Books published by Samuel French Ltd

The cult film classic has new life as a zany musical. The Blands want to open a restaurant, but they need cash. Suppose they lure weirdos to their apartment to kill and rob them?

As this witty and unconventional whodunit opens, British television star Peter Conway arrives home to find his wife Stella dead from a drug overdose. Police Sergeant Drummond is assigned to investigate.

Are You Sure? is a case of shifting realities. How much is happening, how much isn't? Does David want to kill Caroline? Does Charlie want to kill David? Does Caroline want to kill everyone?

Is this a hard-boiled detective tale disguised as a lounge act - or the other way around?

The critically-acclaimed sequel to the hit musical revue A...My Name Is Alice is similar in format. Written by a wide variety of writers, lyricists, and composers, this lively entertainment continues to explore contemporary women - this time in the 1990s. The music ranges from gospel to country western to rock to some glorious pop ballads.

From the author of As Bees in Honey Drown and The Little Dog Laughed, this delightfully au courant comedy gives us Missy, an avant-garde video artist, who entertains herself re-editing her family's home movies to unsavory effect. Successful and happily ensconced in an affair with married businessman "Suit," Missy's love life is suddenly complicated by the appearance of "Brat," the actor/new love of her best gay friend, "Spaz."

An outrageous concoction of wild, warm, and lightning-paced hilarity that is perfect for the entire family.

This funny, fast-moving entertainment evokes the bright world of 1940s Hollywood musicals, in which an obscure young singer and her equally obscure songwriting boyfriend play out their romance against a theatrical background of auditions, misunderstandings, self-sacrifice, overnight stardom, and a full score of songs.

The story of a thirty-nine-year-old songwriter who is making a comeback, throwing out "the crap of the past" - her commercial sex kitten image - in order to forge a new identity, writing songs that express how she really feels and who she really is. Her manager (a former lover) is appalled. He likes her the way she used to be and says he can't sell this "new woman." They battle it out to a bittersweet, triumphant conclusion.

Willy Rivers is a rock and roll star who is incredibly famous because he survived an assassination attempt during one of his concerts. His brush with death has made him question the meaning of it all, but he gets no help from the cynical and alienated characters in his life.

Billed as "a musical about an old operetta," Little Mary Sunshine gently spoofs such old-time favorites as Rose Marie and Naughty Marietta, but has a personality all its own.

Theresa Rebeck's expressionistic melodrama set in the waning years of the Alaskan Gold Rush tracks the intertwined fates of a gregarious innkeeper, Mathias; his rebellious daughter, Annette; and the misfits of a boomtown gone bust.

Something is amiss in a Catholic boys' boarding school. The students have become sinister, furtive, and conspiratorial as they steal up and down staircases after hours.

Christopher Plummer won a Tony for his portrayal of John Barrymore in the acclaimed Broadway production of this work by the master of one-character biographies for the stage.

Fish, a club fighter who has spent most of his life in and out of jail, is a ticking time bomb.

This is a play about men trying to understand women, and how they never will. Miles Gladstone, a man in his mid-fifties, has left his wife of thirty years and married a young woman half his age. Six months later his new wife leaves him, his business partner has screwed him, and his first wife, who is looking better than ever, wants to buy his modern apartment for her and her extremely young boyfriend. Struck by his first wife's fabulous appearance and new vivacious attitude, Miles offers to go b

The title character is a singer about to try for a comeback in a nightclub on Staten Island. Her old friend and accompanist tries to help, and another old friend, a caterer, also attempts to boost her morale with help from the teenager who lives in the same apartment building.

Brontë begins in 1849 with Charlotte, at thirty-three, returning from Scarborough, where she has buried Anne, her youngest sister.

This hilarious Off-Broadway hit, set in a run-down apartment on Staten Island, concerns three gay roommates coming to a crisis during one frantic Christmas weekend.

Hamlet, but with a happier ending. If you've had trouble grasping the intent of Shakespeare's classic endeavor, this should clear it up once and for all. The text remains very true to good old Will's basic fundamentals.

Lionel anticipates a quiet afternoon in the park. Just as he settles on a bench with a book, an armed woman in a wedding gown approaches with her bridal retinue.

Now updated, here is a sparkling and hilarious remake of the comedy that has played around the world since its two-year run in London's West End in the 70s. Set in a smart, ultra-modern Mayfair apartment full of automated furniture and gadgets with minds of their own, The Mating Game features a celebrity television personality with a reputation as a great stud, but whose romantic interludes are, in reality, always interrupted by accidents, fate, or his own incompetence.

In this riotous showbiz comedy, a producer, his secretary, and associates try to re-write an epic drama by a neophyte playwright into a broad farce.

Psychiatrist Victor Karleen is financially pressed between the rental of his posh office apartment and his fiancée's expensive tastes.

A beautiful, romantic drama of love, fidelity, treachery, and poetry presented in the style of traditional Chinese theatre.

A bit of madness is loose in the Flinder house.

This classic farce done in thirty scenes with no chronological sequence concerns a doctor of philosophy who has a wife, a mistress, and a secretary whose beautiful legs make it difficult for him to concentrate when she is taking dictation.

From the time Louise Vickers arrives at the shadowy old country house, she notices a change in her secretary.

Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy starred on Broadway in this moving chronicle of a husband and wife, from their wedding night in 1890 until they leave the house that has been their home, thirty-five years later. They fret and quarrel, laugh, cry, and make love in the same room in which they began their married life. Standing throughout the evening is the old fourposter, silent witness to all.