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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 ...

Cinderella and company get together for tea and sympathy, 30 years after Happily Ever After - they are due for a new set of happy endings. ...

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 til ...

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 ...

It's October, and members of the high-school drama club are preparing for auditions for their fall production. Emily (white), the most talented mem ...

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 ...