Small Cast Plays - Next Stage Press

THESE SHOWS FEATURE CASTS OF 2-9 CHARACTERS

©Sullivan: The Place Where People Come to Die is about the small town of Sullivan, located just outside of the city of Nowhere. Sullivan is odd in that specially themed funeral homes are the only commerce; the mayor is openly crooked; the wealthiest man in town donates his money to build bell towers on college campuses and preserving mascots with offensive Native American themes; a woman in town speaks only in lines from “The Princess Bride”; and virgin births seem to be a nonchalant announcement. This is what Eric Sullivan returns to for his ten-year high school reunion, at which he discovers that out of a class of 99, no one remembers him. Since leaving Sullivan, he became a decorated war hero while suffering severe wounds fighting in Mogadishu (which the town thought was a short lived television show), and after his military service, he made his fortune. His return home is partly to re-establish a lapsed romantic relationship, but he is in on business. At a town ceremony, he lets the town know he has copyrighted the name “Sullivan.” The town must rebuild the school library, or he will bankrupt them with royalties. The town’s plan: Kill G.I. Joe.

Cast Size: 4M 3W
Running Time: 120 minutes w/ intermission
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The play takes place on a stage in an unknown theatre in 1990. 5 actresses from different backgrounds with there own personalities are putting on the play “Planted in Pain, Blossomed in June” which is about a young black woman (Addie) who wants to escape her poverty stricken southern home and jump into adulthood with her new husband Sylvester. Her family wants other things for her. Especially her mother. The writer of the play has left instructions that all the characters of the play must be played by women, even the male roles. As the actresses rehearse and get closer to opening night they find that the play is causing them to remember painful memories of their own, especially the actress playing the main role Sasha. Sasha is a new Actor and this play is her big break but in order for her to truly find out who Addie is. Sasha must first find the pain that is inside her and use it to tell this story. As the days get close to opening night the actors break out in conversations about love, abuse, racism, and womanhood, and what it means to be a Black Actress in the world and the sacrifices you have to make.

Cast Size: 6W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

43 STAGES OF GRIEVING: A COMEDY tells the story of a pregnant, dying robot and a human who attempted to live forever. Like almost anyone who has grieved, they can both attest that the idea there are only five stages of grieving is hilarious. But with a presumably incoming infant on the way, they can’t sit around and eat cheese all day (there are of course stages of grief for both hard cheese and soft cheese). Together they try to make plans for an unknown motherhood, kind but complicated technology, and a future without them.

This is a comedy for a grief saturated world.

Cast Size: 3W or 3W 1M
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

An extended one act dark comedy that looks at an ill-fated romance between two teachers that evolves and dissolves over the course of a school year.

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cast Size: 2M 2W

Running Time: 60+ minutes

It’s December 1940 and KFLG AM radio in Kansas City, Kansas is about to perform the classic tale A Christmas Carol for listening audiences. But! Ten minutes before show time, the cast learns that they will have to go on without their sound engineer and all the sound equipment. Scrambling to find anything that will make a sound and attempting to make those sounds on the fly, the cast endeavors to forge ahead, perform the show, and make the best of a crazy situation. Audiences of all ages will enjoy this hilarious, fast-paced comedy.

Cast Size: 2M 5W
Running Time: 60+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Abigail feels like an outsider, and for good reason – she claims she is from another galaxy, here only to study humans. After her unusual behavior intensifies, her parents place her in a psychiatric facility for adolescents. Despite her best efforts to isolate herself, Abigail forms a connection with another patient which leads her on a journey of self-discovery. As she begins to listen and share, Abigail gains powerful insights about belonging and the complexities of being human. “Abigail, For Now” is a poignant and surprising exploration of mental health, identity, and the search for connection in a world that often feels unfamiliar.

Cast Size: 3M 5W 1Any
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

If a dancer falls in the forest…

The ripple effect caused by the disappearance of a ballet dancer, as told to us by those affected, near and far. A modern-day reimagining of THE RED SHOES, told in monologues for 1 to 20 actors.

Cast Size: 5W, 1M
Running Time: Approx 85 minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

Brian Richard Mori’s critically acclaimed play is set in an adult bookshop and movie arcade in Times Square on a scorching summer day in 1979. The story revolves around Earl, the middle-aged manager of the shop, who feels a weary disappointment on how his life has evolved, and his young friend, Mikie, a naïve and inexperienced nineteen-year-old. Despite the seamy surroundings, Earl has a strong sense of basic morality, and he wants to help Mikie achieve a better life than his own. When Earl sets up Mikie on a date with a waitress friend of his, the story takes a hilarious turn. The play explores themes of morality, friendship, sexuality, and the yearning for love. Therein lies much of the irony and comedy and timeliness of ADULT FICTION.

Cast Size: 4M
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

After the unexpected death of her fiancé and subsequent tabloid scandal in Vegas, Maria is back in her hometown with no job, no money, and her mother, Patty, for a roommate. Her best friend Amber insists on dragging her to the local bar where she’s got to face the people from her past, and just when Maria thinks her chance at happiness is lost forever she meets Tommy, an almost-famous-rock-star bartender. Can Maria escape the grip of her old life for the chance to escape to something new?

Cast Size: 2M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A Godawful Small Affair: A Play in Two Rooms

Jodie and Nessa, a twentysomething lesbian couple, are put in an unexpected U-haul situation; their neighbor Luca, a touch-starved, non-binary stoner, is visited by the alien angel ghost of David Bowie. A pandemic rages outside. A wall separates them, but they’re all about to be connected, sort of. Can a relationship become routine if there’s nothing else? Can life? And can a change in routine become a blessing? A relatably messy, kind of sad, kind of hopeful, and deeply intimate play exploring touch, longing, time, and routine in the age of Corona, and what the pandemic has done to us. And also David Bowie.

It’s Confusing, These Days: An Election Week Companion

After a summer full of tumult, time passes more normally again for neighbors-turned-throuple Jodie, Nessa, and Luca. When the pandemic hits close to home on the eve of the most important political week of the year, an unexpected road trip to maybe say goodbye is in order. Capturing the messiness of Election Week 2020, this short play functions as a bonus third act to “A Godawful Small Affair” and explores anxiety, hope, fear, and the generation gap between millenials and their boomer parents during a politically-fraught week in a year unlike any other.

Cast Sizes: 1M 2F 1NB
Running Time: 120+ minutes (A GODAWFUL SMALL AFFAIR) 30 minutes (IT’S CONFUSING, THESE DAYS)
$75 per performance, $30 (IT’S CONFUSING, THESE DAYS by itself)

On the night of the first-ever White House movie screening, First Daughter Margaret Wilson must find a way to break with her past and become her own woman. Yet at a showing of the infamous epic The Birth of a Nation she is forced to fend off advances from a young minister, confront her own racial intolerance, and somehow live up to her duty to her father and to her country without completely losing her mind. After Birth of a Nation is a farcical sendup of politics, piety, racism, and our fractured American experiment.

Cast Size: 6M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

After Tartuffe: A reimagining of Molière’s Tartuffe, set in a Christian Fundamentalist post-apocalyptic America. The population has been decimated by the super-strain of the Avian Flu – stolen from a lab, probably by Fundamentalists. Oral, a rich businessman, has opened his home to a former megachurch pastor, disgraced in sex scandals: the Reverend Chadwick Pusser. Oral’s son Daniel cannot be free with Tyler, the guy he loves, with Pusser around, planting hidden cameras. Daniel reads SF alternate histories and suspects his own world is an aberration. He asks the website oracle.net for the original draft of Molière’s play Tartuffe – the one that was banned, before Molière watered the play down. Daniel thinks if he can get a pdf of the original, the universe will shift back to what it should be. Tyler’s older brother Vaughn is engaged to Daniel’s younger sister Mary-Anne – but Oral decides to force Mary-Anne to marry Reverend Pusser, horrifying her. Pusser tells Oral to control his women; he cites Lot as the kind of upright man the Lord smiles on. Oral won’t listen to truth when Reverend Pusser makes a pass at Oral’s wife Alma, or hear the outspoken housekeeper, Doreen, who denounces Pusser and tries to get Mary-Anne to stand up for herself. Daniel rejects a pass from Pusser also … and it seems that there is no end to Pusser’s hypocrisy or to Oral’s gullibility … but the people who see through the evangelical con man keep on fighting for truth, and for change.

Cast Size: 5M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

World-famous detective Hercule Poirot, accompanied by Captain Hastings, his intrepid friend and colleague, solves two baffling mysteries, one involving a rare diamond and the other centering on a curious death at a manor house. Adapted from the Agatha Christie short stories “The Adventure of the Western Star” and “The Tragedy of Marsdon Manor,” Agatha Christie’s Diamonds and Death is a smart, stylish, and suspenseful mystery double feature.

Cast Size: 5M 3W (with doubling); up to 12M 6W (w/o doubling)
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Reading from a makeshift room in an abandoned warehouse, homeless Ruthie is startled when Flavors, drunk and also homeless, suddenly intrudes. He soon becomes fascinated by Ruthie’s stacks of books and her refined ways, as she reads him poetry and tells stories about her once upon a time life. A friendship evolves and he softens, as she introduces him to a kinder, more gentle way of life. However, disappointments are on the horizon for both, when Ruthie’s longtime friend Moe, exposes the painful truth to Flavors about her and what she really is. Feeling betrayed, Flavors returns to Ruthie enraged where he unleashes his anger. It is during this powerful scene, that she admits, her stories were all dreams and then asks the question, “ Is it wrong to share a dream? After all without dreams, we are but empty shells.”

It is then made clear, her fantasy life was the only thing that kept her from falling into her own madness.

Cast Size: 2M 1W
Running Time: Under an Hour
$50 per performance

On a summer night in 1979, a man picks up a male street hustler at a bus station in Houston, Texas, and they go to a motel that caters to the prostitutes that work in the area. As the evening wears on, the hustler learns that he may be a pawn in a very dangerous game. A game orchestrated by a man named Jeffery Dahmer. After completing basic training in the US Army, Dahmer completed his Advanced Individual Training in San Antonio, Texas. While no known killings happened during Dahmer’s stint in The Lone Star State, this edgy docudrama depicts a possible chance meeting of the man known as the “Milwaukee Monster” and a male prostitute bearing a resemblance to Dahmer’s first murder victim.

Cast Size: 3M
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cash-strapped Al is working way too many hours and his health is on the line. Chronically unemployed wife Claire is harboring a debilitating secret. Disaffected daughter Ashley is failing to launch. Meanwhile Aunt Barb is besieged by Tea Party terrorists at the abortion clinic where she works and Uncle Art – confounded by an aggressive influx of Brooklyn hipsters – threatens to pack up his landscaping business and leave town. When Barb discovers Ashley’s got an illicit side hustle, Ashley makes a shattering revelation. From the shock waves of the 2008 financial crisis to the storm surge of Election Day 2016, an American family struggles to keep their heads above water. When did it get so hard just to get by?

Cast Size: 2M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Paul and Adam are a gay couple living together happily in Miami. One morning the doorbell rings and in walks Fox, age 15, just off the plane from Santa Fe. He tells them that he is Paul’s son and that he wants to live with them. To share in this staggering news are Paul’s parents Jim and Dorothy, and after an all-day frantic trip from Santa Fe, Fox’s mother, Julie. This life-changing moment touches them all: Paul and Adam, who are discussing marriage; Julie and Fox, who are coming to terms with this boy growing into adulthood, and Jim and Dorothy, who never expected to be grandparents.

CAST SIZE 4M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Becca, a 40-something married woman, has to creatively adapt to her condition of infertility due to “old eggs.” As an adopted woman who has no biological ties to her past, and as an infertile woman, she wrestles with her condition: she is, she say, in “eggs-isle.” Becca dubs herself a “genetic island” as she is adopted and her eggs are “mature” – a fertility euphemism for old. Joined by her alter egos, Estrogen and Lucky, two live puppets, who serve as the chorus, wise fools, and comic relief, the play is full of stories, tragic and funny, about motherhood, fate, the transmission of identity, nature vs. nurture and God.

