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What happens when two writers who have worked together for years start to hate each other? The team has won awards and made money. Harry Kent has saved and invested and now lives with his glamorous wife in a sun drenched luxury flat high above the Sussex...

Drama / Characters: 4 male, 4 femaleScenery: Unit setA finalist for the National Play Award, this funny drama takes place in Vienna, 1900. A beautiful and brilliant young girl enters the office of Sigmund Freud to begin the most famous and controversial...

This sequel to the best-selling anthology contains contemporary plays by some of the world's most important writers. All are perfect for classes and showcases. Contents: After You. Steven Dietz. 1m, 1f [3886] American Welcome. Brian Friel. 1m [3702]...

Comic monologues Characters: 1 male Bare stage This non-stop tour through some oddball minds by the author of Talk Radio and Drinking in America enjoyed a lengthy run Off-Broadway. Originally performed as a one man show, the hilarious, riveting and often...

Ms. Heimel is a delightful, neo-feminist humorist best known for the hilarious and immortal Sex Tips for Girls. She has taken material from that book and put it into the mouths of three characters in this one: Cynthia and her friends Cleo and Rita...

It's the biannual symposium of a secret society searching for eternal youth. Membership requires that you donate body parts to the research of Dr. Heinrish von Schtooptenstein, founder of the Society for the Advancement of Beauty Through Tissue Research...

An upbeat collection of three short plays with excellent roles for older actors. These plays have been performed in full productions and done as staged readings and as readers theatre. Included in this collection: Admit OneThe Cat ConnectionSecond Chance

Here by popular demand is the sequel to Play on! The gang is joined by Phylliss song-writing nephew Monte when dire circumstances - their theatre in in peril - force them to do yet another show by Phyllis. The intrepid thepians know disaster will...

Comedy Characters: 1 male, 1 female Exterior Set Originally broadcast on American Playhouse, this delightful adaptation is set in a Victorian garden and is structured as a series of diary entries by Adam and Eve. The play also works as a reader's theatre...

Full Length, Dramatic Comedy / 2m, 1f / 2 ints.Revived on Broadway in 2008, the original production starred Joe Mantegna, Ron Silver and Madonna in this hilarious satire of Hollywood, a culture as corrupt as the society it claims to reflect. Charlie Fox...

Eight lectures given in 1957 at the Playhouse Theatre, New York.

The author of A Thousand Clowns brings us another set of the particular creatures that are New Yorkers.

The time is 1959. The place is a seedy bar in Philadelphia. The audience is about to witness one of Billie Holiday’s last performances, given four months before her death. More than a dozen musical numbers are interlaced with salty, often humorous...

This is a "memory musical." The cast plays various characters remembering the joy, the laughter, and the pain of what it was like to go through high school.

Musical Book and Lyrics by A.M. Collins, Music and Lyrics by Chad Henry Characters: 4male, 4female Various sets. Bored with their everyday lives and kept in insignificance by their boyfriends/husbands, these are four angry women. They try a number of...

Rock MusicalCharacters: 7 males, 3 females Scenery: InteriorThat sweet transvestite and his motley crew did the time warp on Broadway in a 25th anniversary revival. Complete with sass from the audience, cascading toilet paper and an array of other...

Musical comedy Based on the story by James ThurberCharacters: 5 male, 6 female, and as many extras as desired.Scenery: Various simple sets (or one basic set).On his fortieth birthday Walter Mitty reflects on his drab, ordinary life. Defeated in his quest...

A long-running hit Off Broadway that brought stardom to Bernadette Peters, this campy show is based on the nostalgia of Hollywood musicals of the '30s. It's big-time New York, into which sweet little Ruby from faraway Hometown, U.S.A. has come to make it...

Description based on: [3rd ser.], published in 1978.

Dramatic Comedy / 5m, 3f Approximate running time: 1 hour and 45 minutes, no intermission. Various settings, some real, some imaginary, in Pennsylvania When Gordon's wife vanishes, the only clue to her whereabouts is a bookmark in dog-eared copy of...

Thriller / 1m, 2f / Interior Fit to Kill is a thriller about strategy, deception, and betrayal. Adrian, a charming but self-indulgent chess master, enjoys a life of luxury thanks to his marriage to Janice, an older but still sexy and vibrant woman who...

Comedy / 3m, 3f / Interior Sam Price, a wealthy entrepreneur, has just recently passed away and, at his request, has been laid out in his townhouse. With the corpse in the bedroom, his immediate family-sister, brother, nephew and niece-have gathered to...

5m, 4f / Comedy / Unit set Join the exploits of a band of mismatched cartoon stereotypes on a wild ride through this animated world, Presented in the style of a Commedia dell'Arte scenario gone berserk, Cartoon is a devilishly violent social commentary...

First produced in January 2007 at The Denver Center Theater, Denver, Colorado.

"Conceived and originally directed by Ken Davenport."

Plays include: Tongue, Tied (1m, 1f) A man and a woman fall in love through their hand puppets. Death and Javier Miguel Lopez Guadalajara Asante (3m) A coffee stand vendor tricks Death into giving him his job. Clowns(s) (4m, 1f) A children's clown,...

