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Plays

EAST OF THE SUN

In a castle East of the Sun (a little off center, that is) Ancilla, the power-hungry Ice Witch, is assisted by her reluctant servant Hob, in performin ...

EASY SKITS, BLACKOUTS AND PANTOMIMES

Fifteen striking and popular skits, blackouts and pantomimes by various authors. Some may be given impromptu, and the selection ranges from a pantomim ...

EAT (IT'S NOT ABOUT FOOD)

EAT (It's Not About Food) dramatizes the dangerous and baffling world of eating disorders in girls and boys. Candidly exploring causes and wa ...

EATING CHICKEN FEET

"Ms. Chen's dramatic imagination is obviously unusual. More important, it is always unpredictable," writes the New York Times of this dark comedy abou ...

ECHOES

Vaughn McBride is a superior playwright who has worked for years with the Actors Theatre of Louisville and as a teacher and mentor to young playwright ...

ED OPUS (REX)

Based roughly on the intricate plot of Oedipus Rex, this comedy/farce relates the adventures of Ed Opus, beloved and loving student body president of ...

EDITOR'S CHOICE: AUDITION MONOLOGUES FOR MEN

This collection of more than 40 monologues for men will provide you with just what you need for your audition. Never before collected into one volume, ...

EDITOR'S CHOICE: AUDITION MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN

This is the audition monologue book you've been waiting for! This new collection of more than 40 monologues for women was compiled exclusively from Dr ...

EDWARD, THE OWL AND THE CALICO CAT

Edward is a bossy little boy who likes to make up funny words. He lives on a cliff above the ocean with his cat named Grace, whom he pushes around onc ...

THE EGG AND I

"Chickens?" gasps Betty MacDonald when her husband Don buys a little farm in the mountains. "Who, us?" shriek teenage Anne and Joan when asked to help ...

THE EIGHTH ORDER

The time is the 1930s and the place: a small Midwestern town. Charlotte Steele, a down-to-earth single parent struggling to support herself and her tw ...

EINSTEIN

This play, which toured nationally to rave reviews, presents the private, personal, and deeply human side of this great genius, the reluctant celebrit ...

EL QUINTO SOL

"El Quinto Sol presenta la vida de Oscar Arnulfo Romero desde el momento de su instalación como arzo-bispo de El Salvadore...hasta el día en que fue a ...

ELECTRIC CITY SUITE (A COLLECTION OF SIX RADIO PLA

Electric City Suite is a cycle of six one-act plays originally written for radio and telling the story of a quirky Scranton, Pennsylvania, snack de ...

ELSEWHERE IN ELSINORE THE UNSEEN WOMEN OF HAMLET

What are the women of Elsinore Castle doing while Hamlet plots revenge? Elsewhere in Elsinore: The Unseen Women of Hamlet is a play in verse ...

THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER

In this fanciful and charming reframing of the traditional story of the shoemaking elves, the central character is Gunther, an old shoemaker. War rage ...

ELVIS PEOPLE

No performer before or since has had the impact of Elvis Presley, from the first groundbreaking appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" to Las Vegas t ...

THE EMERALD CIRCLE

While shooting baskets in his driveway, Dave, 14, continues to face the emotional and psychological effects of a violent attack. The trauma occurred w ...

EMMA

"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans." Jane Austen never wrote those words, but she proves them conclusively in Emma, her comic ...

ENCOUNTER

This experimental piece marks the first full play of this new, young playwright since her first monologues and scenes found in Glimpses. The work stro ...

THE ENGAGEMENT

Tony, Pat, Jeffery and Tom have been bachelor friends for years. They hang out, go to ball games and nightclubs, and take vacations together. Everythi ...

ENTRIES

This is the story of a young Colombian-American man who undergoes a journey of self-discovery in the Amazon rain forest. Jorge has traveled to Colombi ...

ERIC AND ELLIOT

Eric and Elliot is the story of a familyීs journey toward healing following a devastating suicide. The title characters are brothers wh ...

ERIC LARUE

Janice LaRue is the mother of Eric, a 15-year-old boy who shot and killed three of his classmates in school. Now, three months after Eric has been jai ...

EVA'S STORY

In March 1938 the Germans invaded Austria and young Eva Geiringer and her family became refugees. Like many Jews they fled to Amsterdam where they hid ...

EVERYBODY'S CHRISTMAS PROGRAMS

Here is that big Christmas collection for which you have been asking—enough material for many years to come. Whether yours is a kindergarten class or ...

EVERYDAY HEROES

Kurt and Win Lawrence have spent their young lives taking care of their alcoholic mother. When a devastating fire decimates their home, the younger br ...

EVERYMAN/EVERYWOMAN

The old morality play in which Everyman (or Everywoman) suddenly faces Death has been made into a new play in which the medieval speech gives way to t ...

EVERYTHING IS NOT ENOUGH

It's the summer before Michael's senior year and his life is all mapped out for him: winters in the suburbs, summers at the beach, the 'right' majo ...

EVERYTHING'S RELATIVE

Matthew and Christine Dish can't take it anymore. This double-income-no-kids couple decides to drop out of the rat race and move to Olympia, Wash., "w ...

EVIL LITTLE THOUGHTS

As one critic describes the recent premiere at the Denver Center Theatre, "Watching the play uncoil like a spring is a delight. Very quickly the audie ...

EV'RY TIME I FEEL THE SPIRIT

Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit celebrates the life and voice of African-American contralto Marian Anderson. Taking place on the eve of the Firs ...

EXCAVATING MOM

Mallory McKay is a precocious child of divorce who hasn't seen her mother in over two years. Judith McKay, a renowned paleontologist and director of a ...

EYES UPON THE CROSS