Comedy. By Anne V. McGravie. Alice and Margo, attractive 40-year-olds, are lifelong friends. Married to uncaring, philandering men, the women spend a getaway weekend each year finding solace in each other. This year seems like any other year, except that it's not—by a long shot.   More...

Drama. By Laurie Brooks. How do we combat the current epidemic of prejudice and bullying of gay high-school students? One way is to use the power of storytelling to humanize the lives of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teens. Designed to be performed by and for high-school students, All of Us raises awareness of the discrimination, hatred and violence  More...

Comedy/Farce. By Anne Flanagan. Struggling artist Payne Showers finally gets his Big Break. He dies. Fortunately, Payne's death greatly inflates the value of his work. Unfortunately, his estranged wife, Maggie, must sell it all to avoid bankruptcy. Just days before the auction,  More...

Comedy. By Werner Trieschmann. A bustling college campus has impressive classrooms and other attractive features, but the Frog Fountain, which hasn't seen a live frog in ages, isn't one of them. There is a rumor the college is going to tear it down, and a certain fraternity hasn't been too kind to the fountain to say the least. Yet this fountain is the place where scenes of love—and romantic breakup—take place.  More...

Drama. By Barbara Wiechmann. It is 1910. Annabelle, a quiet 11-year-old, and her depressed and lonely great-aunt Leaf develop a secret ritual of storytelling. Each night the old lady sends the child into the woods to look for the ghost of her dead husband.  More...

Drama/Comedy. By Jim Knable. Becky and her embarrassingly over-the-top father, Roy, have never gotten along, so when she brings her first high-school boyfriend home to meet him, the last thing she expects it to be is the best mistake she has ever made. When Roy becomes a hero to boyfriend, Will, things look bad.  More...

Based on the television program created by Paul Henning. Book by David Rogers. Music and lyrics by Gregg Opelka. Granny, Jed, Jethro, Elly May, Mr. and Mrs. Drysdale and Jane Hathaway—all your favorites from the '60s TV comedy—are back—and this time they're singin'!  More...

Radio comedy. By Andrew J. Fenady and Duke Fenady. Based on the novella by Andrew J. Fenady. With songs and smoking six-shooters, we're here to tell the adventures and misadventures of two cattle barons and, most especially, of a beautiful young lady in search of … well, not the usual kind of gold in them thar hills. Is this a musical? Nope. But somewhat like Cat Ballou, Paint Your Wagon and a lot of John Ford westerns,  More...

Comedy. By Richard Vetere. The Queen of Starlings has decided to bully all the other birds in order to steal their food and take away their nesting homes. Everyone, including wise Shriek Owl, Robin, Red-Bellied Woodpecker, Blue Jay, and two sparrows, Pretty and Gino, are ready to fly away instead of facing the intimidating, sleek, British-speaking starlings.  More...

Musical. Created by Alan Govenar and Akin Babatunde. Blind Lemon Blues celebrates the legacy of Blind Lemon Jefferson and his profound influence upon the development of American popular music. Jefferson was a blind street musician who played his guitar at the corner of Elm Street and Central Avenue in the Deep Ellum area of Dallas, Texas, until  More...

Musical. Created by Alan Govenar and Akin Babatunde. Blind Lemon Blues celebrates the legacy of Blind Lemon Jefferson and his profound influence upon the development of American popular music. Jefferson was a blind street musician who played his guitar at the corner of Elm Street and Central Avenue in the Deep Ellum area of Dallas, Texas, until  More...

Created by Alan Govenar, Akin Babatunde, Katie Down and Paddy Bowman.   More...

Mystery/Comedy. By Ed Sala. A group of the usual British murder-mystery types gather for a weekend retreat at the sumptuous country estate of the esteemed Lady Somerset. There's the major who served in India; the inebriated, fading actor; the innocent ingénue; the exotic lady in red; the mysterious Chinese gentleman; the rich dowager aunt; and her faithful maid and worthless nephew. Suddenly, one of them dies of poison!  More...

Musical. Book, music and lyrics by Geraldine Ann Snyder. This musical, which empowers its young audience to disarm the bullies in their school, is the story of a group of students at Woodruff High and how they learn to deal with the constant and mean-spirited bullying behavior that has become the norm, including cyber-bullying.  More...

