This adaptation reimagines Dinesen’s classic tale as a rich theatrical event: deep, funny, sensual, dangerous and beautiful. The cloistered 19th-century community of two loving, devout Lutheran sisters reluctantly, then completely, embraces Babette, a mysterious French refugee. But when Babette sacrifices all she has to throw a lavish dinner party, the entire community is magically and inexplicably transformed. Learn More
Jo Marie Rose is celebrating the 20th anniversary of her purchase of the Inn at Rose Harbor, a local bed-and-breakfast. She has invited many of her former guests to join her as she reminisces about her early days as owner of the inn. The unique theatrical device of then-and-now guides the audience through a myriad of engrossing episodes, both humorous and serious. Learn More
Haunting and hilarious, this play takes a strange and wondrous trip through a dozen "post-modern Elizabethan" plays, poems and songs. And just like Will's own plays, this dynamic production interweaves comedy, romance, song and tragedy as it presents contemporary characters interacting with Macbeth and Duncan, Juliet and Titus Andronicus, Othello and Desdemona, and 20 other classic characters. Learn More
Adapted by Travis Tyre from the tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
Product Code: PL5000
Comedy
Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
5 to 6m., 4 to 5w., 2 either gender, extras as desired.
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights
90 min.
Blending fiction with historical fact, this moving adaptation takes place in 1860s Imperial Russia where czars were required by law to marry women of royal Russian blood. The consequence for not following the law was losing the throne. After his father's death, Alexi is next in line for the throne, but experiences the jarring contrast between making laws and living by them. Learn More
Elementary School | Middle School | High School | Community
2m., 3w., up to 15 either gender, extras as desired.
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60 min.
When the Queen of Starlings decides to bully all the other birds, Sparrow keeps his cool and uses his brain to show that love and caring can dispel destructive bullying. In the end, it is the queen who asks for Sparrow's friendship allowing all the different birds to live together in harmony. To celebrate, an oriole from Baltimore arrives in time to give Sparrow a Bird of the Year award for his good work! Learn More
4m., 7w. All characters but one are 17 to 19 years old.
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100 min.
Two students struggling with isolation, pain, cultural differences, fear and prejudices begin to see life in a new way as they work together on civil rights issues. Learn More
Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
7m., 3w. (May be expanded to approximately 50 actors, with many opportunities for gender flexibility.)
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120 min.
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are guided by their creator, Miguel de Cervantes, to deal with the inexplicable as they travel through the plains of La Mancha. Learn More
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
16m., 5w. with doubling, but many roles are gender flexible, easily expanded.
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150 min.
Cyrano! His wit is as sharp as his sword, the enormity of his talent, intellect and passion matched only by the enormity of his, well, nose. The uniquely endowed protagonist is given a fresh face in this poignant and playful paean to panache, written in rhyming couplets. Romance rules the day in this story of his classic love triangle with the exquisite Roxane and the handsome and earnest, but verbally challenged, Christian. Learn More
Genuine chills are provided in this tale of a governess, left in charge of a boy and a girl at a lonely estate, who begins to suspect that the ghosts of two former servants have hideous designs upon the children. If she is right, the children are in terrible peril, but if she's wrong, she herself might be driving them mad. With every twist in the plot (or turn of the screw) the tension increases until something—or someone—must snap. Learn More