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Plays

MACBETH: A KID'S CAUTIONARY TALE CONCERNING GREED, POWER, MAYHEM AND OTHER CURRENT EVENTS

This dramatic adaptation, sprinkled with comedic commentary, is a winner for elementary, middle, and early high school. Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy ...

MACHIAVELLI

Set in Florence, Italy, in 1524, Machiavelli is a comedy about the famous political thinker, Niccolo Machiavelli, who wrote The Prince

MAD ABOUT MEN
MAGDALENE

Ever new and varying legends have appeared over the centuries concerning the "thirteenth disciple" of Christ, the courtesan Mary Magdalene. Yet one th ...

MAGIC CHRISTMAS TREE, THE
THE MAGIC FLUTE

An opera libretto simplified into an enchanting play. Follow the adventures of Prince Tamino from his rescue from the Serpent to the Temple of Sarasot ...

THE MAGIC HORN

This is an exciting hero story of young Roland, the nephew of Charlemagne, who seeks to recover the Emperor's famous sword, Durandal, from evil Faleri ...

THE MAGIC SNOWFLAKE

A girl yearns for a white Christmas. When she falls asleep, she is transported to a magical, wintry world. The King, under a witch's spell, has p ...

MAGIC SNOWMAN, THE
MAGIC THEATRE

Tested and perfected before many audiences, this enchanting show has been acclaimed both by children and by critics including a selection by the Los A ...

MAGIC THEATRE II

This innovative show features songs and sketches as characters move through comic and serious contemporary fables celebrating childhood. Young audienc ...

MAGIC THEATRE III

Free for a time from the demands of an adult world, six youngsters create their own magic machine to explore a world of their own making, returning at ...

MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW SOUND EFFECTS CD

Sound effects included on tape deck A: opening magic music, flight music, flight music to the world of the dead, bells, pedestal whisking off the sta ...

THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW

A highly theatrical dramatization of a C.S. Lewis classic by America's most-produced children's playwright. Young Digory and his friend Polly, through ...

THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW: (TOURING)

Aurand Harris' full-length play based on this special book gives to audiences a highly satisfying theatrical experience. Now Mr. Harris has created a ...

MAKING CHOICES

Deniece, Jessie, Michael, Claire and Shawn are classmates. Jessie and Michael are going out. Same with Claire and Shawn. Deniece? Well, she's always b ...

A MAN CALLED PETER

Peter Marshall has gathered into his home the young people of the community. He makes their joys and sorrows his own. His wife knows how ready he is t ...

THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG

Making thorough use of Twain's own language and rapid-fire storytelling style, this classic comic tale of hypocrisy and its consequences takes us to t ...

THE MAN WHO DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN

Hotel Heaven is five stars all the way! A man wakes up in a strange hotel. He picks up the phone to order breakfast from room service. Before he can h ...

THE MAN WHO LOST THE RIVER

It is a sunny afternoon in April 1910, on the verge of Samuel Clemens' 75th birthday, when Harold Atwater, a young publishing representative, comes to ...

THE MAN WITH BOGART'S FACE (RADIO MANUSCRIPT )

A man whose identity we never know has his face altered to look like Humphrey Bogart and is involved in a Maltese Falcon-type caper—like the ...

THE MAN WITH BOGART'S FACE (RADIO PLAYBOOK)

A man whose identity we never know has his face altered to look like Humphrey Bogart and is involved in a Maltese Falcon-type caper—like the ...

THE MAN WITH BOGART'S FACE

The operation was a total success. When the bandages were removed, the man with the Humphrey Bogart face "buys a trench coat and a big gun and opens a ...

MANIPULATOR, THE
THE MARRIAGE FOOL

"Two generations looking for romance. Snappy wisecracks. A crowd-pleaser." (N. Y. Times) Frank's wife of forty years has died and now the tough, blue- ...

THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES

A young Martian asks another if there could be any life on Earth. "Impossible," is the answer. "There's too much oxygen!" However, an expedition from ...

MARTINA: LOST AND FOUND

Martina is an almost teenager who knows her life is simply the worst. Her face is breaking out. Her hair is monstrous. Her life is unfair. Her world i ...

THE MARVELOUS PLAYBILL

A down-and-out theatrical producer in 16th-century Spain plays on the vanity of the Castilians by announcing The Marvelous Playbill, an entertainment ...

M*A*S*H

This is a wild, free-flowing comedy that's easy to stage. M*A*S*H stands for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and joining it are two unpredictable madca ...

M*A*S*H (1 ACT)

The dramatizer of the full-length hit has done his own one-act cutting of the comic misadventur ...

M*A*S*H SOUND EFFECTS TAPE

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M*A*S*H (FULL LENGTH) (SOUND EFFECTS CD) SOUND EFFECTS CD

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THE MASK

Four young people put on masks in order to discuss more freely their thoughts about the issues confronting them: their need, in varying degrees, for e ...