Drama/Comedy. Written by Sandra Fenichel Asher, Cherie Bennett, Max Bush, José Casas, Gloria Bond Clunie, Eric Coble, Doug Cooney, Linda Daugherty, Lisa Dillman, Richard Dresser, José Cruz González, Stephen Gregg, D.W. Gregory, Brian Guehring, Dwayne Hartford, Barry Kornhauser, Trish Lindberg, Brett Neveu, Ernie Nolan, R.N. Sandberg, Geraldine Ann Snyder, Werner Trieschmann, Elizabeth Wong and Y York. Compiled and edited by Linda Habjan. The Bully Plays were commissioned in response to the growing epidemic of bullying and the all-too-often tragic results. This anthology includes 24 10-minute plays that can be performed in any combination or length and in a variety of venues. The plays are touching, imaginative, powerful, uplifting and funny.  More...

Drama. By Joanna H. Kraus. Feisty 14-year-old Christabel loves working backstage on the lighting crew. As she stands on a 20-foot extension ladder finishing lights for her school's spring production, she loses her balance, misses a rung on the ladder and steps into thin air. Weeks later, awakening from a coma, her legs don't move. Despite multiple surgeries, Christabel is paralyzed from the waist down. Though she is surrounded by the support of her family and friends, Christabel is discouraged and embittered and believes her life is over.  More...

Drama. By Mariah L. Richardson. Eight-year-old Delilah sits in her favorite tree in Old North St. Louis, the tree she and Momma tied a bow on for Christmas just before she was deployed to Iraq. She sits for as long as Grandmomma lets her. She watches her neighbors and what's happening on her block. Who keeps stealing Mr. Horowitz's newspaper?  More...

Drama. By Suzan L. Zeder. In Doors, a son copes with his parents' divorce. It is the day of his parents' separation. Before Jeff can deal with the impending divorce, he must face and play out his fears and his fantasi  More...

Drama. By Y York. Based on the novel by Jerry Spinelli. David has designed the perfect deal with the universe to ensure the return of his dead mother: to reach his mother "on the other side," all David has to do is enlist the help of the weirdly obtuse Pri  More...

Drama/Comedy. By Bonnie Roberts. Adapted from the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim. WWI has ended, and in England of 1922, everyday life is slowly settling back to normal after the horrors of war. But it has been raining for days in London, and women and men have time on their hands to contemplate their unhappy lives.  More...

Comedy. By Werner Trieschmann. Welcome to America's hottest new reality show—"The Excuser!" Everybody knows that there's an art to a good excuse, and nobody knows that better than the billionaire—or maybe that's millionaire?—Harold (or Maude) Clump. Clump, who has never met a day with good hair and so has hair assistants on constant standby, holds "The Excuser!" competition in a storage room—no, boardroom, it's a boardroom!—of the Clump highrise (and, sure, you can call three stories a highrise).  More...

Comedy. By Ernie Nolan. 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.  More...

Drama. By Barbara Wiechmann. On the edge of a saltwater lake in Florida, Martin, a young man, slips away each night to talk to the fish that feed at the end of a dock. Always believing himself to be completely alone in his secret ritual, he is surprised and angry to find one night that he has been spied on by a curious and obsessive teenage girl, Eden,  More...

Drama. By Christina M. Ham. Every child imagines what they want to be when they grow up. The four little girls who attended the 16th Street Baptist Church were no exception. Four Little Girls: Birmingham 1963 centers on Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins, four little girls who are multitalented and bursting with promise and who share their hopes and dreams against the backdrop of the civil rights movement.  More...

Drama. By Y York. Adapted from the Newbery Honor Book by Audrey Couloumbis. Twelve-year-old Willa Jo Dean and 7-year-old Little Sister Dean are reeling from the death of their baby sister, Baby. Little Sister's torment is so profound that she has stopped talking.  More...

Musical comedy. Adapted from Gilbert and Sullivan for younger performers by Lynne Bartlett, David Billings, Mark Leehy and Kevin O'Mara. Able seaman Ralph Rackstraw is love struck with a lass above his station—the captain's daughter. But the captain of the Pinafore has promised his daughter's hand to The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, KBC (First Lord of the Admiralty—followed everywhere by his sisters and his cousins and his aunts).  More...

Drama. By James Still. Focusing on the theatricality and humanity of Lincoln's second year in the White House (1862), The Heavens Are Hung in Black is a fevered, emotional epic about a U.S. president who read the Book of Job and the plays of Shakespeare, had the saddest face ever painted, openly wept in public, and led this country in a war that we're still fighting today. We see everything through Lincoln's eyes and his haunted dreams:  More...

