Comedy. By Michael Gravois. When Aesop's fables are given a holiday spin, you'll get a mash-up of The Twelve Days of Christmas and The Tortoise and the Hare … A dozen vignettes illuminate important life lessons by reinventing the classic fables, blending humor, rhythmic elements, rapping, puppetry, poetry, song and storytelling to create a fast-paced, fun-filled show that's filled with Christmas spirit.  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...

Drama. By Sandra Fenichel Asher. The ARK System began taking control of Earth Enterprise in 2050 A.D. as a technical aid to global commerce. As the play begins in 2129, the power of its Triumvirate, and particularly of Petra, its founder, is nearly absolute. People world over enjoy "contentment"—sheltered,  More...

Comedy/Drama. By Laurie Brooks. In a fantastical world (not entirely unlike our own) where "conformity is compulsory," Boy cannot conform. Others make a desperate attempt to fix him, but neither they nor he can change his nature. Labeled a monster by the experts, Boy is shunned until, heartbroken and alone, he disappears into a world of monsters.  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...

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...

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...

Musical. Book by David L. Williams. Music and lyrics by John Gregor. Lenny is the smartest kid at Wilson Middle School and is constantly picked on by Steve, the school bully, in gym class, on the bus, at lunch … well, you get the idea! One day a bus mix-up leaves the two boys stranded at the wrong school, where they both get picked on for being the “new kids” by the sweet and surprisingly terrifying Meg. Lenny and Steve learn what life is really like for the other and decide to work together and make a plan to get back to their own school.  More...

Comedy. By Kathleen Cahill. Told in the style of magical realism, Charm presents the story of an extraordinary woman: the brilliant, but forgotten, American writer and feminist, Margaret Fuller, who inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece The Scarlet Letter. Set in an imagined America of the 1840s, the play portrays Margaret's emotional journey from a plain, bookish young woman suffering unrequited love for her handsome cousin to the confidant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathanial Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau and the New York Tribune's first female war correspondent, writing dispatches from the front lines of the Italian revolution.  More...

Musical. By Karen Zacarías with the young playwrights of Young Playwright's Theater. Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma. Field trips are fun, especially when your destination is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue! In this charming and exciting musical, Dee, José and Annie accidentally knock George Washington out of his portrait and into real life—turning their White House tour into an unexpected adventure.  More...

Drama. By Don Zolidis. Someone cheated on the test. And if the cheater doesn’t confess, the entire class will fail. Those are the rules set out by the assistant principal and their teacher as the students walk out of the room. Now the entire class is forced to play detective and discover the cheater before it’s too late. But what if everything isn’t as it seems?  More...

Comedy/Drama. By Larissa FastHorse. Inspired by the memoirs of Henry S. Timberlake. This modern-day Brady Bunch blends two nearly grown families when a Cherokee man, John, and a white woman, Emma, get married and move into his small community, surrounded by his family. Before the wedding decorations are down, the two groups are thrown into planning the biggest family reunion in Cherokee N.C., complete with a historical reenactment!  More...

Comedy with music. By Barry Kornhauser. Adapted from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. Optional music by Scott DePoy. This is a multi-sensory, highly interactive Theatre for Very Young Audiences piece, its words and actions inspired by the classic book of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson. A few actors and a musician, puppetry and play, help audiences grow a garden and their imaginations as they frolic in the leaves, feed a bird, sing in the rain, dance with the wind, build a boat, and discover treasures, including the greatest of them all—friendship.  More...

Musical. Book by Barry Kornhauser. Music and lyrics by Ron Barnett. There is no need to recount the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and his redemptive discovery of the true Christmas spirit. It is as familiar to us as Santa Claus himself. Written in 1843, and an immediate success, A Christmas Carol has in the years since become what one editor described as "the spirit of Christmas forever!"   More...

Musical. Book by Erica Lipez. Music and lyrics by Matt Corriel. Dickens' beloved parable shines in this adaptation. With a beautiful new score, the characters come to life as never before, from a larger-than-life Ghost of Marley to a heartbreaking Tiny Tim.  More...

