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by Garry Marshall (Author), Paul Williams (Author), Paul Williams (Composer)Musical / Characters: 10m, 7f, Cast can be expanded for large groups Goodbye gray skies, hello blue Happy days are here again with Richie, Potsie, Ralph Malph and the unforgettable "king of cool" Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli. Based on the hit Paramount Pictures television series, Happy Days, A New Musical reintroduces one of America's best loved families, the Cunninghams -- yes, Howard, Marion and Joanie are here too...

Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad - Paperback

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by Arthur L. Kopit (Author)Full Length, Black Comedy / Casting: 4m, 2f, extras / Scenery: 2 int. Wealthy, overbearing Madame Rosepettle with her stuttering, awkward son Jonathan at her heels, arrives at a posh hotel with a man-eating tropical plant, pirahna fish and coffin in tow. Rosalie, a voluptuous babysitter from the couple next door "who never come home" attempts to seduce Jonathan and proves a formidable opponent to Madame herself. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8 x 5 IN Illus...

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by Jane Milmore (Author), Billy VanZandt (Author), William Van Zandt (Author)Comedy/Thriller / 5m, 3f / Interior Van Zandt & Milmore pay tribute to Master of Horror Alfred Hitchcock, with this comedy whodunit. Off-and-on New York couple Marnie and Jeff enter an even more complicated phase of their relationship when they think they spy their cross-courtyard neighbor do away with his wife. After they draw their torn curtain, the lady vanishes, and suspicion places murder beyond a shadow of ...

A Woman of No Importance - A monolgue from Talking Heads - Paperback

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by Alan Bennett (Author)At work Peggy has carved herself a comfortable niche. Once in hospital, she loses no time in establishing herself as Queen Bee, taking on several responsibilities. Persistently cheerful, blind to the feelings of others and, at heart, terribly lonely, Peggy is at once a richly comic and desperately moving creation, providing a rewarding challenge for a mature actress. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.07 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 31, 2014

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by Richard Montoya (Author)Drama / Characters: 7m, 6f Rumors, Secrets, Sand and Blood. U.S. Army Captain Catherine Siler journeys to the New Mexico reservation home of Private First Class Raymond Birdsong on a search for answers. The questionable circumstances surrounding Ray's death in Afghanistan create a crisis of conscience for the captain giving her no choice but to re-examine her own life along the way. Richard Montoya and Culture Clash, L.A.'s premiere Chicano performance group, return...

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by Amy Rosenthal (Author)Judith leaves her ex-boyfriend a desperate message on his answerphone saying that she is not coping with their break-up, that she has brought some razor blades and some henna in order to either slash her wrists or dye her hair and she might be pregnant. However, it is his new partner, Ros, who hears the message and it is she that rushes to Judith's bedsit. An evening of emotion, combined with subtle humour, ensues that will conclude with the two women, despite their d...

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by Terence Rattigan (Author)This biographical portrait of T. E. Lawrence (a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia) begins in 1922, when Lawrence was hiding under an assumed name as "Aircraftman Ross" in the Royal Air Force, and is being disciplined by his Flight Lieutenant for alleged misconduct. When Lawrence's identity is compromised, his dreams take him back to the various figures in his life, as the play flashes back to the famed Arab Revolts, beginning during World War I, in mid-1916.21 men Number of ...

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by Moss Hart (Author), George S. Kaufman (Author)Satirical comedy / 24 m., 14 f. (doubling possible.) / 5 ints. or unit set. Recently revived on Broadway to great acclaim, this is the rollicking tale of three down and out troupers who decide to head for Hollywood and try their luck with the newly invented talkies. Due to a series of consistent blunders, the most stupid of the three is carried to pinnacles of fame and fortune until he's literally made a god of the industry. It's a fast paced a...

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by Harold Pinter (Author)Into his derelict household shrine Aston brings Davies, a tramp - but a tramp with pretensions, even if to the world he may be a pathetic old creature. All that is left of his past now is the existence in Sidcup of some papers, papers that will prove exactly who he is and enable him to start again. Aston, too, has his dreams: he has always been good with his hands and there is so much to do in the house. Aston's hopes are tied to his flash brother Mick's; he has aspir...

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by R. C. Sherriff (Author)Casting: 10 m / Scenery: Interior The greatest of all English war plays, Journey's End shows the effect of war on a group of young officers. The play is a tragic and moving piece for advanced casts. Number of Pages: 152 Dimensions: 0.33 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: September 17, 2010

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by Jean Giraudoux (Author), Maurice Valency (Adapted by)Jean Giraudoux, Adapted by Maurice Valency Full Length, Fantasy DramaCharacters: 17 male, 11 female Multiple setsAudrey Hepburn created a sensation on Broadway in the title role winning a Tony Award as an ethereal sea nymph who falls in love with a handsome nobleman only to lose true love to the harsh realities of the outside world. "A romantic fantasy that truly is lyrical, philosophical, imaginative, touching, sometimes humorous."-New ...

