Comedy. By Werner Trieschmann. Based on several disastrous theatrical experiences, Bad Play peels back a tattered curtain to examine the process of putting on a show that is less than good. A stuffy narrator (what bad play is complete without a stuffy narrator?) guides the audience through the whole sorry process.  More...

Drama. By Brett Neveu. Lewie Froah, a one-time handyman in a town hit hard by the economic downturn, rambles drunkenly through the town's abandoned buildings, dwelling on the death of his sister, Grace. Unable to come to terms with the murder and haunted by the unsolved crime, Lewie imagines Grace to be with him as they discuss how she was murdered  More...

Drama. By Anne V. McGravie. Set in Northern Ireland during the troubles of recent memory, two women, one Protestant and one Catholic, sit down in the outdoor section of a bakery shop. The women don't know each other and sit separately, enjoying a peaceful snack, when a maddeningly illogical and demanding waitress,  More...

Comic drama. By R.N. Sandberg. Can't Believe It traces the intertwined paths of Teresa, a malleable, confused high school freshman—with the perfect life. How can a shy kid like her even talk to him? She is urged by her friend Callie to go after Ron and all the things she wants. That means being sexually forward, shoplifting for kicks, going wild at parties and never telling her parents the truth.  More...

Comedy. By Werner Trieschmann. Cell phones, Facebook, cutting-edge shopping carts—all the latest gadgets that bewitch and bedevil us—are addressed in this comic collection of 10-minute plays.  More...

A young audience adventure play about chemistry. By Caleen Sinnette Jennings. Storytelling Snake takes us on a trip to Imagine Nation on the shores of the Whim Sea. There, all the animals attend Zooville School and take their one favorite class. Readin' Rabbit takes reading. Muskular Muskrat takes gym. But poor Curious Cat can't figure out which class will answer all of her many questions.  More...

Musical. Book by Jill Jaysen. Music and lyrics by Matt Corriel. Chocolate Soup deals with the challenges of being a tween when feelings about who you are and what you believe in can be on shaky ground. Mia has her great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother's ancient family recipe for Aztec Chocolate Soup.  More...

Musical. Book, music and lyrics by Drew Fornarola and Scott Elmegreen. This story takes place over the course of a weekend in the common room of 212 Gauss Hall, the greatest party room on campus. We follow Nathan, our starry-eyed, enthusiastic, and slightly awkward freshman protagonist, as he meets the members of the room and their friends:  More...

Drama. By Anne V. McGravie. Young, impetuous, 16-year-old Rosemarie Healey has been on a collision course with her strict father for a year. At her 16th birthday party, things come to a head. Her father makes good on his threat to send her away but assures her she is going to a "strict" convent school to finish her high-school education. He does not tell her or his wife and younger daughter, Chrissie, that he is abandoning her to the Magdalene Sisters.  More...

Drama. By Frank Higgins. Adapted from the story by H.G. Wells. Eduardo, a poor farmer in a South American village, dreams of being in love. Frustrated by his poverty and disability of being blind in one eye, he turns his back on his own world and risks his life  More...

Dark Comedy. By Laura Schellhardt. In this allegory that straddles graveyard and courtroom, Nina Archer, a headstrong and passionate young dancer, contracts a fatal blood disease. Actually, the disease is given to her, by a man who frequents the twilight, who smells like the earth, and who calls to her periodically in her dreams.  More...

Comedy/Drama. By Jim Gordon. We hope! We dream! Why not, it's free! And in these eight short plays we see that strange and humorous occurrences may even become reality. In a death row prison cell a condemned man's prayers are rewarded when his comically incompetent attorney is finally exposed.  More...

Drama. By Nicholas A. Patricca. This play tells the story of how one extraordinary woman overcomes the restrictions of her family, church and culture to realize her identity as an artist, scholar and independent person. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz managed to develop a rich spiritual life as a nun while leading an  More...

Drama. By Linda Daugherty. Angela has a new boyfriend. C.J.'s romantic, amazingly handsome, and a senior. He sends her flowers. He texts her day and night. Angela's swept off her feet, but her best friend, Jen, is troubled by changes she sees in Angela. At homecoming, Angela shares a dance with her pal Duffy. When C.J., overcome with jealousy,  More...