Musical. Book, music and lyrics by Joan Cushing. Adapted from the book by Elvira Woodruff. Set in 1840's London, Lucy and Glory Wolcott live at Grimstone Union Public Workhouse at the mercy of the cruel Matron Wick and Mistress Branch. Lucy invents stories about a family she barely remembers and a long lost doll named Morning Glory to humor her sister. When a deadly fever sweeps through the workhouse, the two sisters escape to the mean streets of London, where they encounter many colorful characters.  More...

Musical. Book music and lyrics by Joan Cushing. Adapted from the book by Elvira Woodruff. Set in 1840's London, Lucy and Glory Wolcott live at Grimstone Union Public Workhouse at the mercy of the cruel Matron Wick and Mistress Branch. Lucy invents stories about a family she barely remembers and a long lost doll named Morning Glory to humor her sister. When a deadly fever sweeps through the workhouse, the two sisters escape to the mean streets of London, where they encounter many colorful characters.  More...

Musical. Book by Joseph Robinette. Music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story ©1983 Turner Entertainment Co., distributed by Warner Bros., written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; and on the book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd. This musical, which received rave reviews on its Broadway run, is based on the movie classic that runs round-the-clock on television every Christmas. Set in the 1940s in the fictional town of Homan, Indiana, the musical follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker and his quest for the Holy Grail of Christmas gifts—an Official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot Range Model air rifle. Rebuffed at every turn with a similar echoing response, Ralphie plots numerous schemes to achieve his desperate desire for the coveted BB gun.  More...

Musical. By James R. Harris. Featuring songs of the period with arrangements by Mark Hayes. This musical tells the compelling and passionate true stories of real people who lived through the Civil War, often using the actual words they left behind in diaries, letters and other writings. Joe Harris was a cotton planter from Alabama with a conflicted conscience about the war. The discovery of the existence of his diary inspired the play.  More...

Drama. By Dwayne Hartford. Set in Maine during World War II, The Color of Stars is a story of family, patriotism, fear and prejudice. Eleven-year-old Eddie Winthrop has been sent to live with his grandparents on the family farm. Eddie's father is fighting in the Pacific. His mother works at a shipyard and is concerned that Eddie needs more adult supervision.  More...

Comedy/Drama. By Davis S. Craig Danny, King of the Basement tells the story of 10-year-old Danny “Delco” Carter. Danny is the “king of moving.” In two years, he and his unemployed mother have moved more times than most kids lose teeth; there’s just never the money to pay the rent. But far from being overcome by his homelessness, Danny appears to be thriving. He can pack his bags faster than it takes to tie a shoelace. He can make a friend in a morning and a best friend in a day.  More...

Drama. By Jeff Gottesfeld and Elizabeth Wong. Based on the award-winning young adult novel by Randa Abdel-Fattah. High school is tough enough without throwing a hijab into the mix! Amal is a typical American suburban teenager at a typical American high school. She has a crush on a boy, dreams about her first kiss, and loves shopping, Twitter and Facebook. Funny and irreverent, Amal has a comeback for everything and everyone. Then one day, Amal surprises herself, her parents, her friends and school administrators when she shows up at school wearing a hijab headscarf.  More...

Comedy. By Gordon LePage. Don and Wally, two low-level scouts of the Willandian spy service, are sent on a routine mission to a nearby moon. Through bad luck and very bad navigating, they wander way off course and touch down several galaxies away on planet Earth. Instead of landing on the desert moon and morphing into nomads, they crash-land in New Jersey and morph into fourth-graders who are forced to go to school.  More...

Musical. Book and lyrics by Karen Zacarías. Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma. As an adult, Albert Einstein changed our view of the universe. But as a boy, he struggled with the same issues any 12-year-old might—keeping up with violin lessons, impressing the girl next door and—oh yeah, comprehending the fundamental relationship of space and time to the speed of light, of course.  More...

