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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.

ComedyCharacters: 6 male, 4 female Interior Set Carmichael has again proved himself an inventive and amusing playwright. He has taken an old plot rob from the rich and give to the poor but not even Robin Hood would recognize the hilarious modern slant given to it. Four old people meet to report on their good works in the "Charities Anonymous Club" at the home of Flora Langley's nephew, a small town journalist in danger of losing his newspaper to the grafting Mayor. Flora and

Characters: 4 male, 3 female, expandable to 7 male, 6 femaleSee Rock City & Other Destinations is a contemporary musical about connections missed and made at tourist destinations across America.A wanderer believes his destiny is written on rooftops along the North Carolina Interstate. A young man yearns to connect with intelligent life in Roswell, New Mexico. A woman at the Alamo steps out of the shadow of her grandparents' idealized romance to take a chance on love. Three e

An exploration of the relationships between religion, performance, and life. Part I is set in 1575 in an English village whose traditional annual passion-play is about to be outlawed by Queen Elizabeth's anti-Catholic rulings; Part II is set in Oberammergau, 1934, as the town and the play are becoming Nazified; Part III takes place in an American small town from 1969 through the Reagan era and the present.

Characters: 3 male, 3 femaleComedyAfter being pestered by devils for more than half a year, Margery Kempe - new mother, mayor's daughter, and proprietress of a highly profitable beer business - is liberated from her torment by a vision of Jesus Christ in purple robes.Visions are hard to come by, even in 1401. Should we trust the new Margery, with her fasting and her weeping and her chastity fixation, or burn her with the other heretics? Can a woman of insatiable appetites just up a

Comedy / 4m, 2fScenery: Combined Interior and ExteriorChristmas Eve is tough for private investigator Cactus O'Riley, a white hot redhead with the holiday blues. She is trying to lure her secretary Fred away from his protective mother, dodging the affections of Deputy D.A. Windsor, and considering closing her business. She doesn't need the added aggravation of two fugitives who burst into her office looking for justice and a dead detective named Jake Marley. Cactus also doesn't need Fred's

p> Drama Characters: 9 male, 5 female (doubling possible). Unit set. Originally produced to acclaim by Washington D.C.'s famed Arena Stage, this is an engrossing political drama about the contemporary farm crisis in America and its effect on rural communities. "A haunting and emotionally draining play. A community of farmers and ranchers in a small Colorado town disintegrates under the weight of failure and thwarted ambitions. Most of the farmers, their spouses, children,

Thriller Bernard Slade Characters: 3 male, 3 female Interior Set That stellar practitioner of Broadway comedy at its best has here turned his hand, quite successfully we believe, to another genre the mystery thriller. This gripping play takes place in the beach house of Blair Griffen, movie star. Blair is getting divorced, and her husband Morgan is coming to pick up his painting. Then a papparazzo named Tony Lombardi, who is obsessed with Blair, kills Morgan; only

Simplified Revised Version Musical comedy Book and Lyrics by Adolph Green and Betty Comden Music by Cy Coleman Based on a play by Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur and also a play by Bruce Milholland 17 Principal roles, plus chorus (doubling possible) Whether performed with elaborate scenery or on a simple scale, this brilliantly comic musical appeals to audiences everywhere. As in the classic original, the story concerns the efforts of a flamboyant theatrica

Comic dramaCharacters: 1 male, 6 female Unit set. Tood, Weetsie and Sybill are brides in rural Louisiana in 1943. Each married a Cliffert brother. The men are off to war and a local news story about these young wives keeping the home fires burning intrigues Henry Luce. He decides that they belong on the cover Life Magazine and assigns Kate Miller to the story. She has been covering the war in Europe and, though she views doing a "women's piece" as a career set back, she acce

Farce Marrijane Hayes and Joseph Hayes Characters: 8 male, 10 female Interior Set James Clark plans to spend a peaceful summer concentrating on getting elected president of his country club, a first step toward becoming District Attorney in the fall. Uncle Jimmie's plans go astray when Pamela, 17, and Sonny, 15, arrive. He wins his election with inventive help from the kids, but they also all but wreck James' romance and turn the house upside down.

Historical DramaCharacters: 3 male, 2 femaleIt's 1855, Kansas Territory. The country is divided. People are turning against their neighbors because of their beliefs. War is on the horizon. Good people will do bad things and love will grow in places it shouldn't. A provocative, funny and insightful play revisits a crucial moment in American history. Homesteading farmers George and Kitty fight the elements to start a new life as a politically divided country takes a dangerous step to

ComedyCharacters: 1 male, 5 femaleMultiple SetsThe Divine Sister is an outrageous comic homage to nearly every Hollywood film involving nuns. Evoking such films as The Song of Bernadette, The Bells of St. Mary's, The Singing Nun and Agnes of God, The Divine Sister tells the story of St. Veronica's indomitable Mother Superior who is determined to build a new school for her Pittsburgh convent. Along the way, she has to deal with

DramaCharacters: 2 male, 5 femaleWinner of the 2003 National Latino Playwriting AwardA dark work about self-knowledge and the nature of evil, where the devil lives in a godless world. Lee, accompanied by his photographer girlfriend Dru, arrives in El Paso to interview Mateo, (a convicted murderer recently released), over a period of a few days. During the intense interview process, Lee so empathizes with his subject's life in the past that he merges his own past wit

Full Length, Southern ComedyCharacters: 2 male, 3 femaleUnit setProperty is a contemporary romantic comedy set in a Garden District mansion in New Orleans. Rooster Dubonnet, a young artist suffering from a terminal disease, is dazzled by love. Raised by an imperious society-driven mother, he has fallen in love with a New-Age nurse. Set during Mardi Gras--when a whole tradition of fun, revelry, and prestige seizes the city-- Rooster is caught between his dedication to his family's past (and "property") and his own very different future. Also available in Ghosts of New Orleans.

p> Jan Buttram Full Length, ComedyChacaters: 2 male, 1 female Interior A hilarious take on a father/daughter relationship, this off beat comedy combines foreign intrigue with down home philosophy. Sally Pound flees a bad marriage in New York and arrives at her parent's home in Texas hoping to borrow money from her brother to pay a debt to gangsters incurred by her husband. Her elderly parents are supposed to be vacationing in Israel, but she is greeted with a shotgun aimed by her irascible father who has been left home because of a minor car accident and is not at all happy to see her. When a news report indicates that Sally's mother may have been taken captive in the Middle East, Sally's hard nosed brother insists that she keep father home until they receive definite word and only then will he loan Sally the money. Sally fails to keep father in the dark and he plans a rescue while she finds she is increasingly unable to skirt the painful truths of her life. The ornery father and his loveable but slightly-dysfunctional daughter come to a meeting of hearts and minds and solve both their problems.

Adventure 25 characters. Various Sets. A superlative dramatization, with worlds of excitement. The action stems from the Admiral Benbow Inn, where the old captain is given the death mark by the pirates. Young Jim Hawkins falls heir to the treasure map, and soon sails with his masters to the treasure island. The ship is manned, though they know it not, by a crew comprised mostly of pirates. A mutiny arises, and a fight on the island ensues, with Jim proving his mettle. A trul