Cast Size: 1W 2 Gender Neutral
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Jordan has a bad cold when the messenger angel, Andela arrives to tell her she is carrying more than just a virus. She is also carrying a divine child! Jordan now has to explain this surprise pregnancy to her wife, with Andela hoping to spread the “good word” through the writings of sci-fi author, Scott English and the medical assistance of Scott’s ex-wife, the hand puppet wielding Dr. Krissi. This “miracle” will test two marriages, the institution of organized religion and an angel’s desire to be divine or stay grounded on Earth.

Cast Size: 1M 3W 1Any
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

This romantic comedy, set in the summer of 1992, features four lonely Long Islanders, each with their own distinct viewpoints about life and love. Angel Ventura, or the Widow Ventura, as her younger sister, Gina, liked to call her, thought true love was like lightning, it never struck twice. As for Gina, she swore that finding true love was as simple as getting a new business partner – a well-placed classified ad ought to do the trick. Steele La Chance, a house painter and would-be-novelist, believed true love was a great hoax: the stuff of fairytales, fiction, and fantasy; whereas Mrs. Rose Bloom, a seventy-five-year-old bubbie, felt true love was a match made in heaven before you were born, and if it was meant to be, nothing on this earth can stand in its way. For Angel and Steele, it took one red-hot July, a surprise summer storm of the century, two celestial pests, and a little help from Gina and Rose, two down-to-earth matchmakers, to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt: All things are possible for those who believe.

Cast Size: 2M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A love story. A memory play. A dream play. One person meets another across borders and languages, across time and space. A day in a lifetime.

Cast Size: 1M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Septuagenarian Aunts Violet and Molly are living their eclectic lives in relative peace amidst nuclear annihilation, until their commando nephew Nathan and his inconvenient realities storm back into their house. As the aunts struggle to resist, Nathan eyes young ward Seanasy for mandatory conscription in his military. But when the boy is found to have taken his life, Nathan is horrified to discover Molly and Violet have been less than ideal guardians. The terrors without are all-consuming and their worst fears become them. Molly concentrates on preservation, Violet chooses her own escape, and Nathan concedes defeat and decides he must stay. A disturbing, cautionary tale with the flavour of a Lorca.

Cast Size: 1M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The Clarks are a typical 1960s sit-com family: Dad who goes off to work each day, Mom who stays home and bakes cookies, daughter Betty who is a popular high school Senior, and son “Tiger” who just might be at that age where he is beginning to discover girls. However a change is in the air. Not just in the home of the Clarks, but throughout the idyllic little town of Mayville. It’s more than just this odd new decade of the 1960s. Betty has a new best friend named Wanda who hides a devastating secret…a secret that just might lead to the end of the world as we know it

Cast Size: 3M 3W
Running Time: Approx 90 minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

Howard is an irascible and stubborn WWII naval veteran. He’s also dying. When his college-professor son, Winston, returns home for a visit, the truth about his wartime service begins to emerge. Is it really smoking that has caused Howard’s lung cancer? Or does it have something to do with his ship’s dropping anchor in the Nagasaki harbor a month after it was devastated by an atomic bomb? And why did Howard remain in the military for so long after the war ended – years that, even now, he won’t or can’t talk about? With searing theatricality and emotion, Atomic Field explores the lingering effects of war on one family.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In this contemporary one-act farce, Olive finds herself saddled with more than she bargained for when she is named executor of her Aunt Zelda’s estate. To deal with the clean-out of her aunt’s cluttered home, she enlists the help of her ne’er-do-well brother Max, who brings along his less-than-helpful girlfriend Diana, who hires a somewhat-shady pawn shop owner Anthony, who brings his spacey son Zeke. But Aunt Zelda’s house proves to be full of more than just doilies and faux antique furniture. When their cleanout uncovers a priceless piece of art, their true natures are revealed…. And somewhere, in all the clutter, lurks a very cranky, very hungry, and VERY scary cat.

Cast Size: 3M 2W
Running Time: Under an Hour
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

It’s hard to label anything, especially when you’re in love. And everything starts looking queer as one tribe decides what it truly means to belong. Andi and Mac are dating, both in their first opposite-sex romantic relationship – they discover the pitfalls of coming-out as bisexual when all of your family and friends already know you as ‘lesbian’ & ‘gay.’ Andi’s ex-girlfriend, Sarah, feels betrayed while other friends, Roger and Arco, struggle with disbelief or the purpose of labels altogether. Regina, Mac’s mother, considers Sal to be his other mother as both women raised him. But Sal soon realizes that Regina will never abandon her public identity as heterosexual, even though both women have shared emotional and physical intimacy over decades of a relationship lived in the shadows. All characters attempt to reconcile these personal identities with their public selves in terms of career, sexuality and relationships while testing the boundaries of LGBTQIA+ inclusiveness.

Cast Size: 2M 4W 1NB
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When Jonah and his partner Giancarlo decide to adopt a baby from a foreign country, their friends hold a baby shower for them. But there’s trouble in paradise as Giancarlo had doubts about taking on the responsibility of raising a child. Will the baby help or hurt their relationship?

Cast Size: 6M
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A romantic comedy about old friends, unrequited crushes and a Scandinavian sex curse. Charles’ third wife has just informed him she’s leaving. As he reels from the news and the reason she gives, he spends a weekend with his best friend Jack and their college friend Betsy, Betsy, who dabbled in witchcraft, reveals a secret from their college days that could be the reason for Charles’ failed relationships. Can Betsy help Charles win back his wife? Maybe, with the help of a Finnish coven.

Cast Size: 2M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Ted’s family goes ballistic when he gets a $100,000 raise to and move to an upscale suburb in Kansas. They think they are rich and adapt a rich life style. Keeping up with the elite, all on credit cards. Ted is going bankrupt while his family just keeps charging. What is going to stop them? Will it be the blonde bomb shell, financial planner?

Cast Size: 3M 6W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Banshee follows Jerry Sullivan (Junior) as he tries to reestablish himself after time spent in a psychiatric hospital. Despite his domineering Irish-born mother Kit, Junior’s policeman brother Neil sets him up with a new job and eventually with a new girlfriend. Kit, however, is convinced the newcomer is a “banshee”, the mystical wailing Irish creature that foretells imminent death. Junior tries desperately to cling to his sanity while he questions his mother’s motives, his new relationship and the possibility of truth behind the myth. Banshee is part psychological thriller, part family drama/ comedy and part ghost story. With humor and pathos, the play explores the nature of familial relationships and the struggle to overcome one’s personal demons.

Cast Size:2M 2W
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $60 per performance

It’s 1944 in the month of June during World War II. Michael Crawler is an African-American pilot for the Army Air Corps. After a fierce battle in the sky, he crash lands near a farm in France. He is found and taken care of by a lonely farm girl named Katrine. Although he doesn’t speak French and she doesn’t speak English, they learn to communicate and help each other. However, their solitude and fear leads to their budding romance, all while the war around them gets closer and closer.

Cast Size: 1M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Sheila O’Connor is in trouble. She has been drinking too much lately at her favorite pub, The Dublin Rose, and has become a danger to herself. When her worried grandson arrives, determined to re-locate her from her beloved Richmond Hill, Queens to an assisted living community in New Jersey, the battle lines are drawn. Over the course of one tumultuous vodka-fueled evening filled with Irish magic and long-buried secrets, Sheila will learn to overcome her fears and finally find the courage to face the next chapter.

Cast Size: 4M 2W
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The world is going to hell in a hand-basket, but neither Growl Bear nor Timmy Bear, two grizzlies stuck in a suddenly deserted zoo, have the least idea what a hand-basket might be. What they do know is that their keeper is in tears more often than not, and the treats they used to get from cheerful zoo visitors are long gone. Enter Suzie Wild Bear, a committed loner brought to the zoo for breeding purposes. As the zoo shuts down around them, the three bears form an alliance and escape to the supposed paradise of the wilderness.

Cast Size: 2M 2W (1 pre-recorded voice)
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Brutal and poetic, this searing drama follows a promising young attorney who passes up a lucrative offer at a big U.S. law firm to defend the young survivor of an attempted honor killing in her native Turkey. Challenging barbaric traditions and a corrupt legal system, she embarks on a life-changing journey of social activism and self-discovery, while developing an extraordinary bond of sisterhood with her visionary client.

Cast Size: 2M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Following Aristotelian unities, this Four-Movement Music Drama centers around Beethoven’s obsessive love for his nephew and deep devotion to his “Immortal Beloved.” Like the star-crossed lovers in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, whose tragic romance continues to captivate our consciousness centuries later, the story of Ludwig and Josephine will fascinate today’s audiences as they witness what happens when a great soulmate love – due to deep-seated fears, social conventions, and cultural constraints – falls asunder. Beethoven endured bouts of insufferable distress and debilitating depression, but ultimately, this indisputable genius used his undying passion and exquisite pain to create some of the world’s most memorable music.

Cast Size: 2M 2W Mixed Choir
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When everyone in your family is fiercely independent and armed with a wry sense of humor, it’s often tough to give and receive love. The Bakers manage to do both. After five years apart, three adult siblings find themselves sharing tight quarters at their ailing mom’s private retirement home. They have different strong opinions about God, death, happiness, a certain handgun, mom’s lasagna, and other matters, including a past sexual encounter.

Cast Size: 3M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Lisa & Eddie Fairchild had a rough upbringing, which is why they’ve always been fiercely loyal to each other, even when Eddie went to prison for rape and assault on his former girlfriend. Now, years after his release Lisa finds him on her doorstep in the middle of the night with fresh scratch marks and talking about an incident with a young woman. With the police on his tail, led by the tenacious DI Jenkins, who’s determined to put Eddie back behind bars, Lisa has to make a decision about who she will believe.

Cast Size: 2M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Sulking under a bundle of balloons, a woman sits on a bench. Out of the blue, another woman joins her. One of them claims to know the other, yet the feelings are not reciprocated. Through the tension of small talk, questioning and silence, many shocking truths unfold as they both try to figure out the purpose of this mysterious encounter.

Cast Size:2W
Running Time: Under an Hour
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

The 5 Southern women who make up the governing body of Lexington’s infamous… sorry…famed Youth Theatre, are an extremely dedicated, God fearing, kind, caring, colorful, compassionate group. They agree to disagree, which isn’t always easy. But they share a common goal. To bring quality, Broadway level, youth theatre fare to their conservative community. They know that their choice to mount The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas will undoubtedly court controversy, but darn it there are so few shows with a large number of girls roles, and most of the girls are tired of playing boys. Sothey’re determined to do their kids and the great Miss Dolly Parton proud! Come hell, COVID, or high-stepping water.

Cast Size: 5W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Joanna is worried about her mother’s failing memory. Margie is concerned about her daughter’s career and love life. In truth, both are terrified about how they will handle the worst that can happen – Margie contracting Alzheimer’s Disease. When an unlikely new housemate enters their lives and his movie producer brother pays an unexpected visit, both Margie and Joanna discover the best that can happen in the worst situation.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In the blink of an eye things are changing; cars replace wagons, television replaces newspapers, jet planes move us farther and farther away. Big Hills, Small Mountains, is a collection of fragmented conversations that happen in a small township of less than 49 square miles. It all takes place on May 12, 1974, between 2:03pm and 2:13pm, in the same moment for all of the characters, unbeknownst to them. The Big world will swallow the Small world of a township, not far from where you are now.

Cast Size: 3M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Barry Plumber has the worst case or writer’s block he’s ever experienced. His inability to put pen to paper is exacerbated by the fact that he shuns inspiration from all of the great writers in history, dismissing them as hacks. One evening, in a fit of resistance, he declares that “Shakespeare sucks!” – which inadvertently conjures the spirit of William Shakespeare, who refuses to leave. It’s only after Barry is forced to deal with the unwelcome apparition, that he realized that his inability to create may lie in the need to exorcise the demons from his past.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

As a tornado threatens to tear the town apart, Hannah finds herself to be an unexpected guest in Doug and Vivian’s basement refuge. It’s 1965, and civil rights meet civil war as the trio struggle to survive this shelter from the storm.

