HERB GARDNER (1934 - 2003)
| Nationality: | USA |
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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 | ISBN | - | |||
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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 | ISBN | - | |||
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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 | ISBN | - | |||
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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 |
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| 1st Published: | in Best American Short Plays, Applause Books, NY, 1996 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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I'm Not Rappaport |
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Doubleday, New York, 1986 | ISBN | - | |||
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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 |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | |||||
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One Night Stand |
| 1st Produced: | previewed at the Nederlander Theatre, NY | 1982 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| 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 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1977 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| 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 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1962 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | A bachelor uncle has been left to rear his precocious nephew. | |||||