Origin Theatrical

Colorful characters like Dorcas the Christmas Duck, Tanya and Toulouse Turkey, Parker and Penelope Penguin, Vincent the Violet-Nosed Vulture, the Ice ...

An almost cheerful young man is about to be hanged for his attempt to blow up the Owl Creek Bridge during the Civil War. On this, Bierce creates the m ...

What Jonathan Eagerton doesn't know is that his long-lost brother Dave is about to show up. Jonathan has it all—success, money, status, home, cars and ...

The Odyssey is the story not only of Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War but of his son Telemachus' path to find out who he truly is. As Ody ...

"I speak of noble freedoms! My last crushed breath given to defend the liberty and honor of the cheeseburger!" So raves Maxwell Gibbs, the robust poet ...

Oh, Holy Allen Ginsberg is "the story of two days in the life of Gerry Gallagher, a conflicted but appealing gay Irish Catholic priest, and h ...

On an impulse, a young girl makes up a story, and the complications that result from it are extremely funny. Suddenly needing an excuse, the girl fumb ...

Bill Fast, an old gentleman, has lost the great love of his life, his wife. He finds a surrogate for her in a young waitress, Cara. She so reminds him ...

Old Jake is a lonely pumpkin farmer who is down on his luck, until he and his hound dog, Shoestring, find an old trunk beside the road. They take the ...

This faithful adaptation of Charles Dickens' second novel is an exciting, fast-moving melodrama about the adventures of an orphan redeemed from a life ...

Virginia Koste's new Oz play borrows from the characters and incidents from a dozen Oz books—Shaggy Man, Queen Jinjur, Professor Wogglebug, Johnny Doo ...

Wilkie Thomas, an undertaker in a small Appalachian town, is quizzing his assistant, Paul, when eccentric, 83-year-old Melvin Combs enters, announcing ...

It's five minutes before curtain time for the drama club's "cool," upbeat adaptation of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew and all is not well. The sta ...

Mother Goose sadly announces to her children that they must leave their home—a large, comfortable shoe—and move to an old sneaker "across the tracks." ...

Tiffany Johnson, blinded in an auto accident, has been sent to visit her grandparents in the North Woods, where she encounters Robin, a most unusual b ...

"Happily ever after" takes on new meaning as Katrina goes in search of her Prince, held captive by an evil Troll Princess in a dreary castle east of t ...

At first, the Ridgeland's home seems rather drab and unimaginative. But we soon learn that the living space we see isn't so much their home as their c ...

This exciting collection of 125 comic and serious monologues contains professional-level material appropriate for audition as well as interpretive stu ...

The collection, selected and introduced with suggestions for presentation by Miss Skinner, can become your one woman show. These monologues with which ...

The title to this comedy about escape from the ordinary comes from the line, "Where hearts were high and fortunes low and onions in the stew." Betty M ...

Young, handsome Harold is married to elderly, wheelchair-ridden Elizabeth because of that age-old attraction—money. So naturally, Harold plans to murd ...

Hightower University, an institution so prestigious that even the maintenance staffers hold Ph.D.s, is hosting its annual open house for second-semest ...

The fun begins when teenager Vera decides to take revenge on her aunt's visitor, Frampton Nuttel. Seizing on the ordinary fact that a window has been ...

Twelve delightful Readers Theater shorts which may be read or produced as plays. Included are: Pen Pals, letters between a jailbird and a naive young ...

Conrad Jarrett had an older brother named Buck, and now Buck is gone. What's left of young Conrad's family, with his successful well-intentioned fathe ...

By the author of Macbeth: a Kid's Cautionary Tale..., this play is written using the story-theatre format with sassy storytellers narrating f ...

Is a mock-scholarly attempt to create a politically correct edition of William Shakespeare's Othello. Professor Stratford's attempts to resolve the ...

This story carefully takes apart and reveals the tragedy of the jealous man, the man who believes he can own another. ෎Far from the first to tak ...

The exciting premise of this play is explored with haunting poignancy through the eyes of Cassandra Shakespeare, the brilliant sister William Shakespe ...

The time, the future, after the great light when the old world was lost in one searing moment. The place, the Barrier, where the great letter D stands ...

There were three Wise Men who brought gifts to the King. But legend tells of another named Artaban who also saw the star. Artaban exchanges all his pr ...

This unusual show is partly the play that was being given at Ford's Theatre the night Lincoln was shot and partly the events of that tragic night. At ...

Here are the exuberant escapades of Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough, determined to prove how "cosmopolitan" they can be on an uproarious tri ...

For the first time, Miss Brooks has time to draw a breath as Christmas approaches. Then Miss Audubon comes in weeping. Her cast for A Christmas Ca ...

Six people are trapped in a lonely mountain cabin. Who will live and who will die? Here are Harte's unforgettable characters; they laugh, love, sing, ...

Sound effects included on CD: traffic sounds, car zooming by, car approaching/doors slam, car approaching, car approaching and stopping short, car pul ...

Some variations possible. S.E. Hinton, who wrote this modern classic when she was 16 years old, comments: "The Outsiders, like most things ...

From the faraway planet of Apocryphal comes O.T., who has been assigned to Earth to report about our world's space programs. Because of the time warp, ...

Here's Nikolai Gogol's eccentric little masterpiece adapted into a lively storytheatre presentation. In 19th-century Russia, a humble clerk in the Min ...

L. Frank Baum is in trouble—forty-four years old and on the eve of his greatest creative work—he is a "jack of all trades" but success eludes him. It ...