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
Cast Size: 1 or 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes

Four vignettes playfully examine the theme of intolerance and consequences. Act I: Bright, middle-class high school senior Plum Everly is on a college tour with her uptight father, Hank Everly, when she meets overachieving silver spooner Kevin Biltmore, who’s vying for the same spot. Act II: Kevin confronts his high school English teacher Ms. Libby Cook. who is threatening to torpedo his lofty academic aspirations by giving him a B. Act III: Ms. Cook leads a bird watching expedition with Plum and Hank into the wilds of Oregon with disastrous results. Act IV: Dr. Everly presents Ms. Cook with an impossible choice to save her life.

Cast Size: 3M 3W
Running Time: 90+minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Each play in Birth, Death and Bourbonis a two-hander where the characters seem to be mismatched, but ultimately give each other exactly what’s needed for their particular version of reconciliation. In “Natural”, (definitely not identical) twin sisters Erica and Maggie are on the verge of big life changes. Perfectionist Erica is two weeks past her due date, and Maggie – an itinerant acupuncturist and massage therapist – arrives to help her get things rolling. In “Undiscovered Country”, long-married couple Elizabeth and Teddy have always seemed like an odd pairing, but they actually complete each other. When Teddy passes, Elizabeth has to learn to go on alone. And in “Red in the Morning”, Evan has gone off the grid, and no one knows why. When their abusive father dies, Mitch – Evan’s older, tougher brother – has to track Evan down. Mitch brings bourbon. Both comic and poignant, these plays explore the mysteries of birth, death and a stiff drink.

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cast Size: 3M 3W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Silvia and Cat Henson have just moved from a tiny apartment in Washington, DC, into their sprawling dream home in the small, affluent town of Greenville, Delaware. Their new house, however, was recently the home of a teenaged mass shooter and his single mother. Is this the right time and place for Silvia and Cat to bring a new baby into the world, or will the house create an irreparable rift between them and their new community?

Cast Size: 3M 6W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Sam is not having a good day. She’s minutes from hosting a baby shower she’s struggled to arrange for her best friend, Nancy, when she receives an unexpected phone call that catapults her on a surreal journey across the country to help her dying mother. While Sam travels forward, she is forced to look back, and through the absurd situations she encounters along the way, Sam discovers that self-acceptance and friendship are her most powerful tools to free her from her traumatic past.

Cast Size: 1M 2W 4Any
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

While searching for your dreams, be wary of the nightmares. Based on the Houston Mass Murders, a series of homicides that took place in Houston, Texas between 1970 and 1973, this biodrama depicts the fictitious relationship between a male prostitute and a sadistic “lust” killer. As the story unfolds, the play explores the possibility that real-life serial killer Dean Corll may have been raping and murdering teenage boys from a part of Houston known as The Heights from as early as the mid-1960s. In doing so, the play also depicts a young man’s struggle to remove himself from the influence of one of America’s “monsters.”

Cast Size: 2M 1M/F Various male voices
Running Time: 2hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

Brooke and Val are overwhelmed dealing with their relationship issues, raising two boys as an interracial lesbian couple, and contemplating ominous world events. When they discover that the birth mother of their adopted Guatemalan sons is being held at a detention camp in El Paso, the women are forced to confront their own entitlement, privilege, and moral certainty. However, Val is determined to convince her reluctant wife to do the right thing and after much soul searching and introspection, they go about devising a plan to rescue the detained woman with the help of an unlikely friend and his polar opposite twin brother.

Cast Size: 3M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In Sean O’Connor’s hysterical and dark one-act, birds, thousands of them, gather one morning along the Jersey turnpike, all the way up to New York City, unable to move. And Alex Bennet, a huge TV star, local boy made good (whose life is spinning a bit out of control) has returned to his N.J. hometown, to Somerset, for the first time in years. One evening, at his motel near the turnpike, he receives a surprise visit from a guy he grew up with, “McCarts” (Dave McCarthy), an odd, simple working- class guy who never left the area. Little does Alex know that the seemingly naive McCarts, who has been watching Alex obsessively for years on TV, is not here for a sweet, nostalgic stroll down Memory Lane. He’s here to seek retribution for a horrible wrong committed upon him by Alex way, way back when they were kids – a retribution that will alter the course of both of their lives…forever.

Cast Size: 3M
Running Time: 1 hour
Royalty: $40 per performance

Four vengeful, narcissistic actors, with the assistance of a brutish stage manager and a cynical stagehand, abduct and hold captive a theater critic notorious for shutting down productions and ending careers through his malicious reviews. To confound matters, they intend to carry their plan out during a performance of a show they’re all currently appearing in. Less than an hour before the curtain is due to rise, their scheme begins to quickly unravel as we discover that none of the conspirators are familiar with the actual plan or its designed outcome. Brute Farce is a satirical commentary on the perpetually symbiotic, oftentimes dysfunctional, and occasionally turbulent relationship between actors and reviewers.

Cast Size: 3M 3W 1 Any Gender
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Buchenwald explores man’s hunger for power and the fight for something greater than the individual. Set in 1946, the show discloses the continued use of Nazi concentration camps as Soviet extermination camps for the Germans. Imprisoned by the Soviets, Nazi SS Colonel Max Richter reaches out to save the future of his young Soviet guard, Sasha Novsky. Buchenwald was inspired by playwright Cristina A. Bejan’s visit to the concentration camp in 2001 when she was a college student studying abroad in Germany. When she toured the camp, she saw the single prison cell “chalk chamber,” learned of the post-WWII Soviet use of the Nazi camps, and was shocked to learn that many Weimar residents lived in denial of the mass murder in their backyard. This new knowledge haunted her and one night back at Northwestern University Richter and Novsky’s story seized her, and the script for Buchenwald was born. Her senior year of college she produced and directed the play as a joint project within the university’s German and Theatre Departments. Fascism and Russian aggression are again at the forefront on the world stage. This play is a reminder of what is ultimately at risk for us all.

Cast Size: 3M
Running Time: Under an Hour
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Bunnies takes place in January, 1973, at 2:00 am in the locker room of the NY Playboy Club. Two Bunnies, Lottie and Janice have just gotten off the night shift and are changing out of their costumes, when a third Bunny, Bonita, enters; extremely upset about an interaction she just had with an angry customer. She is reluctant to talk about the incident because she, like Janice and Lottie, has been spooked by a report in the newspaper of a 28 year- oldwoman named Roseann Quinn, who was bludgeoned to death by a man she picked up in a bar, a bar that Janice used to frequent, “because,” she says, “it’s the only bar in New York, that allows women to come in without an escort.!”. The story is making not only local, but national headlines. The play is based on the playwright’s own experiences as a Playboy Bunny from 1973-1975.

Cast Size: 5W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A story of Language, Love, Lust, and Loss. Burning up the Dictionary journeys into the tenaciously crumbling relationship of two people who love and need each other but can’t find any room for trust. The play tracks the dissolution of a relationship through anachronologically distributed scenes. The couple in the play have come to speak their own language; every word they say to each other is layered with multiple meanings, and we learn the definitions of words as we progress through the play. The play explores the personal language of every relationship and how a common language that once kept people extremely close can also wound and drive them further apart.

Cast Size: 1M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Two best friends, Lucie and Kenny, are stranded in a Northern Texas wasteland after running out of gas on their way to Colorado. While aimlessly arguing about who’s at fault for their untimely hardships, their surroundings in Cactus, Texas manifest into something cultish and surreal. They meet an old drifter named Eli who speaks of Micronesia, surfing with turtles, and the tasks of the damned. Alongside his mysterious team members, Chad and Stranger, Eli uses his ridiculous antics to draw a line between the two best friends as their situation unravels into an unsettling navigation of life and death.

Cast Size: 3M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

It’s nearing Christmas,1890. Recently widowed Almon Strowger purchases a mortuary, which is under the care of a witty spinster, Susan Simmons. A sudden decline in his undertaking business leads Almon to discover that calls are being directed to his rival. How? His rival’s wife is the town telephone operator. With the help of Almon’s nephew (Walter), a conniving accountant (Joseph Harris) and his eccentric wife (Macey Harris), Almon invents the Automatic Telephone Exchange, the device that makes telephone operators obsolete. However, Almon’s addiction to Blue Mass, his obsession with his wife’s death, and the mysterious disappearance of several of his other inventions, challenges the Telephone Exchange’s success.

Cast Size: 3M 2W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Donny is a successful writer of romance novels living in the Florida Keys with his girlfriend, Anna, a successful realtor. Both have what they think is their dream life. To make things even better, Donny’s agent Barbara arrives to offer him more money by turning his bodice-rippers into made-for-TV movies. But then, Bobby Cramer appears. He is the main character in the novel that Donny abandoned to write romance novels. Bobby asks Donny: “Why have you left me in the bottom of your desk drawer? I’d like to know what happened to me.” This leads to a series of confrontations between the author and his fictional character who is, in many ways, the guy Donny wishes he could be. Meanwhile, Anna begins to look at her life and wonders if just selling real estate is all there is for her. She’d like to start a family. Donny must choose between Anna and their comfortable life or Bobby and the unknown.

Cast Size: 3M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Waiting for a flight to London delayed by weather, six passengers decide to pass the time by re-enacting six of the stories from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (the Merchant, Miller, Reeve, Wife of Bath, Knight, and Nun’s Priest). Along the way they find the stories not only have a lot to say about sex, love, marriage, social status, youth, and age; but they are also revealed as reflections of each character’s personality and relationship to his or her fellow travelers. This play can be performed as a full-length work, or each tale can be presented as a separate 10-15 minute play.

Cast Size: 4M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes for full presentation/10-15 minutes for individual works
Royalty Rate: $75 for full production performance/$15 when shorts are produced individually

A vaudeville-style comedy straight out of Saturday morning cartoons. This play has 18 characters and is intended to be performed by only 2 women. Captain Cobalt is an up-and-coming superhero trying to balance her heroic deeds with her secret identity, Cyanna Conda, the lowly pet store clerk. She battles everything from giant squid monsters to cheese-themed supervillains, encountering any number of bystanders (and a love interest) along the way. The final showdown, however, is with Captain Cobalt’s nemesis, the nefarious Dr. Killington, the mad scientist who insists that SHE is the hero of the story. Captain Cobalt et. al. encourage lots of audience interaction (cheering and booing especially) along the way. The set can be as stripped-down or elaborate as the production pleases, but the most important part…all the props are bananas. (Yes, actual literal bananas. The kind that pop when you throw them.)

CAST SIZE: 2W
RUNNING TIME: 90+ minutes
ROYALTY RATE: $75 per performance

Back in the early days of YouTube, Kurt was a minor celebrity vlogger who screamed about video games he hated. Now, he’s left that behind him after he got married, and it’s been years since he’d even thought of his old online persona. Until one night where he is visited by a shadow person…who won’t stop tickling his feet. When Kurt and his wife Patty attempt to catch this shadow person, questions arise about the origins of this being. According to Patty’s favorite podcast, Darkness Calls, these tickling incidents could be the work of a ghost, an alien, a traveler of space-time…. But they have to figure out a solution soon, or else they’ll never experience a good night’s sleep again.

Cast Size: 2M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Revenge is a dish best served… period. Cold, hot, or with those little puff pastry hors d’oeuvres everybody loves… Just as long as Cheaters regret it. People don’t typically get retribution after being cheated on… until now… Now, you can call Kat Clyne to carry out her own brand of justice on adulterers. And she confesses all her steps – and hilarious missteps – in a court-ordered therapy session with Dr. Akbar. As we peel back the layers of how she became THE CHEATER EATER, we meet Cheater Zero (Cave Maverick), a blast from her past. Her mother (Mrs. Clyne) not only pits them up against each other to compete for the reins of her company, but she also forces them to work together to break a story about a local politician and his wife (Mayor & Mrs. Bowen). While working together, Cave surprises Kat in more ways than one and is the only one who sees her for who she really is. But will forgiving a former cheater make her lose more than just her heart? The Cheater Eater eats away at the question: can cheaters really change?

