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Our girl Wendy Burger stands on the edge of a summer that will change her life forever. It’s the summer she moves out of her father’s house (and into ...

“Waiting for MacArthur is funny, moving, and at times, poetic. This play will knock you for a loop with its humor and grace. It will make you shiver a ...

Pearl Hart takes the West by its horns in the Arizona Territory of 1869. The play begins in Buffalo Bill's "Famous Wild West Show" where Pearl claims ...

The Scanlon siblings, who have never gotten along, are gathering from far and wide for the wake of their mother, Bridget, "one of the few saints on ea ...

Seventeen-year-old Jim is having a really bad day. After getting up the nerve to tell his girlfriend, Rochelle, that he loves her, she asks him to hel ...

Walk, Don't Ride! A Celebration of the Fight for Equality chronicles in words and song the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It b ...

A young businesswoman causes an old Russian man, Vladimir, and his wife, Nina, to disclose the secrets they have hidden since leaving their country ye ...

Ten-year-old Kenny chronicles the events of a fateful summer for the Watson family of Flint, Michigan, in this hilarious and deeply moving story. Ther ...

Ten-year-old Kenny chronicles the events of a fateful summer for the Watson family of Flint, Michigan, in this hilarious and deeply moving story. Ther ...

In this outrageous satire about professional, not-for-profit theatre, a literary manager and her envious assistant spend their work hours planning lun ...

When students at Pine-Richland Middle School read a story by Gary Paulsen about a Vietnam veteran and the devastating effects of his inability to talk ...

When two teenage sisters spend the night in the old Victorian house of their aunt Mary, they find their imaginations interfering with their sleep. Mrs ...

It's another hot, August day in Four Way, a small rural town that grew up where two pioneer trails crossed 167 years ago. The time is early morning an ...

Its theatrical excitement comes from the brilliant words and the dazzling display of original ideas. Vonnegut begins with a moving episode about right ...

Francesca Bianchi applies for welfare subsistence to help support her children. She is visited by a young social worker, Miss Drinkwater, the "welfare ...

Harold, unfortunately, is not really a werewolf—he's a loser. He's been such a loser all his life that it's finally driving him quite mad. His escape ...

Judge Roy Bean, "The Law West of Pecos," has decreed Orin Powers must hang for shooting up a poster of his beloved Lily Langtry, the famed frontier ac ...

Poignant and powerful, this play raises a question that at one time or another will be relevant for every member of every family. What are the childre ...

Written by a group of high-school students over the course of nine months, What I Wanted to Say is a series of scenes exploring the common hum ...

Mother and Aunt Mildred return for a second helping of ghostly goings-on to save the family name! This time Mother is trying to protect Aunt Mildre ...

King Arthur has a ticklish problem. One of his best knights, Sir Harold Pendragon, is guilty of the heinous crime of stealing a kiss from a noble maid ...

What happens when the young Viola finds herself shipwrecked and decides to disguise herself as her twin brother Sebastian? What doesn't happen! This c ...

It is 1966 in a small Southern town, and Billy Joe Tyler, a nine-year-old black boy, is preparing to go to an all-white school in the morning. Despite ...

In an interview this playwright said, "This play is part true. I did have a similar situation when I was 16 years old. Parts of this play are more lik ...

Young Mary Call Luther has spunk, guts, spirit—call it what you will—and she needs them if she's to keep her family together after the death of her fa ...

"What report card?" asks Junior innocently. Junior has made darn sure that he was the one to meet the mailman and now his report card is missing. His ...

"On storm nights, an old man drives along these roads and asks the way to Boston. Woe betide if he knocks at your door for, where he knocks, Death wil ...

Whiteout takes place in the main room of a cabin in a small town in northern Alabama. The cabin belongs to Mark, the manager of a small groce ...

An insecure young man, Harry Nash, searches for identity through participation in amateur theatricals. With a real life personality as blah as the lea ...

Moonshine and moonlight combine forces with the mildly miraculous in this Southern tale—darkly poignant and comic—of an ageless, mute woman. ...

The detectives may not know who the killer is but the audience knows. An announcer gives them the real facts. Following that, there's the fun of watc ...

