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1 | Title | Plot Summary | Author | Characters | Males | Females | Any Gender Character | Genre | Length |
2 | Seven Voyages Of Sinbad The Sailor, The | Averill, Ric | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | Musical - for Children | |||
3 | 'Art' - Reza Translation | Hampton | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
4 | 100 Neo-Futurist Plays | multiple authors | 21+ | 10+ | 10+ | Comedy - Farce/Slapstick | |||
5 | 1918 | Having been exempted from military service in World War I, Horace Robedeaux is back home in Harrison, Texas. He and his wife, Elizabeth, along with their infant daughter, are now settled in a new house built for them by Elizabeth's father, Mr. Vaughn. While their fortunes have improved, the nation reels from a spreading flu epidemic that soon reaches Harrison and infects Mr. Vaughn and Horace. During Horace's illness his daughter also contracts the flu and dies bringing to the young parents a sadness that even the armistice can do little to allay. In time Elizabeth becomes pregnant again, and the play ends with brightening prospects for all: The nation is finally at peace; Horace and Elizabeth are blessed with a healthy baby boy; and even Elizabeth's wayward younger brother, who had been of deep concern for Mr. Vaughn, shows signs of finally coming to terms with the responsibilities of adulthood., | Foote, Horton | 11-15 | 4-6 | 7-9 | Drama - Heavy | Full Length (1.5+ hours) | |
6 | 1984 | Based on the iconic novel by George Orwell, 1984 brings us the story of Winston Smith, a cog in the giant machine state of Oceania. Physically and mentally under the omnipresent eye of Big Brother, Winston has been caught struggling for scraps of love and freedom in a world awash with distrust and violence. With the brutal "help" of four Party Members, Winston is forced to confess his Thoughtcrimes before an unseen inquisitor, and the audience -- which acts as a silent witness to his torture. A ferocious and provocative adaptation of one of the most prescient works of literature of the last century. | Orwell, George adapted for the stage by Michael Gene Sullivan | 6-10 | 4-6 | 1-3 | Drama - Heavy | Full Length (1.5+ hours) | |
7 | 21 Guaranteed Ways to Get detention | The quota is clear: the principal of McKinley Grove High School and her two new assistants can't give out more than twenty detentions per year. But this student body breaks the rules in such ridiculous ways, they might hit the maximum in just one day. Meet the world's most obvious cheater, a ruthless Girl Scout cookie mogul, the captain of the Cat Football League, and many more in this cavalcade of hilariously bad behavior. | McWethy, Ian | 21+ | 10+ | 10+ | Comedy - Farce/Slapstick | Full Length (1.25+ hours) | |
8 | 35 in 10 | Thirty-Five Ten-Minute Plays | Brown, Kent R. (compiled and edited) | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | Anthology | One Act Play (less than 40 minutes) | |
9 | 39 Steps, the | In The 39 Steps, a man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she's a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called "The 39 Steps" is hot on the man's trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale! A riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft, The 39 Steps amounts to an unforgettable evening of pure pleasure! | Buchan, John | 1-5 | 1-3 | 1-3 | Comedy - Farce/Slapstick | ||
10 | 45 Seconds From Broadway | Simon, Neil | 11-15 | 4-6 | 4-6 | None | |||
11 | A Bad Friend | Feiffer, Jules | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
12 | A Children's Trilogy | Three ensemble one act children's plays, in story theatre style. | Guderjahn, Ernie | 1-5 | 1-3 | 1-3 | Anthology | One Act Play (less than 40 minutes) | |
13 | A Contemporary American Guide To A Successful Marraige | Bastron | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
14 | A Doll's House | , | Ibsen | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | Full Length (1.5+ hours) | |
15 | A Fairy Tale Life: The Story of Young Hans Christian Andersen | This fantastical tale weaves together biographical elements of Hans Christian Andersen's childhood with his famous stories: The Nightingale, Thumbelina, The Swineherd and many more! Seventeen-year-old Hans Christian Andersen, the son of a simple shoemaker, is a real-life ugly duckling dreaming of the day he will become famous. Attending school for the first time as a teenager, he's not only surrounded by classmates years younger but also bullied and teased for the stories he shares. When the intimidating Headmaster Meisling announces a contest for the student with the "most incredible talent," Hans sets to work on creating delicate paper cutouts in hopes of winning the coveted prize: a trip to Copenhagen. Shortly after starting, he is interrupted by Edvard, the smartest boy in school. As an unlikely friendship begins to develop between the two outsiders, Hans shares the fascinating story of his young life as well as new stories he has created. Just when it looks as if Hans will finally have a happy ending, Klaus, a bullying classmate, destroys his entry for the contest and dashes his hopes for visiting Copenhagen. Summoning all the confidence and creativity that he can muster, Hans creates a powerful and moving entry that proves this ugly duckling is really a swan! | Nolan, Ernie | 11-15 | 6-7 | 4 | Comedy | Full Length | |