Drama. By Kent R. Brown. Early one September morning, in an isolated farmhouse in the middle of rural Nebraska, Rebecca Pender peeks out her bedroom window and sees a vision of the end of the world. The next day, she and her husband, Lucas, stand transfixed as they witness the collapse of the World Trade Center. Insidiously, the trauma of 9/11 unlocks within Rebecca's psyche a Pandora's box of repressed fears.  More...

Musical. Book, music and lyrics by Jeremiah Clay Neal. Adapted from the books The Kid Who Ran for President and The Kid Who Became President by Dan Gutman. Judson Moon is 12 years old, and he's running for president of the YOU-nited States! Sound crazy? His best friend and campaign manager, Lane Brainard, with an emphasis on "Brain," is organizing a political campaign that will change the world as we know it!  More...

Comedy. By Ric Averill. To feed his family, save the valley and recover his abuelo's (grandfather's) heritage, Pedro must prove he is the greatest trickster of all times. With the help of a pair of zapatos magicos (magic shoes)—"no matter where you go, the shoes will return you home"—  More...

Comedy. By Ramon Esquivel. Soledad is the daughter of migrant farm workers. Because her papá and mamá go where the work goes, Soledad is constantly changing homes, and she is the new girl at one school after another.  More...

Comedy/Drama. Adapted by Mountain Community Theater from the novel by Valentine Davies. Based upon the Twentieth Century Fox motion picture Miracle on 34th Street. "This is a tale that we want to believe in, that creates a world we seem to desperately desire, free of the blatant commercialism that surrounds us, where love and decency and generosity of spirit are their own rewards. What we want Christmas to be all about, really." So writes the Santa Cruz Sentinel of this most heartwarming holiday story.  More...

Musical. Book, music and lyrics by Michael Tester. It's the Glees versus the Goths, the Drama Queens versus the Jocks in a Senior Superlative showdown! Most Likely To has captured that lightning in a bottle known as the teenage drama queen.  More...

Comedy. By Ric Averill. Sydney is a very bright and precocious girl who lives with her divorced father, loves sports, and is just quirky enough to draw the unwanted attention of the older girls who bully her at school. When an odd scientist, Dr. Entwell, comes to school offering to award a parrot to the student who brings in the greatest "animal oddity," Sydney claims that she has a two-tailed cat.  More...

Drama. By Ramon Esquivel Nasty combines realism and fantasy to explore friendships, identity and bullying in the context of social networking sites, chat rooms, blogs, tweets, videos, and role-playing games on the Internet. Offline, they are Lencha, Zoe, Martha, and Manuel, teenagers who stress about school, obsess over crushes, and make one another laugh. Online, they are  More...

Drama. Adapted by Ann H. Brockette. Intrigue, pride, political power, love—the story of Oedipus holds multiple options for interpretation. Oedipus: A Story of Gold and Shadow focuses on hubris—the pride that drives us to overstep boundaries and take on roles that have not been allotted to us. Oedipus is often cast as a story of misplaced love. This adaptation is a story of a great man, savior of Thebes, who pays the ultimate price for trying to outsmart the gods.  More...

Comedy. By Patrick Shanahan. L. Frank Baum is in trouble—forty-four years old and on the eve of his greatest creative work—he is a "jack of all trades" but success eludes him. It is 1899 in Chicago and Baum is putting the finishing touches on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but putting dreams on paper is elusive business and Baum is struggling with  More...

Docudrama. By Ed Simpson. The February 1960 sit-in by four young college freshmen at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, galvanized the civil rights movement in the United States. In the process, ordinary citizens from both the black and white communities in Greensboro—and across America—were forced to grapple with their beliefs about race and justice.  More...

Musical. Book and lyrics by Trish Lindberg. Music by Will Ogmundson with additional music by Cynthia Bizzarro and Kenneth Roberts. Adapted from the book by Eleanor H. Porter. When Pollyanna Whittier finds herself orphaned after her father passes away, she goes to live with her aunt, Miss Polly Harrington, a lonely and bitter middle-aged spinster. Miss Polly's maid, Nancy, befriends Pollyanna, who teaches Nancy her late father's "Glad Game," where there is always "something in everything to be glad about."  More...

Drama with music. Book and lyrics by Carol Korty. Music by Shu-Hui Chen. Freely based on "The Young Head of the Family" by Adele M. Fielde. An arranged marriage of a young woman, Precious Jade, is brokered to help solve the problems of a floundering family in rural southern China at the end of the 19th century. Precious Jade, a spirited girl, is determined to find a way to make life interesting and bearable in this highly structured society.  More...