Cast Size: 4M 5W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

How do you prepare a little girl to slay a dragon? A traumatized child who has stopped speaking is helped by a therapist who struggles to peel back the layers of mistrust by entering the internal world of this little girl to help her confront the dragon that has stolen her voice and now threatens to completely destroy her.

Cast Size: 3M 5W 1G
Running Time: 2 hrs.
Royalty: $75 per performance
Available for UIL: $40 per performance for contest use.

Green River, Wyoming is the kind of small town where everyone knows each other. It’s dry and bitterly cold in the winter and everything is how it’s been for decades. Jean and Rod live out their bleak lives day to day frequenting the only restaurant in town, The Chinese Palace. The devastation of their past haunts them every minute of everyday influencing every decision they make. Days before Christmas, an individual from their past returns home after 26 years to flip their world upside-down once again. Chinese Spaghetti explores injustice, remembrance, wrongful incarceration, and the power of a child’s words in the wrong hands.

Cast Size: 2M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A taboo-breaking drama about a 13-year orphaned girl adopted by a wealthy couple. Once dropped inside their world, she will either make it explode or alter its entire fabric…

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

One day on her mythical island, C turns a group of hostile sailors into pigs. O, their commander, searches for them. When O learns that his crew is in a pigpen at the bottom of her hill, he demands that she change them back. Then C shows him a photo of current combat troops. The story weaves back and forth in time and location between an army camp in the Middle East, Walter Reed Hospital, and the classical Circe and Odysseus story. By the end, we know who C and O really are, and what happened between them in combat.

Cast Size: 1M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

“Civil” is set in an unspecified future, where trials are held in a virtual environment, and can only be 40 minutes long. Five actors (2 men, 2 women, and one that can be played by either gender) play multiple roles, and the audience votes on the outcomes of both trials. Although it is science fiction, it’s not swimming in technobabble, but is about the people involved, and as such, contains wit, satire, and even a level of suspense. Also, this show is written with the idea that people of any race or age can play any of the roles, and with minor tech requirements.

Cast Size: 2M 2W 1M/W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

Meet Howard Suffect, he’s a brilliant physicist with wisdom that could change the way the world sees itself. Yet there’s one problem – his life is a train wreck —about make a fatal crash. Enter Derrick Wyman. Wyman claims to be Howie’s actual “dreamweaver”. A metaphysical, quantum odyssey, Coffeehouse Magik gently probes the integration of life’s dimensions by weaving together dreams and waking reality into one seamless garment. As lonely, forlorn Howie meets his Destiny, he realizes the power to change misery to joy is found in every human heart- simply put, it is the will to love.

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cast Size: 2M 1W (w/doubling) 2M/F

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Carly Weekes and her sisters, Lolly and Shirley, are witches. Determined to find Carly a mate, the three cast a circle to summon a popular recording artist from Colorado. However, Shirley casts what appears to be a dubious and deadly spell. Worried that Carly and her new family might now be cursed, Lolly endeavors to reverse the hex, but fails, resulting in her expulsion to an alternate world. Years later, twin sisters Tina and Rose Pacheco mysteriously drown. The case goes cold, but many believe Carly’s oldest son, Johnny, is responsible. Cold Rain is an account of a family bound by black magic, a dark and comical tale of ill-conceived machinations, misdirected resentment, and repressed desire.

Cast Size: 4M 5W
Running Time: 120+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Comes A Faery is a drama with a lot of comedy in which a single mother has been unexpectedly deployed overseas. Her little girl, Siobhan, left with her less-than-willing aunt, has one friend: an irritable Irish fairy, Seaneen, who may have escaped from the little girl’s favorite storybook … or who may be there to steal her soul. Over the course of the play, Siobhan slowly deteriorates: fighting in school, stealing, engaging in pyromania. Seaneen eggs her on, convincing her that if she is truly wicked, the army will have to send her mother home to deal with her. Terrified of parenthood’s relentless responsibilities and unsure when her sister will return, Katie asks her mother to take Siobhan. Seaneen asks Siobhan to run away to live in the land of Faery. But whether he plans to save her or steal her soul, and whether Katie will give Siobhan up to Katie’s mother, are only revealed in the final terrifying moments.

Cast Size: 2M 3W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Five women are outgrowing old roles, tired of (re)-producing to prove their worth. Gemma is an accomplished scholar who researches gender anxieties in Medieval Spain. She is writing about a deaf, Jewish, Spanish nun, a proto-feminist in a culture that saw women as weak and infirmity as a sign of God’s displeasure. Teresa found meaning in her affliction; Gemma sees aging as another kind of affliction. For Teresa, who shows up in Gemma’s whiskey-soaked dreams, malady is a sign of god’s grace. Gemma has no interest in “God,” but Teresa insists that we use different words to speak about the same thing: belief that life has meaning. But Teresa can’t hear God’s voice anymore. Gemma’s mother is in rehab, recuperating from a broken hip. Illness, age, and friends having died, left Helen without community; now she wants to move a thousand miles away, to live with Gemma’s younger sister Macy. But Macy’s children are becoming adults, and her role as a mother is about to alter. These women offer each other consolation, inspiration, and support in moving on as they scramble to discover what’s next.

Cast Size: 2M 5W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

This one-act musical comedy follows Catherine, Amy, and Hailey as they navigate the stress of the college admissions process in different ways– Catherine trying to get into her dream school, Amy trying to choose the best option for track and field, and Hailey applying to a whopping sixteen schools to hopefully commit to the Ivy League. The senior class faces pressure on social media, the feeling of falling behind your friends, financial burdens, and the scariest application question there is– who are you?

Cast Size: 3F 5+ Gender Neutral
Running Time: Under an Hour
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Communion centers around Jane, a professional Chicago actress, and her acting friends, sister, and mother. The five women treat themselves to monthly wine and pairings parties to discuss the trials and adventures of their journeys through divorce, love, descent into middle age, and fears of the unknown future. Jane’s recent diagnosis of stage four cancer forces the group to confront their fears of death and their beliefs in the afterlife. A touching story of the way women sustain each other through bold criticism, bawdy laughter, and steadfast support … and the way friends, family, and even former lovers can help us live life with love and light.

Cast Size: 1M 6W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When Fletcher Driscoll returned to his hometown to direct Romeo and Juliet, he never expected to end up in his own star-crossed romance with Jeff, a recently out divorcé with a complicated past. Nor was he prepared to confront Tommy, his high school best friend who broke his heart… repeatedly and on purpose. A powerful drama about the resonance of loss, Composure is for everyone who has ever loved the wrong person and worries that it’s too late to find the right one.

Cast Size: 4M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Entering the next phase of his life with his teenage son, a paralyzed ex-football player attempts to make peace with the past when his tormentor returns with an offer that will either uplift or destroy them all.

Cast Size: 3M
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

This Christmas, treat yourself to CONVERGENCE (A Different Christmas Story), a story that serves up a dollop of mystery with your figgy pudding. Expect the unexpected when Tilly York hosts her annual Christmas gathering, facing off with her memories of happier holidays. Family tensions simmer just below the surface until they reach the boiling point. Come to Cropton, UK, population 321, where a Christmas convergence of family, strangers and secrets cross paths with synchronicity, and changes everything.

Cast Size: 3M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Sam and Frank Weaver are at their summer home in Harbor Grove, an exclusive resort community on the shores of Grand Traverse Bay in Michigan, for a memorial service for Ruth, Frank’s wife and Sam’s mother. They are joined by Greg and Janey Anderson and their son Gary, who was a childhood friend of Sam, and Sam’s former lover Pete. They reminisce about their summers spent up at the lake, and as the day progresses into night and the masks come off under the influence of good Scotch, some well-kept secrets and memories that would rather be forgotten are revealed.

Cast Size: 6M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Third century, Arabia. Cosmas and Damian are Christians who serve Jesus by providing medical care for everyone in town, for free! They are passionate, enthusiastic, and bold. However, their medical practices are less than safe, and when they perform a limb transplant using the sawed-off leg of a cadaver, they provoke anger from the other town doctor, who wants to see them banished. With a hilariously tragic cast of suffering villagers, Cosmas and Damian is a historically inaccurate play that deals with eye gouging, rabies, gangrene, and religious persecution in a way that will make everyone smile.

Cast Size: 5M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

It is 1816, the Year without a Summer, and the greatest ghost story of all time is about to begin. But in order for that to happen, Mary must work through her self-doubts of womanhood, her place as a writer, her conflict with her dead mother, and Claire, always Claire there in her life, not to mention Percy, the ultimate bad boy Lord Byron, and the boyish advances of Dr. John Polidori. Tucked away in Byron’s villa in Switzerland, these five people are present at the inception of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly’s

Frankenstein. Discover how a young girl becomes an independent woman, a free thinker for the ages, navigates a complicated love life, and establishes herself as one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

Cast Size: 3M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Retired (i.e., “failed”) actors Tim and Flora, a married couple, now find themselves caretakers of Tim’s demanding and cantankerous Aunt Rosamunde. An idle conversation one afternoon in which they jokingly talk about murdering the old woman gradually becomes an actual plan, one that might succeed if the aunt’s suspicious attorney Clarissa and a local grocery delivery boy Emory don’t prove to be game-changers.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty rate: $75 per performance

It is the near-future and America is in the midst of civil war. Christian fundamentalists have won control of the federal government, banned all other religions, and rewritten the Constitution, doing away with the Bill of Rights. As a result, some units of the U.S. military are in revolt. As the war rages, an Army patrol fighting in the Rocky Mountains is forced to take refuge in a remote cabin now owned by a former college professor who wants only to be left alone. Their discovery of an impending attack on their base, and the capture of a devout Christian soldier, causes the patrol to be caught between its mission and difficult moral decisions.

Cast Size: 4M 2F 1M(voice only)
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Everyone’s a suspect in the brutal murder at close quarters of Aurora Printemps, familiarly known to one and all as Grandma. The lead detective sometimes sports a tail, as does her most recent–or was he the most recent–paramour? Her granddaughter Red Rida loved her, hated her, wished her dead, but has an alibi no weaker than any of the others. Will this be sorted or will it join the 63% of cases that go into permanent cold case status (according to a statistic that may have been made up on the spot)?

(A modernized reworking of Little Red Riding Hood)

Cast Size: 4M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Into the lives of Tyrone “T Bone” and Teresa Stakes come a new neighbor and a mysterious manila envelope. Is it fate or coincidence that these two things occur on the same day? The neighbor is Bonnie, an exotic dancer. And in the envelope? A file left in the possession of T Bone, a 22-year-old journalism student at SMU. This file, stolen from the Dallas Police Department 10 years earlier by the student’s father, himself a policeman, is intended to be delivered to the District Attorney in New Orleans. But the policeman, sensing a serious threat, placed the file in a safety-deposit box just before his death; the box was paid up for ten years. And so, the coincidence of the play begins, the file is in our hero’s hands, and Teresa is in the grasp of the mysterious Bonnie. All in all, The Dallas File is a plunge into the conspiratorial world that continues to define the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Is nobody safe? Are there things in life that are too dangerous to know?

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Dark Twist is a drama about coming to terms with the past. Set at an all-boys boarding school in New England – a school not only steeped in tradition, but also in illicit scandals and harrowing secrets – Richard Barlow and Jeff Arnold, former classmates and now teachers, meet in one of their old classrooms to reminisce. Enter Jim Robertson, the man who hired them both. Tensions intensify as the three begin a fierce dance culminating in a relentless series of revelations, each more startling than the last.

Cast Size: 5M
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Organized and proficient in her professional life, Tara is messy and lonely in her personal one. So, she does what any good project manager would, and creates a detailed project plan to launch a stable relationship. When there’s a problem, she logs a bug. When there’s something missing, she creates a feature request. What could possibly go wrong?

