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A narrator states five definitions of the word "hero" and gives an example of each type. There's Hercules, General Custer, Alexander Graham Bell, T ...

In 1655, Christina of Sweden abdicated the throne, gives up Protestantism to become a Catholic and arrives in Rome expecting to be welcomed by the pop ...

This gem of a murder mystery has been constructed with consummate playwriting skill. With more twists than a mountain road, your audience will gasp as ...

Jonathan Small is a twelve-year-old student who is recovering from a head injury. He sits alone in his hospital room temporarily blinded by his head b ...

Based on actual letters, diaries, magazine and newspaper articles of the period, this play follows young Virginia Reed and her family on their journey ...

Acting Up! records the experiences of a touring improvisational theatre troupe made up of actors 65 and older. Using humor and outspoken honesty, Acti ...

God creates fem in Her own image and then She decides fem needs a playmate, and so She creates male-fem. This witty satire has fun with the roles and ...

Here's the best Gay Nineties melodrama we've seen, and the more seriously your actors play it, the more humorous your audience will find it! This marv ...

Jim Hawkins, sweeping the floor of the Admiral Benbow Inn, longs for adventure and dreams of sailing. When the old sea dog Captain appears with his ta ...

Sound effects on this CD are: 1. carnival music • 2. tick-tock #351 • 3. tick-tock #352 / rooster • 4. doorbell • 5. wind • 6. storm / seagulls • 7. s ...

Quino, a gifted youth in 15th-century Italy, aspires to join a band of professional actors. Recognizing his comic talent, he's encouraged by all the v ...

Relive the great riverboat days of the Mississippi with Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer and Jim in this new adaptation which premiered at the Denver Center Thea ...

On a darkened stage, a tall figure in a trench coat and fedora blows a warm jazz refrain on a saxophone. This taller figure is joined by a much smalle ...

Five delightful tales including Peter Rabbit, The Tailor of Gloucester and Jemima Puddle-Duck are interwoven with the fascinating life of their creato ...

Five delightful tales including Peter Rabbit, The Tailor of Gloucester and Jemima Puddle-Duck are interwoven with the fascinating life of their creato ...

Mark Twain's novel provides an especially good look at traditional U.S. values and Tom's attempts to circumvent them. All the familiar characters a ...

Agatha Raisin, an irascible but endearing middle-aged dynamo, has impulsively sold her London public relations business and "retired" to the serenity ...

Screams in the dark and galloping goose flesh! Here's a modern mystery-comedy suited to any group searching for a play that has no problems in terms o ...

The Fazes family, like many others, has been thrown curves by life as long as they can remember. Now they must once again step up to the plate. Fourte ...

Aladdin and his friends, including the dancing monkey, Toodle-de-Toos, have an eye for adventure. Zorah, the mysterious stranger from the East, has an ...

Ali Baba, aided by friends, especially the very bright Morgiana, escapes from the Magic Cave, later escapes from prison, and finally devises a unique ...

With her keenly perceptive eye, Mrs. Chorpenning has adapted this famous story for very young audiences. Chasing the White Rabbit, Alice tumbles down ...

This new version is so close to the original in intention and feeling that you might suspect that Carroll himself had written it. And yet, it includes ...

As the curtain rises, Alice slides into view at the end of her long fall down the rabbit-hole. It is a more delightful place for the audience than for ...

Loosely based on Alice in Wonderland, with a touch of The Wizard of Oz, the amazing adventures of young Alicia take her on a journe ...

The first girl into outer space, Abbie Anderson of Peach Grove, Pennsylvania, is on her way to Venus as Earth's goodwill ambassador. Suddenly her rock ...

The Dramatic Publishing Company and Alien Voices,襦 a multimedia production company created by Star Trek actors Leonard Nimoy and John ...

This short instructional video, featuring Nimoy and de Lancie working with a group of students, captures important lessons and techniques directors w ...

When Gloria Nix's last child announces that he and his girlfriend have just gotten married, Gloria panics. She tries to sell the house out from under ...

Based on several disastrous theatrical experiences, Bad Play peels back a tattered curtain to examine the process of putting on a show that i ...

A "tour de farce" in commedia style. This rollicking, fast-paced escapade follows the adventures and misadventures of Piporello and Marco, two wiley ...

All elements of hilarious and unexpected Feydeau farce are here in force. The complications begin as Monsieur Barillon, wealthy bachelor about town, i ...

The stage is set for a television game show, but it's to be a game that goes to the essence of morality today. To what extremes will the contestants g ...

The stage is set for a television game show, but it's to be a game that goes to the essence of morality today. To what extremes will the contestants g ...

This sampler of Shakespearean scenes revolves around the theme of Elizabethan theatre and staging techniques. A central character, the Modern Theatre ...

Christmas is approaching and William Garrett is very happy. It's 1872 and his three closest friends are over for their weekly meeting of the Shakespea ...

Aloysius, a sensitive teenager, mourns the death of his beloved Uncle Harold, a comedian who loved to tell jokes񗝄though Aloysius was the only ...

In the words of Ms. Youngblood, "Amazing Grace is about a little girl who loves acting out stories, those told and read to her by her grandmother as w ...

Your heart takes flight as Kathryn Schultz Miller tells the thrilling life story of one of America's most fascinating heroines. A curious reporter beg ...

Winner of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award for Outstanding New Drama, Amelia Lives chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of famed American av ...

Mark is so jealous of his beautiful wife, Mona, that he wants to destroy anyone who gives her a second look. So difficult is it to live with Mark (he ...

Lewie Froah, a one-time handyman in a town hit hard by the economic downturn, rambles drunkenly through the town's abandoned buildings, dwelling on th ...

Thugs follows the adventures of Bill, an American writer in England, as he explores the world of soccer hooligans, ෎the lads෎ who ...

"Anastasia Krupnik is opinionated, sassy and funny. Really funny. This 10-year-old has an offbeat take on life that is both amusing and refreshing. An ...

In the final moments of Hamlet, the dying prince pleads with his one, true friend, Horatio, to tell his story to those who would otherwise not underst ...

One of the most widely produced new plays of recent seasons. And Then They Came for Me is a unique theatrical experience: a multimedia play t ...

This drama about a young girl's courage is based on the true story of Marysia Pawlina Szul, a Polish Catholic teen, who saved the lives of four Jewish ...

Contents of the study guide: The Honor of Humanity Project • Purpose of the Study Guide • Note to Teachers • Introduction • Historical Setting of Ange ...

Angels and All Children is a musical retelling of the Nativity story that can be performed with grand elaboration or sweet simplicity. The wo ...

Angels and All Children is a musical retelling of the Nativity story that can be performed with grand elaboration or sweet simplicity. The wo ...

Angels and All Children is a musical retelling of the Nativity story that can be performed with grand elaboration or sweet simplicity. The wo ...

This multiple national award-winning new American classic, which was a hit in New York, is about the awakening of a modern teen Holocaust denier. Nico ...

This multiple national award-winning new American classic, which was a hit in New York, is about the awakening of a modern teen Holocaust denier. Nico ...

You''ll find in this guide: a brief biography of the playwright and a list of her work • a selection of general pre- and post-performance discussion p ...

This delightful, enchanting sequel to Anne of Green Gables continues the exciting adventures of one of literature's most enduring characters, Anne Shi ...

This new dramatization captures the charm and excitement of L.M. Montgomery's enduring classic about an orphan girl, Anne Shirley, from her first enco ...

Through the interlacing of monologues, we examine the lives of three people. J.J. Myers, a single parent in his 40s and recently widowed, experiences ...

Real estate broker Susan Strathcona wants to hold an open house, sell a condo and earn her commission. Frustrating her attempts are the owner's fiancé ...

Written for a predominantly female cast, this comedy centers on Lucy, a famous and funny playwright who has been rushed to a hospital because, on the ...

The Dupont family is thrilled that their na覧ve young daughter has married Count Robert de Trivelin. However, upon returning from their honeymoo ...

Bruno Bettelheim, in his award-winning book, salutes the story of Scheherazade as one of the world's most effective fairy tales: "What greater testimo ...

Archipelago explores the world of Stalin's so-called Gulag Archipelago through the experiences of a small collection of prisoners—most based ...

Stampeding elephants! Raging typhoons! Runaway trains! Unabashedly slapstick! Hold onto your seats for the original amazing race! Join fearless advent ...

Sheridan's work is too great a treasure to merely be relegated to period status. So Jerome McDonough has remolded it for young contemporary audiences. ...

This imaginative retelling of the Arthurian legend is set in the hill fort of Trumontium in 500 A.D. In the midst of a fierce storm, a mysterious swo ...

Meg Wheeler felt stifled in her small hometown where she's just graduated from college. So Meg comes to New York intent on enlarging her horizon෾ ...

The feminist movement didn't start last week. Actually, it was already underway in ancient Greece! King Oeneus has a problem. A savage boar is rampagi ...

Attention all actors. The best audition speeches ever written and they're all under one cover. 129 of the greatest speeches by the greatest playwright ...

Here is a handbook every director and every student actor should have. Scenes are here from many of the finest plays we publish. There are scenes for ...

In view of the huge success of the first volume, John Wray Young assembled this exciting new collection of audition scenes from outstanding plays. You ...

The local theater is producing Medea. With stopwatch in hand, the exceptionally organized and time-conscious stage manager meticulously micro ...

Inspired by actual events recounted in inmate diaries, this play tells the story of Jewish pathologist Dr. Isaac Jonah who, along with his wife and da ...

Inspired by actual events recounted in inmate diaries, this play tells the story of Jewish pathologist Dr. Isaac Jonah who, along with his wife and da ...

What is a tough Chicago gangster doing under a bed in a cheap motel in the middle of nowhere? What is the mysterious connection between mobster boss V ...

The Babies is done on a bare stage with two high chairs. He sits in one chair, she in the other, and together they start to live the life of he and sh ...

This suspenseful drama tells the story of two brothers and the influence of their musical, medical and Jewish backgrounds on their lives. In the attic ...

Back Story is a two-character play written in 19 scenes by 18 playwrights. Back Story illuminates various episodes in the young live ...

In this hilarious story of the bond between two brothers, Jeffy and Jimmy Baker, we are taken back by the now-grown Jeff to look in on "the summer I l ...

1937, rural Appalachia.#13#10Three generations of women struggle to survive on an isolated mountain when the arrival of a representative from ...

This library includes one copy each of the following shows: Frank's Life; Up the Down Staircase; Cyra & Rocky; The Clum ...

Long before George Lucas introduced us to "The Force" with his Star Wars trilogy, Kurt Vonnegut invented his own ultra-normal power. "Dynamopsychism i ...

A trio of young women wait the final call before the qualifying heat for the Olympic swim team. All are under extreme pressure, and one of them has fo ...

To start with, there are four spinster music teachers who turn out to be witches. Then there is their imaginary companion who materializes into a warl ...

Mr. Glennon has used the Perrault version of this fanciful story as the basis of his charming play, but has added depth of character and believable an ...

In this version things do not just happen to Sleeping Beauty and the other characters but are precipitated by her, by her parents, the king and queen, ...

Three generations of women find themselves at a crossroads following the death of the family's matriarch. Reeling from the loss of her grandmother, 14 ...

"Ostensibly a comedy of manners on contemporary relationships, Belongings and Longings is really a reverberating, interconnected mind game... ...

Twelve-year-old Ernie is always looking for a fast buck. This time, the middle-school tycoon stumbles onto a money-making bonanza: pet funerals for ki ...

At the beginning, Kristin, a high school student in Minneapolis, is encouraged to correspond with an African girl of her own age who lives in Rhodesia ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, the foremost chronicler of the 1920s, created this classic short story of young people, their charm and underlying sadness. Berni ...

This collection presents the winners of the 1998 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival one-act play competition, selected from the eight AC ...

This collection presents the winners of the 1999 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival one-act play competition, selected from the eight AC ...

This collection presents the winners of the 2000 Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival one-act play competition.#13#10#13#10"Sid an ...

This collection presents the winners of the 2001 Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival one-act play competition.#13#10#13#10 ...

The lovable Clampett family rides onto your stage for an evening of hillbilly hilarity. Starting in the Clampett's mountain cabin (a small set placed ...

Two dynamic lawyers are locked in a clash of wills and morality. Ruth Ballard is an embittered radical, now in jail, accused of participating in a ban ...

This might be called a southern soap opera spoof with a "You Can't Take It With You" family, mountain style. Big "Buck" Fever is trying to protect the ...

A funny play that covers all aspects of a folk rock music festival. First we meet the promoters, Adam Garrison, scion of a Wall Street family who has ...

This play follows the adventures of the Shoshone girl who was kidnapped from her people only to become the best-known Native American woman of all tim ...

"The intention," Walter Kerr writes, "has been to make the play sound as it might have sounded to an average Athenian sitting in a popular comic theat ...

What would you do if somebody made you a bet that you couldn't tell the complete truth for one whole morning? Easy—or that's what Lanky Loosebottom th ...

"His tone has that intimate, elusive, near-tragic, near-comic sound of the Negro blues, and is equally defiant of analysis" is how a critic described ...

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Gar is an aging street poet and activist. He now lives out of an old guitar case on an inner-city sidewalk in front of a blood bank and gets by giving ...