Musical. Book and lyrics by Karen Zacarías. Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma. As an adult, Albert Einstein changed our view of the universe. But as a boy, he struggled with the same issues any 12-year-old might—keeping up with violin lessons, impressing the girl next door and—oh yeah, comprehending the fundamental relationship of space and time to the speed of light, of course.  More...

Comedy/Drama. By Michael Johnson. The year is 1900. We're in a tiny, impoverished village in Connemara, Ireland, its remoteness continually punished by sleet, cold rains and howling gales. Megan O'Flagherty, a young, plain barmaid in a local pub is to be married in four days to the village braggart. But all changes in the most unforeseen way. Megan hears a voice whisper to her from the shadows in the pub.  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 Jennifer Kirkeby. You know the original story. A princess drops her golden ball into a well. A frog makes her a deal that he'll dive into the well and return her ball if she will promise to be his friend for always. The princess makes the promise. But when the frog gives her the ball back, the princess runs off without a second thought. In The Far-Fetched Fable of the Frog Prince, we discover why the frog (who's really a prince, by the way) got turned into a frog in the first place.  More...

Comedy/Drama. By Don Zolidis. Fourteen-year-old Joe's parents are pretty tough. First, they moved his bedroom into his little sister's closet. Then they took away his door. And then, after he just “happened” to tie one of her Barbie dolls to black cat firecrackers and exploded them in the back yard, they grounded him for the entire summer.  More...

Drama. By Don Zolidis. After a horrific school shooting, a community is left to pick up the pieces. Why did this happen? The only friend of the shooter, Tad, who managed to stop the killer early in the rampage, blames himself. What's it like to be the best friend of a killer?  More...

Drama. By Sarah Gubbins. It's Jo's junior year of high school in LaGrange, Illinois, which can only be described as "fml." She is busy fending off suburban boredom and navigating an ambiguous relationship with Emma, the new transfer student, when a new English teacher assigns Carson McCullers' famed novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter  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...

Musical. Book and lyrics by Karen Zacarías. Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma. Alex may seem like a quiet, shy boy, but he secretly holds big ideas inside his head. He wants to be a luchador (wrestler) and defeat bad guys in the ring. His life changes when he meets brave and colorful Frida Kahlo, an unusual girl who dreams of being a doctor so she can help people.   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 Elizabeth Wong. This play is a beautifully lyrical and faithful adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic fairy tale. Commissioned by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, this spiritually compelling play tells the s  More...

Radio drama. By Andrew J. Fenady and Duke Fenady. Based on Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince. For just a moment, close your eyes and—no matter what your age—look through a child's window of imagination. You may see and hear things long ago forgotten. You may cross into that time and place where everything is new and yet familiar—a city where anything can happen, and something wondrous does. High above the city, on a tall column, stands the statue of the bejeweled happy prince overlooking a once shining city whose residents no longer believe in Christmas or themselves.  More...

Comedy. By Arlene Hutton. We drop in on the lives of sixth-graders in the thick of heartache, heartbreak and homework in this funny/sad story about disappointment, friendship and reality TV. Smart, socially hopeless Jacob wants nothing more than for his father to come home from an overseas deployment in time for his birthday party. His good-natured, troublemaking best friend, Chris, wants nothing more than to do explosive  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...

Comedy. By Julian Wiles. Helium is the moving and uplifting story of a brilliant, humorous and creative chemistry teacher who braves the trials of frailty and aging, all the while keeping her imagination, charm and dignity intact. "Hysterium" and "preposterous" are two of the imaginary elements  More...

Comedy. By Werner Trieschmann. Superstar cafeteria chef Rodney "Rotten" Disposle is ready to make life miserable for everybody in another season of "Hell's Cafeteria." Disposle, who's never happy unless somebody is unhappy and isn't really even happy then, hosts the competition to find the best high-school cafeteria manager in the country—by best, Disposle means the worst. If something is edible, Disposle is sure to find out and go on one of his yelling rants.  More...