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 75 minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

It’s 1976. The Bicentennial. Consciousness Raising. The Bionic Man. In a suburb of New York City, three women are waging their own personal revolutions. Joyce is just turning forty, and she doesn’t seem unhappy about it. She’s got a big house, an understanding, older husband, a couple of college-age kids. She’s charismatic, confident, a perfect hostess, and completely unfulfilled. Nina, a decade younger than Joyce, with a small child, is new in town. She’s overeducated and overanxious, but the valium her psychiatrist husband is prescribing for her should help with all that. When Joyce’s welcome wagon arrives at Nina’s door, the women hit it off. They embark on an increasingly intimate relationship. This is nothing new for Joyce, but for Nina, it changes everything. Meanwhile, Joyce’s 18-year-old daughter – Stacia – is just starting college. But she already knows everything, including what’s best for herself and everyone else. Away from home for the first time, Stacia is experimenting with the power of her own sexuality, and she has nothing like the constraints her mother had at that age. Both very funny and very serious, DAUGHTERS of the SEXUAL REVOLUTION explores the kind of courage it takes to be faithful – not just to your partner but to yourself – especially when you’ve never had a role model for that kind of thing.

Cast Size: 3W 3M
Running time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Amanda Linden is opening tonight in a new Broadway show: a jukebox musical entitled Notorious! Ten years ago, when they graduated from college, she and her five best friends made a pledge: Whichever one of them made it to Broadway first, the others would all be in the audience on opening night. So most of the members of this once-close-knit group are gatheringin the apartment Amanda shares with her husband Leo. Ian, a director, arrives with a new friend—and a mysterious manuscript; Molly, now a New Jersey housewife, has managed to get a rare night off from childcare duties; and Barry, an aspiring comic, is a bit too excited about seeing her again. The only friend who didn’t keep the promise is David, a charismatic actor who was the center of their group but disappeared mysteriously in the city three years earlier. Could he still be alive? David’s Play is a serious comedy about love, loss, musical theatre, and the enduring power of friendship.

Cast Size: 5M 2W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Dead Men Grinning At The Moon. Long one act/short full length. (1f , 2m). Unit set. Darkly comic drama. Late in his career, William Shakespeare, chief playwright at the Globe Theatre in London, is spending more and more time drinking at the Inn of George Wilkins, a fairly disreputable and lecherous scoundrel who has aspirations to be a great playwright. Wilkins is convinced that the only reason Shakespeare comes to drink at his Inn is that he’s in love with the young married waitress, Mary, and finds a way to use this insight to blackmail Shakespeare into collaborating with him on a not very promising play called Pericles, Prince Of Tyre. Shakespeare is decidedly not interested, hates collaborating, and doesn’t like Wilkins at all, but when Wilkins threatens to fire Mary and throw her and her husband out on the street for non-payment of rent, Shakespeare reluctantly agrees to read Wilkins’ first draft, and ultimately to collaborate with him on the revision. To Shakespeare’s surprise, he actually begins to get interested in the play, and gradually takes over the project, turning a rather dull and clumsy script into something rather haunting, and not unrelated to the actual relationship between himself and Mary. In the course of their stormy collaboration, Wilkins becomes more and more frustrated and resentful that Shakespeare is really so much better at this than he is, and one drunken night has a chance to take out his anger on Mary, with consequences that surprise even him. A darkly funny play about talent confronted with genius, the horrors of collaboration, and the mysterious lost daughters who haunt Shakespeare’s last plays. Another in a series of Nigro’s Shakespeare plays, which includes Loves Labours Wonne, The Bohemian Seacoast, Boar’s Head, The Girlhood Of Shakespeare’s Heroines, and others.

Inside. One act. Simple set. (1f,1m). Dark comedy. The first of a group of four short Alice and Bob plays (with Touched, Holes and Cleanliness) in which Alice and Bob, trapped inside in a plague lockdown, investigate the relative virtues of being inside as opposed to being outside, and which is more likely to drive one insane.

Touched. One minute play. Simple set. (1f, 1m). Dark comedy. The second of a group of four short Alice and Bob plays (with Inside, Holes and Cleanliness), in which Bob begins to drive Alice berserk, trapped in their apartment in a plague lockdown, by his complete inability to stop touching his nose.

Holes. One act. Simple set. (1f, 1m). Dark comedy. The third of a group of four short Alice and Bob plays (with Inside, Touched and Cleanliness), in which Bob, beginning to lose his sense of reality while trapped in their apartment with Alice, becomes obsessed with a theory that there are portals in space all around them which are the entrances to other dimensions.

Cleanliness. One act. Simple set. (1f, 1m). Dark comedy. The last of a group of four short Alice and Bob plays (with Inside, Touched, and Holes) in which Alice, who has pretty much reached her breaking point after being trapped with Bob in their apartment for what seems like centuries during a plague lockdown, attempts to clean everything in sight over and over again until nothing is left but a little pile of bones.

Running Time: Variable

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance (Contact for individual plays)

Welcome to the Rosendale Hotel where guests can stay a night, a week, a month, or a lifetime. Enter Patrick, a harmonica-playing stranger who meets local inhabitants such as Joe Joe, a mechanic and tow-truck operator with dreams of being a car salesman; a Resident that insists they are just drinking tea, nothing stronger; and Rachel, the “Pastel Goth” concierge whose only pleasures in life come from watching the various residents torture themselves as if she were watching a reality show. There’s also a wolf circling outside, a suitcase full of money (or is it just bones?), and transformations that seem to happen by bargaining with the Universe. Described by an audience member as an “absurdist Hot L Baltimore,” Dead Movement is the hauntingly humorous story of people who want to disappear, and others who want to be seen; both are desperate impulses which, when followed, lead to funny, complicated, uncanny results.

Dead Movement was a Semifinalist for the Third Annual New Comedies Festival at B Street Theatre.

Cast Size: 2M 1W 1M or W
Running Time:90 minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

One by one members of the family of succumbed to a mysterious disease. Now the twins are quarantined and Mother’s only hope for Father’s life lies in the hands of the modest family doctor. But is the doctor the devil? No animals are injured in the course of the play, but we make no promises about the health of a family of cat-shaped sock puppets.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

If a stranger with a cello shows up in a rainstorm claiming to be your husband’s wife, do you let her in? Agoraphobic artist Althea Emory does, and receives a mysterious big red envelope for her trouble. She’s also treated to Bea Lamartino’s wacky wordplay, swordplay, Egyptiana, food fights, melt-downs, and very strange charades. DENIAL (is not a river in Egypt) is a loopy dark comedy about love, loss, and embalming (yes, onstage, and even funnier than it is gross – which it totally is). DENIAL… it’s also about how women – especially when they have reasons not to – help each other.

Cast Size: 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

After the suicide of his wife, John Faustus retreats from life and intensifies his practice of the art of conjuring. Following a drunken night of dark rituals, Faustus succeeds in catching the attention of Mephistopheles. As Faustus navigates his way through bargaining for knowledge with an agent of hell, his friends and the woman he loves plead for his sanity and his soul. Lucifer demands the ultimate sacrifice, and once all is done, reveals the truth about Faustus. This bloody, modern-day horror story was inspired by Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus and Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Cast Size: 2M 4W 1M/F or NB
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

After fleeing an abusive religious cult, a mysterious young woman teams up with a mandolin-playing drifter who believes himself to be the devil, as they seek to navigate the underworld of the American Mother Road in search of a place to call home. The lines of belief, delusion, and religion are blurred—as are the definitions of good and evil—as a new, disturbing power emerges in this young vagrant woman who has nowhere to call home and nothing to lose.

Cast Size: 4M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A righteous rabbi tries to honor the memory of her scheming father without betraying her core beliefs.

Samantha Marcus is a progressive rabbi who wants to live a good and decent life. She and her three sisters – a real estate developer, a struggling tennis pro, and a spiritualist – have been out of touch for years. Following the death of their father, who was a hard-drinking, hard-driving union activist, Samantha is impelled to bring them together to re-calculate their shared legacy and divide his estate.

Divided Among Themselves is a dramatic comedy that explores America’s differing views toward money, charity, and self-reliance – while examining the relationship of a grown child to a deceased parent.

Cast Size: 2M 4W
Running Time 80 minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When Jasmina, a political refugee seeking asylum in the U.S., suddenly disappears, her tough, wheelchair-using lawyer must track her down. Who is the dog? Who is the wolf? A psychological and political play of intrigue, identity, and pursuit.

Cast Size: 1M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Ibsen’s classic gets a fresh new Two Act adaptation by playwright William Missouri Downs providing an accessible text tailored for a 21st century audience. Nora Helmer finds herself caught between a rock and a hard place as she tries desperately to stave off news that could tear the very fabric of her marriage to her husband Torvald apart at the seams. After borrowing money to pay for her husband’s medical expenses years earlier, Nora now finds her secret teetering on the brink as the unsuspecting Torvald threatens to fire the very man that was financially responsible for his recovery. As the situation goes from bad to worse, Nora is faced with the possibility that her only winning move in this game of chess, might be to leave and abandon security completely.

Cast Size: 3M 3W 2B
Running Time: 2 hrs.
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In the (not so) distant future, a company of animals must endure daily misery in a rundown zoo operated by seemingly indifferent humans who only provide them with one meal per day. Hopelessness, cabin fever and terminal illness are regulars on the menu until our inmates are treated to mysterious visitors taking refuge in an abandoned cage. But are these creatures theirsalvation or merely message-bearers of their impending doom?

Cast Size: 5M 3W 1M/F
Running Time 90-100 minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

DONKEY tells the story of Steve Ryan, an independent coffee shop owner in a liberal-arts college town in upstate New York. When the mayor paves the way for Quick Java, a corporate coffee shop, to move into the center of town Steve ignores the writing on the wall. A satire of small-town politics, Donkey reminds us that for every decision we fail to make, there is another decision waiting to not be made. DONKEY was an Alternate for the 2012 Last Frontier Theatre Conference, and a finalist for the 2010 Playwriting Residency at the Hangar Theatre.

Cast Size: 4M 3W
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

DR. ARTHUR GOLDMAN’S BIRTHDAY PARTY is a journey through the mind of Arthur Goldman as he celebrates his 70^th birthday. His party guests include his wife, his best friend and a visitor from his past. As the play progresses it becomes apparent that Artie is suffering from dementia and that what is real and what is only in his mind are indistinguishable.

It’s a comedy.

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes

When Buzz and Ellen find a baby alien in their backyard, they adopt her and name her Polly. Although she appears human, she has purple hair and electric hands. She also has delayed development, screams whenever she hears loud noises, and unintentionally shocks cats. Afraid of how the world would react to her, her parents kept her in their backyard shed for fifteen years. It isn’t until a boy named Daryl stumbles upon the backyard that Polly really starts to feel a connection with the outside world through music and The Wizard of Oz. What will become of Polly and Daryl’s friendship? Will Ellen ever accept Polly as her daughter? And where exactly is Polly from?

Cast Size: 3M 5W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

During one of the most horrific tragedies our nation has ever faced, our keyboards kept us connected. Email: 9/12 demon-strates how sharing, grieving and even allowing a spark of humor to fly through cyberspace helped America get through the painful aftermath of 9/11. Unnamed actors play all the characters that responded to Margaret’s e-mail rambling about her day. These responses provide a picture that probes into the hearts of the people that were there, had someone there and those of us who will always be able to tell you where we were when the first plane hit the North Tower at 8:46 AM on September 11, 2001.

Cast Size: 2M 3W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

If you could go back and change your life, would you? – – – A fledgling scientific genius and his little sister grow tired of being teased and neglected by their overprotective mother and deadbeat uncle. When the boy witnesses what he thinks is his uncle’s nefarious deed, he decides to devote himself to creating a miraculous invention that will save him and his sister from their miserable life.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

“Those that create you…are your God.” ERIK: A PLAY ABOUT A PUPPET is a darkly poetic retelling of Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera as seen through the iron bars of a cage in a carnival freak-show, where our perceived truths about beauty and ugliness are stretched in a funhouse mirror. With puppets more twisted than a melodrama mustache (and twice as greasy), ERIK points and laughs at the real freak show: us.

Cast Size: 5M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A series of short plays that answer some age-old Hollywood questions: What happens to the guy who gets his car stolen by James Bond? Where do Ocean’s 11 find their non-essential team members? Can money really turn brother against brother? And how did Bill Pullman feel at the end of Sleepless in Seattle? These queries and more are addressed in this clever, light, andentertaining evening of One Acts that catches up with dead people who can’t quite figure out which Heaven they’re in, divorcees who live in the background of the lives of more attractive people, blue collar crime fighters, and many more of the characters who fell between the cracks of some of your favorite Hollywood storytelling conventions.