This play combines all of the raucous hilarity of a Feydeau farce and a classic Mack Sennett comedy. The action takes place in Holy Family Rectory whe ...

The story begins with two spirited spinster sisters who conceal their poverty by explaining that they have to save their money to buy a high-speed Por ...

It is the Christmas after one of the largest hurricanes ever to hit the United States, and Stephen and Andy's room, like most of their house, is still ...

On a summer evening, four young people don't want to go home just yet. One invents a game of "Wish Upon a Star," which demands that each friend tell a ...

This play is part of Cornerstone Theatreීs Faith-Based Theater Cycle, a four-and-a-half-year series of projects exploring the question: How does ...

Prince Oskar is the spirit of a shiny red classic Corvette convertible—without a care in the world. But, placed as a monument high above the city, he ...

"The Boiler Room is a lusty, tough-talking wickedly penetrating account of growing up in a Spanish Harlem basement. It's a claustrophobic pla ...

With a full moon and a grinning jack-o'-lantern beaming from every window, it's a hard heart that doesn't get a little spooked at Halloween. Celebrate ...

Celebrating faith and community, family and continuity, The Book of Ruth is a poignant tale of love between generations. Separated from the r ...

Five members of the original, all-male Bow-Wow Club from Harlem, along with their wives and lovers, get together at the Maryland home of Kirk and Dian ...

"It steals the audience and steals hearts," wrote a critic when this warm and moving play opened at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South ...

Night falls on a mysterious castle in the Alps, and a group of young American hostelers crosses the drawbridge to meet the incredible family! Papa, de ...

On an afternoon in the 1920s, after a long life of ups and downs as a seedy vaudevillian, Tom Sawyer—who has performed under the name Thomas Gray—retu ...

Louis Braille was a boy determined to open, once and for all, the doors to literacy and knowledge for the blind. The play provides audiences with a th ...

The play is set in the future where mindless happiness is universal; where babies are not born but decanted from bottles; where human frustrations are ...

Popular high-school senior John has a secret: He loves books. But he's afraid to tell anyone for fear it'll ruin his "angry-cool" reputation. When his ...

The traditional opening night cry of "Break a leg!" really means "Good luck," but in this comedy send-up of every possible theatrical disaster, breaki ...

Is too much choice just as detrimental to the human psyche as too little? With touches of both humor and pathos, Breakfast With Willy explore ...

A play to steal your heart with a generous mix of larceny, love and laughter. A charming con man breaks into what he thinks is an empty apartment only ...

Broken Hearts is a stage adaptation of three of Oscar Wilde's most poignant and timeless fairy tales. While all three stories possess a magic ...

This unique performance piece, which can be presented book-in-hand or fully staged, highlights the extraordinary and eccentric lives of the Brontë fam ...

"He's a brooding sort of guy…but cute, very cute." Eccentric, outspoken Mrs. Getz wastes no time in pegging her new neighbor, Sid. And she's right. Yo ...

Jeff Adams is an architect by day and general cleaner-upper for his orphaned brothers and sisters by night. Into their hectic midst comes Peggy Winkel ...

Set in Michigan during the 1930s, Bud, Not Buddy tells the story of 10-year-old Bud Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes, ...

Set in Michigan during the 1930s, Bud, Not Buddy tells the story of 10-year-old Bud Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes, ...

The Bully Show! opens with the audience arriving at the live taping of the pilot episode of a new game show. Carole and Frederico, the game s ...

Tired of auditions where all the actors spout the same familiar monologues? Frustrated with the lack of creative pieces for your particular age range? ...

An anonymous phone caller is trying desperately to report that a bomb has been planted in the courthouse, but his call is put on hold. He tries again ...

We begin with gentle, primitive people—an older man talking to his son, a young man who wants to go on his journey. Meanwhile, the chorus behind them ...

These three short plays use mime and drama to encourage confidence in speaking French in senior students. The use of slang and colloquialisms enhan ...

The Cairn Stones is about love and longing, about regrets for the past and some hope for the future; it’s about age and how it limits only th ...

A new Southern folktale about a young girl's passion, how it affects her life and, because of poor choices made through her inexperience, ultimately d ...

Calabasas Street follows a young boy named Domingo Sanchez who learns the true meaning of friendship when his baseball accidentally drops into the yar ...

All the ingredients for a chiller-thriller are here and this time they are handled with an unusual amount of comedy. A high-school administrator and s ...

Can't Believe It traces the intertwined paths of Teresa, a malleable, confused high-school freshman, and Ron, a confidant, popular high-schoo ...

An American family faces the ghost of an English manor and they're amused. The eldest daughter understands the old ghost's desire to sleep and comes t ...

The fragment of manuscript that starts the world on the road back from destruction is in the handwriting of the Blessed Leibowitz discovered by Brothe ...

Captain O'Michaels is an impatient patient at Harborside General Hospital. Describing himself as "S.O.B." (that's Sixty Or Better), he decides that af ...

Capture the Moon, a lighthearted play for 4- to 11-year-olds, is based on the traditional Yiddish tales of Chelm, portrayed as a mythical Eas ...

Capture the Moon, a lighthearted play for 4- to 11-year-olds, is based on the traditional Yiddish tales of Chelm, a mythical Eastern European ...

Caravaggio is set in Rome in 1600 when the city was vibrant with artists, powerful religious leaders, the Inquisition and street violence. A ...

This warm and wonderful play takes place 15 years after old Scrooge's miraculous transformation as he continues to honor Christmas in his heart. Jacob ...

Set in a modern courtroom, Pontius Pilate stands trial for ordering the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The verdict is left in the hands of the jurors wh ...

Hapless, neurotic Nigel Struthers is back for more punishment! It's the morning after a big night out to celebrate gaining his PhD. The new Dr Stru ...

The theme of this play is the struggle of youth to surmount the established conventions of a society which divides all cats into three rigidly maintai ...

The Cay relates the compelling journey of 11-year-old Phillip Enright—a journey toward adulthood. Phillip is awakened on a February day in 1942 to lea ...

Jenny McNutt's parents run a mortuary and she is smitten with every handsome "customer." Her mother introduces Jenny to Daniel in hopes that a live bo ...

If you were to be killed in an auto accident, would you be willing to be judged on your actions in the last hour of your life? Josiah Bancroft, proud ...

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This is a dramatic behind-the-scenes power struggle within a church over whether to serve its people or to serve its traditions. It's also about the p ...

This classic tale from Chaucer tells of a poor widow whose modest possessions include several barnyard animals, most notably the radiant—and conceited ...

A young student is charged with murder. The process of justice has begun, and the ultimate verdict appears certain. The defendant quarreled violently ...

The Children's Literature Association named this "the best American children's book of the past two hundred years," and Joseph Robinette, working with ...

Sound effects on this cassette tape are: daybreak sounds • squealing of young pigs • rooster crows • bus honks horn • rain and thunderstorm • crash! • ...

Suppose you're an attractive high school girl and you're not only a member of a large and unique family but your father is, in fact, one of the great ...

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This is the script used by Peter Brook in his acclaimed production of this play, one of Chekhov's finest works. The Ranyevskayas, a landowning family, ...

Grandmother leaves Lily a large chest containing all her friends can imagine; without imagination, the chest appears empty. Karkino, a ghostly hypnoti ...

This is a play for family audiences about the migratory life of a "show business" child during the Great Depression. Carolina Lee, called "Charley," i ...

While sleeping near some railroad tracks, Lucy, a homeless woman, is awakened from a frightening dream by a stranger who calls himself Jack. At first, ...

Robert Cormier's brilliant novel The Chocolate War is a compelling coming-of-age story about young people in conflict at a New England prep s ...

Authored by a new group of Walden Theatre young playwrights, this collection of monologues, scenes and 10-minute one-acts explores the decisions and r ...

Nothing is going right his Christmas, Peter is not looking forward to Christmas at Grandma's—he can't find the very special present that Grandpa promi ...

Itීs Christmas Eve, and Mrs. Frump, the director of the Peaceful Valley Orphanage, is planning what she believes will be the most special Christ ...

This version of John Jakes' nationally successful stage adaptation (also available from Dramatic Publishing) specifically tailors the Charles Dicke ...

This A Christmas Carol goes beyond other adaptations with a unique dramatic concept: At the opening curtain, Charles Dickens himself is intro ...

More and more people are turning to this version because it is extremely simple to present. It's easier than any version we know, and yet it keeps all ...

Ebenezer Scrooge as a ranch owner? That's what he is in this takeoff on the Dickens classic. Scrooge is his same mean self, hating Christmas and takin ...

This play takes you to that vulnerable center of the heart where love must be proved. It is about dreams denied and fulfilled, and those few who still ...

"This is the most hopeless place in the world!" Hilda intones as she and Satch, her assistant, argue over what time it is. She dreams of faraway place ...

Dorothy, back in Kansas with Christmas only a few days away, sees her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry losing heart because times are hard and there's no grass ...

Arthur Felton is a tight-fisted, grasping, old miser. He's also a famous actor playing Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. On stage, Arthur's friendly ...

Humorist Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in the midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB ...

Unfulfilled as the faculty wife of a second-rate professor of English stuck at a small, Midwestern college, Joan Samples began accompanying her husban ...

Reviews across the country herald this new version—"only Peter Pan matches it for natural hilarity. The two are alike in understanding what children w ...

Pantomime. Almost the traditional pantomime, but with the addition of many new characters - Maurice the Mouse, a trainee Fairy Godmother, various b ...

Or How I Ran Away to Join A Pirate Ship and Found True Happiness. An original slant on the traditional panto. What happens to Cinderella aft ...

Pantomime. Cinderella and Buttons are the audience's friends. Prince Charming and Dandini are played by girls and the Ugly Sisters by men. Baron Ha ...

This Cinderella is a compulsive martyr who'd love to have the whole world weep and say: "Poor Cinderella," as she spoils life for her family. Her step ...

The prince has the shoe. He's ready to wed. But who's the woman behind the foot? Two investigative reporters—Deb Jabber from Action News Day Now

This is the Cinderella play in which the famous Ashes appears. He's the magic cat, as you'd expect. When Cinderella's left alone to do the work, Ashes ...

A drama critic summed up a key advantage to these participation plays saying, "Kids can't talk back to a television screen. In glorious contrast is [t ...

Circles of Grace opens in a happy household, in a peaceful nation, just moments before the unexpected arrival of an officer of an occupying army. The ...

Classroom Scenes and Monologues features over 80 challenging roles for middle-school and high-school actors. Funny and serious, diverse in th ...

"You tell me how you wrenched up your leg or I'll turn your MasterCard into guitar picks!" yells old Zack at his nephew Leon. For some reason, none of ...

"Show Today" and "Jack and the Beanstalk" read two signs placed at the proscenium on the otherwise bare stage. Clown ushers escort the young people to ...

Your audience will get into the act (as they do in The Rocky Horror Picture Show) in this hilarious comedy. King Dumb is ready for his daughter to sel ...

A man is enjoying coffee and a bagel at his favorite New Jersey diner when God, carrying a laptop computer, enters, sits next to him, and seems to kno ...

columbinus, a play sparked by the April 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., is a meeting of fact and fiction that ill ...

The essentials which make this one of Shakespeare's most delightful comedies have all been included. The play concerns a family which has been separat ...

"The most exciting and provoking event of the theatre season," wrote critic Jack Kroll of Newsweek. Mel Gussow of the New York Times said almost the s ...

O. Henry's wit and surprise are brightly displayed in this unexpected comedy about a man who is having an unusual problem with the law—he can't get hi ...

This cassette contains the following songs: Side One — Somethin's Brewing In Gainesville • I Did It/Mama Is Here • It Isn't Easy • Sho Nuff • Turn It ...

Set in Cleveland in the summer of 1945, Could Angels Be Blessed deals with intolerance. When a young soldier visits the home of his friend who has die ...

Eduardo, a poor farmer in a South American village, dreams of being in love. Frustrated by his poverty and disability of being blind in one eye, he tu ...

Linda, B.B. and Nancy are sunning themselves in their backyard in Queens waiting for their boyfriends to take them away for a four-day holiday. They'r ...

 In this allegory that straddles graveyard and courtroom, Nina Archer, a headstrong and passionate young dancer, contracts a fatal blood disea ...

To have a cricket on your hearth brings great good luck. So goes the old folk belief. But it does not appear true for Caleb the old toymaker and his b ...

This new, award-winning adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s literary masterpiece Crime and Punishment is told by three actors playing Raskolnikov (th ...

This striking new play by iceandfire's Sonja Linden was inspired by testimonials from refugees she encountered during her time as writer-in-residence ...

The Boor has been humorously updated and given a setting in the American west. Helen Pearson, with her servant woman Mrs. Hadley, has shut herself awa ...

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Buzz Halliburton, an entertainer fallen on hard times, is summoned to Gargoyle House, a spooky castle on a lonely New England island. With him is his ...

At the Bar None Cafe, a dreary dot on the vast prairie, Cal and Sharon Bowman have tried desperately to hang on to a run-down business begun by Cal's ...

International best-selling writer Cherie Bennett deftly adapts Cyrano de Bergerac in this side-splitting but poignant story, set in modern America. Th ...

Cyrano! His wit is as sharp as his sword, the enormity of his talent, intellect and passion matched only by the enormity of his, well, nose. The uniqu ...

