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
| URBAN LEGENDS
Play #:8007
By Bryan Starchman
Widely flexible cast - 16-40 actors.
Script: 64 pages
Here is a collection of stories to make your blood turn cold. "Urban Legends" starts with a whirlwind tour that covers many of the famous and infamous urban legends we’ve grown up hearing and fearing. It then delves deeper, dramatizing full stories in chilling detail. In “The Survivor” we meet the sole survivor of a plane crash who has lost hi
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| DOLL'S HOUSE, A
Play #:8407
Translated by Robert Cole
3 m, 4 w, 1 flexible, 2 boys, 1 girl
Script: 80 pages.
This version breathes new life into the supreme classic by Henrik Ibsen. Of course no one can improve Ibsen's original story of Nora Helmer, living an unexamined life of domestic comfort but being ruled by her husband, Torvald. The foundation of everything she has believed in is put to the test when she is unable to pay back a loan she m
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| CHILDREN OF OEDIPUS, THE
Play #:8406
By Nelly E. Cuellar-Garcia
A Re-Imagination of Sophocles’ "Antigone"
7 m, 3 f, 2 flexible, chorus, extras
Script: 42 pages.
This new dramatic adaptation of "Antigone" offers a voice to characters who were previously unheard in the traditional Sophocles version. Polynices, Haemon, Ismene, and Eurydice -- each becomes an integral part of the storyline so that the audience fully understands what compels them to comm
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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
| FRANKENSTEIN UNPLUGGED
Play #:2186
Adapted by Jonathan Yukich
Based on the novel by Mary Shelley
6 m, 3 w, 4 flexible (or with doubling 2 m, 1 w)
Script: 40 pages. About 45 minutes.
Jonathan Yukich’s "Frankenstein Unplugged" offers a faithful stage retelling of Mary Shelley’s classic Gothic novel. We meet Victor Frankenstein, who is obsessed with finding the secret to recreating life. Of course, he famously succeeds, but fearing he has overstepp
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| NIGHTMARE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE
Play #:2013
The Nightmare of Frankenstein
Adapted by Edward J. Walsh
and Robert Thomas Noll
from the novel by Mary Shelley
Cast: 2 m, 2 w, 4 flexible
Script: 34 pages
The House of Frankenstein is in turmoil. Victor Frankenstein, engaged to a woman he deeply loves, has fallen into a fit of despair. The cause of Victor’s behavior is, in fact, a Creature he brought to life. Contrary to what Victor intended, however, his Cre
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| REALITY SHOW PRINCE ABSURDLY..
Play #:2345
By Eddie Zipperer
3 m, 4 w, 8 flexible, some doubling possible
Script: 32 pages
Princess Beauteous is the ultimate grand prize winner and gets to marry Prince Absurdly Handsome on his reality TV show. On the journey to the prince’s kingdom, she and her lazy servant, Falada, get hijacked by Repulsa, a hideous, desperate-to-be-famous peasant girl. Repulsa tricks the princess, switches places with her, and even has Fala
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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
| THAT'S PRINCESS...WITH A PEA!
Play #:3215
Book, Music and Lyrics by Elliott B. Baker
6 m, 9 w, 6 flexible, many extras
Script: 67 pages. Full evening.
Prince Fred wants more than anything to find the princess of his dreams and marry her. But if he does, and becomes a father, then his “youthful” mother the queen will become a grandmother and that is simply unacceptable! Until the prince marries, however, no one can wed…or celebrate in any way! Everyone is stre
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| CYRANO AND ROXANNE
Play #:8179
By Janice Rider
Flexible cast.
With doubling 8 m, 4-5 w, 1 child.
Script: 58 pages.
In this retelling of Edmond Rostand's play, "Cyrano de Bergerac," Roxanne is smitten by the superficial charms of a handsome young soldier, Christian, who is new to Paris. When she tells her three friends of her "love" for this dashing fellow, they are eager to give advice on the budding romance. Roxanne is oblivious to the love Cy
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
| TROY: SACRIFICE AND SURVIVAL
Play #:8409
By Philip Lerman.
Cast: 7 m, 11 w. Much doubling possible.
Script: 44 pages. About an hour.
The terrible waste of war never seemed more contemporary than in these quintessential tragedies by Euripides set before and after the siege of Troy. Far from being “historical dramas,” they speak to any generation embroiled in conflict. We see up close and firsthand that war is the most pitiful—and most poetic—of human activiti
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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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