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Samuel French (1821–1898) was an American entrepreneur who, together with British actor, playwright and theatrical manager Thomas Hailes Lacy, pioneered in the field of theatrical publishing and the licensing of plays.
Cover of the 1929 US edition, published by Samuel French. Rope, retitled Rope's End for its American release, is a 1929 English play by Patrick Hamilton.It was said to be inspired by the real-life murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924 by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.
Talking With... is a 1982 play by Jane Martin, published by Samuel French Incorporated. [1] The play is composed of eleven ten-minute monologues, each featuring a different woman who talks about her life. [2]
Seventeen is a 1917 play by writers Hugh Stanislaus Stange, Stannard Mears, and Stuart Walker, based on Booth Tarkington's 1916 novel. It is a four-act comedy with six scenes and two settings. It is a four-act comedy with six scenes and two settings.
Bill W. and Dr. Bob is a play written by Stephen Bergman and Janet Surrey, published by Samuel French, Inc. The play will return to Off-Broadway after being produced in some thirty of the fifty United States, Australia, Canada, and England. Bill W. and Dr. Bob began previews at The Soho Playhouse on July 8, 2013.
Treasure Island is a play in four acts and ten scenes by Jules Eckert Goodman that is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel of the same name. [1] It was first published in 1915 by Samuel French, Inc. , [ 2 ] and was later included in the children's play anthology Another Treasury of Plays for Children (1926, Little, Brown and Company ...
The play was staged June 16–July 9, 1955, at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, in a production directed by Welles. The original cast included Welles, Christopher Lee, Kenneth Williams, Joan Plowright, Patrick McGoohan, Gordon Jackson, Peter Sallis, and Wensley Pithey. [1] The play was published by Samuel French in 1965. [2]
The Gulf is a play by American playwright Audrey Cefaly. [1] It is a recipient of the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Drama and the 2016 Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award. The play was adapted from a one-act version, which won the 40th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival (2015). The play takes place on a fishing ...