Drama. By Linda Daugherty. Angela has a new boyfriend. C.J.'s romantic, amazingly handsome, and a senior. He sends her flowers. He texts her day and night. Angela's swept off her feet, but her best friend, Jen, is troubled by changes she sees in Angela. At homecoming, Angela shares a dance with her pal Duffy. When C.J., overcome with jealousy,  More...

Drama. By Robert Inman. It's October, and members of the high-school drama club are preparing for auditions for their fall production. Emily (white), the most talented member of the club, is sure she will get the lead. Then Tasha (black) transfers in from another school and quickly demonstrates her acting ability. A rivalry develops,  More...

Radio comedy/drama. By Ed Simpson. Electric City Suite is a cycle of six one-act plays originally written for radio and telling the story of a quirky Scranton, Pennsylvania, snack delivery man and his family from 1921 to the present.  More...

Drama. By Brett Neveu. Janice LaRue is the mother of Eric, a 15-year-old boy who shot and killed three of his classmates in school. Now, three months after Eric has been jailed, Janice has not yet gone to see him, nor has she found any way to deal with what happened or to show herself in her community.  More...

Comedy/Drama. By Tammy Ryan. Adapted from the memoir by Maura Conlon-McIvor, released in paperback as She's All Eyes. This poignant, coming-of-age story follows young Maura Conlon through her childhood journey in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Growing up in a large Irish-Catholic family mostly held together by commitment to her youngest brother, Joey, born with Down syndrome, Maura struggles to find her place in the world.  More...

Drama. By Shem Bitterman. The story begins in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, where Major Jonathan Fredericks, a widower, lives with his troubled daughter, Bianca. Fredericks is a career army prosecutor charged with investigating soldiers for war crimes. His son, who was also in the military, was recently killed in Afghanistan. Bianca, tortured by her brother's sudden death,  More...

Drama/Comedy. By Robert Inman. It's Christmas Eve day during the era of the Great Depression in a rural mountain area where families struggle to keep body and soul together. Miserly curmudgeon Silas McTavish owns and operates a general store—with the help of his long-suffering clerk, Abner Veazey, and Abner's son, Caleb—where hard bargains  More...

Adapted by Kent R. Brown. Inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel. Sherlock Holmes and his faithful sidekick, Dr. John Watson, have left on an extended holiday throughout Europe, leaving their nieces—Shirley Holmes and Jennie Watson—to keep an eye on the famous flat at 221B Baker Street. Shirley, studying logic, and Jennie, studying medicine, are busy preparing for upcoming exams when there's a knock on the door.  More...

Drama. By Susan Johnston. One tiny moment of carelessness can change everything. In West Virginia, a baby girl named Cissy is abducted, then swiftly returned to her parents. She is so young when it happens that she cannot remember, but, still, the legacy of those few terrible days haunts her family for the next 20 years.  More...

Drama. By James Still. Translation by Julio Tierno. Iron Kisses is the story of an American family: a son who made up for being gay by being perfect; a daughter who treats her daughter the way her mother treated her; a mother who struggles to  More...

Drama. By Andrew J. Fenady and John Duke Fenady. Based on the novel by Jack London. A ferry steamer sinks in fog-sealed San Francisco Bay. All passengers perish except Humphrey Van Weyden, self-defined dilettante/critic, and the beautiful, independent, enigmatic Flaxen Brewster. They are rescued, though that's hardly the word, by a hell-ship under the command of Wolf Larsen, a man of ingrained cruelty  More...

Dark comedy. By Laura Schellhardt. The K of D follows the story of Charlotte McGraw, a 12-year-old girl struggling to come to terms with the death of her twin brother, Jamie. It also follows the growing "legend" of Charlotte McGraw, as narrated by a pack of teenagers who live near Charlotte  More...

Drama. By Sandra Fenichel Asher. In this ensemble tour de force commissioned by Lexington Children's Theatre, four actors—regardless of their own age, gender or ethnicity—take turns playing Abraham Lincoln and important people in his Kentucky childhood, Indiana youth, and Illinois and D.C. adulthood. The play celebrates Lincoln's life through his own words and those of people who knew him.  More...