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by Jordan Allen-Dutton (Author), Jason Catalano (Author), Gregory J. Qaiyum (Author)ComedyCharacters: 4 maleThe Bomb-itty of Errors is an Ad-Rap-Tation, hip-hop theatre retelling of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. It was nominated for Best Lyrics at the Drama Desk Awards, nominated for Outer Critics Circle Awards, and received the Jefferson Award in Chicago and the Grand Jury Prize at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen.The show lasts one hour and thirty minutes and is part play and ...

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by Gino Diiorio (Author)Characters: 2 males, 1 femaleSingle setWinner 2005 BBC International Playwriting ContestTyrus Cole, a horse trainer, lives on a ranch with his invalid sister Mary. Because he can't watch her during the day, Tyrus has Mary confined to a root cellar. When Dwight Foley arrives at the ranch seeking help with his horse, he and Mary fall in love and begin plotting the demise of Tyrus and their eventual escape. Their plan escalates and in the end, the three find themse Numbe...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Paperback

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by Dale Wasserman (Author), Ken Kesey (Based on a Book by)Comedy Drama / 13m, 4f / Int. w. inset. Kirk Douglas played on Broadway as a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather in a prison. This, he learns, was a mistake. He clashes with the head nurse, a fierce artinet. Quickly, he takes over the yard and accomplishes what the medical profession has been unable to do for twelve years; he makes a presumed deaf and dumb Indian talk. He leads ot...

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by Samuel Beckett (Author)In Waiting for Godot, two wandering tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, wait by a lonely tree, to meet up with Mr. Godot, an enigmatic figure in a world where time, place and memory are blurred and meaning is where you find it. The tramps hope that Godot will change their lives for the better. Instead, two eccentric travelers arrive, one man on the end of the other's rope. The results are both funny and dangerous in this existential masterpiece. Number of Pages: 126 Dime...

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by Jim Brochu (Author)1m / ComedyWINNER Outstanding Solo Performance - 2010 Drama Desk Award NOMINEE BEST SOLO SHOW - Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards BEST PLAY 2006 - Los Angeles Stage Ovation Award Winner BEST SOLO SHOW 2008 - Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Nomination TOP TEN PLAYS 2008 SEASON - Florida Sun Sentinel BEST PLAYWRIGHT 2007 - Backstage West Garland Award WinnerSet in theatre legend Zero Mostel's painting studio on West 28th Street, a na ve reporter attemp...

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by Francis Swann (Author)Comedy / Characters: 7 male, 5 female Set Requirements: InteriorProduced in New York City. Three young men and three young women share an apartment in all innocence; they are would be stage folk and they are doing this for economic security. Their apartment is immediately above that of a Broadway producer who is about to cast a road company. They rehearse the play but how can they get him upstairs to see it? It happens that the producer is an amateur chef and, right i...

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by Stephen Mallatratt (Author)Stephen Malatratt Based on the novel by Susan Hill. Drama/Thriller Characters: 2 male, 1 extra Bare stage The framework of this spine tingler is unusual: a lawyer hires an actor to tutor him in recounting to family and friends a story that has long troubled him concerning events that transpired when he attended the funeral of an elderly recluse. There he caught sight of the woman in black, the mere mention of whom terrifies the locals, for she is a specter who ha...

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by Bill Manhoff (Author)Full Length, Comedy Characters: 1 male, 1 female Interior SetIn a San Francisco loft, aspiring author Felix focuses his binoculars on a prostitute plying her trade. He complains to the landlord, has her evicted, and finds he has trouble pounding on his door in the form of Doris, not a prostitute but an aspiring "model and actress", thank you very much. She figures he owes her a bed for the night, an arrangement that leads to hilarity. Alan Alda and Diana Sands took th ...

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by Rick Abbot (Author)ComedyCharacters: 3 male, 7 female Interior Set Perfect for any theatre group, this is the hilarious story of a theater group trying desperately to put on a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty authoress who keeps revising the script. Act I is a rehearsal of the dreadful show, Act II is the near disastrous dress rehearsal, and the final act is the actual performance in which anything that can go wrong does. When the authoress decides to give a speech on...