Comedy/Drama with songs. By Dan Ahearn and Janet Reed. Music and lyrics by Russ Kaplan and Sara Wordsworth. Take a group of high-school students waiting at the bus stop on a Monday morning after a crazy weekend and watch the hilarity and anxiety explode due to unreturned texts from a girlfriend, parental pressures, friendship tensions, fashion mistakes that have "loser" written all over them, athletic ambitions and academic terrors.  More...

Adventure/Comedy. By Steven Dietz. Based on the book by Dan Gutman. Honus and Me is a theatrical and entertaining baseball-card adventure. Ten-year-old Joey Stoshack is the worst hitter on his Little League team. Then one day he finds the most valuable baseball card in the world:  the Honus Wagner T-26 printed in 1909. To his surprise, this card works like a time machine  More...

Drama. Conceived by Stephen Gundersheim and written by Seth Aganski, Tom Austin, Tara Bowman, Sarah Corbin, Emily Dignan, Lee Gabriel, Greg Hall, Amanda Hannoosh, Jaci Keimach, Chris Keyser, Dan LaBroad, Brian Lee, Jennifer MacLean, Andrew Markos, Emily Pierce, Phelan Wolfendon, Adam Yeremian, Amy Bartlett, Anthony Beatrice, Jess Bryant, John Clevesy, Brian Fitzgibbons, Rachel Keimach, Peter Leonard-Solis, Kristin Minichiello, Tiffany Owsiak, Kerrin Rhuda, Cathy Thomas and Stephen Gundersheim. Seventeen students arrive at school in the morning and go through their day from opening their lockers, to passing in the hallways between classes, to lunchroom encounters, to their exit at the end of the day. Each character is a number representation from a deck of cards, and that number is their character name and value in the hierarchy of the student body.  More...

Drama. By Max Bush. In 2009, Jamie Foster, age 23, an Iraq war veteran now enrolled in a university, tries to piece together the truth about what happened one day in Baghdad with his friend Jalil, a local Iraqi national. In flashbacks to 2007, during "The Surge," we see the developing friendship between the 20-year-old American Army Private Foster and 21-year-old Jalil Khaifa Al-Majid, who operated as a street vendor just outside the patrol base. Jamie replays scenes from that day over and over,  More...

Comedy. By Julian Wiles. Intrigue, espionage and forbidden romance abound in Inga Binga, based on the amazing true story of Ensign Jack Kennedy's World War II romance with a suspected Nazi agent and former Miss Denmark, Inga Arvad. When rumors that Kennedy was seen in the company of a beautiful blonde bombshell and alleged Nazi agent began to circulate around wartime Washington in 1942, the FBI was soon on the case.  More...

Drama. By Colleen Neuman. Vanessa lives with her mother, who seems too busy to listen to her and calls Vanessa's beloved collection of stuff a "pile of junk." Vanessa uses her stuff—keys, string, wire, cardboard, broken flashlights, old radios—to create inventions and to make up stories. There is one more treasure she keeps in her room: her father. Vanessa's father died last year,  More...

Adventure/Comedy. By Steven Dietz. Adapted from the book by Dan Gutman. Ten-year-old Joey Stoshack is a headstrong young boy with a special talent for time travel. When Joey is assigned to write a report on an African American who has made an important contribution to society, he uses his special ability to go back to Brooklyn, New York, in 1947. There he meets one of baseball's greatest players, Jackie Robinson.  More...

Comic tragedy. By Thomas Bradshaw. Meet Job, the wise and powerful judge of an ancient Israelite tribe. Satan bets God that he can make Job blaspheme God through ever-escalating violence and loss. Will Job question God’s promise to reward the righteous, even when his prayers for mercy go unanswered? In this dark, twisted comedy, Thomas Bradshaw brings us an honest, uncynical adaptation of the book of Job. “Both entertaining and repulsive, Job is simultaneously a faithful retelling of the titular biblical tale and a raucous spoof of it. …  More...

