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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 ...

Cell phones, Facebook, cutting-edge shopping carts—all the latest gadgets that bewitch and bedevil us—are addressed in this comic collection of 10- ...

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 ...

Vocalists: Tammy Mader (Dominique), Heidi Kettenring (Fatiguée) Band: Gregg Opelka (piano/synths)

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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Storytelling Snake takes us on a trip to Imagine Nation on the shores of the Whim Sea. There, all the animals attend Zooville School and take their ...

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 ...

Young, impetuous, 16-year-old Rosemarie Healey has been on a collision course with her strict father for a year. At her 16th birthday party, things ...

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 ...

Rural seacoast Maine, 1873: 14-year-old Sadie Coggins, upon completing her studies at the local one-room school, finds her ambitions for attending ...

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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 ...