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On a small, dusty farm in Mexico, in the Valle de Guadalupe, a young boy named Pablo lives with his father, mother, and two little sisters, Isabell ...

Principal Clark, young and experimental, decides it will promote understanding and cooperation if the faculty and the student body trade places for a ...

The farmer's paying guests are a strange combination from a man trying to control his kleptomanic mother to a great-hearted Cockney who attempts ...

He and She meet for the first time in a lunatic asylum and each mistakes the other for an inmate. An old stand-by that's always fun! One int. set. ...

It starts off as the usual slumber party, complete with a scary ghost story and a parade of pajama costumes. Then a police car starts prowling the nei ...

The story goes, according to legend, that when Pandora's box was opened all sorts of pleasures and evils escaped. Just what sort of package has Marvin ...

How to produce a pantomime and 101 pantomimes for production. "The pantomimist at rest is nobody situated nowhere doing nothing," writes the author. " ...

More on how to produce a pantomime, more varieties of pantomimes, and 102 new pantomimes for your production. Pantomimes 102 is complete in itself and ...

Nathan is a man of pride and ambition struggling with racism, unemployment, and haunting memories of his father, Big Joe. Big Joe was murdered while N ...

From one of the most popular novels and movies of the last decade comes a stage adaptation which gives new immediacy and excitement to the story of a ...

For her first job, teenage Sarah thinks she’s easily qualified to check out customers at Puritan Foods, her local grocery store. At least it has to be ...

When a group of women holiday in Italy problems arise from personality and agenda differences right from the start! In particular, Pearl and her ...

Lottie and Gertie, two elderly bag-ladies, live in a park. Winter is coming and their attempts to keep their spirits up are failing. In a nearby ...

Practical Joker Mort McNulty hosts his own wake so that he can hear what people will say about him after he's dead, before he's dead. Mort's wife, Tri ...

Mary Todd Lincoln is an enigma to most people. All that is remembered of the woman is that she was a shrew and eventually was committed to an insane a ...

When Andy Ableson comes to the aid of his brother Milo in the dark, cramped confines of a small cave, the young men have an opportunity to examine the ...

Pastoralia brings to the stage New York Times best-selling author George Saunders' heartbreaking and hilarious vision of betrayal, l ...

Pearl Aris Norton and May Bouvier Lane are two 17-year-old recent high school graduates working at the local bowling alley and looking for romance. Vi ...

Let's get larger than life! When the biggest herd of cattle west of the Mississippi disappears during the worst drought in history, it's weird. But wh ...

Peg O'Connell doesn't know what she's getting into when, fresh off the boat from America with just a parcel of clothes and her mongrel dog, she arrive ...

Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 1952: 16-year-old Neely Cole struggles in the shadow of his much-admired older brother Aidan, who is off fighting a dist ...

Why does Maxine Lowe refuse to disclose her past when disclosure might clear her of the charge of murder? Why does the young prosecutor change her tac ...

This amusing farce written by a young couple who grew up in the professional theatre is exceptionally playable. The high school gang hates the boywond ...

Little did Lulu Barnes know or suspect that she would be caught up in an incredible series of events while delivering a bag of goodies to her granny. ...

The February 1960 sit-in by four young college freshmen at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, galvanized the civil rights ...

Like all heroic myths, Perseus Bayou is the story of a young man's journey into the unknown. He faces trials, confronts deepest darkness but ...

In 1806, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a baronet, falls in love with Captain Wentworth, despite his lack of fortune and prospects. Against her heart, s ...

In this great tongue-in-cheek comedy/thriller, The Phantom of the Opera returns, guaranteed to terrify and delight even the boldest member of ...

Justin, an unimaginative middle-manager, is director of the Phoenix Dimension. He is doggedly loyal to this project, but younger employees are smart, ...

For a group of Australian schoolgirls, a romantic Valentine's Day outing ends in an intriguing mystery. What has happened to the three seniors and ...

A plague of rats is not all that is wrong in Hamelin; in fact, the emphasis is on the failure of the adults to understand their children—a situation t ...

This play is really about children caught between the penny-pinching elders and the strange genius in the pied costume who played such enchanting musi ...

Snatches of poetry (෎Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand෎) found in a tiny box provide the inspiration for Pilgrims, a light-hea ...

The sounds of a future world find their voice in the distant past, as snatches of poetry (෎Good Pilgrim, you do wrong your hand෎) provide ...

John Bunyan's 17th-century classic Christian allegory is the story of a dream in which the hero, a man named Pilgrim, escapes the City of Destructi ...

Pill Hill examines the failures and successes as well as the relationships of six black steel mill workers in Chicago as they move from the blue-colla ...