Musical. Book and lyrics by Christopher Dimond. Music by Michael Kooman. Junior Claus is the only son of Santa and Mrs. Claus. Like many teenagers, Junior is reluctant to take over the family business. Unsure of himself, Junior puts more faith in his technological inventions than in good old-fashioned Christmas magic, much to the chagrin of his father. But, when a sudden drop in Christmas spirit renders Santa incapable of making the great ride, Junior must take the reins. Meanwhile, a scheming, miserly elf takes advantage of Santa’s absence as he plots to turn the workshop into a for-profit enterprise.  More...

Comedy. By Ernie Nolan. It's 1954, and even though he has just become a Badger Scout, young Skipper McCready's life is a big mess. His grumpy next-door neighbor is upset with him all the time; his friend Sally Ann is obsessed with being a girl detective; and his best friend, Lucky, a dog, has gone missing. To top it all off, his mother wants him to befriend the new weird kid  More...

Musical. Book and lyrics by Karen Zacarías. Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma. In this rock musical, the year is 1972. The place is Pittsburgh, where legendary baseball player Roberto Clemente is at the top of his game. Sam Kowalski and the neighborhood baseball-playing kids are in an intense competition to win the chance to meet Clemente in person.  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...

Drama/Comedy. By Thomas Bradshaw. At the height of what TIME magazine dubbed "AIDS hysteria" in 1983, college student David invites his boyfriend home to his parents' house in Maryland where nothing has changed since the 1800s—including the slave quarters. Confronting hypocrisy and oppression with exhilarating wit, Bradshaw's incendiary work is "likely to leave you speechless!"  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...

Drama. By Gordon LePage. Uncle Fy and his niece Zoe plant 14 white birches along the lonely dirt road to his cabin in the woods. Shortly thereafter, a violent storm destroys the house and uproots the elder trees, who were the  More...

Thriller. By Stephen Gregg. It's only three days into freshman year of college, and Margo didn't come back to the dorm last night. But of the five friends who went off to college together, only Delta seems worried about it. Finally, Margo arrives, and she makes quite an entrance. She's been made over: stylish new glasses, new hairstyle and a whole new attitude. She looks fantastic! There's just one problem. Margo isn't Margo.  More...

Drama with music. By Manon van de Water and Andy Wiginton. Based upon the original play by María Inés Falconi.   More...

Comedy. By Chris Weikel. Penny Penniworth is a labyrinthine romp through 19^th-century English literature as presented by a severely short-staffed theatre troupe with Royal Shakespeare Company pretensions that decides to produce a "lost" Dickens epic. The eponymous Penny, a down-on-her-luck Dickensian waif, deprived of her fortune and her country estate by the untimely death of her hapless father (her father's name is actually Hapless, as it happens),  More...

Drama. By Kathleen Cahill. The 13^th-century Persian poet, Rumi, invites us to ride with him on a Persian carpet of history. He introduces us to two American diplomats, Ann and Mike, stationed in Iran in 1979, just as the mullahs under Ayatollah Khomeini are coming to power and the Iranian Revolution is gaining strength.  More...

By Bob Fowler and Marti Fowler. Not just a series of talking heads, this program provides lots of video footage showing professionals working in their specialized areas.* First, a typical production staff is examined, starting with footage of performers and continuing to carpenters and deck crew, audio personnel, electrics, props carpenters and artisans, dressers, designers, scenic, FOH personnel, directors, choreographers, dance captains, business management personnel, TDs, dialect coaches, dramaturges, production managers, crafts personnel, stitchers, drapers, casting directors, etc.  More...

By Bob Fowler and Marti Fowler. This program is written and hosted by EdTA Hall of Fame inductee Terry McGonigle. It is a two-week unit that will help your students discover: The Elements and Concepts of Costume Design: script and character analysis, research, the functions of costume design, the five basic elements of costume design, other components of costume design, costume charts and plots.  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...

