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Drama / 7m, 7f / Unit set Immortalized onstage and screen by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, this classic tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller. The Miracle Worker dramatizes the volatile relationship between...

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Drama Characters: 9 male Interior Set This seminal work of the Off-Broadway movement premiered in 1968 and was a long-running hit onstage, later filmed with the original cast. In 2010, the play made a triumphant return to New York City in an highl...

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An unhappy game of romantic follow-the-leader explodes into murder one weekend at The Hollow, home of Sir Henry and Lucy Angkatell. Dr. Cristow is at the center of the trouble when his mistress Henrietta, ex-mistress Veronica, and wife Gerda, simu...

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Melodrama; 5 male roles, 3 female roles.

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Full Length, Comedy Characters: 1 male, 1 female Interior Set One of the most popular romantic comedies of the century, Same Time, Next Year ran four years on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for lead actress Ellen Burstyn, who later recreated her r...

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Winner! 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama In an important publishing event, Samuel French, in cooperation with the Thornton Wilder estate is pleased to release the playwright's definitive version of Our Town. This edition of the play differs only slig...

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David Pearce, Associate Professor of English, is giving a tutorial to a pretty co-ed who aspires to the lofty heights of poetical inspiration and romance. David is fending her off when the department chairman's wife barges in with plans to make he...

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Comedy Characters: 2 males, 2 females Bare stage, movable props The Obie award-winning Sexual Perversity in Chicago "takes funny and painful digs at the fantasies and distances of the contemporary sexual game," according to The New York ...

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Comedy Characters: 9 male, 2 female 2 Interior Sets This clever romp is two short plays. In the first, a troupe of English schoolboys (played by adults) speak in a mock language called "Dogg." This hilarious language babbles along until ...

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In The Water Engine, actors, an announcer, and a sound effects man present a radio play during the 1930s with unerring authenticity. The "play within the play" reveals the story of a young inventor who's found a way to run an engine on distilled w...

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Dramatic Readings Eighteen 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.

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For audition, performance and classroom use these highly diverting pieces are a perfect fit. From the foreward by Greer Garson, "A kindly sense of humor and acute observation illumine his gallery of recognizable contemporary portraits."

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Young audience Characters: 3 male, 3 female With help from Uncle Pirate and his faithful talking penguin, maybe, just maybe, Wilson can survive the fourth grade. Wilson is just your average kid. Then one day he finds out his uncle is a pirate...li...

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Characters: 4 male, 1 female with doubling Unit Set Winner! LA Weekly Award for Best New Play Award-winning playwright Jim Leonard's latest, Battle Hymn, is the story of 16-year-old Martha's epic pregnancy and her incredible search for m...

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Dramatic Comedy Characters: 1 male, 1 female Beau Bridges, winner of three Emmy Awards and two Golden Globes, teams up with his daughter Emily Bridges, a recent college grad, to create this stage version of Richard Boleslavsky's 1933 narrative abo...

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Full Length, Satirical Comedy Characters: 5 male, 3 female 2 Interior and Exterior Scenes Shaw's satire on war and the professional soldier.

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> Dramatic comedy Cahracters: 3 male, 2 female A hip and inventive new play by Walter Mosley, best-selling author of more than 25 books and most widely known for his popular Easy Rawlins mysteries, including "Devil in a Blue Dress". T...

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This collection of eight 10 minute plays include: PERFECT WEATHER (2m) - When a strange man interrupts Jim's meditative morning ritual, what begins with small talk about the weather, soon devolves into a bizarre interrogation. THE MERRY-GO-RO...

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Comedy Peter Williams Characters: 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'...

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Comedy / 7m, 4f / 1 Set Confined in is villa at Yalta by illness in April of 1900, Chekhov receives a delightful visit by the Moscow Art Theatre. They have embarked on a provincial tour with the express purpose of persuading Chekhov to give them h...

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Farce Characters: 3 male, 9 female Interior Set In an insane asylum we find a number of schoolteachers who have lost their mental balance trying to educate their pupils. The play starts hilariously when the ladies talk and act like their former ch...

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This collection of Wilder's most famous one act plays includes, The Long Christmas Dinner, The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, Pullman Car Hiawatha, Queens of France, Such Things Only Happen in Books, and Love and How to Cure It. In thes...

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Characters: 3 male, 2 female Composite set: part of a bedroom, sitting-room, eating-area in kitchen The Rodales seem like an ordinary family, but beneath the surface things are beginning to crack. Jill and Mal have lost the spark in their marriage...

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Oscar Wilde Full Length, Farce comedy Charcters: 5 male, 4 female Exterior Set and 2 Interior Sets This masterpiece is probably the most famous of all comedies. It revolves wittily around the most ingenious case of "manufactured" mistake...

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Farce Characters:4 male, 8 female Interior Set Barry Hollis, Princeton graduate, has just inherited his father's fortune. Barry meets and falls in love with Gladys Vance. He persuades his aunt to invite Gladys for a visit. Another note goes t...

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Characters: 3 male, 2 female Interior Winner! 2011 Obie Award for Playwriting Nominated for the 2011 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play Samuel D. Hunter's A Bright New Boise is a earnest comedy about the meager profits of modern faith. In the b...

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Comedy / Characters: 1 male, 1 female / Set Requirements: 1 Interior In roles originated by Uta Hagen and David Hyde Pierce, this two-character comedy opens as a aging but still formidable woman hires an acerbic dance instructor to give her lesson...

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Drama Charcters: 2 male, 3 female Interior Set As Fidel Castro storms Habana, a wealthy Batistlano is forced to flee to America with her husband and unborn child. Adria begs her cook, a proud and loyal woman who values her mistress's friendsh...

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Drama Characters: 14 male, 9 female 5 interior scenes and 2 exterior scenes This constantly interesting play shows in outline the life history and, in its later scenes, the death history of Mr. Zero, a cog in the vast machine of modern business.

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