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  1. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Cover A78000

    All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

    Based on the books by Robert Fulghum. Conceived and adapted by Ernest Zulia. Music and Lyrics by David Caldwell.

    Product Code: A78000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | Professional | TYA
    • 3m., 2w. (1 pianist, expandable.)

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 135 min.
    Based on the best-selling books, this musical takes a funny, insightful and heartwarming look at what is profound in everyday life. It’s an evening of theatrical storytelling in revue format with monologues, dialogues and multiple voice narrations enhanced through the use of live piano underscoring, which provides fluidity, charm and emotional texture, and seven optional original songs. Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  2. American Wee Pie AP1000

    American Wee Pie

    By Lisa Dillman.

    Product Code: AP1000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 2w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    A disenfranchised textbook editor returns to his hometown to scatter his mother's ashes and, in the process, unexpectedly discovers his true calling. American Wee Pie is a comedy about economic recession, career second acts and the sometimes life-changing wonderment of a small, good thing. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  3. Keep on Laughing K48000

    Keep on Laughing

    By Paul Elliott.

    Product Code: K48000

    • Comedy
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 4w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    The ladies of Exit Laughing are back, but now Connie’s daughter, Rachel, has married her 28-year-old stripper boyfriend, Bobby, and they are expecting twins. Connie, Leona and Millie have been touring the world and having the time of their lives, but one of their adventures has gotten out of hand. Connie has met a man in Paris, and he’s proposed to her. Everyone should be happy, but Rachel and Bobby are not—Connie’s new boyfriend is the same age as Bobby. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  4. Of Men and Cars OB9000

    Of Men and Cars

    By Jim Geoghan.

    Product Code: OB9000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 5 to 12m., 2 to 8w.
    • 120 min.
    If you want to have an intimate or meaningful conversation with a man, put him in a car. This semi-autobiographical play chronicles 26 years in the life of Jim and his father, who was a World War II bomber pilot. As a child, Jim thought his dad was amazing. As he grew up, he realized Dad was not as amazing as he thought and let him know it. Once an adult, Jim also realized he himself was not as amazing as he thought … and he made it up to his dad before it was too late. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  5. Bonnie and Claire BM9000

    Bonnie and Claire

    By Bo Wilson.

    Product Code: BM9000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 100 min.
    Sisters Bonnie and Claire have spent their lives estranged. After 45 years, their parents now gone, Claire is forced to move back home with Bonnie, who bitterly resents the intrusion while denying the evidence of her own decline. The sisters' young niece, Zoe, tries to help them while urging reconciliation, but there's a lot of stubborn history blocking the road. With most of the action taking place in cars, this play is a literal journey through the practicalities and the pitfalls of aging, agency and admitting when we need someone. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  6. The Great Beyond GF2000

    The Great Beyond

    By Steven Dietz.

    Product Code: GF2000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 3w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 80 min.
    The Great Beyond reunites two sisters who have lost their beloved father and whose contentious relationship with each other remains unresolved. At the urging of their husband and girlfriend, respectively, the sisters decide to conduct a seance to contact their deceased father. Amazingly, this seance does produce the result they hoped for … in a completely unexpected way. The Great Beyond is a comic drama about loss, hope and finding the power to believe. This play is a companion piece to The Ghost of Splinter Cove. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  7. Casserole CS3000

    Casserole

    By Pam Harbaugh.

    Product Code: CS3000

    • Comedy
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 3w.
    • 100 min.
    A normal day goes into high gear when Clair Wilson learns that a publisher saw her recipe for “Mayonnaise Casserole” and wants to feature her in a new cookbook. Her grumpy husband isn’t happy with the situation, and their daughter suddenly shows up with stunning news and a mysterious friend. Arriving for dinner are the editor and photographer, who have a hidden agenda for the cookbook. A wild menu is set before them. A food-slinging argument erupts, revealing secrets and setting the stage for Clair’s loving wisdom. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  8. American Association of Community Theatre AACT NewPlayFest Winning Plays: Volume 4 (2020)  AN6000

    Goat Song Revel

    By Dan Borengasser.

    Product Code: GE3000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 5m., 1w.
    • 80 min.
    A one-person Greek chorus named Doris shows up at Job’s house and lets him know that her arrival most likely means that they’re in a Greek drama, but whether it’s a tragedy or comedy isn’t clear. To complicate matters, God and Satan meet at Job’s house, where Satan says he wants to play a game he made up called “Job.” Dionysus also stops by, realizes that they’re heading for a tragedy and begins his plan to turn this tragedy into a comedy. Learn More
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    On Pine Knoll Street

    By Mark Cornell.

    Product Code: OB3000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 3w.
    • 115 min.
    Thelma is a colorful and quick-witted 87-year-old woman battling her memory. Her devoted daughter Marilyn, with whom she now lives, is trying to make the best of the situation. Curtis, her neighbor, is a writer and stay-at-home father of a special-needs child. When Marilyn asks Curtis to care for her mother while she is at the beach, it sets in motion a friendship that tethers two families. On Pine Knoll Street is an intimate look at the joy and fragility of life, the meaning of home, and the things we do for love. Learn More
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  10. American Association of Community Theatre AACT NewPlayFest Winning Plays: Volume 4 (2020)  AN6000

    The Cayuga Canal Girls

    By Laura King.

    Product Code: CS2000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 5w.
    • 95 min.
    Five female childhood friends reunite in their historic hometown of Seneca Falls, N.Y., to lay one of their own to rest. As they struggle to come to grips with the surprising death, they reopen old wounds, face harsh realities and confront the compromises they have made in their lives. But as the day wears on, the women learn that even though into each life some rain must fall, the rain offers a cleansing promise of new possibilities. Learn More
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