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MLM Is for Murder (or, Your Side Hustle Is Killing Us)

Product Code: MS1000

Comedy | Satire
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 1m., 4w.
Approx. Run Time: 120 min.

Side hustles—it seems like everybody has at least one these days. For Minerva Ross, it is to write and narrate her own feminist true crime podcast about how and why women commit murder. Across the country, Felicity Evanston has just started selling ridiculously patterned leggings for a multilevel marketing company. The two haven’t crossed paths in years, but when Felicity starts killing off her competition, both women suddenly experience the kind of overnight success they’ve been so desperately craving. Learn More

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The Café Mocha Murders

By Deanna Strasse.

Product Code: CT3000

Comedy | Farce
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 4m., 5w.
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Despite the raging storm outside, it seems like a perfectly normal night for an employee meeting at the local coffee shop, The Bean Shack. That is until the lights go out, and someone winds up dead. In this over-the-top whodunit, it’s all about latte art, caffeine content and the imminent threat of death. Learn More

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Lead Rings on the Merry-Go-Round

By Edward F. EmanuEl

Product Code: LM2000

Comedy
Recommended For: High School | College | Community
Cast Size: 3 to 6m., 2 to 9w., 2 either gender.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 80 min.

Radio host Lancelot T. Terrierre reveals live on the air that he not only knows who the Lead Rings Murderer is, he has locked himself and his crew into the studio with the culprit and plans to expose the murderer to the public! Every time a murder is discussed on the air, a murder takes place in the studio! Show ratings are going up as actors are going down! Only at the end will the murderer and the ingenious method used to silence the radio cast be discovered. Learn More

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Detective Partner Hero Villain

By Brett Neveu.

Product Code: DF9000

Comedy | Drama | Tragedy
Recommended For: College | Professional
Cast Size: 4 either gender.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 75 min.

A detective and his partner search for Supernova (the villain), who hates The Fantastic Phenomenon (the hero) so much that he is killing superhero super-fans. The detective's world quickly begins to unravel as he questions his own belief in law and justice and starts to peel back the good-versus-evil veneer, exposing the realities of life and death and the ultimate consequences of trusting those who tell us to "keep the faith." The black-and-white morality of superheroes is turned on its head in this play. Learn More

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Waste Mismanagement

By Dan Doyle.

Product Code: WG8000

Comedy
Recommended For: College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 7 to 9m., 3 to 4w., 1 either gender.

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Approx. Run Time: 110 min.

J.B. Hornsby, a marginally successful defense attorney, takes on a new client who is arrested for the murder of her husband, whose body was found in a local landfill by Beulah, a wildly eccentric psychic. Hornsby tries to pin the crime on a ruthless mob loan shark, but is shocked when the belligerent judge suddenly drops all charges against his client. In a startling twist, Beulah employs her mystical powers to bring about an astonishing conclusion! Learn More

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Bloody Murder

By Ed Sala.

Product Code: BG7000

Comedy
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 3 to 6m., 3 to 6w.
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

A group of British murder-mystery types gather for a weekend retreat at the country estate of the esteemed Lady Somerset. Suddenly, one of them dies of poison! Well, of course. Oh, what fun! But wait … Her Ladyship refuses to summon the police! She says she won't go through all this, again. All what, again? And why were they all invited here in the first place? Is this actually just another formulaic, all-too-predictable mystery story? Or is it something diabolically … different?

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Artifice

By Anne Flanagan.

Product Code: AF3000

Comedy | Farce
Recommended For: High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 4m., 4w.
Approx. Run Time: 100 min.

A story about a struggling artist who dies only to reappear at a sale of his work. A farcical take on celebrity and success and an affectionate tribute to loyalty and love. Learn More

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The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Comic Thriller Starring Shirley Holmes and Jennie Watson

Adapted by Kent R. Brown. Inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel.

Product Code: HA6000

Comedy
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional
Cast Size: 6m., 7w., plus 11 to 40 extras.

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

When their uncles leave for an extended holiday, the nieces of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are left to investigate the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville. In this fast-paced adaptation, full of wailing hounds, thundering hooves, and the slithering mists of the moor, Shirley and Jennie follow the trail of evidence and intrigue until, at last, they are confronted by the ravenous Hound itself! Learn More

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Hamlet or Does Father Reeeeeeally Know Best?

By Nancy Linehan Charles. Based on the play by William Shakespeare.

Product Code: H94000

Comedy | Drama | Satire
Recommended For: Middle School | High School | Community | TYA
Cast Size: 2m., 2w., 11 either gender.

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Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

William Shakespeare believed strongly in the fact that there will always be consequences when you make the wrong move. Hamlet listens to a ghost, who makes all of the decisions, and everyone ends up dead. Learn More

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All Out

By John Zodrow.

Product Code: AA8000

Comedy | Drama | Farce | Satire | Tragedy
Recommended For: College | Community
Cast Size: 6m., 4w., 6 to 7 extras.

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Approx. Run Time: 30 min.

To what extremes will the game show contestants go to win a prize of $100,000? This play is about lack of ethics and what people will do for money. Learn More

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