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Report copyright infringementby Henry Meyerson (Author)Dramatic Comedy / Characters: 2 males 2 females doubling possibleAnne and Don married ten years are on vacation in Florida. As the play begins Anne is inanely chattering on about beaches seagulls and garbage dumps. Don fed up with Anne's incessant chatter walks away leaving Anne much to her surprise sitting on the beach alone. Don has gone to visit his friend Jim a man of little insight but great obsession about golf to tell him that he h...

The Mosley Street Melodramas (Volume III)

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Frye (Author)This new collection of campy, sassy melodramas from our beloved Mosley Street series will have audience booin', hissin' and knee-slappin'! Four all new plays in the Melodrama tradition, complete with audience participation. A riotous time for any theatre! Contains: Booze and Kisses, Crouching Santa, Hidden Reindeer, My Daze in Doo Dah, and Villain in My School. Number of Pages: 132 Dimensions: 0.28 x 8 x 5 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Israel Horovitz (Author)Dramatic Comedy / Flexible casting: 2-5m 2-5fThis brilliant collection of Horovitz's newest one-act plays can be mixed and matched to form several "theme" evenings. For example nine of these plays formed the highly-successful off-Broadway show "Israel Horovitz's New Shorts" The Bridal Dance Affection In Time (The Prologue) The Fat Guy Gets The Girl Beirut Rocks The Audition Play The Hotel Play Cat-Lady Inconsolable and The Race Play . Ad...

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Report copyright infringementby Joe Iconis (Author)Characters: 3 male 3 femaleReWrite a musical comedy triple feature is comprised of three wild musicals that connect in surprising anddangerous ways.Nelson Rocks! is a pop/rock show about a young dude who needs to fix his life before the 'You better get to class' bell rings. Populated by adolescents the show throbs and pulses along a locker-filledhallway barreling towards its inevitable showdown.Miss Marzipan is a dizzy musical about the life ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ron Osborne (Author)Drama / Characters: 3m 6fJune 1944. In England Allied troops are massing for an invasion. On a small farm in Appalachia a different kind of war is about to rage. Here Walter and Grace share a home with four daughters: Rose who struggles to understand why Stan - an immigrant coal miner and the love of her life - abruptly left to join the Polish Free Forces; Helga who fears for her husband who's in the Army and - like Stan - assigned to a comb...

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Report copyright infringementby Shirley Lauro (Author)Drama / Characters: 5m 3fWinner! 2004 NEA "Access to Excellence Award" in collaboration with New Theatre FL Finalist! 2001 New American History Play PrizeThe story takes place in 1932 the last time Clarence Darrow pleads in a criminal court of law. Set in various places in Chicago and Hawaii Darrow with his wife Ruby travels to Honolulu to defend a Pearl Harbor Naval Lieutenant accused of shooting a Hawaiian who allegedly led a gang rape o...

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Report copyright infringementby Ken Stone (Author), Jan Powell (Author)4m 1f / Running Time: 90 minutes plus intermissionPeriod costumes and set pieces mid to late 19th centuryAct I The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton is from Mark Twain's story of two people falling in love at a great distance with the aid of that brand-new invention the telephone. Alonzo in Maine and Rosannah in California meet by the accident of crossed wires and each falls in love with an imagined ideal...

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Report copyright infringementby Roger Karshner (Author)Murder Mystery Farce / 6m 3f InteriorThe police are baffled after Wilbur Smith "The Sausage King " is strangled with a roll of his own sausage. After several months the authorities unable to unscramble the dilemma call in the services of Farlow Cranston ace private investigator and renowned solver or arcane cases. Cranston with unflappable grandiloquence and fractured logic unravels the mystery via a farcical route that leads to its concl...

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Report copyright infringementby Roger Hall (Author), Wil Calhoun (Author)Comedy Characters: 1 male 1 female Interior Set This amusing and insightful look at marriage focuses on one middle aged couple Barry and Gen in whose marriage it is possible to see most of the agony and the ecstasy of the institution. Barry for example has difficulty accepting that Gen wants to have a career and indeed an identity of her own. She wants to be more than merely Mrs. Barry. Eventually of course he comes arou...