Jan Morrow is a successful young interior decorator who is forced to share a party line with a man named Brad Allen. Brad is so frequently talking to ...

Danny and Alice could cheerfully die when their mother warns them Cousin Geraldine is coming. "Oh, no!" they moan. Geraldine is bossy, conceited, a go ...

Sound effects included on tape: howl/shots/scream/siren, footsteps, French music, chase music, organ chord, organ music, phone rings, doorbell, explos ...

The cast may be expanded by having different actors, male or female, play many additional small roles. The comic essence of the marvelous film with al ...

Lots of scope for fun and pathos. Geppetto, a poor toymaker, creates a puppet, wishing he had a son to care for and love. A good fairy gives life ...

Good news! Here comes the most inventive version of Pinocchio ever. Take the hijinks of the commedia dell'arte, add those zany characters—inc ...

The puppet Pinocchio has one dream: he wants to be a real boy. But it seems he may never bring it off for he jumps from one piece of mischief into ano ...

This new CD is a wonderful tool to use with your show.#13#10#13#10SFX and Original Incidental Music Tracks#13#10#1 ...

After all his years on government relief and benefits, Pop Kwimper figures he is part of the government. Aside from Pop, there's Toby Kwimper and the ...

Hans Christian Andersen himself frames four classic tales with the fabulous story of his own "ugly duckling" life.#13#10#13#10

This funny and poignant play takes place in the mind, memory and imagination of Stuart, a 17-year-old high-school senior who has recently attempted to ...

The U.S. has fallen under the dictatorship of a new militant breed led by a war hero president. John Rush, a homosexual, has found himself imprisoned ...

The first girl into outer space, Abbie Anderson of Peach Grove, Pennsylvania, is on her way to Venus as Earth's goodwill ambassador. Suddenly her rock ...

An easy-to-read, practical handbook explaining everything you need to know about producing sketches, plays and musicals. Written especially for minist ...

For new and veteran play directors, here is a comprehensive, practical guide to producing student theater packed with tested tips, timesavers and prob ...

A death camp is the crucible in which Arthur Miller seeks human definition from the literal and spiritual meltdown. Fania, a musician with a thrilling ...

Playing Juliet. In this play-within-a-play, the New Vistas Theatre Company sets out to put on Romeo and Juliet with its multi ...

In Playing Period Plays, Lyn Oxenford, Professor, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, presents aspects of producing and acting period plays. Acting a ...

A rookie ghost gets tips from a pro; a good Samaritan meets with resistance; love blooms on a phone-sex line; a woman relives a harrowing night; the b ...

This book was written by a high-school teacher specifically for beginning playwrights. Writers who wish to tackle a play will find the down-to-earth l ...

All men are brothers. All women are sisters. We are members of one human family. This is the American dream which must be renewed with each passing ge ...

A bright young man, Tom, has met an attractive young woman, Judy, and has obtained her telephone number. He tries to call her for a date. Alas, he rea ...

This play has two marvelous roles. The first is a widower who dreams for years of spending his retirement in Florida. He has his plane ticket, his fis ...

Our response to art is subjective. Is our reaction to art really based on the work itself, or on the "politically correct" values of our times? Portra ...

During the windstorm of the century, ten-year-old Lucy and her fourteen-year-old sister, Terroba, find themselves marooned alone in Gramma's old house ...

Hours ago, Nick lost a scholarship contest. Now he's lying motionless in a dark room and when Jackie, the winner of the contest, arrives to give him h ...

Agatha Christie is spoofed hilariously as a respectable murder mystery turns into a farcical game of illusion and reality. Colonel Winthrop Wiggins an ...

Five daughters to marry off! Was ever a mother as put upon as Mrs. Bennet? Jane falls deeply in love with the wealthy Mr. Bingley, and it looks as if ...

A comedy spoof in which parodies of the television prime-time crime fighters all descent on Shropshire Manor, nearly knocking each other down as each, ...

When Prince Edward changes clothes with Tom Canty, the beggar boy, no one in the audience will have difficulty in telling the actors apart, but throug ...

The time is 1502 to 1527. As the play opens we are at the famous first midnight meeting between Niccolò Machiavelli, the shy but brilliant first secre ...

A dastardly French Baron sets out to foil King Richard's plan to wed his daughter to a Prince. Baron Rene waylays the Prince, captures the Prince ...

#13#10The Princess and the Pea: (2m., 5w., 1m. or w.). This retellin ...

Princess Chloe is now old enough to marry any prince brave enough and lucky enough to slay the dragon. At least that's the tradition—but Princess Chlo ...

A Promise Is a Promise, a very special story adapted from an Inuit legend, is a lyrical and powerfully imagistic piece. Allashua is a 10-year-old Inui ...