Featured New Releases
Here are a few of our newest community theatre plays, school plays, one-act plays, youth theatre plays, and musicals. Click on the artwork to read more, browse our catalog by selecting a tab in the menu bar above, or use our search option.
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| WAGE WARFARE
Play #:8174
By Scott Haan
Cast: 2 - 3 m, 4 w
Script: 75 pages. Full evening.
If you've ever had a job, or wished you hadn't, this office comedy is for you. Even on a good day, tensions run high in the customer service department of The Treasure Chest because of two female coworkers who can't stand each other, and a third who is constantly stuck in the middle. But when a chance for a promotion suddenly appears, all three women fi
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| FAERIE KING'S DAUGHTER
Play #:8373
By Elliott B. Baker
15 to 24 or more
Script: 64 pages
Full evening.
Eighteen-year-old Katie has a problem: she's a tooth fairy who’s just not interested in the family business. While out exploring the human world, Katie meets Max, a young man who inexplicably is able to see her. This is unusual in that the fairy troops are not visible without their consent. Although forbidden to return to the world of humans by her fa
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| APRONS
Play #:8415
By Gary Ray Stapp
4 m, 5 w
Script: 75 pages.
The mistress of a Long Island estate is very rich, completely eccentric, and suspiciously homicidal, and yet she regularly gets lost in her own home. So how has she managed to get away with murder? Lady Di has accomplices of course! Four of them to be exact: Adeline, Lydia, Angel, and Felicity, each uniformed in a white apron, armed with a feather duster, and humorously da
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| PARENTS JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND
Play #:8412
By Bryan Starchman
Cast: Minimum of 5 with doubling: 2 m, 2 w, 1 flexible.
Maximum cast of 33: 16 m and 16 w, 1 flexible.
Script: 63 pages. About 80 minutes.
The hip-hop standard of the 1980s said it best: "There's no need to argue, parents just don't understand!" Here is a collection of hilarious (and often too close to the truth) scenes that all families are going to be able to relate to. This easy-to-stage
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| SOLDIERS YOUNG AND BRAVE
Play #:8199
By Lorraine Thompson
Cast: With doubling, 10 m, 8 w, many extras.
Script: 38 pages.
Performance time with songs about an hour.
The Civil War was unlike any other war our country has ever endured. It not only severed our nation, it severed our nation’s families. Husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters were torn apart by politics, beliefs, distance, and death. Evidence of this bitter separation can
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| PRESENTING FANNY BRICE
Play #:4435
Libretto and arrangements by Chip Deffaa
With songs from the era of Fanny Brice
Cast: About 35 speaking roles including a young girl and boy;
can be performed from 15 - 40 actors
Script: 79 pages. Full evening.
Here’s a unique and dynamic look at Fanny Brice, the original Funny Girl, and her rise from poverty to become a superstar, then falling for a man who's a crook. This musical couldn’t be timelier with a big-b
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| EPIC FAIL
Play #:2014
By Bradley Hayward
Entirely gender flexible cast of 5-30+
Script: 25 pages.
Performance time: 30 minutes.
Teenagers are faced with failure every day. Some mornings it feels like they have the letter F stamped on their foreheads in bright red ink. In a series of hilarious vignettes, students take on a multitude of challenges, each from a different perspective. From learning to driving a car, seemingly with mind
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| SCREENAGERS
Play #:2188
By Jim and Jane Jeffries
10 m, 9 w, 2 flexible
Script: 26 pages. About 30 minutes.
In this fast-paced, technology-saturated world, can teenagers really survive without laptops, i-pads, cell phones and other mobile devices? Has high-speeding texting replaced face-to-face communication? Do apps substitute for thoughtful conversation? From breaking up on Facebook, to in-class research, to real-time dating advice, this pla
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| DARK TOWER, THE
Play #:2189
Adapted By Bobby Keniston
from Robert Browning's poem and Thornton Wilder’s playlet,
“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
5 m, 7 w, or with doubling 5 m, 4 w
Script: 30 pages.
Roland, a warrior and perhaps the son of a king, has reached the Dark Tower. After years of eschewing death, he seeks nothing but sweet release after lifetimes of wandering the Earth. At the Dark Tower, he is confronted by Three Sisters, eac
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| ACTOR'S NIGHTMARE, THE
Play #:2187
By Alan Heckner
Cast: Flexible from 5 m, 6 w, to as many as 8 m and 14 w, not including extras.
