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  1. Tomás and the Library Lady Cover TV9000

    Tomás and the Library Lady

    Adapted by José Cruz González. From the book by Pat Mora.

    Product Code: TV9000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 1 to 4m., 1 to 4w., expandable.

      Limited Livestream Rights Available

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    • 50 min.
    Adapted from the well-loved book, Tomás and the Library Lady tells the inspiring true story of Tomás Rivera, who grew up in a migrant worker family, befriended a librarian in Iowa, and learned to love books and the places they took him. Tomás went on to a successful career in academia and became the chancellor of the University of California, Riverside. This play can be readily understood by both English and Spanish speakers. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  2. Don't Tell Me I Can't Fly

    Don't Tell Me I Can't Fly

    By Y York. Inspired by the life and art of Della Wells.

    Product Code: DE9000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 2m., 3w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 65 min.
    Nine-year-old Tonia is growing up in a working-class, African-American home in Milwaukee in 1964. Her artistic soul is at odds with her parents' fears and pragmatism. Her efforts to please and appease them are in conflict with her own needs and desires. Tonia finds her way, the only way possible, by allowing her parents to see her true self with all its flaws, beauty and possibilities. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  3. China Doll (The Imagined Life of an American Actress)

    China Doll (The Imagined Life of an American Actress)

    By Elizabeth Wong

    Product Code: CD3000

    • Comedy | Drama | Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 2w.-all Asian; or 5m., 3w.-multicultural. Roles are doubled.

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    • 90 min.
    This is the story of a Chinatown girl who dreamed of making it in Hollywood. This sensual fantasia takes inspiration from the remarkable life of Anna May Wong, the first and brightest Chinese American movie star. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  4. Sun Yat Sen: In the Mouth of the Dragon

    Sun Yat Sen: In the Mouth of the Dragon

    By Edward F. EmanuEl.

    Product Code: SF3000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 25 roles plus ensemble as needed; 12 actors with doubling.
    • 115 min.
    Set in London, 1896, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, a leader of the Young China revolutionary movement, is being tortured and drugged by his captors to get him to confess to crimes against the Dowager Empress of China's government Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  5. A Woman Called Truth

    A Woman Called Truth

    By Sandra Fenichel Asher.

    Product Code: W63000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 3w., expandable to 29 roles, plus extras.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 65 min.
    This play chronicles the life of Sojourner Truth from the day she is sold away from her family as a girl, through her struggle to free herself and her son, to her emergence as a respected figure advocating abolition and women's rights. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  6. Paper Lanterns, Paper Cranes PD8000

    Paper Lanterns, Paper Cranes

    By Brian Kral.

    Product Code: PD8000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 13 to 16 (4 to 6m., 6 to 9w., with roles for children and adults). Some doubling is possible.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.

    This powerful drama illustrates the impact of war—and the nightmare of nuclear fallout—as experienced by some of World War II's most innocent victims: the children of Japan. Kyushu, a Japanese "street orphan," is admitted into a Hiroshima hospital in the mid-1950s

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    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  7. Mean to Be Free: A Flight North on the Underground Railroad

    Mean to Be Free: A Flight North on the Underground Railroad

    By Joanna H. Kraus.

    Product Code: MG6000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 10m., 4w. (with doubling 7m., 4w.).

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 75 min.
    This is the story of two black children who traveled the dangerous Underground Railroad north to freedom and is based on events that happened over 150 years ago. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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