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Comedy Characters: 4 male, 2 female Interior Set Sarah is a nice Jewish girl with a problem: her parents want her married to a nice Jewish boy. They have never met her boyfriend, a WASP executive named Chris Kringle. She tells them she is dating a Jewish doctor and they insist on meeting him. She plans a dinner party and, over the heated protests of Chris, employs an escort service to send her a Jewish date to be Dr. Steinberg. Instead, they send Bob Schroeder, an aspiring

MysteryCharacters: 3 male, 4 female Platform with a black cyclorama or drapes. Mrs. Blake rents an old fashioned residence. While she is waiting for her colored maid to arrive, the lights go out, pistol shots are heard, and all sorts of weird happenings occur. Officer Jerry Nolan attributes the strange happenings to "The White Phantom," a notorious criminal terrorizing the neighborhood. When the maid arrives, she is confronted with "The White Phantom" himself! All clues lead to Curt Frazier, who is in love with Mrs. Blake's daughter, Marion. The suspense is tense and there are more thrills.

Dramatic ReadingsEighteen well-known tales are given a new look by having the main character from each tell a story. Poe, Hawthorne, Wilde, Twain, O. Henry are some of the authors represented.

Characters: 4 male, 1 femaleMultiple SetsIn show business, it's all about who you know. Or is it? Andy Lipman, a smart, ambitious kid from Long Island dreams of a career on Broadway and hopes that his idol, theater legend Martin Kerner, can give it to him. Will Kerner open Andy's door to success, or will their complicated relationship force him to question a life in the theater?"A terrific ensemble cast...this bittersweet valentine to the world of theater...nicely balances a light-h

Charles Aidman, conceived from Edgar Lee Masters'' Spoon River AnthologyDramatic Platform Readings w/incidental music, songs Characters: 3 male, 2 femaleBare Stage.Via musical interludes, we are introduced in a cemetery to the ghosts of those who were inhabitants of this town, and whose secrets have gone with them to the grave. There are 60 odd characterizations and vignettes in this constantly interesting entertainment offering an amazingly varied array of

Characters: 5 male, 1 femaleExterior SetThe story of two youngsters whose parents wish them to marry. The young people are determined to take matters in their own hands and refuse to fall in with their parents' plans. The fathers then pretend to a mortal enmity, which brings the young people together, but only after the boy and girl have run away from home and returned disillusioned.

Comedy Peter WilliamsCharacters: 6 male, 6 female Interior Set Mild mannered Mr. Beldinker is running for congress on the Good Government ticket. His wife, Aspasia, is writing an opera and their children aren't ordinary teenagers---one's on a health kick, another paints incomprehensible modern pictures and the third is world brat #1. The plot centers around an encyclopedia salesman who hooks them on buying the set on so called easy payments. Mad fun for all!

DramaCharacters: 2 male, 3 femaleThe Good Counselor is a new drama about a chosen son's quest for truth. Vincent, a bright young lawyer in the Public Defender department has been assigned to defend a young woman accused of killing her three-week-old son. Hounded by his community and haunted by his past, Vincent struggles to defend both neglectful mothers: his client, and his own. A thought-provoking and beautifully written play, The Good Counselor literally prompts t

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Comedy with Music Characters: 1 male, 1 or 2 female, flexible casting Interior Set Set in a small town just outside of Nashville, this slice-of-life comedic play with music is a genuine look into the hearts of everyday people. As the proprietor, Barbara Jean, tries to figure out "When is it courageous and when is it just plain crazy to hang on to love," her customers come in and take a load off by sharing their funny, heartbreaking humanity. There's Miss Morris a nurse who's

Melodrama Charceters: 6 male, 9 female, Extras if desired. Curtains and simple set pieces It's 1900 in New York. Villainous barber of German descent, Herr Hans Kutter, has set his sights on our heroine, lovely Lorrie Ell, niece and heir-to-be of wealthy society matron and cat lover, Kitty Litter, who owns numerous successful beauty salons. Kutter's plan is to marry Lorrie, then knock off Kitty, making his wife and him fabulously wealthy. He employs ditzy vamp, Hedda Wood, to entice away any competition for Lorrie's attention. Alas for Kutter, when Lorrie meets and falls in love with our hero, handsome young barber Harry Noggin, even Hedda can't come between them. Things come to a head (figuratively speaking) at Kitty's Hair Ball, a swanky fund raiser for cats. Other characters include Kitty's and Harry's employees and their customers, as well as a distraught stagemanager and a stagehand who do their best to keep the play on track (and almost end up pulling their hair out!)