Cast Size: Variable
Running Time: Variable
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance (Contact for individual plays)

The Exhibit consists of numerous short scenes, each focusing on an individual piece of artwork featuring women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By dramatizing these paintings, the women once bound to traditional representations in paintings are allowed to “exist” outside of these frames. By taking place in an art gallery, both the characters and the audience members participate in the exhibit. Audience members should be allowed to view the exhibit actively, thereby giving them control of what they see and how they see it; they themselves must not be confined.

Cast Size: 2M 3W
Running Time: 2M 3W
Royalty: $40 per performance

Sometime in the not-too-distant future, inside the headquarters of an American school district, District representative Dr. Quell meets with Katherine and Clarissa Clemons, the mother and older sister of troublemaking student, Abraham. The District is fed up with the boy’s misbehavior. No consequence they have ever given the boy has deterred or changed his mischievous ways. New policy adopted by the District dictates that rebellious students who do not respond well to traditional behavioral interventions must be publicly humiliated with the letter “F” “laserbranded” onto their faces. Clarissa argues with Dr. Quell that this is an unacceptable consequence for Abraham—it will ruin his self-esteem forever—but Katherine begins to side with the school district…

Cast Size: 1M 2W 1GN
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Who has the right to tell your story? Especially when it’s the same story told from the differing memories of two legendary show business siblings? And one sister’s version is about to become a big, Broadway musical that is also destined to become legendary? June Havoc was famously ambivalent about the show Gypsy, which her sister, the burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee, referred to as her legacy. And in Fable, which is itself a fable about the creation of that musical fable, the sisters’ loyalty to each other is tested in a mounting battle that takes place in rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, onstage, backstage, and all in the memory of the aging Ms. Havoc as she faces her imminent death, still battling with fiction and truth in order to keep her own legacy alive.

Cast Size: 2M 4W 1G
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A diverse group of characters struggle with survival as catastrophic climate change envelopes the US. and civilization unravels. Among them: A businessman setting out with Walt Whitman-like ideals; a wet nurse on her way to a job; and a young girl on the road with her desperate mother.

In Richard Caliban’s “Famine Plays,” the center of the country cannot hold. America’s heartland has become a disaster area. Facing unemployment and poverty, people move from street to highway, looking for a resting zone. Some grasp a livelihood in crime. No one has enough to eat, and there is no solace on the horizon. The once-sedentary become eternal nomads, as the Okies did in the 1930’s.

Cast Size: 5M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In the early 1970’s an innocent young woman has married a sociopathic drug dealer, who is very dangerous. There is a drug deal, he leaves. She is left, having seen something, and then in shock, remains, waiting as though he would return, as a husband should. Astronauts appear, and give her advice. Sheriffs arrive and prepare to take her to jail. Husband comes back and is ready to murder her.

Cast Size: 3M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Knight is a middle-aged Army Reserve Soldier, an experienced veteran now facing physical and spiritual decline. Upon reporting for a month of training at a desolate Wisconsin base he fails his Army ‘fat test’. Now he has a week to lose weight or lose his rank and be sent home. Ahmad is a native Iraqi who claims to be the motel maintenance man (at least that’s what his uniform says), but doesn’t seem to know how to fix anything, including the heat in Knight’s room. These two men form an unlikely bond as they struggle to stay warm, confront painful questions about the past, and try to make sense of why they’ve been brought together.

Cast Size: 4M 1GN
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A robbery leads to revelations for three sisters: fragile Stazi, a forensic pathologist who is chronically single; Ginger, who’s “adventurous” past comes back to haunt her; and Theresa, a cigarette-smoking, foul-mouthed nun, who’s always been the stalwart sibling. Add in Ginger’s husband Shawn, whose battered ego and desperate attempt to make it as a chef further complicates matters. Sibling rivalry, pornography, a dead mother who’s still very much a potent presence, a handful of condoms, secret ingredients, and family secrets threaten to tear the sisters apart.

Cast Size: 1M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In a not-too-distant future when procreation is strictly regulated in a last-ditch effort to save the human race from self-annihilation, public defender Joseph Truman (Cowboy) finds himself saddled with a new client. Sydney Marginski (Sid) is initially charged with kidnapping when she is apprehended with an undocumented child, and later faces far more egregious charges when it is discovered that she has conceived a child without lawful sanction. Cowboy must plead his client’s case and win over public opinion via the Federal Education and Entertainment Display (FEED), a state-controlled, judicial broadcast that will ultimately decide Sid’s fate. During the explosive proceedings, Cowboy fights with everything he has for his client’s right to choose, and ultimately discovers a reason to reinvest in a dying world.

Cast Size: 3M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

At the age of three, Mary disappeared near the Pench Jungle in India. Ten years later she was found. Fortunately, a family had taken good care of her for those many years. A family of tigers, that is. Mary now believes that she is a cat. Enter noted child psychologist Dr. James Hauser. Seeing an opportunity to not only “save” the girl, but to also earn a bit of fame for himself, James vows to turn the girl back into a human being. But what if Mary doesn’t want to be human? What if Mary would rather remain a cat?

Cast Size: 2M 3F
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Fernando is a farce about tragic people set in Madrid. Zachariah Smythe, assistant professor of art, has come to Madrid to study a painting by Fernando De La Cruz. Zach considers the painting a masterpiece and the painter one of the greatest Spanish artists of the last one hundred years. He is entirely alone in this. Still, Zach is willing to bet everything on an article about this enormous painting. Unfortunately, he has run out of professional chances, the memory of his wife’s suicide preys on him, his time in Madrid is limited, and his sobriety is tenuous. Enter Teresa, a brilliant and beautiful Spanish woman full of secrets and rage. The play explores the conflict between love and art, devotion and submission, and the danger in making men into gods.

Cast Size: 2M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

This fast-moving comedy follows art director Kyle as he tries to discover his real self amid the power struggles and skewed priorities of a high-powered New York ad agency. After an office restructuring puts him in a new creative group run by the megalomaniac homophobe Kate, he finds an unlikely ally in copywriter Dodo, a living-legend from the era of “Mad Men” who not-so-gently prods Kyle to the uncomfortable but inevitable realization that “It’s time to take off. And soar.”

Cast Size: 3M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When Matriarch Fumi Sasaki develops Alzheimer’s in 1998, her daughters have a handful: Dakota tries to kidnap her, Nori gets a shrink, Emi flees to Africa. Their father Tak, once a successful actor, gets temporarily lost on a train to Maine. After Fumi dies, secrets emerge from the shrink, Minister and family ghost. Flashbacks show the parents romance, and the roots of Fumi’s mental stresses, started at a concentration camp for Japanese Americans in WWII, when both were wed to others. Nevertheless, at her memorial, the family celebrates Fumi as the ‘rock’ who enabled their transition into east coast society.

Cast Size: 3M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

FIRST, DO NO HARM is inspired by a real case and explores current themes of medical ethics, medical error and racial profiling – but from the inner realm of a physician’s world rarely unveiled to the public. Surgeon Dr. Elissa Kerry performs a routine appendectomy on 21-year-old African-American Treshaun Clester, who unexpectedly dies on the operating table. Dr. Kerry breaks the news to Mattie Clester, Treshaun’s mother, who seeks answers from Mr. Hatcher, the hospital’s CEO. Internal and external investigation into the case propel Dr. Kerry into a nightmare, as both her professional and personal lives disintegrate. Through a series of encounters over coffee in the hospital’s vending machine room, Dr. Kerry and Mattie journey together as mothers through grief, guilt, loss, and self-discovery, helping one another to move forward with their lives.

Cast Size: 1M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Grant fears his two-year long emotionally charged friendship with Meg is a threat to his marriage. His wife, Dana, on the other hand, thinks it just might save it. Meg is caught between the two, wanting desperately to move to a new level of intimacy with Grant but terrified the friendship will end if she is the aggressor. Grant and Meg tightrope walk the fine line between friends and lovers until Dana’s plan to explore new territories of trust and commitment forces all three to reconsider what they really want.

Cast Size:2M 3W
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

Jane is a 40-ish travel agent whose career is going nowhere. Hounded by an idiot boss, she dreams of pursuing her true calling: being an international spy. When her rich, freaky would-be customer Fred wants to take a daring trip to impress the girlfriend who left him, Jane per-forms a ballad dance version of the perfect excursion to Bhutan. But instead of buying the trip, Fred hires Jane to “fix” his life with what-ever tawdry subterfuge is necessary. Jane impersonates a lawyer to rough up Fred’s sister, spies on his ex-wife, and attempts a street heist to collect from one of his deadbeat clients. Jerry Polner’s madcap comedy will keep the audience zipping along with Jane as she fixes one problem, then fixes two problems…all on her journey to, ultimately, fix number six.

Cast Size:4M 3W
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

Five Square takes place in a society where multiple personalities are considered normal. It is traditionally expected that each “human” will have developed into two diverse, separately-named individuals inside of them by adulthood. Each traditional relationship, therefore, is a merging and collaboration between four personalities. Five Square tells the story of a relationship between males, Victor and Steven, and females, Emily and Lenore. All of the personalities in Five Square are played by two performers.

Cast Size: 1M 1W
Running Time: under an hour
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

FleshEatingTiger chronicles a tumultuous affair between a married woman and an alcoholic man, both performing artists. As they struggle to stage a play, their personal lives intertwine with the action of the play. The man struggles to maintain his sobriety while the woman becomes increasingly addicted to his affection. The action unravels in a whirlwind of fragmented scenes portrayed with varying degrees of realism, absurdism and symbolism. Intended to be every bit as fun and heartbreaking as a toxic relationship.

Cast Size: 1M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When Russell Hicks checks into a drug rehabilitation program for his addiction to “cigarettes” he is soon confronted with a truth he does not want to face: His addiction is, at best, a facade – something far worse brought him there. Over a 90 day period, Russell, along with a small group of recovering addicts are held under the thumb of a no-nonsense Pastor and a Drill Sergeant-like program overseer. Each man comes face to face with pressures and challenges they must learn to overcome. When their stories unfold only brotherly bonds and absolute truth will remain.

Cast Size: 8M
Running Time: 2hrs 15min
Royalty: $75 per performance

Levon Lyons is a sixteen-year-old who has been battling depression after his mother leaves him. His teacher, Athena MIller, makes a home visit to discuss his mental health issues with his father, Mickey. We see Levon’s nightmares come to life, which include his mother, Kitty Lyons, a stripper who wears a lion costume, and Milo, Kitty’s abusive boyfriend. Mickey and Levon have been telling everyone that Kitty has died, but did she really pass away? Will Levon’s nightmares help him to understand his dysfunctional family, and will Athena’s concerns about him make a difference?

Cast Size: 3M 2F
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In the land of Edelsha three traveling players come to tell the Tale of the Burning Sword… An ancient weapon from a forgotten time, the Burning Sword offers great power to whoever wields it. After it fades into legend, bound by a mysterious prophecy, the Burning Sword becomes key to Edelsha’s survival when a young magician seeks to conquer the kingdom. To rescue her land, Phenron Sirrin, the magician’s old friend, sets out to retrieve the sword. However, when confronted by the magician, Phenron is torn between loyalty to her friend and loyalty to her king. In the end, only one can reclaim the sword, either to destroy Edelsha or to save it.

Cast Size: 1M 2W
Running Time: 45 minutes
Royalty: $40 per performance

Why is that we never know what we’ve got till it’s gone? In “Fortune Teller” Madame Lily tries to teach her despondent nephew Matt that our true gifts can only be found in the here and now. While pining over losing the girl of his dreams, or so he thinks, Matt misses his unexpected present. Meanwhile, as soon as he puts his attention on the things that need it, his true desire will unfold.