Comedy. By Dan Dietz. When a nuclear apocalypse hits on prom night, there are only four survivors: a cruel and popular cheerleader, a music-obsessed emo boy, the star quarterback, and his socially hopeless geek sister. Trapped in a high-school basement, these four kids are forced to socialize with the very people they wouldn't have been caught dead with just hours earlier.  More...

Drama. By Laurie Brooks. On the wild rocky islands north of Scotland it is told round the peat fires that the selkies transform into beautiful lasses on Midsummer's Eve and dance on the beach, celebrating the dual nature of the seal people—land and sea. Selkie chronicles the story of 16-year-old Elin Jean as she discovers a hidden pelt that unlocks a mystery foretold and is set on a path to find "the knowin'" she desperately seeks.  More...

A comedy with music by Ernie Nolan. Professor TJ Barker and his troupe of traveling theatricals have just arrived at the theatre to begin a performance of their spectacular production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when they realize something is amiss. Not only has the orchestra not arrived, but five of the hilarious O'Hanlon brothers have been stricken with food poisoning leaving only … gasp … two actors to play dwarfs!  More...

Fairy tale. Adapted by Max Bush. Based on the Olenberg manuscript and early versions of the Brothers Grimm tale. This version of Snow White is based on the oral story as it was told to the Brothers Grimm in 1808. It contains many of the familiar elements—the seven dwarves, mirror, bodice and apple, the glass coffin—but also differs from the Grimms' later versions  More...

Horror/Comedy. By Mitch Brian. It's 1987 and the totally tubular sorority sisters of Delta Pi Sigma are looking for new blood. When "brainiac" Tonya, "Madonnawannabe" Deb and "working girl" Janet enter the rush party of their "own free will," they soon discover that the sisters are "like, totally vampires"  More...

Drama. By Ira Hauptman. In Starry Messenger we witness the effects of Galileo's ordeals on his family and his family's role in his decision to renounce his discoveries. Cardinals Borgia and Zacchia of the Inquisition warn Galileo not to try to prove that the earth revolves around the sun.  More...

Drama/Comedy. By Larissa FastHorse. Original music by Brian Joseph. Kenny Two Hawks and Martin Leads to Water have problems. It's the end of middle school, and Kenny is on the brink of not making it into high school. Through a random drawing, the boys are assigned bizarre topics for their last middle-school presentation: Do It Yourself Disco and Teaching Square Dancing to Senior Citizens. Enter Amanda Smith,  More...

Drama. By Ken LaZebnik. Autism makes social interactions challenging. Imagine, then, a high-school senior on the autism spectrum who desperately wants a girlfriend—and misreads just about every social cue she gives him. Theory of Mind is Bill's journey as he takes Hilo out on a date, with hilarious, touching and profound insights about identity, what it means to be on the autism spectrum, and love.  More...

Comedy/Drama. By Ric Averill. Roxxi loves gross foods. She loves them so much that she wants to start a restaurant of things no one else would eat. She'd really like to win a Wrigley's Believe It or Else record for cooking and eating the most gross things.  More...

Drama. By Joseph Robinette and Ron Jones. The Third Wave is a true story about a high-school experiment in fascism that went out of control. Set in 1967 in Palo Alto, California, during the Viet Nam war, racial integration and social revolution, the play centers around a young, popular teacher, Ron Jones, and his World History class.  More...

Book and lyrics by Ron Jones. Music and lyrics by David W. Denny, Kathy Peck Denny and Emily Klion. The Third Wave Musical tells the true story of a classroom experiment in fascism which takes place in January l967 at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, California. It is a time of anti-war protests, racial integration and a cultural revolution. To answer a student's question about how the holocaust could happen,  More...

Drama. By Eric Lane. This award-winning play beautifully examines the changing American landscape. It tells the story of one woman's struggles set against the backdrop of four wars—from World War II to the present.  More...

Drama. By Ric Averill. Nothing is going well for Marta. She's competing with her best friend, Kelly, for the role of Gerda in a dance production of The Snow Queen at their local arts center. She now only speaks to  More...

Mystery. Adapted by Darian Lindle. From the Newbery Award-winning novel by Ellen Raskin. The unsuspecting residents of Sunset Towers are summoned to the reading of a mysterious will, only to find themselves locked in a thrilling game, as they must discover who is responsible for killing an eccentric millionaire.  More...