Kol Isha: A Reader's Theater Ritual for Yom Kippur

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Report copyright infringementby Laurie S. Sherman (Author)The voices of Jewish women have always been here.Now they are heard.Kol Isha: The Women Speak is a ritual book of Jewish women's voices-foremothers and prophets, rebels and seekers, leaders and future daughters.Designed to be read aloud or shared in community, this sacred text includes the full Kol Isha ritual, a Yom Kippur adaptation, and practical guidance for presentation.When women speak, something in the world shifts. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Magee (Author)This hard-hitting psychological drama swirls around a young Irishman who moves into lodgings in London already occupied by two bigots one of them Irish and a student who's slumming to research his thesis. Damien is befriended by the student who appreciates his intellect and by the student's girlfriend a devotee of causes and an aspiring journalist. When the IRA mounts a bombing campaign in London it appears that the enigmatic Damien may be ...

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Report copyright infringementby Gino Diiorio (Author)1m 2f / DramaSheila Gold 55 a successful Jewish businesswoman suffering from terminal cancer is spending the end of her life in a comfortable hospice where her only companion is her 30 year old daughter Rachel. The two have a tense relationship as Rachel has spent most of her adult life working at Planned Parenthood and is generally a disappointment to her entrepreneurial mother.While in the hospice Sheila has become fascinated by a late ni...

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Report copyright infringementby Eliot Byerrum (Author)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 nam...

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Report copyright infringementby Jerry Sterner (Author)Comedy / Characters: 2 male 1 female 1 m. extraScenery: Interiors and Exterios simply suggestedPhilip Bosco David Groh and Priscilla Lopez starred Off Broadway in this light hearted tale of two middle aged brothers on a vacation in Aruba by the author of Other People's Money. The men are searching for fun and adventure i.e. women but also for their misplaced happiness. Their father has recently passed away and the brothers decide some fun ...

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Report copyright infringementby Nathan Sanders (Author)Southern Gothic Drama / 3m 3f / ExteriorThe Bean family in Sugar Bean Florida live under an ancient family curse. The surviving members of the town's founding family have reached the end of their rope. Just when things can't possibly get any worse tragedy strikes as a mysterious and brutal murder takes place in the Bean family home. The crime places "Moses" and "Sisser" in grave danger as "Annabelle" the last in a long-line of so-called "...

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Report copyright infringementby Monty Norman (Author), Julian More (Author)A fictitious songwriter and fifty years of his music provide an ideal spoof of musical revues. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.18 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 07, 2017

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Seff (Author)Comedy / 6m 5f / InteriorAcross the street from the ? mad men? of Madison Avenue live the Ten Percenters of the National Talent Agency. It? s the same time 1962 a secretary is still a toy boys will still be boys but the times they are a changin? . Audiences will love to hear what? s happening on The Whole Ninth Floor? First impression is that it is a string of jokes tied together rather loosely. A moment? s concentration brings home however...

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Marks (Author)2m / Dramatic Comedy / Unit setIt's 1965 and two comedians "Steady Eddie" & "Doug the Mug " knock 'em dead every night in the Catskills. Punchlines and cheap shots fly -- on stage and off -- as Doug and Ed battle for the spotlight over a decade pushing each other to the cusp of a new direction of stand up comedy. With their personal and professional lives uncovered at center stage Eddie and Doug must find a way to laugh it off while stayin...

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Report copyright infringementby Damon Chua (Author)3m 2f / Murder Mystery/Thriller Noir / Unit set2007 Ovation Award Best World Premiere Play. The place: Peking China. The year: 1947 an uneasy time between WWII and the Communist takeover two years later. Randolph a fresh-faced American operative has been sent to the Raymond Chandler-esque Imperial City with an important mission. He makes progress but soon chances into a staunch Maoist named Chinadoll his would-be adversary and lover. A cat-an...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Le Marquand Hartigan (Author)Avant garde drama by award winning Irish playwright, Anne Le Marquand Hartigan. "She mines a seam close to that of Joyce, with sound impinging on sound, word upon word, spinning from one meaning to another..." Irish Times. "Poetic drama...set before us on a sea of floating silk." International Herald Tribune. "Rare and delicate...a newborn breath with a light and beautiful hand." Sunday Independent. When a boatload of French pr...

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Semerano (Author)5m 2f / Comedy / Unit setCount Zescu a Vampire from the old country takes up residence in the American southwest accompanied only by his coffin and Mattie who is an all too amorous co-ed he can't seem to lose. Hot on the heels of this colorful entourage is Joyce Lyonhartt a plucky and determined reporter who excels in disguises to get close to what seems to be a once in lifetime story. The Count settles down in dreary house near a secret ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Frye (Author)Various male and female roles / Melodrama / Simple setWith the Mosley Street Melodramas you'll sigh for the dainty Heroine cheer for the righteous Hero and boo and hiss the dastardly Villain in plays with a contemporary twist on the traditional version. These hysterical audience-participation plays are perfect for community theatres churches and schools to perform. Especially for fundraisers! These ain't your Gramma's melodramas!Plays include T...

