Liberation — A Short Play
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Personal freedom, identity, and duty are the focus of this play set in a small French village near the end of World War 2 as four young women confront a captured German soldier.
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Personal freedom, identity, and duty are the focus of this play set in a small French village near the end of World War 2 as four young women confront a captured German soldier.
This award-winning French fantasy centers around the bequeathing of a magical gift by a mother to her daughters, and becomes a play of emotional complication.
For young or adult audiences this play uncovers some ‘facts’ about the Brothers Grimm: that most of their stories came from or through their sisters and female friends.
Biography and listing of plays
What are we doing here on Earth? And where did we come from? This musical tells that story through a funny script and contemporary score.
Musical concept album on CD
A play about Benjamin Franklin, as you’ve never seen him before!
Ambition. Greed. Lust. Recklessness. Righteousness. Honor. Betrayal. Potential. Before there was Broadway’s “Hamilton”, there was Tim Slover’s “Treasure”.
Biography and listing of plays for composer/lyricist, Susan Mondzak
Biography and listing of plays for playwright, Joe Cosentino
Yes, we know that he did NOT land properly on the North American Continent; but he did voyage across the unknown to open the doors to a New World. This musical tells that story for young audiences using a small cast.
Homelessness, Tolerance and Trust are laid bare in this theatrical fable of snakes and humans.
Biography and listing of plays by playwright, Donald Lewis
Biography and listing of plays by playwright, composer/lyricist, Lori Jacobs
An Original Cast Album on CD
Told traditionally this musical is NOT; but rich culture and tradition imbues every Kletzmer Song and Showtune in a fun and funny musical play.
Book author who’s story was adapted into a play
Knights, Intrigue, Murder, Mystery, and the hand of a young maiden keep this wacky play going while the audience guesses whodunnit!
What’s on the screen can be terror-full, but nightmares and murder happen off-screen as well in this interactive murder mystery.
Who knew that out there, among the stars, there would be murder and a mystery to solve — and an audience just waiting for the chance to decipher the clues.
Murder may not be a very nice Christmas gift — but your audience will still love to figure our who did it!
A convention for … well not the dead, but those who care for the dead, and someone dies –– well, is murdered. Your audience will love to figure out which demented doctor did it!
Everybody loves trains and train rides. Writers and the murderers they write about, do, too.
Those ol’ Frat Boys are sure full of surprises, eh? Ever dreamed of recounting a number of murders at a Frat Reunion and finding yourself dead, too? Let your audience figure this one out!
The flora and the fauna of the Desert’s Edge are more than just toxic as the leader of a University expedition winds up dead. Who will figure it out? Someone in the audience!
Talk about dying under the knife! But the audience will figure it out!
What would an Italian Mob Wedding be without a little murder? Nothing that the audience could figure out.
Espionage and a USO Show. Who knew it could lead to murder? The audience, of course, they paid to come and figure it out!
The kick-line will be one short tonight as a Vegas Showgirl misses her entrance –– because she’s de-ad! So, who does the audience choose as the murderer?
In the Old West town of Gambler’s Gulch the Mayor is murdered. Which one of those contending for his office in the election did it? The audience will find out!
A will is nothing to die for — unless you’re a Winslow! Who did it? The audience knows!
High School Reunions just aren’t what they used to be, what with choosing the punch, sending the invitations and finding the murderer of one of the alumni. But that’s what the audience is for!
A Cruise ship? Pirates? Murder? Mayhem? The crew, the guests, and the pirates are at a loss — but the audience isn’t!
What’s Abraham got that we haven’t got? Lot’s Wife, for one! This musical will propel you through the Biblical story with wit and a LOT of good music.
Biography and listing of plays and musical for playwright, composer/lyricist, Mark Ogden
A Broadway-style musical treatment of the Biblical story of Esther, Queen of Persia, and all the intrigue of the court.
A man and a piano player. That’s all the cast you need for this musical. The man? Irving Berlin, of course. Who else do you need?