2m 1f / Musical Comedy / Unit set Unfolding in real-time, Oedipus for Kids! turns the audience into attendees of the latest performance of the Fuzzy Duck Theatre Company, a three-person troupe dedicated to performing the classics for children. Having had...

2m, 2f / ComedyDotty's life in Sterno with her husband Hamel is absolutely perfect! It's a fairy tale, it really is. True, in their seven years of marriage Hamel has forbidden her to leave their tiny apartment or speak to anyone, but Dotty is so very...

Full Length, Comedy / 1m, 5f (to play several roles) / Areas In this breezy "NASComedy" the fast lane is stalled to a screeching halt by the arrival of a woman driver on the NASCAR scene, and egos get bruised as Holly "Legs" Nelson starts stealing the...

3m, 1f / Comedy / Interiors The intersecting lives of four "Save-a-Bundle Discount Mart" employees are explored in Additional Particulars. In the first act, Glenda Balitski, an optimistic but lonely young woman who works in housewares, has recently moved...

Comedy / 3m, 3f / Areas La Gringa es la b�squeda de identidad de una joven de origen puertorrique�o nacida en los Estados Unidos. Mar�a Elena decide visitar a su familia borinque�a durante las navidades y llega a Puerto Rico con gran ilusi�n de...

2f per play / Drama / Unit set Award-winning new playwright Jane Shepard comes to print with four powerful short plays for women. Edgy, original, and with a darkly funny humanity, here are four pieces that give new muscle to actresses, providing roles of...

Comedy / 3m, 3f / Areas La Gringa is about a young woman's search for her identity. Mar�a Elena Garcia goes to visit her family in Puerto Rico during the Christmas holidays and arrives with plans to connect with her homeland. Although this is her first...

4f and 9 extras (can be doubled) / Comedy / Interior This contemporary comedy reveals the hopes, dreams and fears of three elderly ladies who spark their lonely lives by meeting daily in the rest room lounge of an outdated downtown department store, and...

Dark Comedy / Characters: 5m, 1f / Interior In The Faculty Room, Bridget Carpenter explores the darker side of high school life from the inside of that mythic room, the teacher's lounge. English teacher Adam, Drama teacher Zoe and Ethics teacher Bill,...

3m / Musical Comedy A hilarious new musical, China - The Whole Enchilada is three men singing, dancing, and irreverently marching their way through four thousand years of Chinese history- in less than two hours with an intermission. The show dares to...

1f, 2m / Dramatic Comedy / Interior Cabo San Lucas is a romantic comedy about two misfits and a postal employee who turn an apartment upside down while searching for love, courage and something to sell on Ebay. Two men break into a house and start...

2m, 2f, Comic Drama / Interior and AreasIt's "Body Awareness" week on a Vermont college campus and Phyllis, the organizer, and her partner, Joyce, are hosting one of the guest artists in their home, Frank, a painter famous for his female nude portraits...

The Art of Experience provides an interdisciplinary analysis of selected plays from Ireland's premier female playwright, Marina Carr.Dagmara Gizło explores the transformative impact of a theatrical experience in which interdisciplinary boundaries must be...

This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the musical Hair and will offer critical analysis which focuses on giving voice to those who are historically considered to be on the margins of musical theatre history.Sarah Browne interrogates key scenes...

Equestrian Drama: An Anthology of Plays is a collection of four representative equestrian dramas.It includes four annotated plays: Timour the Tartar by Matthew G. Lewis, The Battle of Waterloo by J. H. Amherst, Mazeppa by Henry M. Milner, and The Whip by...

A surprisingly large number of women writers, directors, and performers have created works that talk back to Shakespeare, or to most earlier and more traditional interpretations of his plays, in the late 20th century. For example, Jane Smiley's A...

When it was first published in 1962, Anger and After was the first comprehensive study of the dramatic movement which began in 1956 with the staging of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger and has since brought forward such dramatists as Brendan Behan,...

From the diverse proto-theatres of the mid-1800s, though the revues of the '20s, the 'true musicals' of the '40s, the politicisation of the '60s and the 'mega-musicals' of the '80s, every era in American musical theatre reflected a unique set of...

'Every day, thousands of women enter acting classes where most of them will receive some variation on the Stanislavsky-based training that has now been taught in the U.S. for nearly ninety years. Yet relatively little feminist consideration has been...

The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader has been the key introductory text to all types of performance for over fifteen years. Extracts from over fifty practitioners, critics and theorists from the fields of dance, drama, music, theatre and live art...

At the close of the twentieth century the stereotyping and demonization of 'others', whether on religious, nationalist, racist, or political grounds, has become a burning issue. Yet comparatively little attention has been paid to how and why we fabricate...

First Published in 1995. Throughout the nineteenth century the entire structure of the Ashkenazi world crumbled. What remains of Ashkenazi Jewry today is split into irreconcilable religious camps on the one hand, and a large body of secularized Jews of...