Connor Murphy wants a go-cart for Christmas in the worst way. And that's how he sets out to get it. Miss McLaughlin, his teacher, really gums up the w ...

On Trout Moseley's 16th birthday, his father, Rev. Joe Pike Moseley, a 300-pound Georgia minister, bolts from the Easter Sunday service, jumps on a mo ...

In 1913, an Irish 'emigre' Daisy Bates, pitched a tent in the Australian outback and lived there with the aborigines for 30 years. She fed them, do ...

Cleo's cafe has become a nesting place for four mentally unstable, lonely men who scare off all of the other customers. Cleo, a widow, longs to sell t ...

Sixteen-year-old Kara, an aspiring modern dancer, struggles to complete a piece of choreography for entrance into a competitive dance program. Kara's ...

The plot, drawn from West African folktales and enhanced by songs based on authentic African rhythms, forms and themes, concerns the trickster-hero An ...

Walter and Raymond are father and son. But the connection stops there, for they are quite different men. A recent widower and retired train conductor, ...

For each of the teenaged main characters in this trilogy of short plays, life is an intricate and often confusing dance: partners join in and depart f ...

Set in the "down home" locale of Green Town, Illinois, Dandelion Wine is a moving play in which 38-year-old Doug Spaulding must uncork the mo ...

Sounds included on tape: crickets, frogs, cock crowing (twice) train passes off, alarm clock, birds rising, birds singing, trolley, doors and auto hor ...

In this play within a play set in early 20th-century Russia, a colorful troupe of actors in a small provincial theater is presenting a dramatization o ...

Charles Dickens’ beloved masterpiece is recreated for the stage with the unforgettable characters and enthralling story that makes the original so fam ...

Inspired by actual events, Day of the Kings tells the little-known story of Enriquetta Faber, a courageous woman living a dangerous lie. In e ...

A gentle, funny and ultimately moving story of two sisters and the fantasy world one of them inhabits and the other nurtures. What an exciting day for ...

Did J.D.'s wife and children really perish in a hurricane while they were vacationing in Florida? Or has there been some horrible confusion? The newsp ...

The noble, but vain, Reginald Rooster is the leader of the Republic of Fowladelphius. He and his loyal constituents are convinced that it is his crowi ...

When a life is lived on the balance of good and evil, where does the soul go once that life is over? Jack Martin was such a man, who treated women as ...

When Sonia dies in an air crash, the last person she expects to meet in Heaven is Trish, her old rival. Trish is happy in Heaven and the last thing ...

A thriller that explores the hazards and consequences of reckless behavior. When three teenage friends, Moss, Jessie and Serena, decide to take the la ...

This is the story of Luke, who wanted above all things to be a healer and who found that healing was not only a function of the body and of the mind b ...

In a mythical country somewhere north of Detroit, Mrs. Goland arrives in the office of the Minister of Social Services without enough money to bury he ...

Ever wonder what goes on at a small-town city council meeting? In Hendricks, they're looking for a murderer. Mayor Kathleen Lyles boldly announces tha ...

"Crazy? Of course I'm crazy," announces David R. Irkman. "I eat crazy for breakfast. I majored in crazy college. With a minor in Babylonian drapery ha ...

"Utilizing video, pop culture, political nostalgia for '60s protest, modem rap's black rage and the current obsession with tabloid TV, playwright Barr ...

The farmer's wife has just been told that the old "hired man" is hanging about again, hoping to be taken back. She knows that he's ill and just came h ...

Deep Blue Funk presents young and adult audiences with real life histories of urban teenage parents and portrays how these young people feel about bec ...

This play tells the story of how one extraordinary woman overcomes the restrictions of her family, church and culture to realize her identity as an ar ...

Eleven-year-old Marie ('Rie) loves ballet, but she always gets cast as a chorus tree. When she falls in love with Edgar Degas' first sculpture, Th ...

"Dejavu is an enthralling and often exhilarating sequel to Look Back in Anger. Jimmy Porter, now JP, is still smoking, blowing hi ...

It is the not-too-distant future. Dolly the sheep is old news. Gene enhancement is all the rage. Seven years ago, Wesley and Marian's son, beset wi ...

A new collection of five plays from Doug Post Detective Sketches (Trouble Is E ...

Two young boys take their "time machine," which is a mason jar filled with fireflies, into the old home of Colonel Freeleigh, who sleeps in a wheelcha ...

Eight-year-old Devon is having a terrible day. His mother yelled at him, his teacher thinks he's a pain and his classmate Adam punched him. Finally, D ...

A young man attempts to solve the mystery of his grandfather's past through his war diaries, written 60 years ago while he was stationed in Paris duri ...

Mark Twain gives your audience front-row seats to the first battle of the sexes! Adam doesn't get a chance to name any of the new wonders of creation ...

The Post drama critic called this, "A wonderful piece of fancy and fun." The children are back in a world millions and millions of years ago, transpor ...

"To describe Paul Mason's play as entertaining would be inaccurate- it's much too powerful for that; you leave the theatre with much to ponder."(The E ...

Lillian Boedecker Barron is eighty-four years old, vibrant, funny, wise, and recently deceased! During her lifetime Lillian shared a special, long-di ...

Lillian Boedecker Barron is 84 years old, vibrant, funny, wise, and recently deceased! During her lifetime Lillian shared a special, long-distance bon ...

Delightful Doctor Dolittle, because of his special love for animals, becomes an animal doctor. The animals who love him are thrilled, and they teach t ...

After a quarrel with his wife, the quick-witted woodcutter Sganerelle goes off to chop wood. To spite him, his wife convinces two passing servants tha ...

This arrangement retains all the excitement and significance of the original as Nora becomes aware that she has been deluded in her marriage and that ...

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza ride again! Here they are guided by their creator, Miguel de Cervantes, in person. In this "buddies on the road" saga, ...

What 17-year-old Lisa doesn't realize yet is that her parents' marriage is dissolving and that her family is about to go through a traumatic change. L ...

Don't Fear the Reaper follows a day in the life of the Grim Reaper-the day he gets fired. On his first gig of the morning, he's spotted on ...

Angela has a new boyfriend. C.J.'s romantic, amazingly handsome, and a senior. He sends her flowers. He texts her day and night. Angela's swept off ...

Angela has a new boyfriend. C.J.'s romantic, amazingly handsome, and a senior. He sends her flowers. He texts her day and night. Angela's swept off ...

A grandmother in her late fifties sits in her darkened apartment and refuses to answer the insistent knocking at her front door. In fact, this woman h ...

Will Dorothy and Toto ever find their way back to Kansas? Will her friends, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion, ever find a brain, a hea ...

This new play version of the delightful meeting of two of literature's most famous young ladies unfolds when a young man puts off a book report till t ...

This book contains more than 500 brief, practical suggestions for actor and producer. It has been adopted as required reading in many college and univ ...

Practical and playable, this stage adaptation is closely based on the original, presenting the frightening story that made this a horror classic. The ...

It is 1888 and, in Whitby, England, Lucy Westenra has fallen ill. Her fiancee, Jack Seward has brought her to his sanitarium and called in a batter ...

This one-act version of the Gothic classic tells the complete story of the romantic monster from the Carpathian Mountains near the Borgo Pass. The act ...

The villagers of Nitt have everything—good neighbors, plenty to eat, a verdant forest nearby—everything but happiness! That was stolen (who knows how ...

Hanazo, the "sophisticated" kite maker, bullies Uji, an innocent sign painter, into helping play a hoax on his fellow villagers concerning the appeara ...

Aloysius want to sing with his grandmother in the church choir—but he can't carry a tune! When Ali asks his grandmother why he can't sing, she tells h ...

Both Elizabeth and David are young cancer patients, and during their hospital stay they have developed a close and tender friendship. At a time when E ...

These two collections of comic and dramatic scenes for grades 7 to 12 explore God, man, and the Christian experience with power and poignancy. The sel ...

John, relies on silence when faced with arguments. Accused of having an affair with his friend's wife, he manages to turn the tables and throw susp ...

Sally Flynn has just won a million dollars! This seeming dream-come-true turns quickly into a nightmare of comic complications. Overnight, the earthy, ...

Dust Eaters is an intimate look at two families, one white, one Native American, living side by side in the west desert of Utah. The play co ...

In a castle East of the Sun (a little off center, that is) Ancilla, the power-hungry Ice Witch, is assisted by her reluctant servant Hob, in performin ...

Fifteen striking and popular skits, blackouts and pantomimes by various authors. Some may be given impromptu, and the selection ranges from a pantomim ...

EAT (It's Not About Food) dramatizes the dangerous and baffling world of eating disorders in girls and boys. Candidly exploring causes and wa ...

"Ms. Chen's dramatic imagination is obviously unusual. More important, it is always unpredictable," writes the New York Times of this dark comedy abou ...

Vaughn McBride is a superior playwright who has worked for years with the Actors Theatre of Louisville and as a teacher and mentor to young playwright ...

Based roughly on the intricate plot of Oedipus Rex, this comedy/farce relates the adventures of Ed Opus, beloved and loving student body president of ...

This collection of more than 40 monologues for men will provide you with just what you need for your audition. Never before collected into one volume, ...

This is the audition monologue book you've been waiting for! This new collection of more than 40 monologues for women was compiled exclusively from Dr ...

Edward is a bossy little boy who likes to make up funny words. He lives on a cliff above the ocean with his cat named Grace, whom he pushes around onc ...

"Chickens?" gasps Betty MacDonald when her husband Don buys a little farm in the mountains. "Who, us?" shriek teenage Anne and Joan when asked to help ...

The time is the 1930s and the place: a small Midwestern town. Charlotte Steele, a down-to-earth single parent struggling to support herself and her tw ...

This play, which toured nationally to rave reviews, presents the private, personal, and deeply human side of this great genius, the reluctant celebrit ...

"El Quinto Sol presenta la vida de Oscar Arnulfo Romero desde el momento de su instalación como arzo-bispo de El Salvadore...hasta el día en que fue a ...

What are the women of Elsinore Castle doing while Hamlet plots revenge? Elsewhere in Elsinore: The Unseen Women of Hamlet is a play in verse ...

In this fanciful and charming reframing of the traditional story of the shoemaking elves, the central character is Gunther, an old shoemaker. War rage ...

No performer before or since has had the impact of Elvis Presley, from the first groundbreaking appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" to Las Vegas to G ...

While shooting baskets in his driveway, Dave, 14, continues to face the emotional and psychological effects of a violent attack. The trauma occurred w ...

"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans." Jane Austen never wrote those words, but she proves them conclusively in Emma, her comic ...

This experimental piece marks the first full play of this new, young playwright since her first monologues and scenes found in Glimpses. The work stro ...

Tony, Pat, Jeffery and Tom have been bachelor friends for years. They hang out, go to ball games and nightclubs, and take vacations together. Everythi ...

This is the story of a young Colombian-American man who undergoes a journey of self-discovery in the Amazon rain forest. Jorge has traveled to Colombi ...

Eric and Elliot is the story of a familyීs journey toward healing following a devastating suicide. The title characters are brothers wh ...

Janice LaRue is the mother of Eric, a 15-year-old boy who shot and killed three of his classmates in school. Now, three months after Eric has been jai ...

In March 1938 the Germans invaded Austria and young Eva Geiringer and her family became refugees. Like many Jews they fled to Amsterdam where they hid ...

Here is that big Christmas collection for which you have been asking—enough material for many years to come. Whether yours is a kindergarten class or ...

Kurt and Win Lawrence have spent their young lives taking care of their alcoholic mother. When a devastating fire decimates their home, the younger br ...

The old morality play in which Everyman (or Everywoman) suddenly faces Death has been made into a new play in which the medieval speech gives way to t ...

It's the summer before Michael's senior year and his life is all mapped out for him: winters in the suburbs, summers at the beach, the 'right' majo ...

Matthew and Christine Dish can't take it anymore. This double-income-no-kids couple decides to drop out of the rat race and move to Olympia, Wash., "w ...

As one critic describes the recent premiere at the Denver Center Theatre, "Watching the play uncoil like a spring is a delight. Very quickly the audie ...

Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit celebrates the life and voice of African-American contralto Marian Anderson. Taking place on the eve of the Firs ...

Mallory McKay is a precocious child of divorce who hasn't seen her mother in over two years. Judith McKay, a renowned paleontologist and director of a ...

This delightful story of an inquisitive youngster who discovers and old factory operated by a Mr. (or Mrs.) Aesop and an assumbly line of seven (or mo ...

The Face of Emmett Till is a true-to-life dramatization of the death of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager who, while visiting relat ...

Faces of Freedom is a vivid theatrical experience, using both an ensemble and monologues, to tell the true stories of the young immigrants of ...

Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper ignites. With simple sets and uncomplicated staging, this powerful drama is about the inner struggle ...

Based on Thomas Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West, Parts I and II, this new adaptation combines both plays into one epic story recounting t ...

Two spinster sisters decide to investigate the apparent disappearance of their friend Cecily. The sisters, Faith and Hope, have very low opinions of t ...

A faithful friend, Ethan Powell, responds to an urgent summons from a childhood acquaintance. He finds himself a solitary guest in the foreboding, ins ...

The moon is falling out of the sky! The king and his sons love war and have waged a war on Queen Marie for so long that they can barely remember why t ...