THE MATCH GIRL'S GIFT: A CHRISTMAS STORY

On Christmas Eve 1898, in the heart of New York City, a gentle snowfall turns fashionable Washington Square into the very picture of a Currier and Ive ...

MAY THE FARCE BE WITH YOU

Acrobatman. Albatross, H20 Girl, Astarte, Tapeman, Miss Invisowrap, Electroman, Gadzooks. And that's only part of the cast of this comedy farce. They ...

MAYBE BABY, IT'S YOU

Maybe Baby, Itීs You is a comedy about the search for that most elusive of entities, the soul mate, and told in a series of 11 vignette ...

THE MAYOR OF ZALAMEA

"Calder覫n's play, in Mitchell's robust, down-to-earth rhyming translation, is an undoubted world masterpiece: a battle-to-the-death between the ...

MEMORY

How real is a memory and how necessary is it to put that memory aside for reality? The play begins with a charming husband and wife recalling together ...

A MERRY MEDIEVAL CHRISTMAS!

A different Christmas show, funny yet reverent, that does not demand a fully-equipped theatre. This is an hour-long modernization of half a dozen Engl ...

THE MESSENGER

Angela hasn't married. She still lives with her dotty, demanding, semi-lovable parents. Childhood polio has left her with a limp. She's not particular ...

MIDDLETON ZEPHYR

Do you ever wonder what it was like to be a senior back in the '60s? Pick up this theatrical yearbook and Conner Murphy literally steps out of the pi ...

MIDSUMMER NIGHT\'S TRAVESTY, A
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM OR THE NIGHT THEY MISSED THE FOREST FOR THE TREES

We're in study hall where just about everyone is doing everything except studying for tomorrow's test on A Midsummer Night's Dream. That is, ...

THE MIGRANT FARMWORKER'S SON

Henry, the son of migrant farmworkers who live in a small town in Arizona, has been encouraged by his mother to assimilate—become American. His father ...

MIKE'S CASE

Mike, a high school student, is plagued by a sense of displacement—a feeling that something is very wrong. In the play, he tries to show the audience ...

MIMSY WERE THE BOROGOVES

A pair of rebellious teenagers get hold of an educational toy from the future. Bored with school and disliking the adult world, the brother and sister ...

MIND GAMES

Never delve into another person's mind unless you're ready to face the consequences of what you uncover. In his plush Los Angeles office overlookin ...

THE MIRACLE GROUP

This edgy comedy deals with loneliness, fear, courage, the supernatural, deception and romance, as a diverse group of strangers attends an adult exten ...

MIRRORS

This play, which scored impressively in several major play contests, begins with a man spending an ordinary evening in his ordinary home with his ordi ...

THE MISER

The miserly Harpagon has plotted to marry his pretty daughter to a rich old man, but she has managed to bring her beau into the house disguised as a s ...

MISS HAVISHAM'S EXPECTATIONS

Miss Havisham in Dickens' Great Expectations is one of the most fascinating characters in literature. This one-act focuses on her story—a jil ...

MISS TEMPTATION

Miss Temptation's real name is Suzanne, and she lives in a small room above a country store in a little town with a theatre񗝄in which she hopes ...

MR. CLEMENS AND MR. BROWN

About half the lies in this play originated with Mark Twain, all the rest come from Sally Netzel, with great affection. Truth plays a minor part, Samu ...

MISTER LINCOLN

"Eloquent" was how the Washington Star described the production at Ford's Theatre in Washington, the place where Lincoln was assassinated. When the pl ...

MR. WINKLER'S BIRTHDAY PARTY

A comedy of surface humor yet with an undercurrent of tragedy at the failure of people to reach others. It begins with preparations for a party. Every ...

MIXED EMOTIONS

Here's a comedy with a kaleidoscope of emotions all blended with a touch of magic. It seems simple enough: a young man wants to impress a woman at the ...

MIXED NUTS

What happens when a shy, aspiring writer from the Midwest comes to the Big Apple in search of fame and fortune? For Michael Caldwell, life becomes a s ...

MIZ LENA'S BACKYARD

A maternal, funny busybody, Lena sits in her yard all day long trying to lure neighbors in, tempting them with lemonade and gossip. Completely alone, ...

MOBY DICK

Ishmael, a young man in search of adventure, first mate, Stubb, and Queequeg, the mystical Polynesian harpooner ("he's the son of a cannibal king, the ...

MOBY DICK (50-MINUTE MANUSCRIPT)

Ishmael, a young man in search of adventure; first mate, Stubb; and Queequeg, the mystical Polynesian harpooner ("He's the son of a cannibal king, the ...

MOLI覠RE IN LOVE

Set in 1670, Paris, Moli覠re in Love is based on the true story of Moli覠re's theatrical attempt to win back the love of his much ...

A MOMENT IN TIME

In this new and shattering play, Mr. Kennedy again displays his dramatic power and uncompromising honesty as he deals with a real and tragic situation ...

