HERB GARDNER (1934 - 2003)
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Herb Gardner
Conversations With My Father |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Pantheon Books, NY | 1994 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Conflict between a Jewish immigrant's yearning to preserve tradition and his obsessive desire to assimilate into American Society | ||||
Elevator, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1952 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1952 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Forever Game, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Goodbye People, The |
| 1st Produced: | Ethyl Barrymore Theatre, New York | 1968 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: about old age and death and about the woes of youthful misfits and their loves all based around Coney Island in February | ||||
How I Crossed The Street For The First Time All By Myself |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | in Best American Short Plays, Applause Books, NY | 1996 | ||
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I'm Not Rappaport |
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Doubleday, New York | 1986 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Two octogenarians are determined to fight off all attempts to put them out to pasture. | ||||
I'm With Ya Duke |
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Love And/Or Death |
| 1st Produced: | 1979 | |||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
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One Night Stand |
| 1st Produced: | previewed at the Nederlander Theatre, NY | 1982 | ||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 8 |
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Notes: music Jule Styne | ||||
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Thieves |
| 1st Produced: | Broadhurst Theatre, New York | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1977 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 |
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Synopsis: failing marriage as two schoolteachers are lost in little New York while surrounded by colourful street people and stereotyped neighbours, they work on trying to revive their marriage | ||||
Thousand Clowns, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1962 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York | 1962 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: A bachelor uncle has been left to rear his precocious nephew. | ||||