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This is the heroic story of one of the great female pioneers of psychoanalysis, who profoundly influenced both Freud and Jung until her tragic death a ...

This one-hour version of the eloquent and exciting play Black Elk Speaks was developed for the Rocky Mountain High School Tour presented by the Denver ...

This rollicking farce of the Old West unfolds in Miss Katy's saloon. In a fast-paced poker game, to the accompaniment of rinky-tinky piano renditions ...

Sammy Carducci isn't your normal sort of kid. For one thing, he wears a suit to school, along with high-top sneakers to show that he's still one of th ...

Santa's mischievous elves forgot to get Santa's own Christmas tree. So Santa sends them out to find the "most beautiful one of all." Meanwhile, all th ...

Sara is an unusual child. She speaks Hindustani, French and English, has read almost every book in her father's library and uses fantasy to imagine he ...

Sarah is a vulnerable, dreamy, creative teen who has experienced more than her share of tragedies. One of these was the death of her sister Molly. As ...

Set in the early 1900s, this play brings to life the charming, heartwarming story of a Kansas farmer, Jacob Witting, a widower with two children—Anna ...

It made all the headlines 30 years ago. Only one camp counselor was found alive when the police went out the next morning, and she hasn't spoken a wor ...

An extraordinary book with text, stage business and photographs, diagrams and interviews

Hawthorne's masterpiece of character under stress lends itself dramatically to a stage presentation—for we see the men smile knowingly at the scarlet ...

This contemporary anthology contains over 125 challenging and entertaining roles written for young actors of middle and high school age. The book is g ...

Scraps springs to life in mid-girlhood, created from a patchwork quilt and born of Dr. Pipt's magic powder of life. The strange doctor contrived her a ...

Screwtape, a senior devil from hell, has delegated some authority to a junior fiend, Wormwood, whose assignment is to seize the soul of a very human a ...

Mary Magdalene has come to the church to confess. She finds little in the way of forgiveness as the judges can only see the law and the danger, never ...

Adapted by Ms. Bennett from her best-selling novel, this multiple award winner evokes laughter and tears. Middle-schooler Darcy has a tough home life. ...

Adapted by Ms. Bennett from her best-selling novel, this multiple award winner evokes laughter and tears. Middle-schooler Darcy has a tough home life. ...

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When longtime widow Connie D'Amato decides to take a foster child, she gets a whole lot more than she bargained for. Instead of the the 10-year-old "S ...

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Poor Harvey faces his first day at a brand new school, where things look none too inviting. The cool kids have staked out their territory on the playg ...

Madame Defarge is one of Dickens' supreme villainesses. Her secret drives her to seek a revenge so strong that it ties her to the French revolution ...

A new teacher, the enigmatic "Mrs. I," quickly sets a class of unruly students in order, claiming she began her teaching career as a 14-year-old girl ...

Arthur Franklin is dangerously depressed. His boss has just fired him, his wife is filing for divorce. Emotionally disoriented, he wanders into an art ...

Rob Radkovitz, a high-school senior, is assigned to write his autobiography. He decides to ෎listen෎ back on his life and hears his grandmo ...

This beautiful book is the first directory to compile information about the troupes, professionals, and resources which are contributing to the field ...

At the dawn of the Regency, two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, are thrust into poverty by their brotherීs scheming and manipulative wife. Reduced ...

At the dawn of the Regency, two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, are thrust into poverty by their brother's scheming and manipulative wife. Reduced to li ...

John Knowles' classic tale of two high-school boys standing on the threshold of war and adulthood comes to the stage. Gene Forrester is a careful, stu ...

September Shoes is a visually evocative, lyrical play about four people in search of redemption. On a visit to their childhood home in the de ...

Seth is struggling to come to terms with the divorce of his parents, and his fears come to life in his dreams񗝄from singing lunch ladies who se ...

Acollection of plays for children by Lev Ustinov, Russia's greatest modern writer in this field.#13#10#13#10Expertly translated into English, ...

As Spalding Gray summed it up best, “Sex and Death to the Age 14 is basically about the death of goldfish and masturbation.” Gray takes us through his ...

Michael is so obsessed with his old girlfriend, Lisa, that he allows her weekly visits to his apartment which she strips, piece by piece, of his posse ...

Neil and Melanie have just bought their dream "starter" home in Shady Meadows, a brand-new subdivision built over a wetland. At first they think they ...

