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Imagine you are an actor on opening night trying to perform on a set that isn't completed. Then one actor doesn't show up, a man from the audience use ...

Emily Norbert is a former child film star who continues her successful career as an adult. She is an award-winning actress, a disciplined and very pri ...

The townspeople have deserted in the middle of the night. The curse of the evil fairy is about to come to pass. Today is the day the kingdom will fall ...

In the heart of a magical swamp lives a crusty prince-turned-frog who wants to become human again but, as he sings it, "No one wants to kiss a toad." ...

Set during the terror of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities follows the influence of historical and political upheaval on a small gr ...

The International Thespian Society and Dramatics magazine gave first prize to this comedy. In it, Johann Strauss, "The Waltz King," is visiting Boston ...

Maybe you can't go home again, but when Leonard Milgram is fired by his advertising firm in New York, he does go home. Forced to take a job writing fo ...

Sylvia Ashby's three lighthearted tales, freely adapted from folklore, center around that clever and feisty young heroine񗝄Molly Malloy. #13#10 ...

Mythical beasts, colorful costumes, rhythmic music and Balinese masks weave an exotic spell in this fanciful blend of three comic Indonesian folktales ...

From the author: "I grew up in a house where the elders heard voices and it was understood that these voices were the voices of the ancestors. I didn' ...

Petruchio decides that Kate, the beautiful girl with the awful temper, will make a wonderful wife once she's tamed. Kate wants nothing to do with any ...

Seventeen-year-old Owen is in love with Sarah. Sarah is in love with Sean and his rich lifestyle. Sean used to love Sarah, but now heීs moved on ...

This is perhaps the best one-act arrangement of Molière now available. This publisher was present at the University of Texas in Austin for the Intersc ...

The finest material available for Christmas programs. There are exercises for large and small groups, some for boys and some for girls, recitations of ...

Stephanie is inducing her classmate Judy to share a squalid efficiency apartment just off campus. It's a filthy, cobwebby horror. As Stephanie's boyfr ...

In Ted Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs, the intention of the first act is to explore our impulse to ෎explain෎ why horrific act ...

This is the story of Junie Moon and her friends, Arthur and Warren. Each has been tragically handicapped but each has retained the strength and humor ...

In comfortless surroundings, a young man plans and commits the "perfect crime." When a detective stops by on a quite different matter, it becomes appa ...

10 by 10 meets perfectly the growing demand by presenters and educators for plays that build character. It started with a simple notion: Take ...

A tribute to the human spirit, this is the story of Arlo Gibson's unusual care and preservation of the waning dignity in each of the people who popula ...

Crosswords, a chance meeting in a hospital waiting room;

The liberation of Terezin concentration camp is at hand, and the Nazis are in retreat, desperate to destroy evidence of their crimes. While some priso ...

Gray purchases a bucolic country retreat in the Catskills with his girlfriend, only to find it becomes a rendezvous with disaster. From a house that h ...

Thaddeus is a frog who dreams of flying. ීTila is a beautiful crane who yearns to swim. One day ීTila, who suffers from bad eyesight, cras ...

Maureen & Dennis are hosting a dinner party in their new home. They have invited their Doctor, for whom Maureen soon hopes to work, and his wif ...

Richard hates women and thinks they're dumb. He wagers his sister he can get through one of her parties and use only two words: "Thanks, awfully!" The ...

When two visitors from outer space are assigned to observe the strange creatures on the planet Earth, they are under strict orders not to interfere wi ...

The Great Majestica, deep in debt, is too drunk to perform his magic act, so his long-suffering wife and bimbo assistant must takeover his act! Two ...

Theatre for Young Audiences is an anthology of plays by modern masters for teachers, directors, librarians, theatre students, parents - an ...

Seven Asian Americans gather atop a Las Vegas wedding chapel every week for a UFO watch. When 65-year-old May spots a strange and colorful ship one ni ...

Two married couples, Janet and Carl from Indiana and Marie and Tom from New York, each decide to spend their vacation traveling throughout Italy—not t ...

A meteor streaks out of the southern sky and lands near the town of Latigo, Texas—a place so small that it's about to drop off the map. Maybe the mira ...

In Harlem, in the late 1920s, there lived a numbers running gangster by the name of Ebenezer Scrooge, who struck terror into the heart of the Harlem c ...

A spoof on the country and western music scene with some songs that make the show a "mini-musical." Miss Bobbi Jo Pickens, the overweight country and ...

The scene is the basement of Radio City Music Hall in a long-abandoned studio that was once home for live radio dramas performed by "Whiz Kids Radio T ...

