Puzzles — a play
Missing his father, taken from him by a tragic car accident, a boy of 12 struggles to come to terms with death and his own autism in the searing play.
Category: College/University Theatre
Crowns and Commoners — Premiere Play File (TYA)
A royal family must reconcile before the kingdom is bequeathed to the three daughters of the King in this play about love and loyalty — and life.
Awakening Galatea — play
The tale of Galatea and Pygmalion, based on the original work by Ovid, is at the center of this play about humanity and selfless love.
The Yearning Season — Premiere Play File
Loosely based on the Biblical story of Jacob, Leah and Rachel, this play of adolescent angst is universal in it’s theme to any time period –– but especially today.
All’s Well That Ends Well — Shakespeare-edited
Adapted from the Shakespeare play, and much shorter.
Liberation — A Short Play
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.
DeGruchy’s Mantle — A Verse Play
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.
Gathering Grimm — a play
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.
My Turn On Earth • The Classic Musical
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.
Lightning Rod — A Play
A play about Benjamin Franklin, as you’ve never seen him before!
Treasure — A Play
Ambition. Greed. Lust. Recklessness. Righteousness. Honor. Betrayal. Potential. Before there was Broadway’s “Hamilton”, there was Tim Slover’s “Treasure”.
Columbus! • A Musical Adventure for TYA
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.
Alexander and the United Snakes of America — TYA
Homelessness, Tolerance and Trust are laid bare in this theatrical fable of snakes and humans.
Esther: The Musical Schpiel • The Perfect Kletzmer Musical for Purim, and other times of the year
Told traditionally this musical is NOT; but rich culture and tradition imbues every Kletzmer Song and Showtune in a fun and funny musical play.
Your Worst Knightmare
Knights, Intrigue, Murder, Mystery, and the hand of a young maiden keep this wacky play going while the audience guesses whodunnit!
Terrorfest
What’s on the screen can be terror-full, but nightmares and murder happen off-screen as well in this interactive murder mystery.
Space: The Fatal Frontier
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 Under The Mistletoe
Murder may not be a very nice Christmas gift — but your audience will still love to figure our who did it!
The Morgue, The Merrier
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!
Ghostwriters and Ghost Riders
Everybody loves trains and train rides. Writers and the murderers they write about, do, too.
Fraternal Disorders
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!
Doomed On The Desert’s Edge
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!
American Medical Assassination — Musical
Talk about dying under the knife! But the audience will figure it out!
‘Til Death Do Us Part
What would an Italian Mob Wedding be without a little murder? Nothing that the audience could figure out.
That’s The Way The Fortune Cookie Crumbles — Musical
Espionage and a USO Show. Who knew it could lead to murder? The audience, of course, they paid to come and figure it out!
Slaughter On The Strip — Musical
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?
Showdown At Gambler’s Gulch
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!
An Heir of Mystery
A will is nothing to die for — unless you’re a Winslow! Who did it? The audience knows!
Hail To Thee, Dear Alma Murder
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!
Death On Deck
A Cruise ship? Pirates? Murder? Mayhem? The crew, the guests, and the pirates are at a loss — but the audience isn’t!
Whatsoever: The Musical Story of Abraham
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.
Esther — The Musical
A Broadway-style musical treatment of the Biblical story of Esther, Queen of Persia, and all the intrigue of the court.
Irving Berlin: In Person — A Bio-musical
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?
Tangents — A Play
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.
The Political Tinker • The Holberg Acting Edition
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.
Equality of Rights • The First Women’s Rights Convention
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.
The Christmas Party • The Holberg Acting Edition
This delightful farce by Danish-Norwegian playwright, Ludvig Holberg, still holds up on stage today.
Erasmus Montanus • The Holberg Acting Edition
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.
Jean de France • The Holberg Acting Edition
The Danish-Norwegian playwright, Ludvig Holberg wrote so universally that his plays hold up for today’s theater audiences.
Jeppe of the Hill • The Holberg Acting Edition
The Danish-Norwegian playwright, Ludvig Holberg wrote so universally that his comic plays hold up for today’s theater audiences.
Seigfried Idyll — A Play
Wagner’s Ring Opera was never imagined as a modern-day play with a political statement — until now.
The Immortal — A Play
The more true the story, the more strange and inviting the play version can be
Don’t Forget To Remember • A Musical
It may sound strange to some, but the Bible and its prophets, like Peter and Paul, have answers for the young people of today.