16 | A Girl's Guide To Chaos | Heimel | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
17 | A Life In The Theatre | Mamet | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
18 | A Man For All Seasons | Bolt | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
19 | A Raisin In The Sun | Hansberry, Lorraine | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
20 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Williams, Tennessee | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
21 | A View from A Bridge | As told by the New York News. "… is a tragedy in the classic form and I think it is a modern classic…the central character is a long-shoreman who, though his mind is limited and he cannot find words for his thoughts, is an admirable man…When two of his wife's Italian cousins—submarines they are, in the waterfront argot—are smuggled into this country, he makes room for them in his home. Gratefully they move in among his wife, his children and the teen-age niece whom he has brought up and whom he has come to love, he thinks, as a daughter. And now the stage is set for tragedy. One of the illegal immigrants has a family in Italy for whom he is working; the other young, extraordinarily handsome, and exceedingly blonde, is single. He wants to become an American, and he falls in love with his benefactor's niece. If he marries the girl he will no longer have to hide from immigration officials. A monstrous change creeps up on the kind and loving uncle. He is violently opposed to this romance and is not intelligent enough to realize that this opposition is not motivated, as he thinks, by a dislike of the boy and a suspicion that he is too pretty to be a man, but by his own too intense love for his niece. Not even the wise and kindly neighborhood lawyer can persuade him to let the girl go. This is an intensely absorbing drama, sure of itself every step of the way. It makes no false moves, wastes no time and has the beauty that comes from directness and simplicity.", | Miller, Arthur | 16-20 | 10+ | 1-3 | Drama - Heavy | Full Length (1.5+ hours) | |
22 | Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, The | One actor portrays every character in a small Jersey Shore town as he unravels the story of Leonard Pelkey, a tenaciously optimistic and flamboyant fourteen-year-old boy who goes missing. A luminous force of nature whose magic is only truly felt once he is gone, Leonard becomes an unexpected inspiration as the town’s citizens question how they live, who they love, and what they leave behind. | Lecesne, James | 1-5 | 1-3 | 0 | Comedy - Farce/Slapstick | One Act Play (less than 40 minutes) | |
23 | Agamemnon | Aeschylus | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
24 | Ah, Wilderness | O'Neill, Eugene | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
25 | Alchemist, The | Jonson | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
26 | Alice In Wonderland | Duffield, Brainerd | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
27 | All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten | Based on the best selling books, this musical takes a funny, insightful and heartwarming look at what is profound in everyday life. It's an evening of theatrical storytelling in revue format, with monologues, dialogues, and multiple voice narration, enhanced through the use of live piano underscoring, which provides fluidity, charm, and emotional texture, and seven optional original songs | Fulghum/Zulia/Caldwell | 1-5 | 1-3 | 1-3 | Musical - Comedy | Full Length (1.5+ hours) | |
28 | All My Sons | During the war Joe Keller and Herbert Deever ran a machine shop which made airplane parts. Deever was sent to prison because the firm turned out defective parts, causing the deaths of many men. Keller went free and made a lot of money. The twin shadows of this catastrophe and the fact that the young Keller son was reported missing during the war dominate the action. The love affair of Chris Keller and Ann Deever, the bitterness of George Deever returned from the war to find his father in prison and his father's partner free, are all set in a structure of almost unbearable power. The climax showing the reaction of a son to his guilty father is fitting conclusion to a play electrifying in its intensity. | Miller, Arthur | 6-10 | 4-6 | 4-6 | Drama - Heavy | Full Length (1.5+ hours) | |
29 | All That Fall | Beckett, Samuel | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