Cast Size: 3M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

What if the never-ending internal dialogue that we call our “thoughts” were externalized? Christopher Heath’s fascinating play uses this as a theatrical device, giving its sexually ambiguous characters (Jo/Joe and Teri/Terry) each two physical expressions: one masculine, one feminine. Hence: Four Quarters. The play explores love and death with a resonance and power that gains strength from its deliberate indefiniteness, allowing the viewer to write his or her own emotional history onto the character’s plight.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A seriocomedy in the vein of Robert Harling’s “Steel Magnolias,” this is a play about four sisters coping after their mother’s suicide. Katherine, the oldest, is the “sexy” one who always did what she wanted. Sarah, the kooky, neurotic sister, is divorced and has an 18-year-old son in college. Shelby represents the voice of reason but it is overshadowed by her vanity. Last but not least, sweet Alyssa is the youngest, struggling mostly with issues a young person should not have to struggle with. Suitors come and go, but in the end it is within each other where they find their true strength.

Cast Size: 3M 4W with doubling
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When Paul gets invited to New Mexico for the summer for an artist’s retreat with his gay bromanticcollege buddy Alonso, he discovers that Alonso’s sister Blanca is tasking Paul with keeping Alonso on his medication for temporal lobe epilepsy, which he doesn’t want to take since he identifies with Van Gogh, who had the same condition. Paul and Blanca begin a clandestine affair as he increasingly offers teases of his body to Alonso as incentive to take his meds. All comes to a head when Blanca’s boyfriend Gabriel returns unexpectedly from the army. Tormented painters, sexual obsession, and crossed boundaries combine for a scorching new play.

Cast Size: 3M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A contemporary comedy of manners about the things we keep from the people we love. From the Top examines (roughly) the same half-hour from three different perspectives as the characters prepare to leave for a special event. In Act One, young actor Edmund
arrives with his new boyfriend Paddy, seeking a private moment with his mentor, Brandon, a highly regarded theater director. His efforts are inexplicably blocked by Irene and Calvin, an actress/playwright couple. In Act Two, moments before Edmund and Paddy’s arrival, Irene tries to break up with bewildered Calvin. They discreetly negotiate the chaos going on around them, ultimately confronting the fate of their relationship. In Act Three, starting moments earlier than the previous act, Brandon welcomes Irene and Calvin, and soon the reasons for his sudden reclusiveness and their madcap efforts to hold Edmund at bay become heartbreakingly clear.

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cast Size: 4M 1W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Olivia MacAllister, Jason Tamaso, and Sami Morrison are hungry, young New York City advertisers fresh off of scoring the largest contract in the MacAllister Group’s forty-year history. Because of their success, they are now given the opportunity to soar to the top of the company food chain by each pitching themselves for the vacant partnership that is now in play. The catch? Only ONE can ascend, while the other two will fall. What begins as a unified trio of lovers, friends, and professional colleagues, unravels into a war of ambition that ultimately exposes their hidden sexism, racism, and entitlement. Who will come out on top? The answer lies in the ruthless game they play…all in the name of business.

Cast Size: 1M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

November is the season of endings and beginnings. It is also the time of Esbat, where one is free to frolic and amuse oneself, but it is also a time when anything you are holding onto, for which you’re hoping for some kind of resolution from can finally be released from ones soul into the night air and it is on one such night underneath a full moon inside a red sky where at Sacco’s Café-Bistro, Lisa Crosco and Anthony Santoro with the help of a magical and mystical Maitre d’, meet; these two strangers, both with wounded hearts will discover that the possibilities of true love just might be only one single fallen snowflake away.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The four plays that make up Scott Gibson’s GALLERY present a series of chance encounters between neighbors, friends, and even strangers. In CASSANDRA AT 10TH AND ELM, a young woman offers a fellow commuter a friendly warning as they await the arrival of their bus. DEFINITION shows us a robbery gone awry which leads to an unusual hostage situation. THE LAST GOOD DAY centers around a woman coping with devastating loss and finding solace in a most unusual place. THE RUMMAGE SALE asks the question “What do we do with our memories when we’re ready to let them go?” Just as every one of us has random exchanges with people on a daily basis, these are examinations of those “quiet moments” that may seem unremarkable at the time but which leave us, if not changed in some way, at least pondering what happened hours, perhaps days later.

Cast Size: Flexible
Running Time: 2hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance, $15 for each individual play

Professor Greg Waverman and his love interest, doctoral candidate Annie Talon, spend the winter in an 1820s-era cabin in Gallows Falls, Vermont, for the purpose of debunking centuries-old ghost stories connected to the property. Their skepticism dissipates, however, as embodied spirits reenact scenes right before their eyes, pulling the couple into their narratives. The Marquis de Lafayette, hero of the American Revolution, attempts to repatriate buried gold, while a romantic tryst turns deadly, and the exoneration of an executed woman hangs in the balance. Historical events intertwine with supernatural mischief, as Greg and Annie learn the truth about the house.

Cast Size: 5M 3F
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Erica, Alan, Denver, and Trish are the first four people to be born on Mars. They are waiting to find out if they’ve passed “The Test,” which would allow them to go outside for the first time in their lives. To pass the time, they play a game creating scenes that imagine what life on Earth would be like. As control of the game jumps from person to person, questions are raised about the truths and fictions in their own lives on Mars. Before long, it becomes apparent that the outside world isn’t as simple as they’ve imagined.

Cast Size: 2 M/NB 2 W/NB
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

It’s 1842 in Paris. Germany’s most famous living poet, Heinrich Heine, is living there in exile. When he goes to meet his cousin and little-known friend Karl Marx, he manages to save Marx’s daughter’s life. But Heine then watches as the police arrive to arrest his cousin for seditious activities. Heine promises to help Marx gain his release. That requires Heine to visit his influential mistress Madame Morisot — just as he plans to break things off with her and marry a pretty young shopgirl. Soon afterwards both Heine and Marx are challenged to duels. Based on actual events, The Germans In Paris tellsthe astonishing, adventure-filled true story of how a brilliant poet came to foresee the horrors of the twentieth century through his close acquaintance with Communism’s founding father.

Cast Size: 5M 3W
Running Time 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Despite her daughter’s cautious advice, recently widowed Alva Burnside buys a badly neglected Victorian mansion with intentions of restoring it. She quickly learns that a 178-year old drunken Irish ghost also claims the house as his own. His persistent shenanigans keep Alva in a constant state of frustration. As if that were not enough, Alva also shares her new life with an admiring real estate agent, a nosey neighbor, a nervous contractor, and a half-mad Russian decorator. There’s no time to relax in this amusing jaunt into the supernatural.

Cast Size: 5M 4W
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

Emma and Jackson are getting a divorce. To fulfill the terms of an ill-conceived prenuptial agreement, they must spend 36 hours together, no modern conveniences or distractions, before their divorce can be legally filed.In an idyllic cabin in the Rocky Mountains, the couple begins their 36 hours sentence. They each bring backup: Jackson’s best friend Aiden, and Emma’s sister, Sophia. Aiden chooses this opportunity to profess his long-secret love for Emma, Jackson chooses this opportunity to profess his long-withheld lust for Sophia. Each of the women, with their feelings for the wrong man, complete the love-square.As alliances shift, old grudges and long-held secrets emerge, until each member of the group is laid metaphorically bare before the others, revealing who is whole and who is broken, who holds the moral high ground, and who actually de-railed long ago.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $60 per performance

Young, married couple Kate and Ron return home to find a large box of pornographic videotapes in their living room. Kate wants it out but Ron thinks he can crack the mystery and discover from whence the mysterious portmanteau originated. But Kate is increasingly unnerved by not only the smut but also its effect on their lives. As their neighbor Sherlock notes, this stuff is not meant to be in the open. But Kate’s own sister (Vanessa) seems to think it may be healthy. As the cassettes pile up around the apartment, uncomfortable truths surface as Kate and Ron are forced to be honest with each other about what they really want out of their lives.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

It’s summer 1938 and the Newport social season draws to a close. At the last possible minute, Mitzi receives an invitation that could change her status and her life. This might be the chance the young, nouveau riche debutante has been waiting for, when the gates of the golden, fairy tale realm of the social elite open wide for her. That’s if she doesn’t make a fool of herself. And if her snarky-but-well-intentioned maid doesn’t ruin her chances. And if those gathering clouds on the horizon don’t foretell one of the greatest natural disasters in New England history. If she can survive all that, surely this is her time to shine. She knows she can do it! … Kinda. Set on the eve of the great hurricane of 1938, in the dying years of the Gilded Age, Girl on a White Elephant is a comedy about hope, class, and searching for a place to belong.

Cast Size: 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Gillian Lowell was a vice president at a pharmaceutical company—until a drug the company made caused the deaths of four children. Devastated by the part she played in the tragedy, Gillian is trying to start her life over as an fundraiser for a small children’s charity. But there she will learn that it is impossible to hide from her past, and that she must stand up against what she knows is wrong.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Judith Birch, a music teacher stricken with Alzheimer’s disease, wants to end her life; Dr. Peter Katseus, a former pathologist, has invented a device for helping the terminally ill “die with dignity” that has him shunned by the entire medical establishment. Aided by her reluctantly devoted husband, Douglas, the couple seeks out Katseus, hoping he will agree to help her. But Judith’s indefatigable determination, along with her belief in Katseus and his mission, stir unanticipated feelings in the emotionally comatose doctor. Katseus rediscovers his own heart just in time to have it broken, as the cause that brought him and Judith together must ultimately divide them. A 21^st Century Pygmalion, only instead of teaching her to speak, this Professor Higgins must help his subject die. The result is a drama of equal parts humor, irony, and pathos.

Cast Size: 2M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

“Goodbye Cruel World” is a two-act dark comedy about Gilbert – a writer in his mid-thirties whose romantic life is at a dead end and career is going nowhere. He is depressed, disillusioned, and suicidal. Making matters worse, he sees success and happiness thriving with those around him. His younger sister Randi is a musician whose band is starting to get traction. His neighbor Salvatore loves life and lives it with great gusto. Even Simone, Gilbert’s ex-girlfriend, has moved on and is, in fact, dating again. But Gilbert’s biggest problem is, and always has been, himself. If he can only step out of his own way to see the bigger picture outside of himself, he just may make real progress as a human being. The cast also includes Meredith – one of Randi’s friends who may just understand exactly where Gilbert is coming from.When we meet Gilbert, he is at the end of his tether. He is writing his suicide note but is struggling. How does one write the last thing they’ll ever put down on paper and ensure it’s good?

Cast Size: 2M 3W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Nothing is sacred and no woman is safe. Grand Dragon D.C. Stephenson takes control of an entire state on a platform of anti-immigration and Protestant moral values. He is brought down only when he is convicted of murder after a brutal rape results in the death of one of his girlfriends. This tale of demagoguery, misogyny, and xenophobia is inspired by true events. Although it is set in the 1920’s, it resonates with echoes of today’s society and politics.

Cast Size: 4M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Beth, a fifty-eight year-old editor, is unexpectedly fired from the Los Angeles-based food magazine where she worked for decades. Shaken and shamed, Beth returns to to her modest family home in Grand Junction, Colorado, where she re-connects with her younger sister Pam and Pam’s adult daughter Dana. Beth and Pam’s relationship is convoluted and occasionally contentious. Beth left Grand Junction after she finished high school, focusing on her career and a cosmopolitan life-style in southern California. Pam, on the other hand, has lived in Grand Junction all her life, caring for both their parents during times of terminal illness. Dana, meanwhile, is facing her own considerable challenges, as she considers reconciling with her volatile and verbally abusive husband Riley. As Beth comes to grips with the new circumstances of her life, Pam begins to see her sister as a person of substance despite her foibles and flaws. After Beth intervenes to help Dana, the sisters seem ready to form a new relationship based on mutual respect and a shared desire to mend old wounds and escape the patterns of the past.

Cast Size: 2M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Trust fades, loyalties shift, and tensions rise as James, Jenny and Adam await a late-night delivery in the woods. They don’t know what to believe about each other – and are increasingly uncertain of their fates. GRAY PEOPLE is a darkly comic three-hander following gravediggers who don’t ask any questions about the nameless corpses they’re sent to bury. After all, the bodies are already dead…what difference would it make?

