Excerpt   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... Availability: Available Now!  $5.50  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy. By Richard Dresser. Molly, middle-aged, has parlayed many years of experience at a national cleaning company to become team leader, which provides her with just enough money to keep her head above water. Claire, young, pretty and hopeful,  More... Availability: Available Now!  $7.50  Add to Cart
	Excerpt  Free Poster  Sound Clips   Musical. Book and lyrics by Stan and Jan Berenstain. Music by Elliot Lawrence and Jamie Broza. The "world's foremost expert on the Berenstain Bears," guitar-strumming Cowboy Joe, is the show's stage director—introducing and commenting on the play's five episodes which are based on five classic Berenstain Bears books.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.50  Add to Cart
Bud, Not Buddy	Excerpt   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... Availability: This title is not yet in print. Scripts should be available: Late Nov..A $25.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript To Cart.
Bud, Not Buddy (90-minute manuscript)	Excerpt   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... Availability: Available Now!  $35.00  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   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... Availability: Available Now!  $7.50  Add to Cart
Chem Mystery	Excerpt   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... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $25.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript To Cart.
	Excerpt  Sound Clips   Musical. Book and lyrics by Karen Zacarías. Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma. What will happen to Cinderella at the ball … game? That's the surprising climactic question in this contemporary Latin-American Cinderella musical, which delightfully turns the classic fairy tale on its head,  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.50  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   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... Availability: Available Now!  $7.50  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Dramatic fantasy. Adapted by Ric Averill. From the Grimm Brothers fairy tale. In this fanciful and charming re-framing of the traditional story of the shoemaking elves, the central character is Gunther, an old shoemaker. War rages across Europe and, somewhere in the midst of that conflict, Gunther has lost his only son.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $7.50  Add to Cart
The Frog Prince	Excerpt   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... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $25.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript To Cart.
	Excerpt   Drama/Comedy. By Nancy Linehan Charles. Based on the play by William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was big on what can happen if you make the wrong move. And in his world that meant letting emotions get out of hand: greed, jealousy, ambition, revenge. He was always telling his  More... Availability: Available Now!  $7.50  Add to Cart
A High Country Christmas	Excerpt   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... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $25.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript To Cart.
	Excerpt   Comedy. By Linda Daugherty. In this Christmas whodunit, ace detective Red Mistletoe is retained by the citizens of the North Pole to find Santa Claus, who has disappeared at the height of the season. If losing Santa wasn't enough  More... Availability: Available Now!  $7.50  Add to Cart
	Excerpt  Sound Clips   Musical. Book by Lynne Bartlett, Mark Leehy and Kevin O'Mara. Music and lyrics by David Billings, Rob Fairbairn, Mark Leehy and Kevin O'Mara. Based on William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. In the woods outside Athens, the fairy king and queen are squabbling over a changeling. Enter a pair of runaway lovers intent on eloping, a suitor in pursuit, and a group of workers rehearsing their humble play as a gift for the duke's wedding.  More... Availability: Available Now!  $8.50  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy/Drama. By Dennis Foon. Kindness offers an unforgettable lesson in compassion and listening to one another. It sensitively captures the reality of children's feelings as it tells the story of three kids, Tessa, Damon and Keegan, as they navigate the small and large catastrophes in their lives. Mr. Foon spent a week interviewing kids in five Winnipeg schools  More... Availability: Available Now!  $5.50  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   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... Availability: Available Now!  $8.50  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   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... Availability: Available Now!  $7.50  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy. By Richard Dresser. Annie and Neil have placed their hopes and dreams on the shoulders of Jodi, their bright and high-achieving 18-year-old daughter, a high-school senior. Their own regrets and slightly diminished lives  More... Availability: Available Now!  $7.50  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   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... Availability: Available Now!  $7.50  Add to Cart
River Rat and Cat (touring manuscript)	Excerpt   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... Availability: Available Now!  $35.00  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama/Comedy. By Ric Averill. Adapted from Mark Twain. Set in St. Petersburg (Hannibal), Missouri, along the Mississippi River, Tom Sawyer tells the coming-of-age story of the community's most mischievous boy. Tom fights a bully, gets his friends to help him whitewash a fence, falls in love with Becky Thatcher,  More... Availability: Available Now!  $7.50  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   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... Availability: Available Now!  $7.50  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Comedy/Drama. By Richard Dresser. Nick is a child of privilege who grew up with every possible advantage. But along the way he came to believe that he could never measure up to the demands of his father, Daniel, a powerful and mercurial man who  More... Availability: Available Now!  $7.50  Add to Cart
	Excerpt   Drama with music. By Peter Manos. Walk, Don't Ride! A Celebration of the Fight for Equality chronicles in words and song the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It begins with the Montgomery bus boycott when, after the arrest of Rosa Parks  More... Availability: Available Now!  $5.50  Add to Cart
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 (70-minute manuscript)	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... Availability: This title is not yet in print. A $25.00 pre-publication manuscript is available. Add Manuscript To Cart.