The opening of this play was an evening of Irish delight. As the Los Angeles Times critic suggested, "It seemed natural that Ray Bradbury wou ...

"You want fame? Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying." "Right here" is the School of Performing Arts in New York City, and the f ...

The world beyond the Frisby's front door is a threatening tangle. Mom Maya resides in a hole on the beach, dad Fred is long gone, and the family's bel ...

Who has stolen the famous Twitchwell family jewels during the dinner party at Twitchwell Castle? They were taken right under the nose of the famous de ...

Winner of a Joseph Jefferson Citation as one of the best new plays of the year, A Family Man chronicles the misadventures of Jake, an enthusiastic and ...

What is a family? Playwright Sandra Fenichel Asher traveled the country running workshops in which teenagers and adults pondered that question and exp ...

When a young minister and his wife found that they couldn't have children of their own, they set out to adopt some. After adopting young Don (now a ha ...

When Kate returns to the mother and daughter she abandoned 15 years ago, she is to learn that picking up where you left off is never easy. Her mother ...

The astonishing and glamorous Jackie Cochran soared through life. She was the first woman to break the sound barrier; she battled the military to crea ...

Father's Shadow/Sombra del Padre, a Mexican family drama, maps the difficult journey of a young woman and her friends and family through a co ...

One evening, in a quiet nursery, a young mother, Lisa Marie, attempts a sudden act of violence. Several months later, upon her release from a mental h ...

One evening, in a quiet nursery, a young mother, Lisa Marie, attempts a sudden act of violence. Several months later, upon her release from a mental h ...

On March 24, 1980, during Mass, Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, was assassinated. This powerful and acclaimed play presents the story of the ...

On March 24, 1980, during Mass, Oscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, was assassinated. This powerful and acclaimed play presents the story of the ...

On March 24, 1980, during Mass, Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, was assassinated. This powerful and acclaimed play presents the story of the ...

In this wild espionage spoof, the Russians are out to capture the English scientist, Sir Isaac Newton, who is about to invent a secret weapon—"gravity ...

Rick Jacobs is a playwright with a wild imagination—perhaps too wild! As he attempts to overcome a massive case of writer's block, the audience sees f ...

This chilling, provocative play is concerned with sophisticated brainwashing and the effect of stress and confinement on three pleasant young men. All ...

On the eve of the 500th anniversary of the battle of Bosworth Field, a court has been convened in the Halls of Eternity. Richard III, the so-called "m ...

Gunner and Willowdean are on their second marriages and starting life together as retirees in Stateline, Ky., as the sole proprietors of Bingham's Ant ...

Dot, a well-preserved middle-aged woman, has been a widow for over ten years. Her best friend, Sunny, has been made a widow recently. The two neighbor ...

Upon discovering a way to neutralize gravity, two men travel to the moon in an antigravity machine, where they discover that there are other intellige ...

From Margaret Sidney's ever-popular novel, William Glennon has fashioned a truly funny and heartwarming entertainment for the whole family. What can t ...

Five Nickels is a full evening of theatre and the title story is the first act of the play.

Feydeau's classic farce is the hilarious new force behind the growing appreciation of this delightful comedy form. It was a smash hit in Paris. "La lo ...

Two southern sisters, one dead father, one canceled wedding, and a knife- all part of a recipe for family trouble in this darkly humorous drama about ...

Michael owns an independent bookstore that houses the worldීs worst book club. Aside from Michael himself, only two members remain: Gail, a ne ...

In his New York Times review Mel Gussow wrote, "In Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, Jason Taverner, a celebrated television and singing star, wakes ...

"Ingeniously touching and intensely real," wrote the critic of The Baltimore Sun. "Convincing, suspenseful, touching," was the comment of the New York ...

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The four adult Cotter siblings have gathered at the family summer cottage on Lake Michigan two years after their fatherීs death to scatter his a ...

In trouble with his captain, Kansas City Detective Lt. Randy Benton is given the thankless job of doing one final walk-through inspection of the once ...

Presently safe behind China's Great Wall, the Emperor is told of a new discovery: a kite that allows men to fly. The Emperor decides to execute the "f ...

In nine self-contained scenes with new arrangements of eight familiar Christmas carols, an old legend about the first Christmas comes to life. Some sa ...

Kit Wilkerson wakes up after a night of hard drinking to find to his dismay that he is married to his best friend's little sister, Ruby. Ruby is a fei ...

In this retelling of Frankenstein, a mysterious laboratory, a dark cemetery and a university classroom provide the setting for Victor Franken ...

Mary Shelley wrote the original when she was 19, after she and her lover, the 22-year-old poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their friend Lord Byron agree ...

Murder, Mayhem and the Macabre are the main ingredients of this easy-to-stage new version. Unlike other versions of the famous thriller, this one catc ...

Captain Robert Walton and his crew are aboard a ship heading for the North Pole when it becomes frozen in the ice. Waiting for the ice to break up, th ...

Frank is the star of his own soap opera. Frank's Life. Unfortunately for poor Frank, he doesn't know it. Nor does he realize that his wife, h ...

Itීs 1961 on the campus of a New England university. Sam Katz, a freshman student, aspiring football player, and a Jew is being rushed by Delta ...

When young Harris Chandler inherits his father's plantation, Remus, Toby, Sarah and Janie, all the friends of his childhood, suddenly become his prope ...

"You got to have goals and dreams. You got to find love in your hearts!" With these words, and the help of a magic quilt, five urban students are take ...

The coming of age of a 13-year-old Catholic boy in Northern Ireland activates this emotionally moving play, Friday's Child is set amidst the ...

Matt's school work and personal life are deteriorating. His friends Doug and Carol attempt to engage him in school activities and dating, but he doesn ...

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Mix together a batch of fruitcakes, three dozen Christmas trees, 10,000 outdoor Christmas lights, a chicken pox epidemic, two southern spinsters, an e ...

"Maide to order—you'll love it!" was the Denver Post headline of the premiere. Robin Hood is up in a tree, peeking out between leaves. Maide Marian en ...

"Even the audience wins at Game Show," was the headline from the critic's review in the Los Angeles Times. This comedy goes behind the scenes and then ...

"A madcap spoof of gangster movies." (N.Y. Times) Smalltime hoods Louie and Joey are about to go out on the hit of a lifetime. But Louie tells Joey th ...

This broad, exuberant, comedy-farce, created by a professor and his students, is not only delighting other colleges and high schools but, when invited ...

Gardinia's 'n' Blum, set in Chicago's Little Italy, is a comedy celebrating the friendship of Tony Gardinia, a Sicilian-born barber, and Harry Blum, a ...

"In all of the world, North, South, East and West,/ There's only one Mudgeville, which makes it the best,/ But also the worst, I suppose, just as wel ...

Guillermo, a young Chicano, is searching for his place in the world now that his mother is getting married, for the first time, to an Anglo man. Guill ...

Chandler, a young architect, redesigns plans for a gazebo for a wealthy client and the boss fires him. To forget this disappointment, Chandler dresses ...

"I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise overwhelming imagination in telling stories about women!" wrote Shaw, and his outrageous approach ...

Originally played by an all-female cast, this prize-winning drama may also be performed by a mixed cast. Eve is the central figure. We watch her pass ...

When John Harkless, a decent optimist and the new owner and editor of the local newspaper, arrives in Plattville, Indiana, in 1889, he discovers that ...

After some humorous and, at times, bitter differences of opinion, the students and the new, idealistic high-school drama teacher develop a better unde ...

"Would you believe that seven police boats are closing in on us right now?" asks Maxwell Smart of the head of KAOS who now holds him captive. When the ...

Craft College is a finishing school for witches, though it looks normal. But draperies open and close mysteriously, books fly through the air unaided, ...

A Christmas play from the Orient that is exotic, lovely and original. It is the Emperor's birthday and each of his daughters brings him a gift. One br ...

This is a touching and beautiful story of a young couple unable to afford presents for each other on their first Christmas together. Each sacrifices a ...

"The Gift" is the drama of a mother's battle with breast cancer as seen through the eyes and felt through the heart of her 16-year-old daughter. Steph ...

Hansel and Gretel know that their father does his best for them, and they dislike the Widow Nada who is eager to marry him. What they do not know is t ...

Susan Connors, age 17, lies in a coma in the intensive care unit of a hospital. She has tried to kill herself by taking an overdose of sleeping pills. ...

Seventeen-year-old Susan, who has attempted suicide, lies in a coma. Her doctor says, "Whether she lives or dies now is a matter of her own will." Wha ...

Tracey Logan, a girl of 16, finds herself unexpectedly in a world where everyone is blue. Not only are all the other teenagers dressed in blue and hav ...

Here is a full evening of dramatic excitement created by a group of talented young playwrights. From a child's remembrance of a pair of red tennis sho ...

Using almost no scenery, this easily produced yet powerful play explores the mind and experience of a high school girl who inadvertently gets into dru ...

An easily produced one-act cutting from our powerful play, this is the true story of Alice, a desperate girl who fights to get free of drugs and almos ...

Vonnegut's story takes a very humorous look at a very serious problem. A serious writer achieves fame and fortune when he allows himself to be drawn i ...

An original adaptation of the beloved fairy tale. Simpleton sets out to chop firewood for his mother and meets a Dear Little Old Lady in the woods. Sh ...

All hell breaks loose in the Bender household the day Mama runs off with that no-good Wayne Hargrove from the filling station. Papa can't believe she' ...

This exciting anthology of scenes and monologues features nearly 100 comic and serious roles for mature actors over the age of 55. Aimed at the advanc ...

Joan and her Aunt Alline are the only two family members to show up for the annual day set aside to maintain the old family cemetery way out in the co ...

This is Gray's middle-age crisis monologue. His immediate problem is an eye condition that could be corrected by surgery, but Gray chooses to seek alt ...

"Now is the winter of our discontent," quotes high school drama coach Jarred Nusthorp. "Shakespeare probably wrote that because he had to direct his p ...

"The metaphor of The Great Theatre of the World, in which God is a theatre director and the World is his stage manager, appealed to me strongly. So di ...

This is the magic brought by merry-hearted young Greensleeves, a vagabond singer and storyteller, to the sad kingdom of Princess Miranda and her two y ...

Seventeen-year-old Trish sees a UFO and hears a voice calling to her, "I'll be back. I'll be back." Everyone—the police, the press, television and her ...

"Richard Vetere fancifully plays with the notion that young Captain Hale was in fact a deserter and running home to mom when he was captured by the Br ...

Brave Half-Pint comes West to avenge the death of his father, Pint Windom. He foils the villain, rescues beauty in distress and wins coy Tess to the c ...

#13#10Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado. Cast: 3m., 1w. Driven by his burning desire to avenge his family’s s ...

William Shakespeare was big on what can happen if you make the wrong move. And in his world that meant letting greed, jealousy, power and revenge get ...

Brilliantly cut by director Albert Pia, who is famous for his highly successful high school presentations of Shakespeare, this 45-minute arrangeme ...

In the year 2081 everybody is finally equal. And if they're not, the Handicapper General equips them with devices to make sure they are. George Berger ...

Charlotte Chorpenning has taken the Grimm Brothers' story and given it a poetic beauty that brings a value to its young audience. Her treatment of the ...

In this story of Hansel and Gretel the white bird and the little gnome, under the spell of the wicked Witch, are forced to coax children away ...

Julien Thaddeus Springer—J.T. for short—tries to make it as an athlete and, even more importantly, he tries to make it as a person who might interest ...

This collection of seven Christmas comedies has something for everyone! Some are religious oriented, others highlight the secular side of the holiday ...

This play is a beautifully lyrical and faithful adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic fairy tale. Commissioned by the Kennedy Center for the Performing ...

Poor Harlequin is caught in the middle in this contemporary farce using the commedia characters. Leander wants Isabelle, but Isabelle wants a wedding. ...

Harvest Moon is a full-length play about Mariluz, a Chicana muralist dying of cancer who paints a mural for her son, telling the story of the ...

A drama teacher has announced tryouts for the senior play. An old man, a former custodian, appears and warns her that the play must not be given. The ...

One summer night four friends enter the abandoned, dark mansion that overlooks their town. Once inside, their imaginations and their fears guide them ...

Set in the all-important year of 2000, He Held Me Grand focuses on one American family and 100 years of its history. Music, secrets, humor, t ...

Hedy Grier, an African-American woman, has just buried her grandmother, Maxine. With no ties, Hedy uproots herself, sells her Harlem brownstone, and e ...

This story of Heidi, the little orphan girl who brings new hope to everyone her life touches, glows even more endearingly today than it has for genera ...

Welcome to Klickitat Street, home of Henry Higgins, his faithful dog Ribsy, Ramona the Pest, and her long-suffering sister Beezus. Newbery Award-winni ...

All Mary MacKillop wanted was to live the dream. But to others-the staunch male hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church - she was a nightmare. What ...

This play is unusual in every way—in subject matter, manner of presentation, and the way in which it seems to move from "performance to reality." It t ...

Heubner, a starving beggar in a downtrodden village, awakes from a troubling dream of war and destruction to find that part of his dream has followed ...

The Highest Heaven is intended for families and young audiences. The play's themes explore the Drepression, butterflies, hobos, Mexico, growi ...

"Remember the satire? Well it's back, and incredibly potent in Hillary and Soon-Yi Shop for Ties." (Contra Costa Times) This Garland ...