Script: 31 pages.
The title says it all, and every actor and actress who has ever graced the stage knows it all too well. Bobby, Danni, and Christina are three high school students who share the same bad dreams of forgetting their lines, blanking on their monologues for a big audition, looking foolish in a death scene, or b
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| MACHINATIONS
Play #:2191
By Reid Conrad
Approx. 4 m, 2 w, 20 flexible.
Script: 24 pages.
The game of “Machine” is a staple of drama classes, but in this 1950s sci-fi flavored one act the Machine, played by a group of actors, becomes a character itself. Professor Chester Pochesnik has been laboring over his Machine in the lab. He and Team Leader Osten are happy to announce to the Board that the Machine has reached its potential. Board Leader Ev
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| TIS THE SEASON
Play #:2190
By Linda Berry
Two short comedies
Script: 28 pages
Celebrate the holiday season in a new way this year! These two short comedies provide a fresh alternative to traditional holiday dramas.
In “‘Tis the Season” (3 m, 2 w, 2 flexible), the Scheduler has called a meeting of representatives of major winter festivals and holidays because the “people upstairs” have decided December is too cluttered with similar events. Th
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| SECRET IDENTITY: Adventure...
Play #:2192
By Will Ledesma
3 m, 3 w, 1 voice
Script: 36 pages.
Performance Time: 35-40 minutes.
Friendship, adventure, integrity, an evil mime, a mysterious butler, stolen dinosaur bones, a man with a mailbox on his head—it’s all just a part of the fun in this one act. Follow the heroic adventures of Princess Mystic Starfish, a charming and unconventional superheroine who battles her enemies with dogged persistence by firing bu
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| PRINCESS AND THE MOON
Play #:2193
By T. James Belich
Cast: 4 m, 9 f, 10 flexible, extras.
Some doubling possible.
Script: 67 pages. About 70 minutes.
Princess Lizzy wants to be a knight. Bored with the usual duties of a princess, she dreams of fighting in tournaments, slaying dragons, and doing all the things that good knights do. For what Princess Lizzy desires above all else is to be special – one-of-a-kind, absolutely unique! And so on her sixt
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| CAROL VS. CHRISTMAS
Play #:8410
By Lisa Nanni-Messegee and Todd Messegee
Cast: Flexible from 16 to 33+ including some speaking roles for children.
Script: 48 pages. About 80 minutes.
Incorporates several Christmas carols.
In this modern reimagining of Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol," a struggling theatre company is rehearsing a Christmas show. Carol, the hard-driving real estate agent who owns the building, interrupts, demanding rent. Later, in t
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| COMING BACK TO JERSEY
Play #:8175
By Carl L. Williams
Cast: 3 m, 3 w
Script: 58 pages. About 90 minutes.
Howard, a middle-aged tailor, indulges in daydreams to escape his humdrum existence. Norma, his suspicious wife, believes he is fantasizing about Dorothy, a sexy widow friend, so she comes up with a scheme to have Dorothy passionately flirt with Howard to test his fidelity. But Norma's plan backfires when Howard retaliates by conniving with Dorothy
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| BORN TO BE WILD
Play #:8413
By Bryan Starchman
Cast: Widely flexible cast of 32.
Minimum cast: 2 m, 1 w, 2 flexible.
Script: 62 pages.
Ever wonder why your cat acts like he's king of the world? Or why flamingos stand on one leg? Have you ever imagined what a spider would have to say to a fly just before devouring him, or what "small talk" sounds like when a cannibalistic female praying mantis goes on a date with a naive male praying mantis? Wel
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| SCARIEST PLAY -- EVER!
Play #:8411
By Craig Sodaro
Cast: From 5 male, 9 female,
to 14 male, 31 female.
Script: 67 pages.
Horror movies can be lots of fun! Join producer C.C. Bellows as he meets five directors whose movie pitches come alive onstage. Of course, C.C. knows that audiences only really like what they’ve seen before, so each of the directors has tweaked a famous horror film. “The Calamityville Horror” tells the story of a family who mo
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