Plays
| Title | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Penelope | 01960-01-011960 | Later revised as Happy Birthday, Wanda June and reprinted in 1970. Adapted as a film in 1971 |
| Very First Christmas Morning !The Very First Christmas Morning | 01962-12-14December 14, 1962 | Published in Better Homes and Gardens |
| Fortitude | 01968-09-01September 1968 | One act, published in Playboy; collected in Human-Machines: An Anthology of Stories About Cyborgs, New York: Vintage, 1975. Adapted in episode five of the television series Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House |
| Requiem | 01987-01-011987 | With music by Edgar David Grana |
| Make Up Your Mind | 01993-01-011993 | |
| Miss Temptation | 01993-01-011993 | Adapted by David Cooperman |
| L'Histoire du Soldat | 01993-01-011993 | A reworked libretto that Vonnegut made into a tale about World War II Private Eddie Slovik, the first soldier in the United States military to be executed for desertion since the Civil War. |
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—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 12:9.
RSV translation reads, “Better is a man of humble standing who works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.”
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