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by Patrick Garland (Author)A day in the latter part of pioneering biographer John Aubrey's life. "It is as if one is paying a visit to the house of an old man, who makes up for the absence of friends by bringing to life reminiscences of people, remembering them and telling stories about them."1 man Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 25, 2000

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by John Mortimer (Author)A seedy lawyer has been waiting for years to make a grandstand defense. He is assigned to defend an innocuous little man accused of murdering his wife. The man cheerfully admits his guilt; he simply couldn't stand his wife's constant joking and laughing. The trial ends and the verdict is a foregone conclusion. The lawyer begs his client to let him appeal. Ironically the man is reprieved because of the ineptitude of his defense.2 men Number of Pages: 42 Dimensions: 0.0...

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by Lauren Yee (Author)Characters: 3 male, 3 femaleComedyThe Wongs are American as apple pie. Desdemona dreams of Princeton but could use some help with her calculus. Her brother Upton wants to be a World of Warcraft champion but needs more free time to train. Upton solves both their problems by bringing an indentured servant home one day, but they soon discover that "Ching Chong" has American dreams of his own An irreverent new comedy by Lauren Yee is skewering every clich about Asian Americ...

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by Susan C. Hunter (Author), Tom Shelton (Author), Carol Ryrie Brink (Based on a Book by)MusicalCharacters 8 male, 7 female, plus 18 childrenCarol Ryrie Brink's Newberry Award-winning novel Caddie Woodlawn is brought to exuberant life as a musical. Caddie (the iconic, high-spirited Wisconsin pioneer girl beloved by generations of readers) leads her willing siblings in a series of thrilling adventures, not always with the approval of her traditional Bostonian mother. Her father, however, encou...

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by Harold Pinter (Author)Gus and Ben are on the job, waiting and listening. Into the waiting silence rattles the dumb waiter with extraordinary demands for dishes they cannot supply - and who is operating the dumb waiter in an empty house? In a while their victim will come and they will know what to do. Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.1 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: January 31, 2015

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by Deborah Eisenberg (Author)Comedy Characters: 3 male, 4 female, optional extras. Interior Set. Melanie has rented a country house where she is joined by her friend Rachel who came for a weekend but forgot to leave and by their school friend Steve. They spend nearly a year on the sofa meandering through a mental landscape of phobias, friendships, work, sex, slovenliness and epistemology. Other people happen by: Steve's girlfriend, a virtuous and annoying man Melanie picked up in a bar, and a...

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by Charles Ludlam (Author)Characters: 7 male, 5 female, cross-gender casting possible Multiple Sets Newly Revised The landmark Ridiculous Theatre Company production of the classic 19th century melodrama Tubercular courtesan Marguerite Gautier abjures her rich lover, Baron De Varville, and sells all her jewels and furnishings to live in the counry with her true love, poor young Armand Duval. Her heart is broken when he agrees to his father's request to abandon him, and returning Number of Pa...

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by Charles Ludlam (Author)adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens Holiday ComedyCharacters: 17 male, 14 female, double casting and cross-gender casting possible Multiple Settings A Ridiculous but surprisingly faithful rendition of the Dickens classic in which Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by the ghosts of his late partner, Jacob Marley, Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come. Faced with his own mortality, and the evil results of his misanthropic, miserly wa...

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by Harold Pinter (Author)The Controller of a radio-cab firm is trying to contact Driver 274 and get him to pick up a fare at Victoria Station. Number of Pages: 28 Dimensions: 0.06 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 13, 2015

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by Philip Barry (Author)Comedy / 9m, 6f / Int./Ext. This Broadway hit starred Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord of the Philadelphia Lords, an inhibited and spoiled daughter of the privileged. Divorced from C.J. Dexter Haven, she is engaged to a successful young snob. A gossip weekly sends a reporter and a camera woman to report the wedding arrangements and they are injected into the house by Tracy's brother who hopes to divert their attention from father's romance with a Broadway dancer. Tracy ...

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by Chris Grabenstein (Author)Theatre for Young AudiencesCharacters: 6 males, 4 females, 6 males or females, plus extras"To my way of thinking, there are no such things as strays; only those who have not yet found their homes."From the imaginative mind of award winning TYA author Chris Grabenstein comes a very funny, very touching new comedy filled with laughter, learning, and heart that's ideal for school groups and professional children's theatres.Curiosity Cat is the play-within-the-book fr...

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by A. A. Milne (Author)This musical is constantly in demand for groups anxious to produce the better type of imaginative plays for young people. The play expresses perfectly the mood of the Grahame book, which is a combination of poetry, fantasy and exquisite comedy. The romance of early childhood is celebrated in this adaptation. Scripts includes full stage directions, notes on scenery, illustrations of sets, costume, property and lighting plots.-Large flexible cast Number of Pages: 90 Dimen...