Comedy/Drama. By Jim Gordon You're sitting and you're steaming 'cause someone's done you dirt/And in spite of what they tell you, you know they meant to hurt/"Forgive them," say the righteous. "It'' a creed you should believe in."/I grin and say "To hell with that—it's more fun getting even!" What does the father of our country, a hit man, and a little old lady have in common? They refuse to turn the other cheek, as demonstrated in these eight short plays.  More...

Comedy. By Y York. No one has ever understood the mysterious friendship of River Rat and Cat. From the day fastidious River Rat hauled a drowning sodden Cat from a sinking basket (thinking Cat was some unique collectible).  More...

Drama. By Laurie Brooks. Based on the novel by S.E. Hinton. Is middle school really so different now than it was in the '70s? The search for belonging and recognition among peer groups remains at the heart of coming of age. The journey that S.E. Hinton's anti-hero, Rusty-James, takes in her iconic young adult novel is as relevant for young people today as it was when it was first published.  More...

Drama. By Mat Smart. Samuel J. surprises his adopted brother, Samuel K., with a trip back to his birth country of Cameroon for college graduation, but Samuel K. has no desire to face a place and a past that abandoned him.  More...

Drama. Adapted by C.R. Wobbe. From Joseph Conrad's story. The clash of rules and personal morality, authority versus individualism, comes together in this adaptation of one of Conrad's most suspenseful and adventurous stories. Captain Booth has just taken over as captain of a sailing ship in Far Eastern waters. The crew is suspicious of him from the start, for Captain Booth is young and aloof, though desperately determined to make good. Then over the ship's side crawls a man, Leggatt, a mate who has escaped from the Sephora, a ship lying at anchor nearby.  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...

Drama. By Suzanne Lebeau. Elikia is a child, among so many others, who has seen her life overturned from one day to the next in a chaotic, lawless civil war. The girl, kidnapped from her family, becomes a child soldier. She is a victim, but she is also an executioner in an untenable situation that blurs the most elementary laws of ethics.  More...

Drama. By Chris Mathews, Jake Minton and Nathan Allen. Ten years ago Emily Book, the lone survivor of a horrible school bus accident, was sent away from the tiny town of Spring Farm. Now, in her senior year, Emily must return in order to graduate from high school. When she arrives, shy and guarded, Emily is unwillingly thrust into the whirlwind of Spring Farm High.  More...

Comedy. By Stacey Lane. You know the old woman who lived in a shoe and had so many children she didn't know what to do. But did you know that her children are Jack, Jill, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, Hansel, Gretel and that lamb-loving Mary? Joining this energetic romp through the enchanted forest are Little Miss Muffet, the Big Bad Wolf, the Gingerbread Man, Puss in Boots, and more of your fairy tale favorites.  More...

Comedy. By Mitch Brian. Adapted from the screenplay by Charles B. Griffith. In this dark comedy based on the classic cult movie A Bucket of Blood, Walter Paisley is a put-upon bus boy at a beatnik café whose greatest dream is to be an artist. When he accidentally kills his landlady’s cat, he covers it in clay and passes it off as sculpture.  More...

Comedy/Drama. By Jennifer Kirkeby. Characters laugh, cry, fume, love, hate, plead and question life and death, good and bad in this collection of plays woven with humor and heart.  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. By Stephen Gregg. This Is a Text is This Is a Test's rowdier little sister: a play about the impossibility of taking a test, updated for the age of distraction. Today's the dreaded final, but Sophia is ready. She's prepped and then prepped some more because this test is going to change her life! There's just one little problem:  More...

An evening of thrillers. By Stephen Gregg. Three Nightmares is one evening of theatre comprised of three different thrillers, each scarier than the last: Wake-Up Call, The New Margo and One Lane Bridge.  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...

