Comedy. By William Davidson. This popular title is availabile again! Out of patriotism Angy and Jerry started writing to a pair of lonesome sailors, and just to make it more interesting, passed themselves off as young ladies instead of kids of 14. And then they hear Gadget and Jim are coming! They get into grown-up clothes and it looks like fun until Aunt Sandra arrives and decides to teach them a lesson.  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...

Musical. Book and lyrics by Doug Cooney. Music by Lee Ahlin. Battledrum occurs during the early years of the Civil War in Kentucky and surrounding southern states. A 10-year-old confederate boy named Rufus has been orphaned after his family's farm has been burned to the ground. With nowhere else to turn, he tags along with a Union troop as the "second drummer, on reserve."  More...

Comedy/Drama. Adapted by Reginald André Jackson. From the novel by Christopher Paul Curtis. Set in Michigan during the 1930s, Bud, Not Buddy tells the story of 10-year-old Bud Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes, and his quest to find his father. Bud's journey sets him on the trail of a jazz band known as Herman E. Calloway and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression.  More...

Comedy/Drama. Adapted by Reginald André Jackson. From the novel by Christopher Paul Curtis. Set in Michigan during the 1930s, Bud, Not Buddy tells the story of 10-year-old Bud Caldwell, an orphan on the run from abusive foster homes, and his quest to find his father. Bud's journey sets him on the trail of a jazz band known as Herman E. Calloway and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression.  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...

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...

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...

Comedy/Drama. By Doug Grissom. No performer before or since has had the impact of Elvis Presley, from the first groundbreaking appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" to Las Vegas to Graceland; the magazine American Demographics reports that 84 percent of all Americans say their lives have been touched by Elvis in some way. With the iconic mythology of Elvis as a backdrop,  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...

Comedy/Fairy tale. Adapted by Max Bush. Based on the Olenberg manuscript and various editions of the tale The King's Daughter and the Enchanted Prince by the Brothers Grimm. Princess Luana plays with her golden ball near a well in the deep forest. There she meets the Hag, whose hand is stuck in a tree. Although she tries, Luana is unable to help her. Pantera, a wounded, adolescent panther, runs in, begging for her mother's (the Hag's) help. Prince Erik has wounded her and pursues her. After the prince threatens  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...

Comedy. By Esther Olson. Vintage manuscript now available. Peggy, a delightful girl who talks too much, is tricked into an agreement to remain absolutely silent for the next 48 hours—no matter what! Her girl friend, Gwen is to stay with her to make certain she keeps the agreement. Gwen decides this would be a fine time for her to snare the silent Peggy's boy friend, Willie.  More...

Inuit tale. Adapted by Joanna H. Kraus. From the East Coast Hudson Bay Inuits comes an exciting, authentic tale of a pale-haired child, exiled by her own people because she was "Anatou—the different one." In a village ruled by spirits,  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...

Musical. Book, music and lyrics by Douglas Post. Based on the stories by the Brothers Grimm. This winner of the first Cunningham Commission Award for Youth Theatre is an inspiring musical about the magic of storytelling. One winter's day, Hans, a farm boy who has lost his way in the woods,  More...

Comedy/Drama. By Laura Annawyn Shamas. Six teenagers find their lives are impacted by an intrepid summer school "intensity" touring program centered around key points and places in Abraham Lincoln's life. The action ranges from travelogue  More...

By Jerry Blunt. The More Stage Dialects CDs, with its book* (sold separately), are the definitive work in their field and have been used by professional actors and directors, high schools, colleges and universities throughout the world. The most used dialects in the literature of the theatre (along with the phonetic alphabet) are broken down into key sounds: vowel substitutions, dipthongal changes, consonant substitutions, special pronunciations and pitch patterns.  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...

Drama/Comedy. Adapted by Ashley J. Barnard. From the novel by Jane Austen. At the dawn of the Regency, two sisters, Elinor and Marianne, are thrust into poverty by their brother's scheming and manipulative wife. Reduced to living with their mother in a tiny cottage with their prospects for marriage nearly ruined,  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...

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...

Comedy/Drama. Adapted by Reginald André Jackson. From the book by Christopher Paul Curtis. Ten-year-old Kenny chronicles the events of a fateful summer for the Watson family of Flint, Michigan, in this hilarious and deeply moving story. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and teenage brother Byron, who can't seem to stay out of trouble.  More...

Comedy/Drama. Adapted by Reginald André Jackson. From the book by Christopher Paul Curtis. Ten-year-old Kenny chronicles the events of a fateful summer for the Watson family of Flint, Michigan, in this hilarious and deeply moving story. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and teenage brother Byron, who can't seem to stay out of trouble.  More...