Full Length, Comic Drama characters: 4 male, 3 female Unit setThis funny, poignant story of a group of 27 year olds who have known each other since college sold out during its limited run at New York City's Sanford Meisner Theater. Jessica Titus, a frustrated actress living in Boston, has become distraught over local job opportunities and she is feeling trapped in her long standing relationship with her boyfriend Tom. She suddenly decides to pursue her dreams in

Full Length, Drama Characters: 3 male, 2 female2 Interior SetsIsaac Geldhart, the imperious scion of a family owned publishing house, is under siege. A takeover is being engineered by his son Aaron, who sees the firm's profitability steadily declining and wants to publish a trashy novel to bring in the bucks. Isaac plans to go on publishing scholarly works such as a multi volume history of Nazi medical experiments. Aaron has the necessary yen from Japanese backers but he ne

Full Length, ComedyCharacters: 2 male, 1 femaleInterior Set A playwright has vowed to shoot himself unless someone agrees to option his play immediately. He appears at the office of producer Helen Osborne, an attractive and highly theatrical woman who is the reigning queen on a long running soap opera. Anxious to be off to an important meeting at Sardi's, the producer doesn't take the increasingly anxious writer seriously until he nails her door shut. Helen uses all of her feminine wiles to escape as the action escalates into a zany free for all in which writer ties producer to a chair and, with the help of an actor friend in the hall outside, reads the play to her with side splitting results. The producer finally turns the tables on the hapless writer as the action explodes into a fast paced farce uniting all three in an hilarious and madcap finale.

Monologues Jane MartinCharacters: 11 femaleBare Stage.These extraordinary monologues received a standing ovation at Louisville's Actors Theatre. Idiosyncratic characters amuse, move and frighten, always speaking from the depths of their souls. They include a baton twirler, a fundamentalist snake handler, an ex rodeo rider and an actress willing to go to any length to get a job. 1982 winner of the American Theatre Critics Association Award for Best Regional Play. "A dramatist with an original voice ... (and) gladsome humor." N.Y. Times "With Jane Martin, the monologue has taken on a new poetic form, intensive in its method and revelatory in its impact." Philadelphia Inquirer

Mystery comedy11 f. 1 setAt a New York girl's boarding house, there is a newspaper woman who wants to write a novel, a wise cracking shop girl, the serious music student, a faded actress, a girl looking for romance, the kid who wants to crash Broadway and other boarders. The landlady, is the proud custodian of the "McCarthy Collection," a group of perfect uncut diamonds. When it disappears from the safe, the newspaper woman is given two hours to solve the case before the

Randolph Carter Based on Part One of the classic novel by Emily Bronte DramaCharacters: 3 male, 3 female Multiple Interior ScenesCatherine Ernshaw has inherited Wuthering Heights, together with its occupants, a couple of servants and a wild gypsy boy with whom she has grown up, Heathcliff. Catherine has a violent quarrel with Heathcliff one night, and he disappears into the storm. Shortly thereafter Catherine marries a neighbor named Edgar, and moves away. Heathcliff returns to live in Wuthering Heights, and marries Edgar's sister for spite. He leads her an unhappy life, and infuriates Catherine. One day Catherine falls ill, and in this state goes to visit Wuthering Heights. Edgar follows, and a violent scene ensues, at the height of which Catherine dies. The tempestuous love affair is ended.