The Irving Berlin Story — A Musical
The musical story of America’s Greatest Musical Theatre Composer, given the Broadway-style musical treatment using his own music!
Crime and Punishment — A New Play
Dostoevsky’s masterful novel given a stunning stage play adaptation by a Russian-speaking Master-Playwright.
Timeshare — A Comedy Thriller
You’ve never had so much fun while you were screaming, have you? This play will do the trick!
The Wager — A Play of Escape
A taut World War 2 novel adapted into an edge-of-your-seat theatrical play.
One Night With Fanny Brice — A One Woman Musical
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.
Different Equals Amazing – A play about bullying/self-worth
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.
Song-and-Dance Kids: The Musical Story of The Seven Little Foys
A large cast musical about Eddie Foy with his 7 vaudevillian youngsters and their life on the stage.
The Seven Little Foys — A Musical Fable of Vaudeville
Eddie Foy and the seven ‘Little” Foys were a Vaudeville sensation. This is a small-cast Broadway-style musical telling their story.
Coming Of Age — A Play about Aging
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.
Merry Christmas, George Bailey! — A Staged Radio Play
The perennial Christmas favorite told as a Christmas Radio Show.
Due Process: Hiram Bebee, Alias The Sundance Kid — A Play About Justice
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!
CoughLaugh • An Experimental Play
Experimental theatre is always novel in form and content, CoughLaugh is no exception to the rule, but it’s form may surprise you!
Little Eyolf • A New Translation and Adaptation
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.
ghosts • a translation and adaptation
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.
A Doll House • A New Translation and Adaptation
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
Borderlands • A Play
This play examines the difference between orthodoxy and true faith as parents of faith, discover their faithful son is gay.
Miasma • A Play
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.
Amerigo • A Play of “Discovery”
The play about Columbus and a relationship with Vespucci, Machiavelli and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz as they debate, in Purgatory, about everything America stands for in this play about personal, social, religious and political discovery.
A String of Pearls — A Play
In this all woman play, five women waiting for their soldiers to return from WW2, play, laugh and weep together, bringing a strength and a bond that helps them endure what otherwise would be unendurable.
The Fanny Brice Story — A Musical
The musical story of the life of Fanny Brice, with a score filled with songs of the period, will enchant audiences–old and young alike.
The Second Priest — A Play
A play of political intrigue that is even more timely today than when it was written, because playwright Thomas F. Rogers is a man of vision.
Yankee Doodle Dandy — A Musical
Book by Chip Deffaa Music and Lyrics by George M. Cohan (and others) (For production by Professional Groups, College/University Groups, Community Groups,
The Idiot — An Adaptation
by Thomas F. Rogers Translated and adapted from the Dostoyevsky novel. (For production by Professional Groups, College/University Groups, Community Groups) How would
A Good Man Is Hard To Find — A Short Play
by Thomas F. Rogers (For production by Professional Groups, College/University Groups, Community Groups, High Schools) A family in the deep south —
The Seagull — An Adaptation
Adapted and Translated by Thomas F. Rogers from the Chekhov original. (For production by Professional Groups, College/University Groups, Community Groups, High Schools)
Geeks and Gangsters — the Real Story of Superman’s Comic Book Beginnings
by Rob. Lauer (For production by Professional Groups, College/University Groups, Community Groups, High Schools, Middle Schools/Junior High Schools, Church Groups, Youth Theatres)
A Southern Christmas Carol — A New Musical
Book, Music and Lyrics by Rob. Lauer Musical Arrangements by Jeff Joyner (For production by Professional Groups, College/University Groups, Community Groups, High
Gentle Barbarian — A Play
by Thomas F. Rogers (For production by Professional Groups, College/University Groups, Community Groups) Based on the life of Russian author, Ivan Turgenev,
Charades — A Play
by Thomas F. Rogers (For production by Professional Groups, College/University Groups, Community Groups) A one-time stock broker, the middle-aged Danny, boasts about
God’s Fools — A Play
by Thomas F Rogers (For production by Professional Groups, College/University Groups, Community Groups, Church Groups) This play commemorates all who were ever
Frere Lawrence — A Play
by Thomas F. Rogers (For production by Professional Groups, College/University Groups, Community Groups) The late private life of T. E. Lawrence derives
Charlie’s Monument • The Musical
Book by Susan McCloud and Marvin Payne Lyrics by Marvin Payne Music by Newell Dayley based on the popular, best-selling novel by