By taking the most famous scenes and monologues from the canon of Shakespearean works and presenting them in a contemporary style, new and often remar ...

Cass Foster and Lynn Johnson have created an excellent resource for teaching or directing Shakespeare. This book is filled with great ideas for differ ...

Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery is the story of a young black girl's coming of age in the South in the 1960s. Daughter, the main character and 25-year-o ...

Late on an October evening in 1850, Fanny Kemble bursts into her Manhattan parlor—terrified and angry. Her former husband has published a scurrilous a ...

Late on an October evening in 1850, Fanny Kemble bursts into her Manhattan parlor—terrified and angry. Her former husband has published a scurrilous a ...

Mr. Hastings has gone to the country with his best friend to meet Kate, his future wife whom he has never met. Because of a practical joke, the young ...

Each member of the Lovell family has become so preoccupied with his or her own agenda that no one realizes Elisabeth can go for hours without speaking ...

St. Francis returns to us to stage the first Christmas pageant. When he learns that the shepherds don't know the story of Bethlehem and that the lord ...

Martin and Sharon seem to be very much in love, as they get ready for one of Martin's beloved karaoke competitions. But as the harmless banter turn ...

This suave, intrepid, deep-thinking sleuth, who also happens to be a direct descendant of the great Sherlock Holmes, goes to Filmville where he hobnob ...

Holmes and Watson travel north to unravel a double mystery which involves Irene Adler, the only woman to outwit Holmes. There is a murder, and Holm ...

The blackmailing chief purser of a cruise ship is poisoned. Ahmet Altumi, chief inspector of the Istanbul police (and, surprisingly, an Episcopali ...

Act One: Paris 1937, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, the Bogie and Bacall of the Intelligentsia, make a vow to always be each other's "necess ...

This delightful new anthology of short plays offers a wide variety of challenging roles for men and women over the age of fifty-five. Short Stuff dram ...

A tree that resents its roots and a bird with the worst singing voice in the history of the avian species are the delightful characters in this qui ...

If you're looking for the lure of the Old West, you'll find intrigue when a series of mysterious disappearances ends in murder—and romance—when wild w ...

David, a 16-year-old runaway, has been picked up off the street for a crime he didn't commit. At the Social Service Department, David is interrogated ...

Doyleීs classic tale is equal parts love story and baffling mystery: Why is governess Mary Morstan񗝄in mourning for the disappearance of ...

"The narrowing world of Paul Hasleman" is the description of the locale of this play about a sensitive high-school student whose addiction to daydream ...

Italy, towards the end of World War II. The dust has not yet settled over Europe: there are corpses still unburied. Here and there, fanatics unwilling ...

Fairy Liquid gives Simple Simon a brain transplant and soon everyone knows of his intelligence, including Kermit-a-crime, a highwayman who devises ...

This wildly funny play tells the story of Maria, a young, precocious Latina aspiring to be an actor, and her dream of going to college. The story begi ...

The Europeans who settled in the Appalacian mountains brought with them their stories of hapless Jack of English tales, the antics of Irish fairies an ...

Taking place in the white heat of Tangiers, this richly textured play deals with a man's desperate attempt to save his wife from death. In order to fr ...

Sor Juana In覡z de la Cruz, one of the first published poets of the Americas, was born in Mexico in 1648, a poor and illegitimate child. She bec ...

Alain Sire de Maletroit has set a clever trap to capture the man who is sending love letters to his beautiful niece Blanche. Near her room, he has con ...

Sixty-Minute Shakespeare is an ideal alternative for those who lack the time or means to tackle the unabridged versions of the world's most w ...

Sixty-Minute Shakespeare is an ideal alternative for those who lack the time or means to tackle the unabridged versions of the world's most w ...

Sixty-Minute Shakespeare is an ideal alternative for those who lack the time or means to tackle the unabridged versions of the world's most w ...

Sixty-Minute Shakespeare is an ideal alternative for those who lack the time or means to tackle the unabridged versions of the world's most w ...

Sixty-Minute Shakespeare is an ideal alternative for those who lack the time or means to tackle the unabridged versions of the world's most w ...

Sixty-Minute Shakespeare is an ideal alternative for those who lack the time or means to tackle the unabridged versions of the world's most w ...

