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The La Llorona story is similar to the Greek Medea myth. La Llorona means "woman who cries." Though there are variations to this story, the oldest ora ...

This is a festive holiday treat for the entire family to enjoy. Aurelio and Anita, an elderly Mexican-American couple, prepare their home to receive g ...

A recent high-school graduate, Hercules Fitch, has been drafted by the CIA. Originally plopped in the mailroom, our mythically named hero finds himsel ...

The Tower of London provides the setting for this provocative play. Two cleaning women come to scrub down a forgotten room and are visited by the spir ...

This modern adaptation of one of the world's greatest theatrical classics tells the story of the young and beautiful Parisian courtesan Marguerite Gau ...

When Elizabeth's mother dies, it upsets the balance of an already fragile family. Elizabeth and her father can't get along. Elizabeth and her sister c ...

When Elizabeth's mother dies, it upsets the balance of an already fragile family. Elizabeth and her father can't get along. Elizabeth and her sister c ...

Larry has had it! No longer capable of enduring the pressures of being a responsible husband, an understanding father, and a productive employee, Larr ...

Sally and Beth, fresh out of art school, live in a crowded attic in Greenwich Village. Determined to break through the barriers of a male-dominated ar ...

"Last Lists of My Mad Mother is a hilarious, often touching look at the toll Alzheimer's disease takes on a parent-child relationship. It mag ...

The Last Touchy-Feely Drama on the American Stage: 5m (3 roles could be played by ...

David Rogers, who also wrote Flowers for Algernon, has turned this popular novel into a touching, hard-hitting play that probes beneath the surface of ...

This is the third in the exciting series of anthology-theatre evenings of powerful and honest writings by high-school students about their own lives, ...

In their poorest winter ever, when the crops have been devastated by locusts and the family must deal with the death of baby Freddie, Charles Ingalls ...

Learn Me Somethin', a hilarious, provocative satire, tells the story of Jameson Jones and his mother, who earnestly believe in school as a place to le ...

Joseph Schmitz has two loves—his wife Olga and the leather he has crafted all his life. While they are United States citizens, Joseph and Olga remain ...

This show begins dramatically when Peter crawls out onto a ledge prepared to jump. There he meets J.M., a professional suicide counselor who will make ...

Early on a September morning the villagers of Sleepy Hollow await their new schoolmaster. When Ichabod finally arrives, his priggish correctness ca ...

Here is the spooky classic story by Washington Irving, presented with all the thrills, chills and laughs that keep young audiences on the edge of thei ...

A scorching day, a city street, and a lemonade stand—a Norman Rockwell vignette—with the story of a disheartened woman's desperate bid for salvation b ...

Les Miserables, one of the world's greatest literary classics, sold out its first edition the day it went on sale in 1862. Since then, it ...

Prudence wants to be the new Agatha Christie.  Sadly, all her crime stories are disasters - even the detective can't expose the murderer!  ...

This powerful and disarmingly funny play is about friendship and political awakening. Bibi Lee is a typically jaded American rebel reluctantly on a "b ...

Hannah wants to fit in at school, but she hates her looks and her name, and she definitely feels uncomfortable being Jewish. To top it off, Hannah's p ...

The Lie is one of Vonnegut's most intriguing stories. Which is more dangerous񗝄a lie told in self-defense or a lie which is lived? You ...

Have you ever wondered just where Santa Claus came from? L. Frank Baum knew. The same man who created The Wonderful Wizard of Oz lets us i ...

There’s a perfect girl at every school. Beautiful. Talented. Smart. Great parents. Cool boyfriend. You can’t even hate her because she’s so nice. Lara ...

Every Sunday, 38-year-old Jerry has dinner with his parents, playing Scrabble with his lively mother as his aging father declines into senility. This ...

A Life is the story of Eunice, a feisty Jamaican woman, who refuses to go gently into her twilight years. Eunice is 74 years old and recupera ...

Frank Rich of the New York Times wrote, "Life's a Dream, the Calderón metaphysical masterpiece, is one of the finest fruits of the 17th-ce ...

The time is 1843, and the play that is about to begin has a rich authentic sense of reaching into another time and place for a dramatic involvement in ...

Like Bees to Honey is an engaging, poetic, and highly stylized ensemble piece. This unconventional, intimate play introduces us to five multi ...

Lily Daw is young, pretty—perhaps more than a little peculiar—and in love! However, the well-meaning ladies of the Helping Hand Society are determined ...

Frank and Lois Wuluman live in a wukastle and drive a wukar, wubarbecue on weekends and love to howl at a three full- moon night. You see, Frank and L ...

This powerful and moving new play concerns an almost desperate struggle to communicate—something to which, in one way or another, every member of your ...

Six teenagers find their lives are impacted by an intrepid summer school "intensity" touring program centered around key points and places in Abrah ...

Cha-Cha-Cha, the lion, persuades some children to unlock his cage. He asks for directions to the nearest hunting preserve. The children tell him that ...

Sound effects included on CD: cold wind, reed pipe tune, more reed pipe, harness bells, harness bells fading, thumping, more thumping, harness bells, ...

That master of imaginative enchantment, C.S. Lewis, has created a unique world and he invites children to walk into it and enjoy both surprise and ...

This new dramatization of C.S. Lewis' classic, set in the land of Narnia, faithfully recreates the magic and mystery of Aslan, the great lion, his ...

