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"Richard Vetere fancifully plays with the notion that young Captain Hale was in fact a deserter and running home to mom when he was captured by the Br ...

Brave Half-Pint comes West to avenge the death of his father, Pint Windom. He foils the villain, rescues beauty in distress and wins coy Tess to the c ...

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado. Cast: 3m., 1w. Driven by his burning desire to avenge his family’s suffering an ...

William Shakespeare was big on what can happen if you make the wrong move. And in his world that meant letting greed, jealousy, power and revenge get ...

Brilliantly cut by director Albert Pia, who is famous for his highly successful high school presentations of Shakespeare, this 45-minute arrangeme ...

In the year 2081 everybody is finally equal. And if they're not, the Handicapper General equips them with devices to make sure they are. George Berger ...

Charlotte Chorpenning has taken the Grimm Brothers' story and given it a poetic beauty that brings a value to its young audience. Her treatment of the ...

In this story of Hansel and Gretel the white bird and the little gnome, under the spell of the wicked Witch, are forced to coax children away ...

Julien Thaddeus Springer—J.T. for short—tries to make it as an athlete and, even more importantly, he tries to make it as a person who might interest ...

This collection of seven Christmas comedies has something for everyone! Some are religious oriented, others highlight the secular side of the holiday ...

This play is a beautifully lyrical and faithful adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic fairy tale. Commissioned by the Kennedy Center for the Performing ...

Poor Harlequin is caught in the middle in this contemporary farce using the commedia characters. Leander wants Isabelle, but Isabelle wants a wedding. ...

Harvest Moon is a full-length play about Mariluz, a Chicana muralist dying of cancer who paints a mural for her son, telling the story of the ...

A drama teacher has announced tryouts for the senior play. An old man, a former custodian, appears and warns her that the play must not be given. The ...

One summer night four friends enter the abandoned, dark mansion that overlooks their town. Once inside, their imaginations and their fears guide them ...

Set in the all-important year of 2000, He Held Me Grand focuses on one American family and 100 years of its history. Music, secrets, humor, t ...

Hedy Grier, an African-American woman, has just buried her grandmother, Maxine. With no ties, Hedy uproots herself, sells her Harlem brownstone, and e ...

This story of Heidi, the little orphan girl who brings new hope to everyone her life touches, glows even more endearingly today than it has for genera ...

Welcome to Klickitat Street, home of Henry Higgins, his faithful dog Ribsy, Ramona the Pest, and her long-suffering sister Beezus. Newbery Award-winni ...

All Mary MacKillop wanted was to live the dream. But to others-the staunch male hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church - she was a nightmare. What ...

This play is unusual in every way—in subject matter, manner of presentation, and the way in which it seems to move from "performance to reality." It t ...

Heubner, a starving beggar in a downtrodden village, awakes from a troubling dream of war and destruction to find that part of his dream has followed ...

Modern (1930's) mining drama.  Very popular drama for four men and a boy trapped at the coat face in a mining disaster.  Perusal ...

It's Christmas Eve day during the era of the Great Depression in a rural mountain area where families struggle to keep body and soul together. Mise ...

The Highest Heaven is intended for families and young audiences. The play's themes explore the Drepression, butterflies, hobos, Mexico, growi ...

"Remember the satire? Well it's back, and incredibly potent in Hillary and Soon-Yi Shop for Ties." (Contra Costa Times) This Garland ...

Christmas Eve has come to the Ozarks. Widow Hinckley is closing in on Joshua, a lazy, bad-tempered mountaineer. She brings him a bedraggled Christmas ...

Here is a complete how-to book for successful presentation of old-time melodramas. Randall and Bushnell, authors of a number of acclaimed "mellers," h ...

A prime-time television crime show features two young female cops in the leading roles, and with the show getting high ratings, the girls are not only ...

Known on television as The Waltons, they're called The Spencers in the original book, which is how they're named here. The time is the Great Depressio ...

Marian Thorncraft is looking forward to her honeymoon with new hubby, Tyler. She pictures someplace romantic, secluded and cozy. No sooner have her fe ...

This dramatic staging of the haunting Japanese classic has been hailed by distinguished theatre educators. A young fisherman rescues a venerable turtl ...

Complete with a bum, a town cop and a local brat, this show unfolds in the park of Maple Springs, Missouri, around 1900. Painter Alison longs to take ...

Horse-Scents is exactly the kind of show you would expect to take place at Chip and Patty's Perfume Emporium, Rooming House, and Manure Museum. C.B. S ...

17 Songs from Hotel d'Amour ACT ONE (1) Overt ...

This simpliefied version contains all the cosy warmth of Holmes' rooms in Baker Street, the stark drama of the moors and the original, colourful ca ...

Sherlock Holmes and his faithful sidekick, Dr. John Watson, have left on an extended holiday throughout Europe, leaving their nieces—Shirley Holmes ...

Glen Martin, a 70-something widower in failing health, stubbornly resists his daughter's attempts to get him to sell his home and move in with her ...

Early America springs to life in this engaging stage adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel. This literate and lively play follows the demi ...

During the eight days that she waits for a pathology report Mary Margaret, a young librarian for a symphony orchestra, struggles to string together li ...

"Most young playwrights nowadays want to learn 'how to' write a play. This seems to me to be a mistake." Thus begins the first chapter of Walter Kerr' ...

"Auditions are unavoidable" is the sum-up of Broadway producer Hal Prince. As this applies as much to high school productions as it does to stock and ...

This helpful how-to book was written by a man uniquely qualified to know the actual problems of high school directors and to present simple solutions ...

Thirty-something Artie has not been out with a woman since his wife died. His friend Stan lives at home with his mother, dates three times a week and ...

Here is a practical, professional, no-nonsense "how to" book that tells you the truth about making it in the incredibly difficult field of show busine ...

Here is The Complete Production Handbook. Do you want to make a $1200 set for $100? This handbook tells you how. The authors have produced over 200 pl ...

Hubie is the hardworking intellectual college student. His roommate, Alvin, is the girl-loving, girl-chasing jock. It seems to Hubie that Alvin always ...

Abruptly—without warning—early one sometime, Hucklebee is rudely awakened and ordered to begin the journey of his life—the journey that is his life: t ...

It's always Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer when there's real mischief afoot, with Old Man River in the background. Here the threat is a pair of smooth-tongu ...

Humpty-Dumpty Is Missing! is an affectionate spoof of the private-eye thrillers of the 1940s and '50s and an exciting, funfilled way to intro ...

A lion roams across the country. An anchorwoman bursts through a TV screen for a bite of apple pie. The FBI lurks in the microwave. A lamb wanders the ...