Sixty-Minute Shakespeare is an ideal alternative for those who lack the time or means to tackle the unabridged versions of the world's most w ...

Chelsea Logan is an artist struggling with the conflict between her growing celebrity and her Amish upbringing, which she left behind to pursue her am ...

This new translation/adaptation of Moliere's classic comedy, The Miser, is set in the opulent court of King Louis XIV at the palace of Versai ...

Zeder has created this 40-minute version of her full-length play with high-school production and competition in mind. This new translation/adaptation ...

Drawn from historical sources about the Atlantic slave trade, this play follows the journey of a young American slave who is tricked into serving on a ...

To save Princess Beauty from marrying the wrong prince, her old Nanny lets her prick her finger and the spell begins. The hubbub of wedding preparatio ...

Burton LeParge, secret agent extraordinaire, is taking a break to romance the exotic Antoinette. But wait! Complications arise as secret agent Burton ...

Emily desperately wants to play the lead in her high school's production of Romeo and Juliet. Instead, she gets a one-line, four-word role. N ...

Johnathan rips his britches as he and Toby sneak off to see a ball game. Ducking for cover into Millie McIvor's dress shop, they convince Millie and i ...

Dashaun Johnston and Corey Tyler are 12-year-old black boys who seem unlikely friends: Dashaun can barely make it through the school day without getti ...

The voices of these young playwrights offer a new theatrical kaleidoscope of short pieces, but in this latest work from Walden Theatre, there's a new ...

The Kansas City Star called the premiere of this play "...a first-rate new comedy... an unqualified delight..a wonderfully entertaining play." What ha ...

Can anyone steal happiness? Living in an ice palace of dazzling beauty, the queen watches two earth children, Kay and Gerda, who live in a cozy attic ...

First produced at the Portland, Oregon, Junior Civic Theatre, this version of the famous fairy tale broke all box office records for two years. The pr ...

All the characters you love are here: Snow White; the seven funny little men; the absent-minded king, King Absent Minded; Bella, his new wife, part qu ...

This highly theatrical adaptation is loyal to Hemingway's epic story and imaginatively turns the interior nature of the work inside out. Act I begins ...

Based on compiled experiences of drama students, Dr. Laughlin's book offers practical and encouraging suggestions for the young actor. The book unfold ...

Betty Brown is so "into" soap operas that she actually transfers herself from Midwestern Tech's student lounge into the television screen and the upro ...

This latest play from John O'Brien deals with a terrible problem of today—the acts of terrorism against innocents which the terrorists perceive as jus ...

A light-hearted, high-energy look at one eventful day in the life of fourth-grader Samantha, the new girl in town, who has lost her beloved cat, Corky ...

somebody's children introduces us to five teenagers who are part of a subculture that isn't shown or explored in the media in any depth. These kids ...

In the middle of the night, our unexpressed hopes, needs and fears can possess us, and there are times when all of us lie awake in the dark, feeling v ...

It sure is hard to be humble when you’re a swashbuckling, egocentric super-hero. But our gallant guy-in-green tries his best as he swaggers through < ...

There are problems at home and Gabby is sent to his grandfather on a tiny South Pacific island for the summer. On Satawal, Gabby's blind grandfather, ...

The little church group is about to broadcast when they find the angel for their pageant is missing. The director rushes off to find a substitute and ...

A sorcerer’s lazy apprentice is commanded by his master to clean the shop while he is away, and if the shop isn’t cleaned by the time he returns, exac ...

The Soul Collector is the story of two African-American sanitation workers in Cleveland, Ohio, 1972. Cedric and his nephew, Darnell, collect items ...

Sounds of Silents is a celebration of the birth of movies and the early days of the famous Essanay silent film studio, whose illustrious cell ...

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These twelve short scenes and monologues create a vivid emotional tapestry of the South today. Experience the charm and vigor of old Dixie, as the ess ...

In a small town a few hours outside of Birmingham, six little girls play together. As teenagers, however, the bonds of childhood begin to fray and the ...

Stories Left to Tell catapults us into the hilarious, provocative and heartbreaking life and words of one of the most irreverent and revered ...

Re-nata and Maria have questions about their future. Who doesn’t? But when Renata convinces Maria to hold a séance, the girls get more than they barga ...

This adaptation of Dickens' A Christmas Carol was selected by the Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis. It is especially suited to the needs of high sch ...