A unique adaptation in which all the roles are done by two performers was created by le Clanche du Rand and toured by the Lincoln Center. Please speci ...

You'll love following the Little Mermaid, who in this brand-new version is a strong-willed but endearing innocent, on her first journey to the Top of ...

A musical play of Moses's life up to the crossing of the Red Sea. Lots of scope for clowning, juggling, stilt-walking, etc.  Humorous sketches ...

Kate Corrigan has her life in order, or so she likes to think. In what she describes as "not lower middle age" but "upper youth," she has a lucrative ...

Sara Crewe is one of the most beloved fictional heroines, and June Walker Rogers has brought her to life in this funny, sad, wonderfully imaginative a ...

Sara is an unusual child. She speaks Hindustani, French and English, has read almost every book in her fatherීs library, and uses fantasy to ima ...

Mother Hubbard's despair of her lodger, Simple Simon, is tempered by her designs on his friend, the Pie Man. The wicked Witch Craft lures her daugh ...

Red Riding Hood, tricked into entering the Forbidden Forest to pick flowers, is imprisoned by the Queen of the Trees. Meanwhile, greedy Sid Sly i ...

"Be careful, Red Riding Hood," warns Mother, "as you go by the swamp. Don't stumble. Don't slip. Don't trip. Don't fall in the water." Red Riding Hood ...

Petite Rouge discloses her despair that Francois can't find the courage to ask her to the Masked Ball. Unemployed Rene wants to date Petite, but his a ...

Written for very young audiences, the play tells how a girl made of snow comes to life for an old couple who had always wanted a child of their own. E ...

This full-length version of Little Women is loved by directors everywhere and has had hundreds of successful productions. The play begins that memorab ...

Playwright David Longest has taken the classic Louisa May Alcott novel and expanded it into a sweeping historical tale. The play begins with Louisa Ma ...

Louisa May Alcott published Little Women: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, the first volume of her now-classic book, in 1868. That story's instant succ ...

There was, in Paradise, a most unruly small boy known throughout Heaven as the Littlest Angel. He sang off-key and his halo was tarnished. Then he mee ...

She is childish. She is mature beyond her years. She is feisty. She is docile. She is clever. She is naïve. She is a dozen other contradictions. She i ...

Rose, a widow, used to run a thriving doll hospital; now she can't remember who her children, Davy and Maggie, are and talks to people who aren't ther ...

Test anxiety! Best friends moving away! Lockers addresses the universal ups and downs in the lives of young people in middle school and early ...

A Long Bridge Over Deep Waters passionately and compassionately wrestles with the question: ෎How does faith both unite and divide us?&# ...

A Long Bridge Over Deep Waters passionately and compassionately wrestles with the question: ෎How does faith both unite and divide us?&# ...

Professor Kleine, a creative literature instructor, has a rather unusual final exam. He sets up a murder in his own home and has his students try to s ...

Newt and Catharine had grown up next door to each other. There had always been playful, comfortable warmth between them, but never any talk of love. N ...

When Alonzo Fields accepted a job as a butler at the White House in 1931, his plan was to work there for the winter. That winter lasted 21 years. Base ...

As Kara, Sue Ellen, Juanita, Lucas and Joel gather on the beach to make plans to go to an amusement park, Lucas plays a compilation tape of songs from ...

Unusual things don't usually happen at Price Mart, but at this Mega Price Mart a mega-unusual thing happened once: a little girl was born. Or left. Or ...

The point of this play񗝄which put "Shangri-La" into our language񗝄has an even greater urgency now than ever before. Four travelers from ...

Challenged by his colleagues to prove his extraordinary claim that prehistoric animals exist and that he has seen them, Professor Challenger ...

A comedy about a sometimes tragic, sometimes humorous, aspect of life today—the fact that people don't listen anymore, that people don't hear each oth ...

In a bubbly new translation of this internationally famous play, the world of "l'amour" is turned upside down. Doctor Moulineaux is having an innocent ...

Hot Fudge focuses on the neglect and abuse of a withdrawn but talented girl, Nicky Andrews. Matthew Gill, an English teacher the students call the "Dr ...

෎Do I dare disturb the universe?෎ J. Robert Oppenheimerීs rise and fall erupt in this kaleidoscopic play exploring questions of fait ...

Like Jon Jory's University, these are mini-plays that connect and create a fascinating full evening of theatre. These plays are as real, as h ...

Lover Boy. Maggie Cannon, a single woman in her upper middle years known ...

This "startlingly modern" tale about attempted murder and a woman's revenge concerns a husband who discovers evidence that his wife has been unfaithfu ...

Here is the essence of the Bard's classic in a half-hour play: When Hermia decides to elope with Lysander rather than to please her father by marrying ...

Lively and amusing situations develop when a famous producer and an actor seek peace and anonymity in rural England. Perennial favourite. ...

A delightful comedy which explores the complications of modern family relationships. Jill’s parents anxiously await the arrival of her future in-la ...

We all know that computers can talk—but who would expect one to fall in love? David Houston is a brilliant high school student whose science fair proj ...

This fictional exploration of what became of the denied female astronauts is an entertaining and compelling evening of theatre which dramatically expl ...

"Life is the remedy for optimism," states the Honorable Tchang in this enchanting play, and Lute Song, as originally produced in Peking in 14 ...