy inc.] c1966.
- 1966
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NCOF+ 72-434 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The Columbian muse of comedy; the development of a native tradition in early American social comedy, 1787-1845 [by] Daniel F. Havens.
- Text
- Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press [1973]
- 1973
- 1 Item
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The development of American social comedy from 1787 to 1936.
- Text
- New York, Octagon Books, 1971 [c1939]
- 1971-1939
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 74-1562 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Greatest revue sketches / compiled and edited by Donald Oliver.
- Text
- New York, N.Y. : Avon Books, c1982.
- 1982
- 1 Item
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Don Quixote de la Mancha [microform] : a comedy in five acts, taken from Cervantes' novel of that name / by Mrs. H.S. Burton.
- Text
- San Francisco : J.H. Carmany & Co., 1876.
- 1876
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *Z-5465 no. 1-18 (missing: no. 3, 8-9, 13) Offsite The last coat [microform] : comedy in one act (male characters) / by John Edgcome.
- Text
- Chicago : Dramatic Pub. Co., [19--?]
- 1900-1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *Z-5541 no. 1-13 Offsite Three comedies of American family life.
- Text
- New York, Washington Square Press [c1961]
- 1961
- 1 Item
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The collected plays of Neil Simon / with an introduction by Neil Simon.
- Text
- New York : Random House, [1971-1998]
- 1971-1998
- 3 Items
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Deathtraps : the postmodern comedy thriller / Marvin Carlson.
- Text
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 93-15837 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Commedia dell'arte & the comic spirit : a monograph from the 1990 Classics in Context Festival : Actors Theatre of Louisville, Jon Jory, producing director / [editors, Michael Bigelow Dixon, Michelle Y. Togami].
- Text
- Louisville, KY, USA : Actors Theatre of Louisville, c1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWEC 95-3560 Offsite A Decade of new comedy : plays from the Humana Festival / edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Michele Volansky ; foreword by Jon Jory ; introduction by Wendy Wasserstein.
- Text
- Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
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Latins anonymous : two plays.
- Text
- Houston, Tex : Arte Público Press, 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 97-8475 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Modern short comedies from Broadway and London, edited with an introd. and prefaces to the plays by Stanley Richards.
- Text
- New York, Random House [1970, c1969]
- 1970-1969
- 1 Item
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25 non-royalty one-act American comedies, complied by William Kozlenko ...
- Text
- New York, Greenberg [1943]
- 1943
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NBL (Kozlenko, W. 25 non-royalty one-act American comedies) Offsite Black comedy : nine plays : a critical anthology with interviews and essays / edited by Pamela Faith Jackson and Karimah.
- Text
- New York : Applause, c1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 97-1972 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Dinner for two, a comedy in one act, by Glenn Hughes.
- Text
- New York, N.Y., Los Angeles, Calif., S. French, 1938.
- 1938
Yankee-Doodle American : a comedy in three acts / by Dana Thomas [pseud.]
- Text
- Minneapolis, MN : The Northwestern Press, c1944.
- 1944
Yankee theatre : the image of America on the stage, 1825-1850 / Francis Hodge.
- Text
- Austin : University of Texas Press, c1964.
- 1964
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWED (Hodge, F. Yankee theatre) Offsite Stocks up! Stocks down! : a duologue in one scene, as performed at the "new idea," New York, in 1864; to which are added a description of the costumes - cast of the characters - entrances and exits - relative positions of the performers on the stage, and the whole of the stage business.
- Text
- Chicago : Dramatic Publishing Company, [19--?]
- 1900-1910
Blithe spirit [sound recording] / Noel Coward.
- Audio
- [United States] : Beastly Hun, [197-?]
- 197
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LZR 12493 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Luv, a new comedy [sound recording].
- Audio
- [New York] : Columbia Masterworks, [1965?]
- 1965
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LZR 56947 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LZR 56947 [Notes] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The sun dialogues / David Hollander : programs.
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- 1 Item
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431 of my closest friends : a shonda in two acts / Miriam Kouzel Billington : programs
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- 1 Item
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Grandma Sylvia's funeral / Glenn Wein : programs.
- Text
- 1 Item
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A mother, a daughter and a gun / Barra Grant : programs
- Text
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *T-PRG (Mother, a daughter and a gun (Grant)) Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The playboy of the western world [sound recording] / John Millington Synge.