Comedy/Drama. By David Emerson Toney. Kingdom, an urban meditation on Shakespeare's Richard III, takes place in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1968. Twenty-eight-year-old Ricky-Trey York, afflicted with a lesser form of cerebral palsy, is a true innocent who wrongly believes that two decades ago he murdered another boy in a fit of rage.  More...

Comedy. By Gregg Opelka. It's New Year's Eve at the Drake Hotel. A massive snowstorm has paralyzed Chicago. Thirty-five-year-old librarian Terry Adams has just reserved the last room at the Drake—the presidential suite—for her and Jonathon, her long-distance boyfriend who's flying in from Boston. She's hoping after three years he'll finally  More...

Comedy/Drama. By Ed Cardona Jr. Adapted from the book by Hugo C. Martin. On a small, dusty farm in Mexico, in the Valle de Guadalupe, a young boy named Pablo lives with his father, mother, and two little sisters, Isabella and Teresa. Residing on the farm are pigs, sheep, and Califia, the children's favorite and fattest hen. Also on the farm, unknown to them, are Santita and Monte, the family's guardian angels.  More...

Allegory. Adapted by Tom Key from the book by John Bunyan. John Bunyan's 17th-century classic Christian allegory is the story of a dream in which the hero, a man named Pilgrim, escapes the City of Destruction and starts a search for the City of God.  More...

Comedy/Drama. By Dennis Foon, based on his picture book. A tree that resents its roots and a bird with the worst singing voice in the history of the avian species are the delightful characters in this quirky fable about two unlikely forces of nature: a spunky, unflappable bird and a stunted, insecure tree. Alone in the razed forest, the lonely tree is visited by the bird,  More...

Drama. By Jose Casas. somebody's children introduces us to five teenagers who are part of a subculture that isn't shown or explored in the media in any depth. These kids are homeless, and they, along with their families, stay in a rundown motel known as the El Dorado, which is one of many such motels in horrific condition in their area of the city. All the residents deal with issues such as gang violence,  More...

Comedy. By David Emerson Toney. The Soul Collector is the story of two African-American sanitation workers in Cleveland, Ohio, 1972. Cedric and his nephew, Darnell, collect items along their sanitation route that they plan to sell to realize their dreams:  More...

Drama. By Joanne Koch. Stardust won the 2007 Nantucket Short Play Competition and was deemed by its literary manager as "one of the very best treatments of high-school age issues that I have read." In Stardust, two young people—one trusting, introspective and blind, the other suspicious, defensive and sighted—share a moment of intimacy and conflict  More...

Drama with optional music. Adapted by Tonya Hays. Original music by Buddy Dubourg and Tonya Hays. Based on the play by Euripides. The Trojan Women is one of the most powerful dramas in all of literature. Widely considered the greatest anti-war play ever written, it remains both timeless and timely, a poignant meditation on the aftermath of battle. This version, ideal for one-act festivals, has won numerous awards.  More...

Comedy. By Stephen Gregg. Nancy and Don, a young married couple, are arguing. Nancy thinks the new neighbors are creepy. She thinks they're watching them. Don thinks she's imagining things. But why would the new neighbors have cut down the tree between their houses? Why does Nancy keep running into them all over town? And what happened to the previous neighbors,  More...

Drama. By Paul D'Andrea. In New Liberty, Missouri, a contemporary American Midwestern farming town—total population a little less than five hundred—the townspeople have been having a series of agitated meetings on what to do about Clay Bayliss, the region's dangerous loner-bully. The charges are that Clay's been stealing livestock, burning barns,  More...

Comedy/Drama. By Jennifer Addesso, Olivia Biggar, Sophie Buck, Eleanor Davitt, Susan King and Sajdeep Soomal. Edited by Susan King. Juliette is a typical middle-school girl. She attends Shakespeare Middle School, has a crush on the popular and arrogant Horatio, and longs to be popular and beautiful like the seemingly perfect Ophelia. One day Juliette finds Ophelia's cell phone. She is faced with a choice: does she keep it or give it back?  More...

Drama/Comedy. By Robert Inman. Adapted from the Mitford novels by Jan Karon. Father Tim Kavanagh is the much-loved bachelor rector of Lord's Chapel church in the close-knit mountain community of Mitford, surrounded by long-time friends and parishioners—church secretary Emma, housekeeper Puny, local mayor Esther, a covey of eccentric regulars at the Main Street Grill,  More...