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

Dialects include: (CD #351) Japanese, Standard English, American Southern; (CD #352) New York (Brooklyn), Cockney, Irish, Scottish; (CD #353) French, ...

Here is the updated and revised third edition of Stagecraft 1. Material has been added to cover the history of the physical theatre, the operation of ...

Here is the updated teacher's guide (with accompanying CD) for the revised third edition of Stagecraft 1. Material has been added to cover the history ...

Here is the updated workbook for the revised third edition of Stagecraft 1. Material has been added to cover the history of the physical theatre, the ...

This wonderful spoof of The Method, and even Actor's Studio itself, concerns the students of a dramatic academy awaiting a famous artist who will gues ...

Stardust won the 2007 Nantucket Short Play Competition and was deemed by its literary manager as "one of the very best treatments of high-sch ...

The original book by Phil Stong caught the American imagination because it so beautifully portrayed one of the most enjoyable aspects of our life, a b ...

"Sticks 'n stones/ May break my bones/ But names will never hurt me." The "names" used here, however, are to prove more devastating than "sticks 'n st ...

The excitement, maneuvers and comedy of the Paul Newman/Robert Redford screen triumph have been brilliantly adapted for stage production by one of the ...

A one-act musical version of the old folk tale with a good lesson about trust and ingenuity. Three starving soldiers, cut off from their company, ente ...

A garden comes to life to tell a number of fantastic stories that took place there including: The Selfish Giant, The Nightingale and the ...

"In his harrowing but beautiful Strands, young playwright Eric L. Wilson unravels and reweaves the whole of black men's experience in America ...

Chicago. The Loop. A troubled woman, edgy about a vital meeting she must face, feels an irrational need to find the small theatrical hotel that she re ...

As in Orwells' 1984, there are chilling science fiction aspects to this unusual play. The time is the future with gigantic cities and an artificial ex ...

A huge anthology of pantomime scripts suited to situations in which the performer(s) must do the hardest pantomime of all—create a theatre, a stage, a ...

This is the endearing classic about a mouse named Stuart Little who is born into an ordinary New York family. All the charm, wisdom and joy of the ...

This is the endearing classic about a mouse named Stuart who is born into an ordinary New York family. All the charm, wisdom and joy of the E.B. Wh ...

Some boy is always getting stuck with an awful "lemon" for his date at the annual dance. The boys have decided to establish a consolation prize to be ...

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How well do you know your neighbors? subURBAN Stories, a piece of documentary theater, uncovers the secret histories of six neighbors񗝄 ...

Andy is an aspiring actor who has tried to succeed on the New York stage while his wife Rosalie worked as a waitress. Andy's father offers him the fam ...

Walter Hebert waits nervously in the dark for his adversary. He stalks his prey and, at the same time, he knows he's being stalked himself. This hilar ...

In this Southern Gothic comedy of romance, murder and alien abduction, the Nettle sisters are determined to escape spinsterhood񗝄Willie Mae by ...

Strong, handsome, aspiring writer, young Jack London debarks from a hell-ship, North Star, commanded by vicious Captain Diequest, with a diar ...

Like The Lottery, this macabre tale makes use of the rural New England setting and the cryptic, taciturn inhabitants of that area. Its two pr ...

Just outside Eternity, the Soul of a girl meets the Clay and the Spirit. She longs to return to Earth where the doctors are working to save her. The C ...

This play is set in London, 1896, in a prison cell housed in the Manchu Embassy. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, a leader of the Young China revolutionary movement, ...

This play is set in London, 1896, in a prison cell housed in the Manchu Embassy. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, a leader of the Young China revolutionary movement, ...

Sisters Charl, Nat and Ray are three African-American women who have chosen very different paths. Nat, the eldest, is a schoolteacher who lives for th ...

"Other days," Mildred says, "are chock full of busy work. Psychiatric therapy. Occupational therapy. Recreational therapy. On Sunday, there's nothing& ...

Three classic fairy tales (The Three Little Pigs, The Three Billy Goats Gruff and Goldilocks and the Three Bears) begin in ...

Delia, a teenage girl from New York City, moves to a small town after her father (a teacher) is killed in a school shooting. In her new high school, D ...

In this signature piece and his most political work, Gray refers to himself as a "poetic reporter." After six months of filming the movie The Kill ...