Herb Gardner ComedyCharacters: 4 male, 1 female, 12 year-old boy 2 Interior scenes This benchmark of Broadway comedy produced one of the theatre's most beloved roles: unconventional Murray, uncle to precocious nephew, Nick. Tired of writing cheap comedy gags for "Chipper the Chipmunk", a children's television star, Murray finds himself unemployed with plenty of free time with which to pursue his...pursuits. Lectured by his conventional brother Arnold and hounded b

Historical PlayCharacters: 1 mle, 6 femalePlatform set This metaphysical portrait of Henry VIII and the six women in his life contrasts this king, the epitome of Renaissance man, with modern liberal thought and concludes that humanism is dead in the twentieth century. Henry remains the same throughout but the women progress in their dress to modern times, showing their knowledge of the lasting effects of Henry's thoughts. "Original, stimulating and mature.... A compact, we

Mawby Green and Ed Feilbertfrom the French hit Magma by Jean de LetrazFarce Characters: 4 male, 3 femaleInterior SetIt played three years in Paris and five in Hollywood before coming to New York, followed by 10 years coast-to-coast and six in London, making it one of the longest runs on record! The plot is all fun. The husband is planning a business trip for philandering purposes; his wife secretly invites this same voluptuous girl to spend the weekend. The husband is trapped. Out of the blue an old friend appears, with hands aflutter, followed by a gendarme who delights in cherchez les femmes. There is also a devilish looking butler, a maid practising to be a cocotte, and some wildly artful dodging, all calculated to keep the audience laughing. "An utterly mad spoof of the French bedroom farce"-The New York World Telegram & Sun"Prolonged laughter."-The New York Times "The best entertainment in London."-London Sunday Times

Comedy Jack Sharkey. Charcters: 4 male, 8 female Interior Set This hilarious send up of the horror story genre has an ancient castle, creaking doors, a mad scientist, his misshapen assistant, a grim housekeeper, secret laboratory, shrieks from the depths of the cellar, disappearing villagers, an incredibly stalwart and stupid hero of sterling character, the scientist's absolutely dopey daughter, and so many laughs you'll lose count. The setting (designed for both

ISBN 978-0-573-69927-6Anthony J. WilkinsonOriginal Music composed by David BoydComedyCharacters: 10 male, 6 femaleAndrew and Anthony are getting married - andeveryone wants to "help"! My Big Gay ItalianWedding spins into a hysterical fiasco as everyonetries to have their way. From a saboteurex-boyfriend to a loud, opinionated, outspokenItalian mother, personalities and culture collidein a music and dance-filled extravaganza."Feel-good hysterical comedy!" -

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 piece. At first, Adam is puzzled by the new arrival in the garden and he is suspicious of her disturbing appetite for fruit. Eve, believing herself to be some sort of experiment, is curious about another experiment in the

Characters: 3 male, 2 female and SATB chorusComedyUnit SetWINNER!2008 Lucille Lortel Award - Outstanding MusicalWINNER!2008 Outer Critics Circle Award - Outstanding New Off-BroadwayMusical and Outstanding New ScoreDarkly comic and heartbreakingly beautiful, Adding Machine, a musical adaptation of Elmer Rice's incendiary 1923 play, tells the story of Mr. Zero, who after 25 years of service to his company is replaced by a mechanical adding

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Full Length, Drama Characters: 5 female Unit set. Maxine, a search and rescue pilot, returns in midwinter to her childhood home in the Adirondacks. There she conducts a search for a girl who, while on a field trip in the mountains, was abducted by a stranger in a black pick up truck. The search lasts for three days. Each night Maxine must face the girl's distraught mother, Dessa, and her own grandmother, Zofia, a reclusive Polish refugee. In sleep, Maxine is prey to n

Children's musical Characters: 3 male, 4 female Set: Exterior and Interior Unexpected and hilarious twists make this version of the classic an entirely different romp for the whole family. The cast of seven play nine roles: Beauty, The Beast, Father, Mother, Stepsister, Boyfriend, a hound dog, a theatrical entrepreneur and a hopelessly inept tap dancer whose thankless job is to distract the audience during the scene alterations. There is only a single set that ingeniously converts from farm to castle and back again in a few seconds. Underlying the hilarity is a solid message about true beauty.