Christmas Eve has come to the Ozarks. Widow Hinckley is closing in on Joshua, a lazy, bad-tempered mountaineer. She brings him a bedraggled Christmas ...

Here is a complete how-to book for successful presentation of old-time melodramas. Randall and Bushnell, authors of a number of acclaimed "mellers," h ...

A prime-time television crime show features two young female cops in the leading roles, and with the show getting high ratings, the girls are not only ...

Known on television as The Waltons, they're called The Spencers in the original book, which is how they're named here. The time is the Great Depressio ...

Marian Thorncraft is looking forward to her honeymoon with new hubby, Tyler. She pictures someplace romantic, secluded and cozy. No sooner have her fe ...

This dramatic staging of the haunting Japanese classic has been hailed by distinguished theatre educators. A young fisherman rescues a venerable turtl ...

Complete with a bum, a town cop and a local brat, this show unfolds in the park of Maple Springs, Missouri, around 1900. Painter Alison longs to take ...

Horse-Scents is exactly the kind of show you would expect to take place at Chip and Patty's Perfume Emporium, Rooming House, and Manure Museum. C.B. S ...

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Glen Martin, a 70-something widower in failing health, stubbornly resists his daughterීs attempts to get him to sell his home and move in with h ...

Early America springs to life in this engaging stage adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel. This literate and lively play follows the demi ...

During the eight days that she waits for a pathology report Mary Margaret, a young librarian for a symphony orchestra, struggles to string together li ...

"Most young playwrights nowadays want to learn 'how to' write a play. This seems to me to be a mistake." Thus begins the first chapter of Walter Kerr' ...

"Auditions are unavoidable" is the sum-up of Broadway producer Hal Prince. As this applies as much to high school productions as it does to stock and ...

This helpful how-to book was written by a man uniquely qualified to know the actual problems of high school directors and to present simple solutions ...

Thirty-something Artie has not been out with a woman since his wife died. His friend Stan lives at home with his mother, dates three times a week and ...

Here is a practical, professional, no-nonsense "how to" book that tells you the truth about making it in the incredibly difficult field of show busine ...

Here is The Complete Production Handbook. Do you want to make a $1200 set for $100? This handbook tells you how. The authors have produced over 200 pl ...

Hubie is the hardworking intellectual college student. His roommate, Alvin, is the girl-loving, girl-chasing jock. It seems to Hubie that Alvin always ...

Abruptly—without warning—early one sometime, Hucklebee is rudely awakened and ordered to begin the journey of his life—the journey that is his life: t ...

It's always Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer when there's real mischief afoot, with Old Man River in the background. Here the threat is a pair of smooth-tongu ...

Humpty-Dumpty Is Missing! is an affectionate spoof of the private-eye thrillers of the 1940s and '50s and an exciting, funfilled way to intro ...

A lion roams across the country. An anchorwoman bursts through a TV screen for a bite of apple pie. The FBI lurks in the microwave. A lamb wanders the ...

This play takes Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel and spins it on its ear. Old stereotypes get to meet their creator, as Uncle Tom, Topsy and ...

While Simon sits in his writing shed, trying and failing to write the ultimate post-modern novel, Juliette sits in a bleak little hostel room, struggl ...

This highly theatrical 45-minute script shows the devastating effect of the lack of popularity, the agonies caused by prejudice, the pangs of first lo ...

Raspanti has extracted a beautiful and moving one-act play based on the poetry created in a concentration camp by the Jewish children of Prague. O ...

Now, through the power of theatre, Austen is alive and well and living in any place where she chooses to "body forth" at the flamboyant age of 218-goi ...

For an honest, hard-hitting evening of theatre, what better excitement than to hear teenagers confront their problems in their own voices? This 90-min ...

Marlene never willingly misses a horror play on television. She considers herself an authority on werewolves, vampires, etc. When Steve Dracca from ab ...

I Will Sing Life is a dynamic and highly theatrical collage of creative writing by and interviews with young people who attend the Hole in th ...

With his offbeat taste in music, clothes, hobbies and just about everything else, Lionel is not your standard-issue American teenager. His parents, wo ...

Chantal's Parisian mother hands her a dog-training manual as the secret recipe for making a husband happy. "You must treat him like a dog," she warns. ...

Here's a satire on what may happen if women continue to copy the clothes that men wear. According to this play, in self-defense the men may take to we ...

In this play, the whole dating problem is reversed. George is getting dressed but he can't decide what to wear. His mother helps out with last-minute ...

Itීs finally here! The fifth play in the Harry Monday trilogy! Okay, Harry never could count. Christmas time rolls around and our down-and-out g ...

Thatීs right, that same throwback to the 1940s, that same left-foot-in-the-gumshoe from Three Murders and Itීs Only Monday! Is ba ...

It all started when Delores, an unhappy housewife, and George, a shoe salesman, met at Shoe Fantasy and it was love at first shoe-fitting. The only th ...

This powerful adult drama deals with the issues of sexual abuse and dissociative identity disorder. Jane Ellen Whitman is a 19-year-old woman living w ...

Casey O'Hara, a good-looking high school senior, knows what life is all about. It means being cool and laid back; it means just barely getting by; and ...

Cranky M Argan imagines he has every ailment there is. He plans to marry his daughter to a dull young doctor so he will always have a physician handy. ...

The Imaginators is the story of three children and the power of imagination. Anne and Tim have just moved to a new town. Anne refuses to play ...

The Ho Ho Hotline has been installed in a retirement home so that children can talk to Santa or Mrs. Claus. Meanwhile, Jensie, with her home computer, ...

Oscar Wilde's classic is a delight from the first cucumber sandwich on as Jack's double life catches up with him. The problems are resolved in an extr ...

Eight entertainments updated by Bill Majeski needing only brief or no rehearsals, ranging from burlesque radio shows through mock weddings, burle-dram ...

Created by the young playwrights of Louisville's Walden Theatre who followed those who wrote the two earlier hits, Glimpses and Rites, this full eveni ...

During the research and writing of her world-changing Silent Spring, Rachel Carson is diagnosed with breast cancer. As she struggles to compl ...

Eleven-year-old Maggie Campbell and Susan, her mother, have come to Susan's childhood home to be with Maggie's dying grandmother in her final days. Ma ...

It's the crossroads of New York. It's the hub of Manhattan. It's old. It's beautiful. It's dirty. It's a noisy, anonymous, unforgettable point of depa ...

Whatීs it like to be peered at by hungry humans? Studied like a microbe under a glass? Or worst of all, chosen to be someoneීs dinner entr ...

Dr. Alden Nowlan and Dr. Walter Learning came into possession of the papers on which they have based their highly successful play The Incredible Murde ...

The ghost is real enough when he appears in an old English country home. The only person to see the ghost demands to know by what right he is haunting ...

These six short plays are perfect fare for anyone who’s had to get through a holiday and a relationship at the same time! Memorial Day ...

Four students and a young teacher run a magazine at their school. They are all computer experts and have established links with other schools internat ...

A full year drama course for grades 7 to 12 designed to teach the basics of acting, this book helps teachers focus on building creative skills in thei ...

This manual is three books in one: a textbook, an activity book, and a personal journal. Filled with activities, illustrations, valuable information, ...

This manual takes the lessons learned in the first semester further by showing students how to apply them toward character development, understanding ...

Montana Winfield seems to have everything—charisma, fame and a chair in Dickens at a fine university. But he is so driven by it all, that the wife he ...

Everyone was happy because they were trying to make everyone else happy—except the princess. She wasn't happy because all she could think about was he ...

A young scientist discovers the ability to make himself invisible, affording him a unique and exciting opportunity to study the people around him. But ...

In this updated version of the H.G. Wells classic, a family running a quiet motel confronts a mysterious scientist who has found the secret of becomin ...

It was a dreadful rainy night when Paddy Noonan knocked on the door at Michael O'Hanlon's cottage in the Northern Irish countryside outside of Ulster. ...

Iron Kisses is the story of an American family: a son who made up for being gay by being perfect; a daughter who treats her daughter the way ...

A group of college girls are working as guest editors for the June issue of a New York fashion magazine. Every June, the editor-in-chief of Debutante ...

Within a year, Spalding Gray's existence has been altered by betrayal, love, lust and loss. He marries his long-time companion and divorces her just a ...

Ever try to throw a party an hour after the host has been murdered? It's not as easy as it sounds. As editor of the Wings Publishing Company, Maddie d ...

In this absurdist comedy, a woman is stunned when she hears the head of iceberg lettuce she's about to turn into a salad ask, "What are you doing with ...

This is a simplified version of the classic story told with Mr. Glennon's gift for wit, adventure and warmth. The fairy godfather and his assistant, J ...

There is much more to this play than Jack and a beanstalk. Of course, there's the proverbial giant, but there is also the giant's overworked, over-wro ...

This play features a young heroine named Martha who lives with her evil stepmother and two ugly stepsisters. Sound familiar? Though the similarities t ...

Charlotte Brontë's magnificent Gothic love story is brought to stirring life. The play's premiere at Paper Mill Playhouse received unanimous praise: " ...

Jane Eyre is one of literature's most compelling heroines. This one-act focuses on her difficult youth as an orphan left with uncaring relatives who e ...

Brian Dowd has spent the last 10 years of his life wrestling with an unrequited "something" for his best friend's sister, who happens to live next doo ...

It is the end of summer and Jessica is going in for tests. Michelle, in her 20s, has come to assist in putting her high-spirited grandmotherීs a ...

The winner of many national awards, this uproarious play about life, death, power and first boyfriends was adapted by the author from her popular book ...

In a story filled with danger and courage, Johnny, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in a dramatic involvement with John Hancock, Samuel Ad ...

This fun-filled activity book for elementary students contains over 110 special projects and activities that take your students on a journey through d ...

Following their discovery of the 16th-century Icelandic alchemist's map detailing his journey to the center of the earth, a professor and his nephew s ...

This tale is about young Brigid Shawn O'Grady of long-ago County Clare in Ireland who just wants to be normal. Brigid cannot leave her house without ...

One of literature's most enduring classics is brought vividly to the stage in this exciting adventure of Mowgli, the Indian boy, raised by caring wolv ...

This collection includes the following shows:#13#10#13#101...The White Elephant Comes Hom ...

This theatrical fantasy involves Dwight, an average guy, who wakes up in the middle of the night with a horrible feeling that he's on stage somewhere. ...

For a large number of families in America, there is no such place as home. Though the numbers continue to grow, there are at least 100,000 children in ...

Set in a rural Kentucky home near the end of the 19th century, this poignant drama recalls the era after the Civil War when women in Kentucky took act ...

A girl on the football team? Just for kicks—make those place kicks! This nightmare of women's lib and new regulations leads to a comic situation in wh ...

In this Christmas whodunit, ace detective Red Mistletoe is retained by the citizens of the North Pole to find Santa Claus, who has disappeared at the ...

This highly acclaimed drama deals honestly and frankly with the dilemma of teenage pregnancy. The Kentucky Educational Television movie of this script ...

Five of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, including How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin and Ho ...

The K of D follows the story of Charlotte McGraw, a 12-year-old girl struggling to come to terms with the death of her twin brother, Jamie ...

Kabuki Lady Macbeth presents Shakespeareීs story from its heroineීs point of view, exploring her desires and motives. Though witc ...

Kabuki Othello is a lyric (haiku-like) rendition of Shakespeareීs story, Eastern style. Othello, an Ainu (Caucasian native) war hero in ...

What would you do if you were a million miles from earth and your rocket ship was hit by a meteor and suddenly split open, leaving you floating in spa ...

Kara in Black takes place January through March of 2003, beginning prior to the invasion of Iraq and finishing three days after the invasion. ...

We are at a rehearsal space in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Kate arrives to work alone on her role, Catherine of Aragon, for a production of Shakesp ...

In this ensemble tour de force commissioned by Lexington Children's Theatre, four actors񗝄regardless of their own age, gender or ethnicityŦ ...

Perhaps Hemingway's most famous short story which he wrote almost entirely in dialogue form, the Killers goes to the essence of his lean, muscular sty ...

When Paul, a young boy in Appalachia, decides to leave the coal mining town and pursue his dreams, he is thrown into conflict with his father, Henry, ...

Named after the trademark dishes of Koreans and African-Americans, respectively, this wickedly funny play skewers the news media and modern race relat ...

Kindness offers an unforgettable lesson in compassion and listening to one another. It sensitively captures the reality of children's feeling ...

The place is Camelot just before Arthur becomes king. The old queen would like to retire but she wants her successor to be worthy and good to her peop ...

Kevin is a 10-year-old boy with an active imagination who has returned to the hospital for chemotherapy to treat his leukemia. Kevin is convinced that ...

It's an exciting combat between wicked Zeno (who tries to get control of all the ice cream in the world) and Princess Happy and a delightful penguin n ...

Here's the engaging story of a king with a passion for chocolate-covered, coconut-coated, peanut butter lollipops! Unfortunately, no one can make them ...

Here’s a madcap comedy with a groom out to murder his (frequently married and very wealthy) bride on their wedding night. Having hired a couple of bum ...

The Great Yukon Blizzard of 1888 sets the scene for this hilarious romp over the fields of melodramatics. Included in the cast are: the fair and lovel ...