MONDAY ALWAYS LEADS TO MURDER

"Mr. Monday, I want you to find this artifact," purrs sultry client Courtney Delecroix. "It's a choker worn by King Midas." Harry Monday sizes her up ...

MONKY BUSINESS (CAST RECORDING CD)

#13#10Vocalists: Paul Evenson, Dan Ferretti, David Nisbet, Paul Slade Smith, Greg Walter#13#10Band: Michael Cascio (perc ...

MONKY BUSINESS II (CAST RECORDING CD)

#13#10Vocalists: Norm Boucher, Dan Ferretti, Rob Langeder, Paul Slade Smith#13#10#13#10Band: Michael Cascio (percussion) ...

MONOLOGUES FOR COMPETITION AND PERFORMANCE-VOLUME I

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 ...

MONSTER IN A BOX

Gray documents his experience as a procrastinating novelist. He has a 1,900-page manuscript that he is working on and is already two years past the d ...

THE MONSTERS UNDER THE BED

Stephanie's having a sleep-over with her friends when they are joined by her young cousin Melissa who can't get to sleep because she's afraid of the d ...

MOONGIRL

The disturbing world of cults becomes a reality for Anne Burkhardt when her only daughter, 18-year-old Kathy, is lured into the Universal Union Church ...

THE MOONSTONE

The moonstone, a sacred Indian gem protected by three guards and an ancient curse, is stolen by the British officer Herncastle. His life dissolves int ...

MORE PERFECT UNION

A semicircle of nine chairs is placed toward the rear stage. In the bare space in front of the semicircle is enacted the moving story of Sophie from " ...

MORE SKETCHES
MORE STAGE DIALECTS

The More Stage Dialects book, with its CDs* (sold separately), are the definitive work in their field and have been used by professional acto ...

MORE STAGE DIALECTS (CD #351)

The More Stage Dialects CDs, with its book* (sold separately), are the definitive work in their field and have been used by professional acto ...

MORE STAGE DIALECTS (CD #352)

The More Stage Dialects CDs, with its book* (sold separately), are the definitive work in their field and have been used by professional acto ...

MORE STAGE DIALECTS (CD #353)

The More Stage Dialects CDs, with its book* (sold separately), are the definitive work in their field and have been used by professional acto ...

MORE STAGE DIALECTS (3 CD SET)

The More Stage Dialects CDs, with its book* (sold separately), are the definitive work in their field and have been used by professional acto ...

MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT

This is the story of one day of Gray's life in October 1997. It revolves around the birth of his second son, Theo, and his new life with his partner, ...

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL STAR

This is truly a fulfilling Christmas enchantment that will deeply involve your audience. A young girl is helping her family decorate the Christmas tre ...

THE MOUSE THAT ROARED SOUND EFFECTS CD

Sound effects included on tape: roar/bird calls, trumpet fanfare, (3 more fanfares), protesting students, plane flying overhead, cheering crowd, prote ...

THE MOUSE THAT ROARED

"Hilarious, rib-tickling comedy," wrote one leading critic, adding that he considers it "the funniest on record" The wonderful audience response to th ...

THE MOVIE GAME

The Movie Game is the story of Jack Goldberg, an unemployed cinephile, who has found himself in the midst of a pre-midlife crisis. Disenchant ...

MRS SHAKESPEARE - THE POET\'S WIFE
MS. SCROOGE

Why shouldn't an actress get a chance to portray one of the meanest roles ever created (such as Scrooge) or one of the more poignant (such as Scrooge' ...

MUCH ADO ABOUT WILL

This charming entertainment demonstrates the amazing versatility of the greatest playwright in the English language. ෎Neither age can whither hi ...

MURDER BY NATURAL CAUSES

Here's a stylish and witty suspense play that originally starred Hal Holbrook, Katherine Ross and Barry Bostwick. It combines laughter with thrills an ...

MURDER MOST FOULED-UP

As lawyer Seymour Mead finishes reading Ridgely Randolph's will to the assemblage of greedy relatives and servants, the treasure hunt begins! You see, ...

MURDER ON CENTER STAGE

While a blizzard rages outside the theatre of a liberal arts college, an evening rehearsal for the upcoming production of Romeo and Juliet explodes. T ...

MURDER PLOT

Best-selling mystery author, David Forrester, is suffering writer's block. His publisher, Felix Bromley, suggests hiring a talented, beautiful young g ...

MURDER TAKES THE VEIL

The scene is a convent school. Trillium, a young student, recognizes an article that once belonged to her murdered father. Trillium is in danger—and t ...

MURDER'S BAD BUT MONDAY CAN KILL YOU!

Harry's back! That's right, Harry Monday, that Sam Spade wannabe in the trench coat and gumshoes, is hot and on his latest case. Does he know what he' ...

THE MUSIC LESSON

Weaving together the music of Bach, with memories of the Bosnian War and the universal conflicts between teacher and student, The Music Lesson

MY FRIEND, THE FOX

This is a very different fox from our old friend Reynard. Fox is still clever and sly, but he is likable in his efforts to gain a real friend. He befr ...