Comedy. By Gabriel Jason Dean. It's Halloween in Southern California, the Santa Ana winds blow fiercely and nothing is as it seems. Doodle Pequeño and his Mamá recently moved across the city to a cramped apartment in a quadruplex after Papá was deported to Mexico. Anxious to trick-or-treat, Doodle comes home from school to discover  More...

Adventure. By Max Bush. Adapted from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Sixteen-year-old Jim Hawkins' adventure begins when Billy Bones, the old sea-dog captain, appears one morning in the Admiral Benbow Inn. Billy Bones admits to Jim he was Flint the pirate's first mate and that he holds Flint's map that shows where his treasure is hidden. Bill's got the shakes because the rest of Flint's crew is coming for him. Jim takes the map, eludes the pirates, and sets his course for adventure.  More...

Drama. By Claudia Haas. It's the summer of 1969. Cities are crumbling, and the country is divided about the Vietnam War and the crushing economy. As the country prepares for the Apollo 11 moon landing, young people gather in a park to play, to protest and to work.  More...

Fantasy. By Philip Grecian. From the book by Margery Williams. "There are two ways to be real," the Skin Horse says. "The first is when you are real to one special child, and the second is when you are real to the world." More than anything he wants to be a real  More...

Bilingual Drama/Comedy. By Andrea Moon. Conceived by Andrea Moon and Samantha Provenzano. When Beatriz slams into her room to escape yet another fight between her parents she turns to Beatrizita, a doll made for her by her recently deceased abuela, for comfort. Beatrizita magically comes to life and sends Beatriz searching for her abuela in Dreamland with nothing but a blank map to guide her.  More...

Drama. By Tom Arvetis. Based on Sharon Creech's Newbery Medal-winning novel. “Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.” Walk Two Moons is lovingly adapted for the stage with the same nuance and surprises offered by the original book. Utilizing multiple narrative frames, the play leaps back and forth through time and memory as 13-year-old Sal tells the story of the disappearance of her best friend Phoebe’s mother. Determined to find her, the two girls begin seeing murderous plots and schemes around every corner.  More...

Drama. By Sandra Fenichel Asher. Adapted from the memoirs of Ilga Katais-Paeglis Vise. On the eve of a three-generational pilgrimage back to her Latvian homeland, Ilga speaks to her grandchildren about their great-grandparents. Her memories become the action of the play, all seen through her eyes at ages 4, 10 and nearly 17. At the center of her narrative is the winter of 1944–1945, when 10-year-old Ilga and her parents leave Riga, Latvia, to escape the Russian occupation of their city.  More...

Musical. Book by Suzan Zeder. Music by Harry Pickens. Lyrics by Suzan Zeder and Harry Pickens. Set deep in the Tombigbee swamp, this classic tale of a very young boy with a very big fear is brought to new and vibrant life in this musical version of Wiley and the Hairy Man. The story centers around a fatherless young boy, his conjure-woman mother, his faithful dog and the hairy man who haunts Wiley’s days and dreams.  More...

Musical. Book by Scot Copeland, W.S. Gilbert, and Kenneth Grahame. Music by Paul Carrol Binkley and Sir Arthur Sullivan. Adapted from the book by Kenneth Grahame and the songs of Gilbert and Sullivan. Had Gilbert and Sullivan adapted Grahame’s classic book for the stage it would have looked—and sounded—a lot like this bubbling confection of a musical. Little Mole tries to tend to his cleaning, but it is spring, the wind is sighing in the willows and the piper at the Gates of Dawn calls him to dance! Embracing the reawakening world, Mole is introduced to the delights of life along the river by his new friend, Rat. Together, they trot off to Toad Hall to visit Mr. Toad—“Toady, if you please!”  More...

Drama. By Anne Negri. In a fantasy world where people have wings, a young boy named Lyf lives an isolated existence with his parents in the safe nest of their home deep in the woods. Although loving, Lyf’s parents have strict rules he must follow about avoiding strangers, covering his wings with a cloak and always observing rule number one: never, ever try to fly. One day a precocious, inquisitive girl from the outside world, Meta, bursts into the backyard,  More...