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  1. The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

    The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

    Adapted by Reginald André Jackson. From the book by Christopher Paul Curtis.

    Product Code: WB2000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 7m., 3w., 1 either gender (some doubling).

      No Livestream Rights Available

    • 90 min.

    After living in Flint, Michigan, the Watson family decides that their oldest son needs to live down south with his grandmother to straighten up his act. The family heads south—toward a horrific moment in American history: the bombing of the Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church during which four young black girls are killed.

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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  2. The Elves and the Shoemaker

    The Elves and the Shoemaker

    Adapted by Ric Averill. From the Brothers Grimm fairy tale.

    Product Code: E52000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 8m., 4w., 36 either gender. Doubling possible.

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    • 65 min.
    In this fanciful and charming reframing of the traditional story of the shoemaking elves, the central character is Gunther, who Learn More
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  3. Vote?

    Vote?

    By Eric Coble.

    Product Code: V34000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 3w. (may be expanded to 20 actors of either gender.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 50 min.
    Nicole registered to vote but has no intention of voting until she begins sliding through time and historical events, standing beside women, minorities and young people all demanding their rights, and discovers how important her right to vote is. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $85/perf

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  4. A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas

    A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas

    By Laurie Brooks.

    Product Code: LD5000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Elementary School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 2m., 5w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 70 min.
    In their poorest winter ever, when the crops have been devastated by locusts and the family must deal with the death of baby Freddie, Charles Ingalls backtracks his family to Iowa, to take over the running of a hotel. A wealthy Mrs. Starr offers to adopt Laura Ingalls to ease their burden. Laura must decide whether to leave Ma, Pa, Mary and Carrie in this play about enduring family bonds. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  5. Nathan the Wise

    Nathan the Wise

    By Paul D'Andrea after G.E. Lessing. Translation by Gisela D'Andrea and Paul D'Andrea.

    Product Code: N54000

    • Comedy | Drama | Melodrama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 6m., 3w. (Doubling and expansion possible.)
    • 100 min.
    This Western classic on religious tolerance is set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade. Two young people, Jew and Christian, are drawn to each other in love and come up with an imaginative resolution to the issue of which is the one true faith. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  6. OZ

    OZ

    By Patrick Shanahan.

    Product Code: O55000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 1m., 2w.
    • 90 min.
    It's 1899 in Chicago, and Frank Baum is putting the finishing touches on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but is missing a few key elements…the title and the ending! Suddenly his Victorian study becomes a magical land. In the heart of this frenzy is the whole creative process, and in the end we realize that Baum is the real wizard of Oz, but he needs an assistant … our imaginations. Learn More
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  7. Hale the Hero!

    Hale the Hero!

    By Richard Vetere.

    Product Code: H41000

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

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.
    This play is alternately jocular and tender in dramatizing the reluctant leap to heroism of a soldier who plays every game in the book to avoid being hanged as a spy. Learn More
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  8. The Fair Maid of the West

    The Fair Maid of the West

    By Kevin Theis. From the plays by Thomas Heywood.

    Product Code: F57000

    • Comedy
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | Community
    • 14m., 2w. (Doubling necessary.)
    • 135 min.
    This story recounts the misadventures of lowborn tavern girl, Bess Bridges, and her true love, a gentleman soldier named Spencer. Learn More
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  9. Big Bucks

    Big Bucks

    By Pat Cook.

    Product Code: B49000

    • Comedy
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 3m., 5w.

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    • 90 min.
    Here is a southern soap opera spoof, mountain style with a totally and hysterically fractured Learn More
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  10. The Other Shakespeare

    The Other Shakespeare

    By Laura Annawyn Shamas.

    Product Code: O34000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 7m., 7w. (Roles are doubled. Cast may be larger.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    Cassandra Shakespeare is the brilliant sister William Shakespeare might have had. In this moving, bittersweet play, literary figures of the past come to life, and the artistic struggle of a young Renaissance girl becomes startlingly immediate. Although Cassie speaks from the 16th-century, she speaks for the creative struggle and hopes of women today. Learn More
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