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  1. Cry it Out

    Cry it Out

    By Molly Smith Metzler.

    Product Code: CR7000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 1m., 3w.

      Limited Livestream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Cooped up on maternity leave and starved for conversation, Jessie invites her funny and forthright neighbor Lina, also a new mom, for coffee on the patio between their duplexes. Despite their vastly different finances, they become fast friends during naptimes—while someone spies on them from the mansion on the cliff overlooking Jessie’s yard. This comedy with dark edges takes an honest look at the absurdities of being home with a baby, the dilemma of returning to work, and how class impacts parenthood and friendship. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  2. It's a Wonderful Life Cover I51000

    It's a Wonderful Life

    Adapted for the stage by James W. Rodgers. Based on the film by Frank Capra. It’s a Wonderful Life is based on the story The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern.

    Product Code: I51000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 12m., 10w., 2 boys, 2 girls (doubling possible).

      Now licensing for 2024 only

    • 120 min.
    This is a faithful adaptation of the saga of George Bailey, whose dreams have been quashed by family obligation and civic duty, and whose guardian angel must descend on Christmas Eve to save him from despair and to remind him—by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born—that his has been, after all, a wonderful life. Learn More
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  3. Trial in the Delta: The Murder of Emmett Till TY3000

    Trial in the Delta: The Murder of Emmett Till

    Conceived and created by G. Riley Mills, Anthony Moseley and Prince Roc. Adapted from the court transcripts by G. Riley Mills and Prince Roc.

    Product Code: TY3000

    • Drama | Tragedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 12m., 2w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 95 min.
    In 1955, Emmett Till, a young Black boy, traveled to Mississippi to visit relatives where he was kidnapped and murdered in one of the most horrific crimes in American history. The trial became a catalyst for the modern Civil Rights Movement. Every word of testimony presented in the play was taken directly from the original transcripts, allowing viewers to hear these voices from our past and bear witness to this tragedy as it unfolded. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  4. The Impracticality of Modern-Day Mastodons IG4000

    The Impracticality of Modern-Day Mastodons

    By Rachel Teagle.

    Product Code: IG4000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community
    • 1m., 2w., 3 to 16 any gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Suddenly, all childhood dreams have come true, and the world is full of astronauts, ballerinas, cowboys and princesses. It’s a brave and glorious new world for everyone but Jess, who wanted to be a mastodon when she grew up. With the help of her friendly vocational advisor and her super-spy boyfriend, Jess embarks on a journey to find her place in the world and discover why it seems to be unraveling. An offbeat comedy about ambition, vocation and restlessness. Learn More
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  5. Boswell BN2000

    Boswell

    By Marie Kohler.

    Product Code: BN2000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 3w., 1 to 14 any gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 80 min.
    Joan, an American graduate student, journeys to a Scottish noblewoman’s estate to research iconic literary giant, Samuel Johnson. Instead, she discovers the chatty, bawdy journals of James Boswell, long hidden in the estate’s attic. Coaxed by her new friend, Joan pours over his wild adventures in the Scottish Hebrides with Johnson. Heart and mind spar wittily in this two-period dramatic comedy about friendship, travel and the written word. Learn More
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  6. Midnight and Moll Flanders MS800

    Midnight and Moll Flanders

    By Marie Kohler. Adapted from the novel Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe.

    Product Code: MS8000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 6w., with doubling. Expandable ensemble.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    Moll Flanders’ drive for love and survival led her on many adventures—flings, marriages and a career as an infamous thief. The play begins on the eve of Moll’s hanging at Newgate Prison as she tells her story to the minister, who is determined to offer her a last chance at salvation. Midnight and Moll Flanders follows a transformation journey for both Moll and the minister, exploring the influence of gender, class, free will and luck in an era as wildly entrepreneurial as our own. Learn More
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  7. Revolution RF5000

    Revolution

    By Brett Neveu.

    Product Code: RF5000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 3w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Who celebrates their 26th birthday in the alley? Puff, that’s who. With the help of her best friend, Jame, and the unlikely company of Georgia, Puff rings in her new year with laughter, connection, a dose of danger and Miller High Life. Revolution interrogates and celebrates the very nature of creating community and building friendships in our ever-evolving, ever-disconnecting world. Learn More
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  8. Mother, Mother: The Many Mothers of Maude MS9000

    Mother, Mother: The Many Mothers of Maude

    By Julie Jensen.

    Product Code: MS9000

    • Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 1m., 4w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 85 min.
    Mother, Mother: The Many Mothers of Maude follows Maude Adams, the most celebrated American actress of the 19th century, and her mother, Annie Adams, an actress who never found celebrity. This is a play about one who never got what she wanted and another who never wanted what she got. Using 19th-century theatre techniques, Mother, Mother examines a complicated mother/daughter relationship and covers the volatile lives of performers at the time. Learn More
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  9. Never After Happily N94000

    Never After Happily

    By Cindy Marcus.

    Product Code: N94000

    • Comedy | Farce | Satire
    • High School | College | Community
    • 4 to 7m., 7 to 10w., 2 any gender.
    • 85 min.
    Welcome to an enchanted kingdom where all your favorite fairy tale characters have come to retell—NOPE! Scratch that, we're not doin’ that! Ella’s tired of the false promises that never come true in the real world, so she’s writing what happens AFTER. Now, the entire kingdom is rocked as these aging ingénues and neurotic princes try to deal with life after that perfect moment. Part farce, part vaudeville, part SNL, a little Rocky Horror and a wild ride that no one ever imagined after “happily ever after.” Learn More
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  10. American Wee Pie AP1000

    American Wee Pie

    By Lisa Dillman.

    Product Code: AP1000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 2w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    A disenfranchised textbook editor returns to his hometown to scatter his mother's ashes and, in the process, unexpectedly discovers his true calling. American Wee Pie is a comedy about economic recession, career second acts and the sometimes life-changing wonderment of a small, good thing. Learn More
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