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  1. The Café Mocha Murders

    The Café Mocha Murders

    By Deanna Strasse.

    Product Code: CT3000

    • Comedy | Farce
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 5w.
    • 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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  2. A Virtual Whodunnit

    A Virtual Whodunnit

    By Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus.

    Product Code: V47000

    • Comedy | Drama | Satire
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community
    • 5m., 4w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 45 min.
    Preston Sterling is hosting a Zoom meeting with his family and closest staff to celebrate his birthday. The bitter old billionaire is bullying everyone once again when—ZZZZZT! Sterling is electrocuted through his phone. Enter Rockford Sloan, homicide detective. Through a series of Zoom conferences, Sloan questions the usual suspects, all of whom had a motive. With three possible endings, every performance means you’ll never be sure whodunnit. This show can be performed virtually or onstage. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $55/perf

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  3. Ghosts in the Machine GD8000

    Ghosts in the Machine

    By Eric Coble.

    Product Code: GD8000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 8 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 70 min.
    It begins after lunch on Melissa’s phone. Someone she doesn’t know is texting her looking for a drug hook-up. Soon, eight very different high-school kids are getting bizarre texts from numbers they don’t recognize—budding romances, bitter rivalries, even violent threats. What’s going on? And what if it’s not people connecting with other people via their phones … but phones trying to connect with other phones via their people? A digital mystery for the mind and heart of the savvy texter. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  4. 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
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  5. Lead Rings on the Merry-Go-Round

    Lead Rings on the Merry-Go-Round

    By Edward F. EmanuEl

    Product Code: LM2000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community
    • 3 to 6m., 2 to 9w., 2 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 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
    $39.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  6. Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Goose

    Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Goose

    Adapted by Michael Menendian and John Weagly. From The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

    Product Code: S2N000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 5 to 7m., 3 to 9w., up to 12 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 60 min.

    In this family-friendly mystery, Sherlock Holmes must discover the identity of a man who lost his hat and goose in a late-night scuffle, and then the countess of Morcar’s rare and valuable blue carbuncle is found stuffed down the goose’s throat. The pursuit of the thief leads Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to Covent Garden Market and all over the streets of wintry London.

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  7. Delirium's Daughters

    Delirium's Daughters

    By Nicholas Korn.

    Product Code: DF8000

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

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 75 min.
    When four suitors arrive to ask for the hands of Signor Di Lirio's three lovely daughters, the old gentleman agrees, as long as they have the approval of their mother. And that's where the problems begin—the old man's wife died three years ago, and he has gone so mad with grief that he still believes she is alive. Before all is done, the four men are forced to dress up as their own mothers! Learn More
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  8. Whodunnit, Darling?

    Whodunnit, Darling?

    By Charles Edward Pogue and Larry Drake.

    Product Code: WH9000

    • Comedy
    • College | Community
    • 5m., 2w.

      No Livestream Rights Available

    • 120 min.
    "A matter of life and death!" reads the telegram that urgently summons Damocles Cole, gentleman sleuth, to a dude ranch. Dam's client, Horace Crenshaw, has been both stabbed and shot. But Dam notices the telegram was sent after Crenshaw was already dead! If you love wisecracks and witty repartee you'll love this murder mystery set in the 1930s, the era of the sophisticated sleuth. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  9. The Charitable Sisterhood of the Second Trinity Victory Church

    The Charitable Sisterhood of the Second Trinity Victory Church

    By Bo Wilson.

    Product Code: CQ1000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community
    • 5w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 95 min.
    The roads are flooded, the bridges are washed out, and less generous souls are staying safely indoors, but it takes more than a little rain to keep the ladies of the Charitable Sisterhood from fulfilling their sworn mission. When these ladies meet to organize a relief effort for homeless Guatemalans, they are greeted with a small mountain of community donations—but one woman's junk is another woman's treasure, and that pile of stuff in this little church basement is hiding a thing or two. Learn More
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  10. Some Sweet Day

    Some Sweet Day

    By Flip Kobler and Cindy Marcus.

    Product Code: S1T000

    • Comedy | Drama | Farce
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 4w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 100 min.
    Ever wish you could go back in time and fix your mistakes? In this full-throttle romantic comedy, one man is given the chance to do just that. Ken regrets losing the girl of his dreams 24 years ago. Now he's obsessed with building a machine that will take him back in time to fix his mistakes. When fate grants his wish, he finds himself 25 years in the past, but his younger self is just as stubborn and refuses to take advice from an old man. Learn More
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