30 | Almost, Maine | On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost's residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night's dream. | Cariani, John | 1-5 | 1-3 | 1-3 | Drama - Semi-Comic | ||
31 | Amadeus | Shaffer, Peter | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
32 | American Buffalo | This volatile drama starred Robert Duvall in the original Broadway production and has seen revivals with Al Pacino and most recently on Broadway with John Leguizamo in 2008. In a Chicago junk shop three small time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece of which is a valuable "Buffalo nickel". These high-minded grifters fancy themselves businessmen pursuing legitimate free enterprise. But the reality of the three- Donny, the oafish junk shop owner; Bobby, a young junkie Donny has taken under his wing and "Teach", a violently paranoid braggart- is that they are merely pawns caught up in their own game of last-chance, dead-end, empty pipe dreams. | Mamet, david | 1-5 | 1-3 | 0 | Drama - Heavy | ||
33 | Amish Project, the | The Amish Project is a fictional exploration of the Nickel Mines schoolhouse shooting in an Amish community, and the path of forgiveness and compassion forged in its wake | Dickey, jessica | 1-5 | 0 | 1-3 | Drama - Heavy | ||
34 | An Enemy of the People | Miller, Arthur | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
35 | Anatomy of Gray | Leonard, Jim | 6-10 | 4-6 | 4-6 | Drama - Heavy | |||
36 | Andronocles and the Lion | Shaw, Bernard | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
37 | Angel Street | A Broadway hit first produced on the West End under the title Gaslight and filmed twice, Angel Street tells the story of the Manninghams who live on Angel Street in 19th Century London. As the curtain rises, all appears the essence of Victorian tranquility. It is soon apparent however, that Mr. Manningham, a suavely handsome man, is slowly driving his gentle, devoted wife Bella, to the brink of insanity with an insinuating kindness which masks more sinsister motives. While he is out, Mrs. Manningham has an unexpected caller: amiable, paternal Inspector Rough from Scotland Yard. Rough is convinced that Manningham is a homicidal maniac wanted for a murder committed fifteen years earlier in this very house. Gradually the inspector restores Bella's confidence in herself and as the evidence against Manningham unfolds, the author has built and sustained some of the most brilliant, suspenseful sequences in modern theatre, | Hamilton, Patrick | 6-10 | 1-3 | 1-3 | Drama - Heavy | ||
38 | Angels In America | Kushner, Tony | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
39 | Anna In the Tropics | Cruz | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
40 | Anne Frank and Me | Bennett, Cherie | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
41 | Antigone | A muscular version of Sophocles' timeless masterpiece, offering a profound reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights.The war has ended, but with peace comes conflict. Antigone's brother Polyneices lies on the battlefield where he fell, his burial outlawed by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Should Antigone obey Creon, or must she follow her conscience and lay her beloved brother to rest? | Anouilh, Jean | 16-20 | 7-9 | 1-3 | Drama - Heavy | ||
42 | Antigone | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | ||||
43 | Arabian Nights, The | Swortzell | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
44 | Arkansaw Bear, the | Saddened and bewildered at her grandfather's approaching death, Tish runs to her "special tree." There, in a world of fantasy provided by her wish on a star, she meets the world's greatest dancing bear. He is old, like her grandfather, and is running away—from death. In trying to help him, she begins to understand the meaning of both life and death, which helps her to cope with her own sadness. The play blends realism and fantasy, pathos and humor. It is delightfully theatrical, with music, magic and dance, and enthusiastically applauded by children's audiences and family audiences. The Arkansaw Bear is an important work by America's foremost playwright for young audiences, sparkling with entertainment while also dramatizing, with poignancy, a universal truth. | Harris, Aurand | 6-10 | 1-3 | 1-3 | Children's - Drama | One Act Play (40+ minutes) | |
45 | Arms and the Man | Shaw, Bernard | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
46 | Arsenic and Oldlace | We meet the charming and innocent ladies who populate their cellar with the remains of socially and religiously "acceptable" roomers; the antics of their brother who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt; and the activities of the other brother—these require no further description or amplification here. ARSENIC AND OLD LACE is a must for all nonprofessionals, a ready-made comedy hit. | Kesselring, oseph | 11-15 | 10+ | 1-3 | Comedy - Farce/Slapstick | Full Length (1.5+ hours) | |
