|
|
N RICHARD NASH (1913 - 2000) |
|
Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
|
|
Literary Agent: n/a |
Born in Philadelphia, PA on June 8, 1913. B.S., University of Pennsylvania. Screenplays: Welcome Stranger (with Arthur Sheekman); Nora Prentiss and Porgy and Bess. Has written widely for TV (Philco Theater, etc.) Novels: East Wind, Rain; Aphrodite's Cave.
Plays by N Richard Nash
110 In the Shade | ||
| 1st Produced: | Broadhurst Theater, New York | 1963 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Tams-Witmark, Inc., 757 Third Ave., New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | RCA-1085-2-RG | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: RCA (1085-2-RG) 1963 | doollee no | #45190 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Harvey Schmidt; lyrics by Tom Jones. Based on "The Rainmaker" by Nathaniel Richard Nash. | |||||
| A drought striken mid-Western town. Starbuck - the Rainmaker arrives. He tries to persuade Lizzie to run away with him but she prefers to remain with the sherrif. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Echoes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Broadway | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25468 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | couple build low-keyed paradise of happiness within an asylum only to have it shattered by intrusion of outside world | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Fire! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Longacre Theatre, New York | 28 Jan 1968 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124848 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written under the name John Roc | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Girls Of Summer | ||
| 1st Produced: | Longacre Theatre | 1956 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1957 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25469 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by N. Richard Nash; Featuring the song "Girls of Summer" composed by Stephen Sondheim | |||||
Synopsis: | Setting: Hilda Brookman's apartment, New York City, in early summer of the present day. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Handful Of Fire | ||
| 1st Produced: | Martin Beck Theatre, New York | 01 Oct 1958 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1959 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25470 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young peasant girl looses her virginity to the owner of the town brothel. This sends the boy who loved her on a downward spiral and her into prostitution | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Happy Time, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Broadway Theatre, NY | 1968 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | rca-61016 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: RCA (61016) 1968 | doollee no | #45191 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 13 performers | |||||
Notes: | Music by John Kander; Lyrics by Fred Ebb; Book by N. Richard Nash; Based on the play by Samuel Taylor; Based on the book by Robert Fontaine | |||||
| Based on a play by Samuel Taylor, the musical tells the story of a French-Canadian family. The son, Bibi, a teenager, is having troubles at school; while the uncle that Bibi idolizes, Jacques, a photographer, has returned home after a long time away. Songs include "A Certain Girl" and "The Happy Time." | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Incognito | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York 1941 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124849 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Mystery | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 12 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written under the name N Richard Nusbaum | |||||
Synopsis: | The pleasure steamer the S.S. Imperial is in South American waters. On board is a Nazi German agent who is looking for a British spy. He discovers the spy - Charles Locke and radios to a u-boat that is nearby but before he can reveal just which of the passengers is Locke he is murdered. The captain of the u-boat comes aboard to track down the killer and the spy. He determines that one of the women passengers is "Charles Locke" | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Loss Of D-Natural, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #135792 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | There is a war going on Emily and John live in a bombed out house. Emily's brother Charles arrives wearing jungle fatigues. Their daughter Jessica also arrives with her almost blind and deaf husband and her two children - the daughter has lost her arms. Jessica says they are three months old - but they look like pre-teens | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Parting At Imsdorf | ||
| 1st Produced: | Broadway | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc 1941 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45192 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written under the name N Richard Nusbaum | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Rainmaker, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Broadway | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1958 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25471 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Into the life of a young girl comes a strange and colourful figure with an amazing claim. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Rouge Atomique | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25472 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | fantasy drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | A verse play which the author calls an "exercise in one act." | |||||
Synopsis: | There are two characters, the Wife and the Woman, who love the same man and who sit chatting pleasantly over teacups. They would speak of kind and gentle matters and would be civilized above all. But war and things of violence intrude so they turn to French, most civilized of all languages, for "we do not quarrel in French." But in so saying, they have returned to English and talk while waiting for the phone to ring, to bring them news of the man they love. As they wait they retell their memories of the man, and as each grows possessive and envious of the other's part in his life, they quarrel. Their anguish for the man they love and their anger at each other reaches a peak broken only by the ring of the phone-their beloved "will live. The blood has stopped." And the Wife and the Woman sit quietly, peaceably, again. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Sarava | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Mitch Leigh, 200 West 59th St., New York, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #45193 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
| |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Scapegrace | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #64962 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by John J Reynolds | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Second Best Bed | ||
| 1st Produced: | Barrymore Theatre, New York | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25473 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The early years of the marriage of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
See The Jaguar | ||
| 1st Produced: | Broadway | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25474 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In a remote section of the West, Brad owns the sole gas station and store. He also owns a small zoo where he cages the occasional wildcat or whatever wildlife can be caught in the area. The cages are Brad's obsession-they remind him of man's supremacy over nature; they remind him that he is a master in this village where everybody is in debt to him. But he is not master over his daughter Janna, who has fallen in love with Brad's outspoken enemy, Dave Ricks. But if Brad's weapons are force, hatred and violence, Dave's are peace, love and gentleness. The two men battle over Wally Wilkins, an innocent boy of seventeen who was hidden away by his demented mother, and who is now free since his mother died. Because the boy is supposedly in possession of a large sum of money, Brad pursues Wally, whom Dave and Janna are escorting to safety. When Brad catches up them he realizes that his pursuit of Wally has alienated him from his daughter. At the end of a night of wild drunkenness Brad imprisons Wally in a cage. To free Wally and Janna from her father's dominance, and to affirm the deeper strength of the gentle over the violent, Dave gives up his life. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Sky Road | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Row, Peterson and Co 1941 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124850 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
So Wonderful (In White) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York 1937 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124851 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written under the name N Richard Nusbaum | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Wildcat | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alvin Theater, New York | 1960 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Tams-Witmark, Inc., 757 Third Ave., New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | B000M5DT10 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: RCA (60353) 1960 | doollee no | #45194 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Cy Coleman; lyrics by Carolyn Leigh. | |||||
| 1912 and a woman prospector - Wildcat Jackson - hunts for oil | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Young And Fair, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Broadway | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25475 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 21 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | An exciting play for twenty-one women, most of them young. A fast-moving drama and a timely comment on idealism and personal ethics | |||||
Synopsis: | The scene is a fashionable Junior College for young women, and the story shows how a sincere and intelligent alumna returns to her Alma Mater with her idealistic younger sister, who enters as a student. The director of the college, a conscientious elderly woman, is responsible to a hard-headed board of directors, one of whom has a daughter who is a student. This student, a twisted and jealous girl, uses the threat of her father's influence to throw a suspicion of guilt on two students, not to mention a servant, all of whom are innocent. One of the students implicated refuses to be blackmailed and the director of the college must face the issue of compromising with her own best standards of right and wrong. Eventually she takes matters into her own hands, and decides-with the help of the alumna and the latter's sister-to stand by her guns. The director, though she realizes at last that the alumna is right in fighting compromise and deceit, has not the courage to see the fight through to the end, though the alumna and her sister do. Incidentally, one of the forms of blackmail used by the unscrupulous girl who precipitates the crisis is to force a Jewish girl, whose religion has been concealed, to do her bidding. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