- Audio
- New York, N.Y. : Seraphim, [1967]
- 1967
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LZR 68865 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Kaufman & Co. : Broadway comedies / George S. Kaufman with Edna Ferber ... [et al.].
- Text
- New York : Library of America, c2004.
- 2004
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 04-16950 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-RMRR PS221 .A4 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Cactus flower : a comedy in two acts / by Abe Burrows.
- Text
- New York : S. French, c1966.
- 1966
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text C-14 1347 no. 1-4 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Glad tidings, Sunday evening performance [sound recording] / Edward H. Mabley.
- Audio
- 1977.
- 1977
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LTC 6027 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.June moon [sound recording] / by George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner.
- Audio
- 1971.
- 1971
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LTC 6032 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Look: we've come through [sound recording] / Hugh Wheeler.
- Audio
- 1974
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LTC 6035 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Missouri legend [sound recording] / Elizabeth Beall Ginty.
- Audio
- 1976.
- 1976
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LTC 6043 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.The pursuit of happiness [sound recording] / Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall Langner.
- Audio
- 1975.
- 1975
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LTC 6052 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Summer brave [sound recording] / William Inge.
- Audio
- 1973.
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LTC 6065 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Lola Montes in London : a comedy in one act arranged expressly for Mlle. Lola Montes, 1852.
- Mixed material
- 1852
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material MssCol 2039 Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Proposals, 1997 / Neil Simon: reviews.
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- 1 Item
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Fast folks, or, The early days of California [electronic resource] : a comedy, in five acts / by Joseph A. Nunes.
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- Philadelphia : Barnard & Jones, Printers, 1861.
- 1861
- 1 Resource
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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY102308655&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplThe realistic Joneses / Will Eno.
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- London : Oberon Books, 2014.
- 2014-2014
- 1 Item
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Yankee theatre [electronic resource] : the image of America on the stage, 1825-1850 / Francis Hodge.
- Text
- Austin : University of Texas Press, c1964.
- 1964
- 1 Resource
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https://hdl-handle-net.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/2027/heb.31815Baby with the bathwater, and, Laughing wild : two plays / by Christopher Durang.
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- New York : Grove Press, 1989, ©1988.
- 1989-1984
- 1 Item
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Satiric comedies / edited by Walter J. Meserve and William R. Reardon.
- Text
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1969]
- 1969
- 1 Item
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Articulation : short plays to nourish the mind & soul / by Cesi Davidson.
- Text
- Seattle, WA : Aqueduct Press, 2019.
- 2019
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 23-595 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Fricatives : short plays to nourish the mind & soul / Cesi Davidson.
- Text
- Seattle, WA : Aqueduct Press, 2021.
- 2021
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 23-594 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Yankee theatre [electronic resource] : the image of America on the stage, 1825-1850 / Francis Hodge.
- Text
- Austin : University of Texas Press, c1964.
- 1964
- 2 Resources
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All play and no work : American work ideals and the comic plays of the Federal Theatre Project / Paul Gagliardi.
- Text
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2024.
- 2024-2024
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWED 23-4674 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Deathtraps : the postmodern comedy thriller / Marvin Carlson.
- Text
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1993], ©1993.
- 1993-1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PR739.D48 C36 1993 Off-site Chetyre komedii, kotorye perevël Mikhail Mishin : Ėti svobodnye babochki / Leonard Gersh ; Intimnai︠a︡ komedii︠a︡ / Noėl Kauard ; Dama i klarnet / Maĭkl Kristofer ; №13 / Rėĭ Kuni = Four comedies, translated by Mikhail Mishin : Butterflies are Free / Leonard Gershe ; Private Lives / Noel Coward ; The Lady and The Clarinet / Michael Cristofer ; Out of Order / Ray Cooney / perevod Mikhaila Mishina.
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- Moskva : Izdatelʹskai︠a︡ gruppa Navona, 2020.
- 2020
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PN1922 .C448 2020g Off-site New forms of comedy : papers given on the occasion of the second annual conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English / edited for the society by Bernhard Reitz.
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- Trier : Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, [1994], ©1994.
- 1994-1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PR739.C65 N49 1994 Off-site Three comedies of American family life.
- Text
- New York : Washington Square Press, [1961]
- 1961
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PS634 .M4 Off-site Latins anonymous : two plays / [by Latins Anonymous ; introduction by Edward James Olmos].
- Text
- Houston, Tex : Arte Publico Press, 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text PS628.H57 L38 1996 Off-site
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