A psychodrama where six actresses play the self and 5 personalities of one college-aged patient while the staff doctor tries to straighten out the tangents.
What qualifies someone for a public office? Not much in this case, according to Danish-Norwegian playwright, Ludvig Holberg. Sadly, not much has changed since Holberg wrote this delightful play 300 years ago.
The pivotal time in the Women’s Rights movement was it’s first convention in 1848. It set in motion all that would come after. This play presents the drama of the beginning of a dream.. that gratefully became a reality.
This delightful farce by Danish-Norwegian playwright, Ludvig Holberg, still holds up on stage today.
A satire of the world of Academia by someone who must have seen today’s world, this play by Ludvig Holberg will have you laughing…and thinking.
The Danish-Norwegian playwright, Ludvig Holberg wrote so universally that his plays hold up for today’s theater audiences.
The Danish-Norwegian playwright, Ludvig Holberg wrote so universally that his comic plays hold up for today’s theater audiences.
The Danish-Norwegian playwright, Ludvig Holberg wrote so universally that his comic plays hold up for today’s theater audiences.
Wagner’s Ring Opera was never imagined as a modern-day play with a political statement — until now.
The more true the story, the more strange and inviting the play version can be
Biography and listing of plays and musicals for playwright/lyricist, Pat Davis
It may sound strange to some, but the Bible and its prophets, like Peter and Paul, have answers for the young people of today.
An Original Cast Album on CD
The musical story of America’s Greatest Musical Theatre Composer, given the Broadway-style musical treatment using his own music!
Dostoevsky’s masterful novel given a stunning stage play adaptation by a Russian-speaking Master-Playwright.
Video recording from the LIVE Television audience broadcast on PBS of the musical story of the Prodigal Son/Daughter
An Original Cast Recording on CD
You’ve never had so much fun while you were screaming, have you? This play will do the trick!
Biography and listing of plays for playwright/lyricist, Doug Stewart.
A taut World War 2 novel adapted into an edge-of-your-seat theatrical play.
An Original Cast Album on CD
Fanny Brice spent years on stage as a solo act. Her private life was sometimes also a solo act. Here she is, live onstage, in a dynamic, musical theatre, one-woman performance.
Biography and listing of plays for playwright, Matthew Ivan Bennett
Anyone can feel ‘different’ from others at times. It is never a small thing. This short play celebrates difference and allowing difference and tolerance, no matter what.
An Original Cast Album on CD
A large cast musical about Eddie Foy with his 7 vaudevillian youngsters and their life on the stage.
Eddie Foy and the seven ‘Little” Foys were a Vaudeville sensation. This is a small-cast Broadway-style musical telling their story.
The passage of time affects us all. First, with growing up, and second, with growing old. This play deals with aging, it’s challenges and joys, its affect on the aged and those who love and support them.
The perennial Christmas favorite told as a Christmas Radio Show.
The Sundance Kid — who was he, really? This play takes all the evidence, sifts it and comes up with a winner in the search for the Real Sundance Kid!
An Original Cast Album on CD
An Original Cast Album on CD
Experimental theatre is always novel in form and content, CoughLaugh is no exception to the rule, but it’s form may surprise you!
Employing elements of Norwegian Folklore, Henrik Ibsen wrote a play about a family hoping to avert tragedy, playwright Eric Samuelsen, fluent in Norwegian, translated and adapted the play for modern audiences.
One of Ibsen’s most controversial plays, ‘Ghosts” deals with drugs and Eric Samuelsen’s translation/adaptation brings the story a modern twist while remaining faithful to the original play.
The power of secrets drives Ibsen’s “A Doll House”, and in this new translation/adaptation, Eric Samuelsen brings the play into the 21st Century
This play examines the difference between orthodoxy and true faith as parents of faith, discover their faithful son is gay.
Discover how a family can be ripped apart by a father’s corporate vision through greed and abuse of the workers in his plant, in the play with ripped-from-the-headlines themes.