Mesmerized by Xavier, her seductive (but dead) husband, Christine sleepwalks through her days only surfacing from her other-worldly relationship to de ...

The La Llorona story is similar to the Greek Medea myth. La Llorona means "woman who cries." Though there are variations to this story, the oldest ora ...

This is a festive holiday treat for the entire family to enjoy. Aurelio and Anita, an elderly Mexican-American couple, prepare their home to receive g ...

A recent high-school graduate, Hercules Fitch, has been drafted by the CIA. Originally plopped in the mailroom, our mythically named hero finds himsel ...

The Tower of London provides the setting for this provocative play. Two cleaning women come to scrub down a forgotten room and are visited by the spir ...

This modern adaptation of one of the world's greatest theatrical classics tells the story of the young and beautiful Parisian courtesan Marguerite Gau ...

When Elizabeth's mother dies, it upsets the balance of an already fragile family. Elizabeth and her father can't get along. Elizabeth and her sister c ...

When Elizabeth's mother dies, it upsets the balance of an already fragile family. Elizabeth and her father can't get along. Elizabeth and her sister c ...

Larry has had it! No longer capable of enduring the pressures of being a responsible husband, an understanding father, and a productive employee, Larr ...

Sally and Beth, fresh out of art school, live in a crowded attic in Greenwich Village. Determined to break through the barriers of a male-dominated ar ...

"Last Lists of My Mad Mother is a hilarious, often touching look at the toll Alzheimer's disease takes on a parent-child relationship. It mag ...

The Last Touchy-Feely Drama on the American Stage: 5m (3 roles could be played by ...

David Rogers, who also wrote Flowers for Algernon, has turned this popular novel into a touching, hard-hitting play that probes beneath the surface of ...

This is the third in the exciting series of anthology-theatre evenings of powerful and honest writings by high-school students about their own lives, ...

In their poorest winter ever, when the crops have been devastated by locusts and the family must deal with the death of baby Freddie, Charles Ingalls ...

Learn Me Somethin', a hilarious, provocative satire, tells the story of Jameson Jones and his mother, who earnestly believe in school as a place to le ...

Joseph Schmitz has two loves—his wife Olga and the leather he has crafted all his life. While they are United States citizens, Joseph and Olga remain ...

This show begins dramatically when Peter crawls out onto a ledge prepared to jump. There he meets J.M., a professional suicide counselor who will make ...

Early on a September morning the villagers of Sleepy Hollow await their new schoolmaster. When Ichabod finally arrives, his priggish correctness casts ...

Here is the spooky classic story by Washington Irving, presented with all the thrills, chills and laughs that keep young audiences on the edge of thei ...

A scorching day, a city street, and a lemonade stand—a Norman Rockwell vignette—with the story of a disheartened woman's desperate bid for salvation b ...

Les Miserables, one of the world's greatest literary classics, sold out its first edition the day it went on sale in 1862. Since then, it ...

Prudence wants to be the new Agatha Christie.  Sadly, all her crime stories are disasters - even the detective can't expose the murderer!  ...

This powerful and disarmingly funny play is about friendship and political awakening. Bibi Lee is a typically jaded American rebel reluctantly on a "b ...

Hannah wants to fit in at school, but she hates her looks and her name, and she definitely feels uncomfortable being Jewish. To top it off, Hannah's p ...

The Lie is one of Vonnegut's most intriguing stories. Which is more dangerous񗝄a lie told in self-defense or a lie which is lived? You ...

Have you ever wondered just where Santa Claus came from? L. Frank Baum knew. The same man who created The Wonderful Wizard of Oz lets us in ...

There’s a perfect girl at every school. Beautiful. Talented. Smart. Great parents. Cool boyfriend. You can’t even hate her because she’s so nice. Lara ...

Every Sunday, 38-year-old Jerry has dinner with his parents, playing Scrabble with his lively mother as his aging father declines into senility. This ...

A Life is the story of Eunice, a feisty Jamaican woman, who refuses to go gently into her twilight years. Eunice is 74 years old and recupera ...

Frank Rich of the New York Times wrote, "Life's a Dream, the Calderón metaphysical masterpiece, is one of the finest fruits of the 17th-ce ...

The time is 1843, and the play that is about to begin has a rich authentic sense of reaching into another time and place for a dramatic involvement in ...

Like Bees to Honey is an engaging, poetic, and highly stylized ensemble piece. This unconventional, intimate play introduces us to five multi ...

Lily Daw is young, pretty—perhaps more than a little peculiar—and in love! However, the well-meaning ladies of the Helping Hand Society are determined ...

Frank and Lois Wuluman live in a wukastle and drive a wukar, wubarbecue on weekends and love to howl at a three full- moon night. You see, Frank and L ...

This powerful and moving new play concerns an almost desperate struggle to communicate—something to which, in one way or another, every member of your ...

Cha-Cha-Cha, the lion, persuades some children to unlock his cage. He asks for directions to the nearest hunting preserve. The children tell him that ...

Sound effects included on CD: cold wind, reed pipe tune, more reed pipe, harness bells, harness bells fading, thumping, more thumping, harness bells, ...

That master of imaginative enchantment, C.S. Lewis, has created a unique world and he invites children to walk into it and enjoy both surprise and adv ...

This new dramatization of C.S. Lewis' classic, set in the land of Narnia, faithfully recreates the magic and mystery of Aslan, the great lion, his str ...

A unique adaptation in which all the roles are done by two performers was created by le Clanche du Rand and toured by the Lincoln Center. Please speci ...

You'll love following the Little Mermaid, who in this brand-new version is a strong-willed but endearing innocent, on her first journey to the Top of ...

A musical play of Moses's life up to the crossing of the Red Sea. Lots of scope for clowning, juggling, stilt-walking, etc.  Humorous sketches ...

Kate Corrigan has her life in order, or so she likes to think. In what she describes as "not lower middle age" but "upper youth," she has a lucrative ...

Sara Crewe is one of the most beloved fictional heroines, and June Walker Rogers has brought her to life in this funny, sad, wonderfully imaginative a ...

Sara is an unusual child. She speaks Hindustani, French and English, has read almost every book in her fatherීs library, and uses fantasy to ima ...

"Be careful, Red Riding Hood," warns Mother, "as you go by the swamp. Don't stumble. Don't slip. Don't trip. Don't fall in the water." Red Riding Hood ...

Petite Rouge discloses her despair that Francois can't find the courage to ask her to the Masked Ball. Unemployed Rene wants to date Petite, but his a ...

Written for very young audiences, the play tells how a girl made of snow comes to life for an old couple who had always wanted a child of their own. E ...

This full-length version of Little Women is loved by directors everywhere and has had hundreds of successful productions. The play begins that memorab ...

Playwright David Longest has taken the classic Louisa May Alcott novel and expanded it into a sweeping historical tale. The play begins with Louisa Ma ...

Louisa May Alcott published Little Women: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, the first volume of her now-classic book, in 1868. That story's instant succ ...

There was, in Paradise, a most unruly small boy known throughout Heaven as the Littlest Angel. He sang off-key and his halo was tarnished. Then he mee ...

She is childish. She is mature beyond her years. She is feisty. She is docile. She is clever. She is naïve. She is a dozen other contradictions. She i ...

Rose, a widow, used to run a thriving doll hospital; now she can't remember who her children, Davy and Maggie, are and talks to people who aren't ther ...

Test anxiety! Best friends moving away! Lockers addresses the universal ups and downs in the lives of young people in middle school and early ...

A Long Bridge Over Deep Waters passionately and compassionately wrestles with the question: ෎How does faith both unite and divide us?&# ...

A Long Bridge Over Deep Waters passionately and compassionately wrestles with the question: ෎How does faith both unite and divide us?&# ...

Professor Kleine, a creative literature instructor, has a rather unusual final exam. He sets up a murder in his own home and has his students try to s ...

Newt and Catharine had grown up next door to each other. There had always been playful, comfortable warmth between them, but never any talk of love. N ...

When Alonzo Fields accepted a job as a butler at the White House in 1931, his plan was to work there for the winter. That winter lasted 21 years. Base ...

As Kara, Sue Ellen, Juanita, Lucas and Joel gather on the beach to make plans to go to an amusement park, Lucas plays a compilation tape of songs from ...

Unusual things don't usually happen at Price Mart, but at this Mega Price Mart a mega-unusual thing happened once: a little girl was born. Or left. Or ...

The point of this play񗝄which put "Shangri-La" into our language񗝄has an even greater urgency now than ever before. Four travelers from ...

Challenged by his colleagues to prove his extraordinary claim that prehistoric animals exist and that he has seen them, Professor Challenger ...

A comedy about a sometimes tragic, sometimes humorous, aspect of life today—the fact that people don't listen anymore, that people don't hear each oth ...

In a bubbly new translation of this internationally famous play, the world of "l'amour" is turned upside down. Doctor Moulineaux is having an innocent ...

Hot Fudge focuses on the neglect and abuse of a withdrawn but talented girl, Nicky Andrews. Matthew Gill, an English teacher the students call the "Dr ...

෎Do I dare disturb the universe?෎ J. Robert Oppenheimerීs rise and fall erupt in this kaleidoscopic play exploring questions of fait ...

Like Jon Jory's University, these are mini-plays that connect and create a fascinating full evening of theatre. These plays are as real, as h ...

#13#10Lover Boy. Maggie Cannon, a single woman in her upper middle years ...

This "startlingly modern" tale about attempted murder and a woman's revenge concerns a husband who discovers evidence that his wife has been unfaithfu ...

Here is the essence of the Bard's classic in a half-hour play: When Hermia decides to elope with Lysander rather than to please her father by marrying ...

We all know that computers can talk—but who would expect one to fall in love? David Houston is a brilliant high school student whose science fair proj ...

This fictional exploration of what became of the denied female astronauts is an entertaining and compelling evening of theatre which dramatically expl ...

"Life is the remedy for optimism," states the Honorable Tchang in this enchanting play, and Lute Song, as originally produced in Peking in 14 ...

This dramatic adaptation, sprinkled with comedic commentary, is a winner for elementary, middle, and early high school. Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy ...

Set in Florence, Italy, in 1524, Machiavelli is a comedy about the famous political thinker, Niccolo Machiavelli, who wrote The Prince

Ever new and varying legends have appeared over the centuries concerning the "thirteenth disciple" of Christ, the courtesan Mary Magdalene. Yet one th ...

An opera libretto simplified into an enchanting play. Follow the adventures of Prince Tamino from his rescue from the Serpent to the Temple of Sarasot ...

This is an exciting hero story of young Roland, the nephew of Charlemagne, who seeks to recover the Emperor's famous sword, Durandal, from evil Faleri ...

Tested and perfected before many audiences, this enchanting show has been acclaimed both by children and by critics including a selection by the Los A ...

This innovative show features songs and sketches as characters move through comic and serious contemporary fables celebrating childhood. Young audienc ...

Free for a time from the demands of an adult world, six youngsters create their own magic machine to explore a world of their own making, returning at ...

Sound effects included on tape deck A: opening magic music, flight music, flight music to the world of the dead, bells, pedestal whisking off the sta ...

A highly theatrical dramatization of a C.S. Lewis classic by America's most-produced children's playwright. Young Digory and his friend Polly, through ...

Aurand Harris' full-length play based on this special book gives to audiences a highly satisfying theatrical experience. Now Mr. Harris has created a ...

Deniece, Jessie, Michael, Claire and Shawn are classmates. Jessie and Michael are going out. Same with Claire and Shawn. Deniece? Well, she's always b ...

Peter Marshall has gathered into his home the young people of the community. He makes their joys and sorrows his own. His wife knows how ready he is t ...

Making thorough use of Twain's own language and rapid-fire storytelling style, this classic comic tale of hypocrisy and its consequences takes us to t ...

Hotel Heaven is five stars all the way! A man wakes up in a strange hotel. He picks up the phone to order breakfast from room service. Before he can h ...

It is a sunny afternoon in April 1910, on the verge of Samuel Clemens' 75th birthday, when Harold Atwater, a young publishing representative, comes to ...

A man whose identity we never know has his face altered to look like Humphrey Bogart and is involved in a Maltese Falcon-type caper—like the ...

A man whose identity we never know has his face altered to look like Humphrey Bogart and is involved in a Maltese Falcon-type caper—like the ...

The operation was a total success. When the bandages were removed, the man with the Humphrey Bogart face "buys a trench coat and a big gun and opens a ...

"Two generations looking for romance. Snappy wisecracks. A crowd-pleaser." (N. Y. Times) Frank's wife of forty years has died and now the tough, blue- ...

A young Martian asks another if there could be any life on Earth. "Impossible," is the answer. "There's too much oxygen!" However, an expedition from ...

Martina is an almost teenager who knows her life is simply the worst. Her face is breaking out. Her hair is monstrous. Her life is unfair. Her world i ...

A down-and-out theatrical producer in 16th-century Spain plays on the vanity of the Castilians by announcing The Marvelous Playbill, an entertainment ...

This is a wild, free-flowing comedy that's easy to stage. M*A*S*H stands for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and joining it are two unpredictable madca ...

The dramatizer of the full-length hit has done his own one-act cutting of the comic misadventur ...

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Four young people put on masks in order to discuss more freely their thoughts about the issues confronting them: their need, in varying degrees, for e ...