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Semerano (Author)3m 3f / Comedy Murder Mystery - Thriller / Unit setMyron Amberworth a professor of paleontology at the local city college is about to lose his job. It is only through what he believes is the fortuitous recruitment of two additional students Dena and Knuckles that he is allowed to keep his class. But Dena and Knuckles are in fact two members of a street gang known as the Scorpions whose only motivation in enrolling is to heist the contents...

The Outrageous Adventures of Sheldon & Mrs. Levine (Revised)

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Bobrick (Author), Julie Stein (Author)Comedy / 1m 1f / Unit set"A Son's Illusive Search for His Mother's Happiness"In an exchange of hilarious letters between an overbearing mother and her adult son he blames her for breaking up his marriage and ruining his life. She can't understand why things so trivial should bother him. The angst aggravation and madness of the love/hate relationship between Sheldon and his mother Mrs. Levine unforgettable characters who...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Le Marquand Hartigan (Author)Originally written in the 1970s but resonating with relevance today, this lively tragi-comedy by an award winning Irish playwright reveals what it is to be old and vulnerable, frail but feisty. In a dreary, seaside care-home in 1970s Ireland, Eve and Francis's spirited friendship has made life worth living. Threatened with separation by their selfish families, Eve and Francis take matters into their own hands, with dramatic con...

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Semerano (Author)4m 3f / Comedy /Unit setDr. Myles Stanton is an astronomer stationed at a lonely observatory in the desert but his job isn't the only thing that keeps him in the dark. For Dr. Stanton is about to lose his wife Hali to Blaine his lab assistant and best friend. Why Hali would find the luckless and accident prone Blaine to be a better catch than Myles is a mystery more baffling to the egocentric astronomer than any mystery he has ever viewed...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Glaudini (Author)5m 3f / Crime Thriller / Unit SetA View From 151st Street incorporates elements of spoken word poetry takes a look at life and death on the titular street in uptown Manhattan. An undercover cop is undergoing rehabilitation after a shot to the head. As he re-learns words and recovers his memories a coke-dealer turned wannabe rapper spins into a downward spiral. Cops rappers dealers teachers hustlers husbands and wives dwell in the rhythms...

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Report copyright infringementby Jean Lenox Toddie (Author)3m 7f / Simple SetsRockin' On The Milky Way is a collection of three one-act plays entitled Moon Beams In Mid-Morning One White Winter Night and I Remember Heaven Of Course. These plays by internationally known playwright Jean Lenox Toddie treat the audience to an evening of comedy and drama celebrating life love and the tangled relationships of lovers and families. A rocking chair sits center stage in each play. Ten colorful character...

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Goodrich (Author)Drama / 4 m 3 f / InteriorSet in the break room of a quasi-governmental organization Smoke and Mirrors follows Anita and a handful of her co-workers through the course of a seemingly normal day complete with bad cafeteria food inept bosses inappropriate e-mails and blood-stained lab-coats. Smoke and Mirrors mingles the comic with the nightmarish creating a world composed of patriotism and cupcakes of paranoia and air freshener---a world ...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Pie (Author)Drama / 7m 3f / InteriorAlthough World War II brought women to work in the factories it was mostly immigrant women like Tonia Deluna who labored in the blistering tobacco sheds of the Connecticut River Valley. The play concerns Tonia work-weary and trapped in an arranged marriage to Dominic who is years her senior. Yet Tonia remains tenacious in her struggle to preserve the family. Her eldest son Sonny who is crippled by polio and embroiled in ...

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Report copyright infringementby Austin O'Toole (Author)Austin O'Toole Mystery TYA/Children's TheatreCharacters: 4 male 8 female plus offstage voicesExterior SetTwo boys harassed by summer chores decide to run away from home. They stop to rest at a clearing in the woods. The boys are awakened by hand puppet characters who issue mysterious warnings of trouble ahead. Soon the boys are surrounded by easily recognizable villains heroes and heroines from children's literature who mistake them for ...

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Report copyright infringementby Linda Felton Steinbaum (Author)2m 3f / Drama / InteriorMustang Sally tackles the timely and sensitive topic of female teachers who have sex with their underage students justice and double standards. As the play begins the affair between Sal a 13-year old male middle school student and his 31-year old teacher Kathy has already been discovered. Kathy's older successful and high-powered commitment phobic sister Elizabeth steps forward to take charge and help. She ...