Things Can Always Be Worse! is a delightful one-act comedy based on a well-known Rumanian folktale. One chaotic Chanukah eve, Papa teaches hi ...

This exciting collection explores the complex worlds inhabited by amusing, passionate, quirky, obsessive, fallible and sometimes frightening character ...

As the ticking clock reminds you, you have only 60 minutes to complete this oh-so-important predictor of your future. But you didn't get the review ...

What do you do when you have three geriatric sisters as patients and all they want to do is sit at home and talk to one another—all at the same time? ...

A Thousand Cranes presents the true and poignant story of Sadako Saski, who was 2 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on the small cit ...

Jesse is still in his teens when he takes on the job of teacher in Lonesome Valley School. Many of his students are older than he, and certainly those ...

Princess Dulcie is so full of spiteful tricks that she has driven away all the princes. Three retired fairy godmothers arrive, eager to help. If they ...

Rose is bowling the game of her life񗝄but will her marriage survive it? Her husband, Bobby, is already struggling with an inferiority complex ...

"It was the kind of night when you caught yourself holding your breath for no reason at all." So says private eye Harry Monday as he investigates thre ...

Sound effects included on tape: gunshot, alarm, thunder, gunshot, roaring wind, thunder, automobile starting/tire screeching/crash/explosion, thunder ...

To fulfull his dream of becoming a musketeer, young d'Artagnan heads for Paris and into a world of romance, intrigue and action. On the way he meets M ...

"Do not hesitate to act, or you may lose the chance that Fortune, in her wisdom, offers you." With this advice from his father, and to fulfill his dre ...

Belinda, our heroine, wants to marry the prince, but the queen will allow her son to be wed only to a girl who can spin. Alas, Belinda has never bothe ...

Three unconventional sisters, separated by geography and their own history, meet in a Reno motel after the sudden death of their colorful gambler fath ...

Alexandra Hawley is adopted. As her twelfth birthday approaches, she wrestles with questions about why her mother gave her up, who she is and how she ...

This humorous, endearing tale about a little tiger named Toby, who turns pink whenever he blushes, delights both the young and young-at-heart. Toby an ...

Amy, attractive, lonely and a little fed up with her dead-end job as a clerk in a San Francisco bank where men doing the same work are much better pai ...

A British inventor travels in his time machine to the future, where he finds that the human race has not progressed as expected. He encounters a race ...

This unique look at dying and living begins when four teenage friends are killed as their school bus is broad-sided by a drunk driver. The next thi ...

All is well in the tiny kingdom despite the threat of a fierce dragon prowling outside the walls. The queen gives lavish parties to raise the general ...

Tinker Autumn relates an unusual alliance between two young people񗝄12-year-old Caitlin Moran and 13-year-old Peter Crichton񗝄i ...

What do a hardened Nazi war criminal and a young gang member from New Jersey have in common? From a Newark jail cell their respective stories unfold, ...

Two girls wait in the bare cell room for the questioning to resume. Accused of witchcraft, they are terrified. The Salem community in which they live ...

This play is based on the true-life experience of Teeda Butt Mam and her family. Told from the viewpoint of 15 year-old Teeda living through the night ...

Only when he sees the gorgeous gifts of the Wise Men does it occur to the Shepherd Boy that he also should have brought a gift to Jesus. He is ashamed ...

Scout, a young girl in a quiet southern town, is about to experience the dramatic events that will affect the rest of her life. She and her brother ...

Scout, a young girl in a quiet southern town, is about to experience the dramatic events that will affect the rest of her life. She and brother Jem ...

Sound effects included on tape: outside effects/birds and barking dog, automobile approaches, rifleshot, drive away, approaching cars, cars drive away ...

When Omaha Theater Company requested a script about the Jewish-American experience for its teen/multicultural series, playwright Sandra Fenichel Asher ...

This breathlessly romantic true story begins backstage and winds through Anton Chekhov's life in the theatre. We meet the bewitching Lika, whom he wil ...

It's 1909 and the shirtwaist industry in New York is making profits of $50 million. But the young girls who work in the factories earn barely enough t ...

Bradbury explained his intentions in connection with this play as a protest against great thinkers with great ideas demanding absolute excellence. He ...

One Foot After Another, adapted from a story by Lois Ruby. 2w., 1m., 1 ...

Inspired by Tolstoy's tellings of Russian folktales a century ago, this award-winning story theatre play is a celebration of the glory of story in a s ...

This play captures the skylarking spirit of Fielding's comic masterpiece, and it's a hit with high schools, colleges and stock. It's set simply in dra ...