On Christmas Eve 1898, in the heart of New York City, a gentle snowfall turns fashionable Washington Square into the very picture of a Currier and Ive ...

Acrobatman. Albatross, H20 Girl, Astarte, Tapeman, Miss Invisowrap, Electroman, Gadzooks. And that's only part of the cast of this comedy farce. They ...

Maybe Baby, Itීs You is a comedy about the search for that most elusive of entities, the soul mate, and told in a series of 11 vignette ...

"Calder覫n's play, in Mitchell's robust, down-to-earth rhyming translation, is an undoubted world masterpiece: a battle-to-the-death between the ...

How real is a memory and how necessary is it to put that memory aside for reality? The play begins with a charming husband and wife recalling together ...

A different Christmas show, funny yet reverent, that does not demand a fully-equipped theatre. This is an hour-long modernization of half a dozen Engl ...

Angela hasn't married. She still lives with her dotty, demanding, semi-lovable parents. Childhood polio has left her with a limp. She's not particular ...

Do you ever wonder what it was like to be a senior back in the '60s? Pick up this theatrical yearbook and Conner Murphy literally steps out of the pi ...

We're in study hall where just about everyone is doing everything except studying for tomorrow's test on A Midsummer Night's Dream. That is, ...

Henry, the son of migrant farmworkers who live in a small town in Arizona, has been encouraged by his mother to assimilate—become American. His father ...

Mike, a high school student, is plagued by a sense of displacement—a feeling that something is very wrong. In the play, he tries to show the audience ...

A pair of rebellious teenagers get hold of an educational toy from the future. Bored with school and disliking the adult world, the brother and sister ...

This edgy comedy deals with loneliness, fear, courage, the supernatural, deception and romance, as a diverse group of strangers attends an adult exten ...

This play, which scored impressively in several major play contests, begins with a man spending an ordinary evening in his ordinary home with his ordi ...

The miserly Harpagon has plotted to marry his pretty daughter to a rich old man, but she has managed to bring her beau into the house disguised as a s ...

Miss Havisham in Dickens' Great Expectations is one of the most fascinating characters in literature. This one-act focuses on her story—a jil ...

Miss Temptation's real name is Suzanne, and she lives in a small room above a country store in a little town with a theatre񗝄in which she hopes ...

About half the lies in this play originated with Mark Twain, all the rest come from Sally Netzel, with great affection. Truth plays a minor part, Samu ...

"Eloquent" was how the Washington Star described the production at Ford's Theatre in Washington, the place where Lincoln was assassinated. When the pl ...

A comedy of surface humor yet with an undercurrent of tragedy at the failure of people to reach others. It begins with preparations for a party. Every ...

Here's a comedy with a kaleidoscope of emotions all blended with a touch of magic. It seems simple enough: a young man wants to impress a woman at the ...

What happens when a shy, aspiring writer from the Midwest comes to the Big Apple in search of fame and fortune? For Michael Caldwell, life becomes a s ...

A maternal, funny busybody, Lena sits in her yard all day long trying to lure neighbors in, tempting them with lemonade and gossip. Completely alone, ...

Ishmael, a young man in search of adventure, first mate, Stubb, and Queequeg, the mystical Polynesian harpooner ("he's the son of a cannibal king, the ...

Ishmael, a young man in search of adventure; first mate, Stubb; and Queequeg, the mystical Polynesian harpooner ("He's the son of a cannibal king, the ...

Set in 1670, Paris, Moli覠re in Love is based on the true story of Moli覠re's theatrical attempt to win back the love of his much ...

In this new and shattering play, Mr. Kennedy again displays his dramatic power and uncompromising honesty as he deals with a real and tragic situation ...

"Mr. Monday, I want you to find this artifact," purrs sultry client Courtney Delecroix. "It's a choker worn by King Midas." Harry Monday sizes her up ...

#13#10Vocalists: Paul Evenson, Dan Ferretti, David Nisbet, Paul Slade Smith, Greg Walter#13#10Band: Michael Cascio (perc ...

#13#10Vocalists: Norm Boucher, Dan Ferretti, Rob Langeder, Paul Slade Smith#13#10#13#10Band: Michael Cascio (percussion) ...

These two collections of comic and dramatic scenes for grades 7 to 12 explore God, man, and the Christian experience with power and poignancy. The sel ...

Gray documents his experience as a procrastinating novelist. He has a 1,900-page manuscript that he is working on and is already two years past the d ...

Stephanie's having a sleep-over with her friends when they are joined by her young cousin Melissa who can't get to sleep because she's afraid of the d ...

The disturbing world of cults becomes a reality for Anne Burkhardt when her only daughter, 18-year-old Kathy, is lured into the Universal Union Church ...

The moonstone, a sacred Indian gem protected by three guards and an ancient curse, is stolen by the British officer Herncastle. His life dissolves int ...

A semicircle of nine chairs is placed toward the rear stage. In the bare space in front of the semicircle is enacted the moving story of Sophie from " ...

The More Stage Dialects book, with its CDs* (sold separately), are the definitive work in their field and have been used by professional acto ...

The More Stage Dialects CDs, with its book* (sold separately), are the definitive work in their field and have been used by professional acto ...

The More Stage Dialects CDs, with its book* (sold separately), are the definitive work in their field and have been used by professional acto ...

The More Stage Dialects CDs, with its book* (sold separately), are the definitive work in their field and have been used by professional acto ...

The More Stage Dialects CDs, with its book* (sold separately), are the definitive work in their field and have been used by professional acto ...

This is the story of one day of Gray's life in October 1997. It revolves around the birth of his second son, Theo, and his new life with his partner, ...

This is truly a fulfilling Christmas enchantment that will deeply involve your audience. A young girl is helping her family decorate the Christmas tre ...

Sound effects included on tape: roar/bird calls, trumpet fanfare, (3 more fanfares), protesting students, plane flying overhead, cheering crowd, prote ...

"Hilarious, rib-tickling comedy," wrote one leading critic, adding that he considers it "the funniest on record" The wonderful audience response to th ...

The Movie Game is the story of Jack Goldberg, an unemployed cinephile, who has found himself in the midst of a pre-midlife crisis. Disenchant ...

Why shouldn't an actress get a chance to portray one of the meanest roles ever created (such as Scrooge) or one of the more poignant (such as Scrooge' ...

This charming entertainment demonstrates the amazing versatility of the greatest playwright in the English language. ෎Neither age can whither hi ...

Here's a stylish and witty suspense play that originally starred Hal Holbrook, Katherine Ross and Barry Bostwick. It combines laughter with thrills an ...

As lawyer Seymour Mead finishes reading Ridgely Randolph's will to the assemblage of greedy relatives and servants, the treasure hunt begins! You see, ...

While a blizzard rages outside the theatre of a liberal arts college, an evening rehearsal for the upcoming production of Romeo and Juliet explodes. T ...

Best-selling mystery author, David Forrester, is suffering writer's block. His publisher, Felix Bromley, suggests hiring a talented, beautiful young g ...

The scene is a convent school. Trillium, a young student, recognizes an article that once belonged to her murdered father. Trillium is in danger—and t ...

Harry's back! That's right, Harry Monday, that Sam Spade wannabe in the trench coat and gumshoes, is hot and on his latest case. Does he know what he' ...

Weaving together the music of Bach, with memories of the Bosnian War and the universal conflicts between teacher and student, The Music Lesson

This is a very different fox from our old friend Reynard. Fox is still clever and sly, but he is likable in his efforts to gain a real friend. He befr ...

"(John) Okui returned to his father's homeland to bury his mother's ashes on her native soil and to come to terms with his Oriental ancestry and feeli ...

Sound effects included on tape: wind, bells, roar, another roar, wind/roar, (and 2 more wind/roar), dogs, roar, another roar, thunder, trumpet, anothe ...

Nathan the Wise is the Western classic on religious tolerance. It offers a vision of Jews, Christian and Muslims as People of the Book, unite ...

This is the story of Mathilde Loisel, the young wife of a struggling junior clerk in a government office in Paris. She yearns for all that wealth can ...

Two burglars, Ronald and Donald, break into a house and, in the midst of their bungled getaway, find themselves in attendance at a neighborhood crime ...

Betty overhears her mother phoning that George is going to give Rose a ring. Betty tells Sally, who secretly adores George and is heartbroken. Betty h ...

In September of 1847 Edgar Allan Poe is reported to have boarded a steamer in Baltimore Harbor for an overnight voyage to New York City. He never arr ...

This first-of-its-kind anthology of comic and serious monologues is specially tailored for actors age fifty-five and older. Leading American playwrigh ...

Newton is an intelligent, slightly neurotic, exceedingly romantic student at a traditional New England prep school. On his own, he is a likable and co ...

Before the film "Home Alone" there was Vonnegut's "Next Door." It's a story of Paul Leonard, a nine-year-old boy left at home to deal with is immature ...

Prize-winning playwright Tim Kelly, a lifelong Dickens buff who is also the adaptor of the hit comedy M*A*S*H, has created a superb dramatiza ...

A detail from the life and adventures of young Nicholas Nickleby, a lad who comes to London where he meets coldness and travail and is sent, as a teac ...

The River Ridge High crowd is back in this thought-provoking, often humorous sequel to the popular teen comedy. Everybody thought that Nicky’s life wa ...

Fall out from a satellite probe shot to Venus returns to Earth carrying a mysterious radiation that transforms the unburied dead into flesh-eating zom ...

Twelve-year-old Whit thinks Carly, who has just moved to town, is the ugliest girl in the universe. She is also the smartest person Whit has every met ...

Beth and her college roommate have just arrived at her home in Florida. Beth stands frozen when her father walks into the room because he isn't her fa ...

The holiday chatter in their mountain clubhouse is silenced as a radio announces the news of Paula's death. Alice has just received a letter from Paul ...

The times and the fact that we publish the authorized stage adaptation of this Orwell classic demand some comment, and we quote Orwell himself. "I do ...

Rita was through with Fred. Then Fred breaks in on Rita's slumber party, which is strictly a "no boys allowed" affair, and pleads with her to take him ...

Cassandra Dumont was on her way to the top and she was willing to step on a few toes to get there. In fact, half the people in the city had a limp. As ...

In the monastery of Maria Morgenstern, life seems to go on quite predictably, even in 1943 Germany. But behind the convent walls there is an active un ...

An old-fashioned melodrama written with a fast, contemporary flair. The Salami Opera Company is about to fall apart in the dusty hamlet of Desert Rat ...

Welcome to 6th-period English class. The lights go up and we watch high-school students struggle with an essay they must write entitled "I Am Addicted ...

No Wider Than the Heart is based on the life and work of the famous American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. To prepare for this project, the playwright ...

Noonie Norton is a "brilliant" 10-year-old artist just waiting to be discovered. Her mother died when she was just a baby, and Dad is traveling the wo ...

Set in North Carolina in the 1960s, North Star is the story of Relia, an African-American girl, searching for her place to shine in both soci ...

Idealistic all-American journalism student Ida Perry has been offered a prestigious internship by her famous college professor, but the bottom falls o ...

How does one find true romance? Is it gained through patient seeking and endless rounds of dating? Or is it thrust upon us by fate…by karma…by the sta ...

Philip Malloy is a 14-year-old student at Harrison High School. One day, Philip decides to hum along with "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the song is pl ...

Itීs December 7, 1941. Four 11-year-olds, George, Mits, Daniel and Bobi, live on the island of Oฌahu. They play marbles and peewee, go to ...

During the German occupation of Denmark in World War II, the Nazis closed down Jewish-owned businesses and began to round up the Jews for relocation t ...

The legend of the wonderful Nutcracker is now available in this captivating play. At a gala Christmas Eve party, Clara's godfather presents her with a ...

Colorful characters like Dorcas the Christmas Duck, Tanya and Toulouse Turkey, Parker and Penelope Penguin, Vincent the Violet-Nosed Vulture, the Ice ...

An almost cheerful young man is about to be hanged for his attempt to blow up the Owl Creek Bridge during the Civil War. On this, Bierce creates the m ...

What Jonathan Eagerton doesn't know is that his long-lost brother Dave is about to show up. Jonathan has it all—success, money, status, home, cars and ...

"I speak of noble freedoms! My last crushed breath given to defend the liberty and honor of the cheeseburger!" So raves Maxwell Gibbs, the robust poet ...

Oh, Holy Allen Ginsberg is "the story of two days in the life of Gerry Gallagher, a conflicted but appealing gay Irish Catholic priest, and h ...

On an impulse, a young girl makes up a story, and the complications that result from it are extremely funny. Suddenly needing an excuse, the girl fumb ...

Bill Fast, an old gentleman, has lost the great love of his life, his wife. He finds a surrogate for her in a young waitress, Cara. She so reminds him ...

Old Jake is a lonely pumpkin farmer who is down on his luck, until he and his hound dog, Shoestring, find an old trunk beside the road. They take the ...

This faithful adaptation of Charles Dickens' second novel is an exciting, fast-moving melodrama about the adventures of an orphan redeemed from a life ...

Virginia Koste's new Oz play borrows from the characters and incidents from a dozen Oz books—Shaggy Man, Queen Jinjur, Professor Wogglebug, Johnny Doo ...

Wilkie Thomas, an undertaker in a small Appalachian town, is quizzing his assistant, Paul, when eccentric, 83-year-old Melvin Combs enters, announcing ...