47 | As It is In Heaven | Hutton | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
48 | Audience | Frayn, Michael | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
49 | August: Osage County | , | Letts, Tracy | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | Full Length (1.5+ hours) | |
50 | Auntie Mame | Lawrence and Lee | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
51 | Baby With the Bathwater | Durang, Christopher | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
52 | Bacchae | Euripedes | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
53 | Bad Habits | McNally, Terrence | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
54 | Bartholomew Fair | Jonson | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
55 | Beauty Queen of Lennane, the | McDonagh | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
56 | Beckett | Anouilh, John | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
57 | Beowulf | Avary and Gaiman | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
58 | Best All Round | Sheiness, Marsha Lee | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
59 | Betrayal | Pinter, Harold | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
60 | BFG: A Set of Plays, The (Roald Dahl) | Roald Dahl fans will rejoice at the opportunity to bring their favorite books and characters to life. Five of Dahl’s hugely popular, beloved books have been adapted into winning plays for children. With useful tips on staging, props, and costumes, these plays can be produced with a minimum amount of resources and experience. Teachers, parents, and children everywhere will recognize Quentin Blake’s appealing classic cover art and will find these easy-to-perform plays to be a great source of entertainment! | Wood, David | 21+ | Children's - Comedy | ||||
61 | Biloxi Blues | Simon, Neil | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
62 | Birds, The | Aristophanes | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
63 | Boeing-Boeing | Camoletti.Cross | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
64 | Book of Ruth, The | Frockt, Deborah L. | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
65 | Bottom: The Scripts | Mayall/Edmondson | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
66 | Bourgeois Gentleman, the | Moliere | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
67 | Boys Next Door, The | The place is a communal residence in a New England city, where four mentally handicapped men live under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly "burned out" young social worker named Jack. Norman, who works in a doughnut shop and is unable to resist the lure of the sweet pastries, takes great pride in the huge bundle of keys that dangles from his waist; Lucien P. Smith has the mind of a five-year-old but imagines that he is able to read and comprehend the weighty books he lugs about; Arnold, the ringleader of the group, is a hyperactive, compulsive chatterer, who suffers from deep-seated insecurities and a persecution complex; while Barry, a brilliant schizophrenic who is devastated by the unfeeling rejection of his brutal father, fantasizes that he is a golf pro. Mingled with scenes from the daily lives of these four, where "little things" sometimes become momentous (and often very funny), are moments of great poignancy when, with touching effectiveness, we are reminded that the handicapped, like the rest of us, want only to love and laugh and find some meaning and purpose in the brief time that they, like their more fortunate brothers, are allotted on this earth. | Griffin, Tom | 6-10 | 7-9 | 1-3 | Drama - Semi-Comic | Full Length (1.5+ hours) | |
68 | Brand | Ibsen | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
69 | Brave Navigator | Greenwood, David Valdes | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
70 | Burial at Thebes, the | Sophocles | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
71 | Burn After Reading | Coen, Ethan/Joel Coen | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
72 | Caesar and Cleopatra | Shaw, Bernard | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
73 | Cat On A Hot Tin Roof | Williams, Tennessee | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
74 | Caucasian, Chalk Circle, the | Brecht | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
75 | Charley's Aunt | Thomas, Brandon | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
76 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: A Play (Roald Dahl) | Roald Dahl fans will rejoice at the opportunity to bring their favorite books and characters to life. Five of Dahl’s hugely popular, beloved books have been adapted into winning plays for children. With useful tips on staging, props, and costumes, these plays can be produced with a minimum amount of resources and experience. Teachers, parents, and children everywhere will recognize Quentin Blake’s appealing classic cover art and will find these easy-to-perform plays to be a great source of entertainment! | Wood, David | Children's - Comedy | |||||