At age 6, Meredith Wilfred loves to tell people that she hates her neighbor, Andrew Powers. At age 16, she tells Andrew the same thing but goes to the ...

Your audience will hiss the villain as he steals the papers and will cheer for the valiant Launcelot Blitherington as he defends the swooning widow. T ...

In this stylish satiric melodrama, Aunt Absinthe hopes pretty Chastity has sold enough Easter eggs to meet the mortgage payment. Alas, it isn't Easter ...

During a backyard football game with his kid brother, 15-year-old Jamie starts recalling fragments of the dream he had the night before. As he relate ...

Like Aesop's fables, Wiley and the Hairy Man is drawn from native folk wisdom. "Outwit the Hairy Man three times and he won't scare you ever ...

Sound effects included on tape: flute music/into birds, squeeze horn, repeat squeeze horn, squeeze horn, car crash, squeeze horn, squeeze horn, slidin ...

The famous English gentlemen, Mr. Toad of Toad Hall, sees his first motor car and promptly falls uncontrollably in love with motoring, so he buys a ca ...

"Everyone wants to get their story told," an Anderson character suggests, "so the terrible isolation of their lives can break." Through this play, the ...

Winter is a funny, lyrical, yet harrowing look at old age. For five years since his stroke, Mark has been confined to a wheelchair. Miriam, his wife o ...

Legend has it that when the earth was created and the time came to fill it with people, two angels were chosen to deposit wise and foolish souls evenl ...

This play-within-a-play has trees that talk, a wall that moves, a witch who can't cackle, angry villagers whose children have been kidnapped by the wi ...

Janet brings home an antique chair from an auction. A friend sits in the chair and rises with the personality of the former owner, an elderly "witch." ...

Witch Gertrude aggravates her two sisters by refusing to search for charms which would sink a ship. She's tired of being a witch but the sisters hoot ...

Steven and Sandra, exceptionally close friends who spent four wonderful years in college together, are seeing one another for the first time in a year ...

When the lights go up and Dorothy finds herself in the land of Oz—being hailed by the Munchkins for saving them from the Wicked Witch of the East—i ...

"Well, children, where there's so much racket, there must be something out of kilter." So begins the historic "Ain't I a Woman?" speech of Sojourner T ...

"Well, children, where there's so much racket, there must be something out of kilter." So begins Sojourner Truth's historic "Ain't I a Woman?" speech; ...

Emilya, a young Filipino woman, has come to the United States with her son, Jason, to start a new life after the death of her husband. A nanny, Ines, ...

The powerless but still defiant women of the defeated city of Troy—now the spoils of war—wait for the Greeks to decide their fate. Originally written ...

The summer's heat is depressing in the Mexican ghetto, but six men of similar height find a solution to all their problems—a $60, pure-white suit. The ...

Adrian Willis is a pushover! His boss makes him work extra hours for little pay, the elevator man bullies him, the girl at the magazine stand is rude ...

Like the stage manager in Our Town, Frank Baum "stage manages" his story to keep the action brisk from scene to scene. Baum is a welcome and theatrica ...

In an instant, Madeline's life catapulted and would never be the same. This instant was when she was brutally attacked in the park. Now, 10 years late ...

Sound effects included on tape: inane music, horse whinnies, horse whinnies again, baby coos, thunder, wolf whistle, wolf howl, sawing and screaming, ...

This play begins in the year 1243 A.D. and all is not well in the land of Saxonia. Darkness and discontent hang thick in the air like sausages in a sm ...

WRENS explores the relationships between seven young English, Welsh, Irish and Scottish women. "Through grace, candor and uncanny perception, Chicago ...

The Wrestling Season tackles subject matter seldom addressed but vital to youth and their families: the search for identity and the peer pres ...

The Wrestling Season tackles subject matter seldom addressed but vital to youth and their families: the search for identity and the peer pres ...

In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made history with their first sustained flight over Kitty Hawk, N.C., in their heavier-than-air contraption nicknam ...

From his first mysterious appearance, the dark and brooding Heathcliff affects the lives of all around him. When his beloved Catherine marries another ...