It's five minutes before curtain time for the drama club's "cool," upbeat adaptation of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew and all is not well. The sta ...

Mother Goose sadly announces to her children that they must leave their home—a large, comfortable shoe—and move to an old sneaker "across the tracks." ...

Tiffany Johnson, blinded in an auto accident, has been sent to visit her grandparents in the North Woods, where she encounters Robin, a most unusual b ...

"Happily ever after" takes on new meaning as Katrina goes in search of her Prince, held captive by an evil Troll Princess in a dreary castle east of t ...

At first, the Ridgeland's home seems rather drab and unimaginative. But we soon learn that the living space we see isn't so much their home as their c ...

This exciting collection of 125 comic and serious monologues contains professional-level material appropriate for audition as well as interpretive stu ...

The collection, selected and introduced with suggestions for presentation by Miss Skinner, can become your one woman show. These monologues with which ...

The title to this comedy about escape from the ordinary comes from the line, "Where hearts were high and fortunes low and onions in the stew." Betty M ...

Young, handsome Harold is married to elderly, wheelchair-ridden Elizabeth because of that age-old attraction—money. So naturally, Harold plans to murd ...

Hightower University, an institution so prestigious that even the maintenance staffers hold Ph.D.s, is hosting its annual open house for second-semest ...

The fun begins when teenager Vera decides to take revenge on her aunt's visitor, Frampton Nuttel. Seizing on the ordinary fact that a window has been ...

Twelve delightful Readers Theater shorts which may be read or produced as plays. Included are: Pen Pals, letters between a jailbird and a naive young ...

Conrad Jarrett had an older brother named Buck, and now Buck is gone. What's left of young Conrad's family, with his successful well-intentioned fathe ...

By the author of Macbeth: a Kid's Cautionary Tale..., this play is written using the story-theatre format with sassy storytellers narrating f ...

This story carefully takes apart and reveals the tragedy of the jealous man, the man who believes he can own another. ෎Far from the first to tak ...

The exciting premise of this play is explored with haunting poignancy through the eyes of Cassandra Shakespeare, the brilliant sister William Shakespe ...

The time, the future, after the great light when the old world was lost in one searing moment. The place, the Barrier, where the great letter D stands ...

There were three Wise Men who brought gifts to the King. But legend tells of another named Artaban who also saw the star. Artaban exchanges all his pr ...

This unusual show is partly the play that was being given at Ford's Theatre the night Lincoln was shot and partly the events of that tragic night. At ...

Here are the exuberant escapades of Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough, determined to prove how "cosmopolitan" they can be on an uproarious tri ...

For the first time, Miss Brooks has time to draw a breath as Christmas approaches. Then Miss Audubon comes in weeping. Her cast for A Christmas Ca ...

Six people are trapped in a lonely mountain cabin. Who will live and who will die? Here are Harte's unforgettable characters; they laugh, love, sing, ...

Sound effects included on CD: traffic sounds, car zooming by, car approaching/doors slam, car approaching, car approaching and stopping short, car pul ...

Some variations possible. S.E. Hinton, who wrote this modern classic when she was 16 years old, comments: "The Outsiders, like most things I ...

From the faraway planet of Apocryphal comes O.T., who has been assigned to Earth to report about our world's space programs. Because of the time warp, ...

Here's Nikolai Gogol's eccentric little masterpiece adapted into a lively storytheatre presentation. In 19th-century Russia, a humble clerk in the Min ...

L. Frank Baum is in trouble—forty-four years old and on the eve of his greatest creative work—he is a "jack of all trades" but success eludes him. It ...

Principal Clark, young and experimental, decides it will promote understanding and cooperation if the faculty and the student body trade places for a ...

He and She meet for the first time in a lunatic asylum and each mistakes the other for an inmate. An old stand-by that's always fun! One int. set. ...

It starts off as the usual slumber party, complete with a scary ghost story and a parade of pajama costumes. Then a police car starts prowling the nei ...

The story goes, according to legend, that when Pandora's box was opened all sorts of pleasures and evils escaped. Just what sort of package has Marvin ...

How to produce a pantomime and 101 pantomimes for production. "The pantomimist at rest is nobody situated nowhere doing nothing," writes the author. " ...

More on how to produce a pantomime, more varieties of pantomimes, and 102 new pantomimes for your production. Pantomimes 102 is complete in itself and ...

Nathan is a man of pride and ambition struggling with racism, unemployment, and haunting memories of his father, Big Joe. Big Joe was murdered while N ...

From one of the most popular novels and movies of the last decade comes a stage adaptation which gives new immediacy and excitement to the story of a ...

For her first job, teenage Sarah thinks she’s easily qualified to check out customers at Puritan Foods, her local grocery store. At least it has to be ...

Practical Joker Mort McNulty hosts his own wake so that he can hear what people will say about him after he's dead, before he's dead. Mort's wife, Tri ...

Mary Todd Lincoln is an enigma to most people. All that is remembered of the woman is that she was a shrew and eventually was committed to an insane a ...

When Andy Ableson comes to the aid of his brother Milo in the dark, cramped confines of a small cave, the young men have an opportunity to examine the ...

Pastoralia brings to the stage New York Times best-selling author George Saunders' heartbreaking and hilarious vision of betrayal, l ...

Pearl Aris Norton and May Bouvier Lane are two 17-year-old recent high school graduates working at the local bowling alley and looking for romance. Vi ...

Let's get larger than life! When the biggest herd of cattle west of the Mississippi disappears during the worst drought in history, it's weird. But wh ...

Peg O'Connell doesn't know what she's getting into when, fresh off the boat from America with just a parcel of clothes and her mongrel dog, she arrive ...

Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 1952: 16-year-old Neely Cole struggles in the shadow of his much-admired older brother Aidan, who is off fighting a dist ...

Why does Maxine Lowe refuse to disclose her past when disclosure might clear her of the charge of murder? Why does the young prosecutor change her tac ...

This amusing farce written by a young couple who grew up in the professional theatre is exceptionally playable. The high school gang hates the boywond ...

Little did Lulu Barnes know or suspect that she would be caught up in an incredible series of events while delivering a bag of goodies to her granny. ...

Like all heroic myths, Perseus Bayou is the story of a young man's journey into the unknown. He faces trials, confronts deepest darkness but ...

In 1806, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a baronet, falls in love with Captain Wentworth, despite his lack of fortune and prospects. Against her heart, s ...

In this great tongue-in-cheek comedy/thriller, The Phantom of the Opera returns, guaranteed to terrify and delight even the boldest member of ...

Justin, an unimaginative middle-manager, is director of the Phoenix Dimension. He is doggedly loyal to this project, but younger employees are smart, ...

A plague of rats is not all that is wrong in Hamelin; in fact, the emphasis is on the failure of the adults to understand their children—a situation t ...

This play is really about children caught between the penny-pinching elders and the strange genius in the pied costume who played such enchanting musi ...

Snatches of poetry (෎Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand෎) found in a tiny box provide the inspiration for Pilgrims, a light-hea ...

The sounds of a future world find their voice in the distant past, as snatches of poetry (෎Good Pilgrim, you do wrong your hand෎) provide ...

Pill Hill examines the failures and successes as well as the relationships of six black steel mill workers in Chicago as they move from the blue-colla ...

Jan Morrow is a successful young interior decorator who is forced to share a party line with a man named Brad Allen. Brad is so frequently talking to ...

Danny and Alice could cheerfully die when their mother warns them Cousin Geraldine is coming. "Oh, no!" they moan. Geraldine is bossy, conceited, a go ...

Sound effects included on tape: howl/shots/scream/siren, footsteps, French music, chase music, organ chord, organ music, phone rings, doorbell, explos ...

The cast may be expanded by having different actors, male or female, play many additional small roles. The comic essence of the marvelous film with al ...

Good news! Here comes the most inventive version of Pinocchio ever. Take the hijinks of the commedia dell'arte, add those zany characters—inc ...

The puppet Pinocchio has one dream: he wants to be a real boy. But it seems he may never bring it off for he jumps from one piece of mischief into ano ...

This new CD is a wonderful tool to use with your show.#13#10#13#10SFX and Original Incidental Music Tracks#13#10#1 ...

After all his years on government relief and benefits, Pop Kwimper figures he is part of the government. Aside from Pop, there's Toby Kwimper and the ...

Hans Christian Andersen himself frames four classic tales with the fabulous story of his own "ugly duckling" life.#13#10#13#10

This funny and poignant play takes place in the mind, memory and imagination of Stuart, a 17-year-old high-school senior who has recently attempted to ...

The U.S. has fallen under the dictatorship of a new militant breed led by a war hero president. John Rush, a homosexual, has found himself imprisoned ...

The first girl into outer space, Abbie Anderson of Peach Grove, Pennsylvania, is on her way to Venus as Earth's goodwill ambassador. Suddenly her rock ...

An easy-to-read, practical handbook explaining everything you need to know about producing sketches, plays and musicals. Written especially for minist ...

For new and veteran play directors, here is a comprehensive, practical guide to producing student theater packed with tested tips, timesavers and prob ...

A death camp is the crucible in which Arthur Miller seeks human definition from the literal and spiritual meltdown. Fania, a musician with a thrilling ...

Playing Juliet. In this play-within-a-play, the New Vistas Theatre Company sets out to put on Romeo and Juliet with its multi ...

In Playing Period Plays, Lyn Oxenford, Professor, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, presents aspects of producing and acting period plays. Acting a ...

A rookie ghost gets tips from a pro; a good Samaritan meets with resistance; love blooms on a phone-sex line; a woman relives a harrowing night; the b ...

This book was written by a high-school teacher specifically for beginning playwrights. Writers who wish to tackle a play will find the down-to-earth l ...

All men are brothers. All women are sisters. We are members of one human family. This is the American dream which must be renewed with each passing ge ...

A bright young man, Tom, has met an attractive young woman, Judy, and has obtained her telephone number. He tries to call her for a date. Alas, he rea ...

This play has two marvelous roles. The first is a widower who dreams for years of spending his retirement in Florida. He has his plane ticket, his fis ...

Our response to art is subjective. Is our reaction to art really based on the work itself, or on the "politically correct" values of our times? Portra ...

During the windstorm of the century, ten-year-old Lucy and her fourteen-year-old sister, Terroba, find themselves marooned alone in Gramma's old house ...

Hours ago, Nick lost a scholarship contest. Now he's lying motionless in a dark room and when Jackie, the winner of the contest, arrives to give him h ...

Agatha Christie is spoofed hilariously as a respectable murder mystery turns into a farcical game of illusion and reality. Colonel Winthrop Wiggins an ...

Five daughters to marry off! Was ever a mother as put upon as Mrs. Bennet? Jane falls deeply in love with the wealthy Mr. Bingley, and it looks as if ...

A comedy spoof in which parodies of the television prime-time crime fighters all descent on Shropshire Manor, nearly knocking each other down as each, ...

When Prince Edward changes clothes with Tom Canty, the beggar boy, no one in the audience will have difficulty in telling the actors apart, but throug ...

The time is 1502 to 1527. As the play opens we are at the famous first midnight meeting between Niccolò Machiavelli, the shy but brilliant first secre ...

#13#10The Princess and the Pea: (2m., 5w., 1m. or w.). This retellin ...

Princess Chloe is now old enough to marry any prince brave enough and lucky enough to slay the dragon. At least that's the tradition—but Princess Chlo ...

A Promise Is a Promise, a very special story adapted from an Inuit legend, is a lyrical and powerfully imagistic piece. Allashua is a 10-year-old Inui ...

Quazimodo! is a modern version of a classic story, adding humor and contemporary perspective, a play about the grotesquely beautiful and the beautiful ...

This realistic, award-winning script deals with the issue of teenage peer pressure in a drug-oriented society. Overlooking an unseen cemetery, Sheila ...

This play for very young audiences is based on a charming southern folktale. It tells the story of Little Rabbit, who envies all the other animals he ...

Sound effects included on tape: intro music, sermon music, letter a, letter b, letter c, letter d, letter e, letter f, letter g, letter h, letter i, g ...

In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them beg ...

Rainy Day People takes a comic look at love, sex and other antidepressants. Zack Wallis has turned misery into a paycheck, writing a wildly p ...

When the U.S. Army decides to establish a missile base at Putnam's Landing, problems explode. Lt. Guido DiMaggio, a hometown boy, has been appointed p ...

Unpredictable. Exasperating. Boisterous and independent. That's Ramona Quimby for you. Always aggravating her older sister, Beezus, constantly getting ...

Based on O'Henry's humorous classic about Bill and Sam who make the mistake of kidnaping a brat known as "Red." Brought up by a skinflint uncle and me ...

Rappaccini's Daughter is a one-act study of romance, mystery and horror. Giovanni, a university student, has rented a room overlooking Dr. Rappaccini' ...

This is a play concerning the emotional problems of young people that requires only a bare stage and a few representational props. In spite of a warni ...

Sound effects included on tape: siren, again siren, car horn (set of three), planetarium music into morning song, door slam, alarm clock ringing, "chi ...

The author of the television series The Rebel presents his character, Johnny Yuma, in an original stage adaptation placing him in the thick o ...

The sudden violence of murder erupts at an English house party. To the police, it's obviously just another case of sibling rivalry. But a guest is sus ...