800-448-7469 Mon-Fri 8:30am - 5:00pm CST

Welcome to Dramatic Publishing!

Ship times are not guaranteed. Learn More.

Browse

Currently Filtered by:
  1. Remove This Item Sub-theme: Cheating
  2. Remove This Item Performing Group: College Theatre
Clear All
Filter By
Category
View All
  1. Full Length Plays (6)
  2. One Act Plays (1)
  3. Musicals (2)
  4. Musicals with Accompaniment CDs (2)
  5. Livestream Titles (5)

Filter By

Target Audience
  1. Young Audiences (1)
  2. Middle School (5)
  3. High School (7)
  4. College and Adult (8)
  5. Family (all ages) (3)
  6. Senior Adults (3)
Themes
  1. Crime (2)
  2. Culture (3)
  3. Entertainment (1)
  4. Relationship/Family (6)
  5. School Issues (8)
  6. Death/Dying (2)
  7. Illness/Disability (2)
  8. Substance Abuse (1)
Sub-theme
  1. Murder (2)
  2. Sexual Abuse (1)
  3. Hispanic/Latino (1)
  4. Marriage & Divorce (1)
  5. Abusive Relationships (2)
  6. Infidelity/Cheating (2)
  7. Dating (5)
  8. LGBTQ (2)
  9. Teaching (3)
  10. Bullying (5)
  11. Cheating (9)
  12. Terminal Illness (1)
  13. Drug Abuse (1)
  14. Mental Illness (1)
Genre
  1. Comedy (7)
  2. Drama (8)
Sub-genre
  1. Romantic Comedy (1)
  2. Biographical (1)
  3. Mystery/Murder Mystery (1)
  4. Historical (1)
  5. Action/Adventure (1)
  6. Science Fiction (1)
  7. Horror/Gothic (1)
Show Less Show More
Performing Group
  1. Elementary School (4)
  2. Middle School (9)
  3. High School (14)
  4. College Theatre (9)
  5. Community Theatre (10)
  6. Professional Theatre (4)
  7. TYA (3)
  8. Senior Theatre (1)
  9. Touring Group (6)
  10. Dinner Theatre (1)
Approx. Run Time (minutes)
25m 130m 25m to 130m
Total Cast Size
0 100 0 to 100
Female Cast Members
0 28 0 to 28
Male Cast Members
0 22 0 to 22

9 Item(s)

per page

List  Grid 

  1. When We Get Good Again WL3000

    When We Get Good Again

    By James McLindon.

    Product Code: WL3000

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

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Poor but brilliant college student Tracy needs to get into a top law school so she can be a lawyer for the poor. With the economic odds stacked against her, she tries to rationalize her job writing term papers for other wealthy students, but she’s not sure she can do it. When We Get Good Again explores the current age in which personal integrity seems to be eroding before our eyes. In a world of privilege and deprivation, is it still immoral to cheat in order to level a playing field that is already supposed to be flat? Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

    In Stock

    Learn More
  2. Macabre: Tales From Edgar Allan Poe

    Macabre: Tales From Edgar Allan Poe

    By Jules Tasca.

    Product Code: MR2000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community
    • 7 to 18m., 2 to 4w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    This title consists of four one-act plays, inspired by Poe’s tales. The titles include a morality play, William Wilson (7m., 1w.); a science-fiction piece, The Valdemar Case (3m., 1w.); a murder mystery, The Imp of the Perverse (2m.); and Poe’s only comedy, The System (6m., 2w.).  Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

    In Stock

    Learn More
  3. Losers Bracket

    Losers Bracket

    By Clay Sander and Nate Sander.

    Product Code: LL3000

    • Comedy
    • College | Community
    • 5 to 6m., 2 to 4w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Gus "Hitch" Bigwood has been faking his limp for the past decade to avoid paying back the insurance company for a fraudulent claim. Trying to gather enough money to disappear, Hitch and the town's sheriff hatch a scheme to fake-steal Hitch's antique automobile and collect the insurance payoff, but when Ethan and Tiny find out Hitch is faking his limp, he is forced to let them in on the plans. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

    In Stock

    Learn More
  4. The Bully

    The Bully

    Book by David L. Williams. Music and lyrics by John Gregor.

    Product Code: BK8000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Elementary School | Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 2m., 1w., 3 either gender, extras as desired, or the entire cast can be gender flexible.
    • 50 min.
    Lenny is the smartest kid at Wilson Middle School and is constantly picked on by Steve, the school bully. One day a bus mix-up leaves the two boys stranded at the wrong school, where they both get picked on for being the "new kids". The boys learn what life is really like for the other and decide to work together and make a plan to get back to their own school. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

    In Stock

    Learn More
  5. High School Confidential

    High School Confidential

    By Dan Ahearn and Janet Reed. Music and lyrics by Russ Kaplan and Sara Wordsworth.

    Product Code: HF6000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community
    • 6 to 14m., 6 to 20w., 1 to 8 either gender, extras, singers and dancers as desired.
    • 60 min.
    A group of high-school students waits at the bus stop on a Monday morning after a crazy weekend. Hilarity and anxiety explode due to parental and friendship tensions, fashion mistakes, athletic ambitions and academic terrors. Monologues convey their reactions when they learn a fellow student committed suicide. By the end of the day, many truths are confronted as the students learn to face their lives with hope. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

    In Stock

    Learn More
  6. Can't Believe It

    Can't Believe It

    By R.N. Sandberg.

    Product Code: CF2000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community
    • 2 to 4m., 4 to 8w., extras if desired.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 65 min.
    In this drama, a shy freshman and a popular high school junior become connected, bringing about questions of honesty, trust and personal responsibility. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

    In Stock

    Learn More
  7. The Wrestling Season

    The Wrestling Season

    By Laurie Brooks.

    Product Code: W89000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 4m., 4w., 1 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 70 min.

    Using only the setting of a wrestling mat, eight young people struggle with the destructive power of rumors and how others see them. The action is overseen by The Referee, who comments from inside and outside the drama with hand signals and commands. Using images, movement and sound, cast members function as a chorus and as individual characters whose stories are interwoven to create a theatrical event that challenges and reveals their search for identity.

    Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

    In Stock

    Learn More
  8. Stand and Deliver Cover SB3000

    Stand and Deliver

    Based on the screenplay by Ramón Menéndez and Tom Musca. Adapted for the stage by Robert Bella.

    Product Code: SB3000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 10m., 7w. (fewer with doubling), multiracial/gender flexible (half of the male roles can be played by females). Extras as desired.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 130 min.
    This drama is the compelling true story of a dedicated East Los Angeles teacher who surmounts overwhelming odds in his quest to turn inner-city students into whiz kids. When Jaime Escalante leaves a career in engineering to teach high school math, he is assigned to a barrio school with a bad reputation and is in imminent danger of losing its accreditation. Still, his quirky sense of humor, antics and offbeat teaching methods mesmerize and motivate his students. The dramatic conclusion to this urban fairy tale is emotion-packed and inspirational. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

    In Stock

    Learn More
  9. Bathers

    Bathers

    By James I. Schempp.

    Product Code: B74000

    • Drama
    • High School | College
    • 3w.
    • 25 min.
    One young woman on a swimming team of three is pressuring the others to take an undetectable performance enhancing drug. Learn More
    $9.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $50/perf

    In Stock

    Learn More

9 Item(s)

per page

List  Grid