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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 ...

Set in Northern Ireland during the troubles of recent memory, two women, one Protestant and one Catholic, sit down in the outdoor section of a bake ...

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 ...

A magical family show for mixed age or youth groups. The spirit of the original tale is retained and offers great theatrical scope: dance; mime; hu ...

Horrible Hilda sets out to destroy the show by mixing up characters from several pantomimes and creating a Beast to frighten everyone. Amid the usu ...

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, ...

Becoming Eleanor dramatizes the events that shaped the early life and character of Eleanor of Aquitaine from ages 15 to 29. Considered the most ext ...

A Play for Lent and Easter in 3 Acts, suitable for church or stage production with or without scenery. The author dramatises in simple moder ...

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 ...

A moving drama. Daniel was paralysed by an accident as a teenager, but the pending marriage of his younger brother James forces the family to re- ...

Becky and her embarrassingly over-the-top father, Roy, have never gotten along, so when she brings her first high-school boyfriend home to meet h ...

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 ...

This compelling pyschological drama starts off as a light comedy with a mother and daughter discussing the wedding they have just attended. The moo ...

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 ...

The play opens in 1835 and shows the decline and fall of Branwell Bronte and the rise and triumph of Charlotte. Characterisation is the keynote t ...

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 hom ...

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 ...