The sky-larking spirit of the comic masterpiece, including the delicious dinner scene, is here. Bare stage w/props. Also available ...

Set in St. Petersburg (Hannibal), Missouri, along the Mississippi River, Tom Sawyer tells the coming-of-age story of the community's most mis ...

Set in America's early colonial period, Tom Walker is "deep and provocative, smart and funny, finely crafted" (The Washington Post), ...

This powerful exploration of friendship delights young audiences with its sharp dialogue, physical action and playful, high-energy conflict. Little Gi ...

The hard-hearted toymaker refuses to sell any of the dolls he makes, but his magic has made them almost like real children and they want to escape the ...

A group of strangers meet in a dirty subway station. They have arrived with limited personal belongings, their watches have stopped, and they all clai ...

Training Wisteria is the story of a contemporary American family in shambles after a recent divorce. As Lynn and her teenage son, Dylan, prep ...

The stalwart hero and the fiendish villain are identical twins played by the same actor. An actor's dream! Christmas morning finds their mother, Grace ...

The magic of this play comes from the way the entire audience creates the storm at sea, a mosquito-infested jungle and a treasure cave filled with eer ...

The Trial of the Century! A year after his miraculous transformation, Ebenezer Scrooge is back to his old ways and is suing Jacob Marley and the Ghost ...

In rhyme, mime and mirth, this exciting comedy examines the familiar fairy tale from three points of view: the traditional, the Bears', then Goldilock ...

Bo, a recent runaway, meets Horatio, a talking, fiddle-playing bear, just after they have raided Farmer Zack's gardens. The local sheriff heeds the ca ...

The Wolf: villain or victim? The Three Pigs: innocent or at fault? The Jurors (Miss Muffet, Bo Peep, Cinderella and Humpty-Dumpty, to name a few): sol ...

It is a quiet weekend at a pleasant, well-to-do retirement complex. A middle-aged man has come to touch base with his elderly father, a widower of sev ...

Vicky, a young girl suffering from mental illness, is confronted by some members of her family who have come to the institution where she's being trea ...

A troupe of actors, escaping through the mountains from a civil war are caught in a violent winter storm and seek shelter in an abandoned puppet theat ...

Following the original fairy tale, this play presents an arrogant, swaggering Puss who struts though a series of adventures which give his young maste ...

The Trumpet of the Swan is the story of Louis, a trumpeter swan who can't trumpet—or even communicate vocally, for that matter. But when his ...

Tucker's Ridge is a compelling drama of friendship, fatality and the search for a brighter future by two teenage boys trapped by geography an ...

The spirits of William and Mary, a teenage couple, awaken into a void. As they question where they are, they begin to relive their first meeting at a ...

Genuine chills are provided in this tale of a governess, left in charge of a boy and a girl at a lonely estate, who begins to suspect that the ghosts ...

A 19 year old man has just been tried for the fatal stabbing of his father. "He doesn't stand a chance," mutters the guard as he leads the jurors o ...

Twenty-five ten-minute plays. Featuring over 50 comic and serious roles in the increasingly popular 10-minute format, 25 in 10 has been selected for p ...

Devastated by the death of her father, Tomීs wife, Molly, runs away to Colorado, jeopardizing their marriage and leaving him to look after her c ...

Nancy and Don, a young married couple, are arguing. Nancy thinks the new neighbors are creepy. She thinks they're watching them. Don thinks she's i ...

A boy sets out to find a guardian angel who will help his sick mother. Probably he'll find one in Central Park. This play is appropriate for special o ...

It is early in the morning when young Randy, dribbling a basketball and playing rock 'n roll on his jam box, saunters confidently onto a deserted play ...

The most macabre mystery we've published; a surprising show coming from the imaginative and gentle Lord Dunsany. A man is preparing to commit the perf ...

Dream along with Pepito, a young Latino boy, whose grandmother has filled him with stories of her Central American homeland. His adventures start with ...

Will O'Wisp, a junior devil, is the only nephew of the Great Belladonna, a powerful senior devil in Hell, Inc. Will is sent up to Earth as a Tempter, ...

Because of a sixty-year-old secret, Gus and Nellie, two widowed elders, cannot admit they love each other. This lively intergenerational story celebra ...

The play begins in Utah in 1857񗝄the year more than 100 California-bound immigrants traveling from Missouri and Arkansas were killed in what be ...

From the moment the curtain rises on a mysterious intruder who is planting false incriminating papers in the mayor's office, the excitement, tension a ...