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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 ...

Martin and Sharon have been trying unsuccessfully for two years to conceive a baby by IVF treatment. We see them packing up to move to a new home, ...

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 • 3. tick-tock / rooster • 4. doorbell • 5. wind • 6. storm / seagulls • 7. sea ...

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 ...

A delightful and faithful adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal story with suggestions for songs. A novel Christmas pantomime or an ideal children ...

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 contestant ...

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 contestant ...

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 ...

This is the best known of Labiche's innumerable comedies. Monsieur Perrichon and his family are going on holiday. His troubles begin at the station ...

"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 ...

Miss Bishop, old and almost blind, leads a lonely life until a stranger invades her home. A friendship grows between them, but her new-found happ ...

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. N ...

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. N ...

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 ...

A group of women meet every Tuesday in the park. Today, Mrs Addams and Mrs Carlisle are troubled. If only the late Mrs Merryweather was there to ...

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 ...

Struggling artist Payne Showers finally gets his Big Break. He dies. Fortunately, Payne's death greatly inflates the value of his work. Unfortunate ...

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෾ ...

A bustling college campus has impressive classrooms and other attractive features, but the Frog Fountain, which hasn't seen a live frog in ages, is ...

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 ...