77 | Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll and Hyde Play | Wilson, Lauren | 6-10 | 4-6 | 4-6 | Comedy - Farce/Slapstick | |||
78 | Cherry Orchard, the | Chekhov | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
79 | Children of A Lesser God | Medoff | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
80 | Children's Hour, the | Hellman | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
81 | Cinderella The World's Favorite Fairy Tale | Swortzell | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
82 | Classical Drama Greek & Roman | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | ||||
83 | Cloud 9 | Churchill, Caryl | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
84 | Clouds, The | Aristophanes | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
85 | Clumsy Custard Horror Show, the | Your audience will get into the act (as they do in The Rocky Horror Picture Show) in this hilarious comedy. King Dumb is ready for his daughter to select a husband and all the Knights of the Realm are anxious to claim her hand. But the sweet Princess Prince has fallen for a gentle yet courageous lad she assumes to be a pauper. Not so! Little does she know that this scruffy stranger is Swashbuck Valpariso, bearer of the magic sword and Master of Fast Feet. With audience participation throughout, the play will leave you breathless with anticipation, reckless with abandon and proud to be a Zobian. | Gleason, William | 11-15 | 6-7 | 8-9 | Comedy | Full Length | |
86 | Cockeyed Kite | Caldwell | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
87 | Collected Stories | Margulies | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
88 | College Cut-ups | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | ||||
89 | Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [Revised], the | This much-produced, fast-paced, gag-a-second delight deconstructs all 37 of the Bard's plays-plus the sonnets-into a single two-hour whirlwind. | Long/Singer/Winfield | 1-5 | 1-3 | 1-3 | Comedy - Farce/Slapstick | ||
90 | Crimes of the Heart | Henley, Beth | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
91 | Crucible, The | Miller, Arthur | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
92 | Curious Savage, the | Mrs. Savage has been left ten million dollars by her husband and wants to make the best use of it, in spite of the efforts of her grown-up stepchildren to get their hands on it. These latter, knowing that the widow's wealth is now in negotiable securities, and seeing they cannot get hold of it, commit her to a "sanatorium" hoping to "bring her to her senses." But Mrs. Savage is determined to establish a fund to help others realize their hopes and dreams. In the sanatorium she meets various social misfits, men and women who just cannot adjust themselves to life, people who need the help Mrs. Savage can provide. In getting to know them, she realizes that she will find happiness with them and plans to spend the rest of her life as one of them. But when the doctor tells her there is no reason why she should remain, she hesitates to go out into a hard world where people seem ready to do anything for money. The self-seeking stepchildren are driven to distraction by their vain efforts to browbeat Mrs. Savage, but she preserves her equanimity and leads them on a merry chase. At last her friends conspire to get rid of her stepchildren, and through their simple belief in the justice of her cause, they enable Mrs. Savage to carry out her plans. The last scene, a farewell party, is a delightful fantasy where each "guest" in the sanatorium realizes at last some hopeless dream for something he was never able to realize. The dominant mood is high comedy, and the audience is left with a feeling that the neglected virtues of kindness and affection have not been entirely lost in a world that seems motivated at times only by greed and dishonesty. | Patrick, John | 11-15 | 4-6 | 4-6 | Comedy - Farce/Slapstick | ||
93 | Cyrano De Bergerac | Rostand, Edmond | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
94 | David's Mother | Randall, Bob | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
95 | Death of A Salesman | Miller, Arthur | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | Drama - Heavy | |||
96 | Democracy | Frayn, Michael | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
97 | Designated Mourner, The | Shawn, Wallace | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
98 | Diary of Anne Frank, The | Goodrich and Hackett | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
99 | Dinner At Eight | Kaufman/Ferber | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None | |||
100 | Dinny and the Witches | Gibson | 1-5 | 0 | 0 | None |