Cast Size: 2M 1W

Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In the not-too-distant future, three men live in an internment camp for American intellectuals and political dissenters. Their lives are turned upside-down with the arrival of Stel, a woman whose presence could be their death sentence or their means to escape. The Greater Good is a sardonic look at might happen if we forget our past, or lose hope for our future.

Cast Size: 3M 2W
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

Guenevere is a darkly comic feminist retelling of the King Arthur legend where it’s Guenevere, not Arthur, who is the rightful ruler of England- and proves it by not only pulling the proverbial sword from the stone, but through her wit and leadership capabilities. Arthur, along with his paramour, Morgan, Guenevere’s half sister, vie for power and control of Camelot until Guenevere, through many personal losses, reigns victorious.

Cast Size: 2/3M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When priveledged and pretty Anastasia is sent to a Siberian gulag for the murder of her abusive husband, her arrival destroys the intricate web of hierarchy, alliance, and treachery among the other four inmates of her bunkhouse. To save herself, Anastasia must save all of them: the prostitute, the killer, the crone…and Pruska – the mouse. Arthur M. Jolly’s harrowing drama asks the question: How far will you go to survive?

Cast Size: 5W, 1M
Running Time: Approx 85 minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

Lawrence is on the rebound. His best pals — ex-lover Niles and devout virgin Briony — can only provide so much comfort. Then in walks Allan, a handsome attorney who whisks him away from his problems… and soon begins to separate Lawrence little by little from the people and things he cares about. Allan’s plan to control Lawrence starts to backfire when Lawrence reveals himself to be a stronger person than the heartbroken sad sack he was the night they met. But is Lawrence strong enough?

Cast Size: 4M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Set in 1968, the play is a poetic homage to the style of Tennessee Williams. Brother Linus is a monk who has been exiled to a remote monastery on an island, where he has lived alone in quiet contemplation for the past 20 years. Then, during a huge thunderstorm, a young man named Christian washes up on the beach with memory loss, and in giving succor to him, Linus begins to question to what exactly he is truly devoted, and if he has allowed his life to be wasted.

Cast Size: 2M
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Norman Miller is an unemployed fiction writer who fills his literary work with passages so sexually explicit that no one will publish them. He puts so much emotional energy into the writing that he fails to satisfy his wife, Mixie. Long-suffering, sexually desperate, and concerned for her sanity, Mixie begins an affair with Ted, who may have deeper feelings for her than she wants. An argument leads to murder, and murder leads to disposal problems…just as an unexpected guest shows up with earth-shaking news in this new dark comedy.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: Over an Hour
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Set in the year 2047, Sue, a bored and lonely retirement home resident takes a begrudging maintenance worker (Walter) with her on a raucous trip down memory lane as she recalls the holidays of her past. Along the way Sue and Walter discover that they have much more in common than they ever could have imagined. Although the play is filled with laughs, it leaves a warm spot as the relationship between Sue and Walter fully develops and presents a powerful example of the impact of the Covid pandemic on the life of a promising black teenager.

Cast Size: 3M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Newlyweds Jake and Luna are headed for epic calamity. Impulsively eloping after meeting on a bungee jump, they now must discover the stranger they married. But their wish for a marriage of constant surprises becomes more than they bargained for. First, they have no place to live, and every attempt to solve this only creates more mess. They deal with quirky roommates, Mari and Stan, by unwisely trying to match-make them. Then they must cope with mysterious disappearances, violence, intruding interlopers, and a disastrous dinner party ending in a mystical disco dance. As Jake and Luna bring their dreamy romance back to earth, they see their crazy love contagious to the people surrounding them.

Cast Size: 3M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A bride visits her groom in prison… still in her wedding dress! Two women bury the body of their blackmailer. A composer returns home after an accident has taken away their talent and passion. Lucrezia Borgia, Aimee Semple McPherson, and the Devil rehearse a Nativity play in Purgatory.

Four visions of Hell: romantic, gothic, artistic, and theatrical.

In four short plays that can be performed as an evening or individually:

BULLETPROOF LOVE (1F/1M)

THE FALLOW GARDEN (2F)

O, FOR A MUSE OF FIRE (2A)

SOMEWHERE SOUTH OF BETHLEHEM (2F/1M(or A))

HELLMAN v. McCARTHY is based on the greatest literary feud in modern American history. On January 24, 1980, Mary McCarthy, famed novelist, critic, and memoirist, appeared on The Dick Cavett Show and declared that “every word [Lillian Hellman] writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the.’” Hellman went ballistic and sued McCarthy, Dick Cavett, Cavett’s production company, and PBS for libel. The lawsuit, which spanned more than four years, was the talk of the literary community. Dick Cavett played himself in the critically acclaimed world premiere at the Abingdon Theatre Company.

Cast Size: 4M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Helvetica Burke: adventurer, writer, and cynic, has spent her life packaging Death neatly between the lines of her beloved children’s books, with her trusty stuffed bear Myron by her side. When she encounters Death head-on however, she finds the storybook truths within the realities of her past, present, and future.

3M 4W Flexible Casting
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Heroines follows Donna, a 33-year-old mother, waitress, and long-time heroin addict. When she loses her daughter to Child Protective Services, she must navigate drug court, NA, and her own demons in an attempt to earn her back. Heroines is a complex, detailed exploration of the nature of addiction, familial love, and the limits of friendship in the face of turmoil.

Cast Size: 2M 3W
Running Time: 1hr 45 minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

The Board members of Central Ohio’s Romance Authors of America are on edge tonight. Their beloved long-time treasurer Evie St. James has embezzled club funds, and the members are about to debate whether or not to press charges. Evie herself joins the proceedings in the form of a spirit, accompanied by her chief nemesis and male muse The Player. The Player is muse to everyone present. Through brief depictions of scenes from the members’ various romantic novels as well as flashbacks of Evie’s personal interactions with Board members, this seriocomedy explores the nature of romance, friendship and forgiveness, and that line—perhaps thin—which separates creativity and madness. Loosely based on a true story.

Cast Size: 1M 7W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

As her husband serves in WWII, Hilda takes over the family business. Soon after returning home from war, Lyle’s health deteriorates. Some of the younger waitresses at the diner are suspicious of Hilda’s intentions with the men in town because of her magnanimous personality. After Hilda’s life is threatened, her brother-in-law wonders if Hilda is a victim or a black widow.

Cast Size: 2M 5W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

It’s 150 years in the future and only women exist. A couple (an artist and a geneticist) are pregnant with their first child and have gathered the family together to announce the good news. Just before the guests arrive, the couple learns some earth-shattering news about the baby that may change the course of history.

Cast Size: 7W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Jack and Erica find love after a one-night stand leaves them hopelessly trying to uncover more of each other. Erica wants to be a famous actress and Jack, a mysterious Irishman, has the money to make her dreams come true – until a Russian screenplay, two million dollars in unmarked bills and taboo desires threaten to tear them apart. What is too much?

Hoboken is a high-voltage, psychological, romantic thriller that pushes the dark and taboo and will make you wince more often than is comfortable.

A devastatingly brutal love story with Russian espionage, dark taboo subjects: guns, a rotten movie script and some actors dreaming of glory.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The sleepy little burg of Battue Haven, MN, is an idyllic suburban gem of picket fences and manicured lawns until, suddenly, with a literal Bada-bing-bada-BOOM!!… the sudden arrival of two mob enforcers causes what started as a simple cookout with the neighbors to quickly explode into a hilarious all-out rough-and-tumble tizzy of chaotic complications, esoteric entrées, and highbrow hoodlums on Pallduva Lane!

Cast Size: 9Any
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Midnight. Late December, 1937. Reed, a disgraced archeologist and aesthete, is running for his life. Having stolen an ancient amulet from the fetid grave of a neglected Holland churchyard, he locks himself in the library of his London townhouse in order to evade the pursuit of some “malign being.” In shocking detail, he recounts a gruesome testimony of unnatural occurrences surrounding the totem’s theft… and the appalling consequences for all who come to possess it.

Cast Size: 1-2M
Running Time: Under an Hour
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

A House by the Side of the Road: Clyde and his sons Steve and Dan sit on the back porch on a summer evening listening to the Detroit Tigers play baseball on the radio and learn that you don’t have to play the game to be in it.

Blind No. 7: Clyde, Dan and Steve spend a morning duck-hunting, telling dad-jokes, and being together.

And the Wisdom to Know the Difference: Clyde stops by to see Dan on visiting day at the treatment center.

A Moment of Clarity: Clyde and Dan share memories and truths.

Favorite Son: Dan and Steve are waiting to visit their father who is in hospice care. As they sort through the arrangements, they sort through their relationship, bracing themselves for what’s coming next.

I’ll Be Here: Clyde and Dan spend some time together in the woods where they used to go birdwatching.

Good Grief: Dan stops by the forest to visit Clyde and meets his new lifelong companion. He’s an attractive young man named Grief, and he and Dan are going to get to know each other very well.

Cast Size: 3M
Running Time 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A one-act play about Rachel, who experiences a supernatural event in a house she and her husband have recently purchased. Is Havenwood haunted by a woman who lived in the house and probably died in it? Or is Rachel simply hallucinating?

Cast Size: 3M 1W
Running Time: 45 minutes
Royalty: $40 per performance

Howard doesn’t get out much. A skilled artist with a lonely streak, his main source of camaraderie comes from his friends, a collection of dolls made from locally sourced materials. Each one has a story, a past, and a promising future as a part of Howard’s human doll gallery. They’re treated with the utmost respect with daily touch-ups, hangouts, and a weekly movie night to name a few of the perks. What more could a human doll want? After accepting a job at Hillary’s, a local department store, he’s greeted by a slew of new faces like Cyrus, the store manager, and Grayson, a fellow employee. Ecstatic, Howard can’t wait to make some new friends…

Cast Size: 4M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The Importance of Being Cecily, or Cecil by Daniel Curzon dramatizes in a comedic way the problems of some folks in late Victorian England, as Oscar Wilde did not, could not, or would not do, lest he spend even more time in prison. We have Algernon , the ugly-named man about town, trying to arrange a suitable marriage with a pretty unsuitable girl, or maybe with her brother. We have Miss Prizzin, the governess, a thoroughly self-righteous and unbending “progressive.” Has she committed a series of crimes with her teapot, or has she been maligned? We have Lane, a manservant yearning for a strong woman in his life, but where is she? We have Lord Bracknell, Lady Bracknell’s husband, who cannot seem to escape his marital debt. Then there is Cecil, a willowy, poetic lad fond of willow banks and similes, but not assonance. The Usual Suspects? Hardly.

Cast Size: 3M 2W 1M or W
Running Time: 120+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Vicky Walker, a sexy senior in a New York City prep school, finds herself the victim of a sex tape that has gone viral. The tape creates an immediate sensation among students and faculty and Vicky is disgraced and gets suspended from school. Her uncom-prehending mother, a former feminist who doesn’t understand the new, ‘show me everything’ attitude of Vicky’s generation, demands that Vicky destroys the phone with the sex footage before it does even more damage. Can Vicky make herself vanish from the Internet? Or will she remain an eternal victim caught in its web?

Cast Size: 3M 5W
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

The struggles of being British, rich, and self-absorbed can be rather difficult to manage. Do you serve pâté or caviar? Which high-end brandy should be always on-hand and in which crystal decanter? What to do when the regular hired help doesn’t show up for your fabulous dinner party, and how to handle the replacement houseboy who really doesn’t look that well and has a predilection for human brains? A zombie would normally be quite the bother, but there are so many more pressing concerns, like how to your infidelity from your possibly also cheating spouse? Is it possible to be so self-absorbed that you don’t even realize that there’s a zombie among you, and who will be eaten first?

Cast Size: 4M 3F
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

At Ashby’s Galleria, art show attendees anxiously await the arrival of reclusive billionaire Jonathan Bixby. Each is eager to impress, hopeful that proximity to such wealth and power will increase their own status. However, the evening takes a turn when an unexpected guest appears, stirring up a whirlwind of confusion and confrontation. As the guests clash over matters of money and art, revelations come to light, and more than one life is forever changed.

Cast Size: 3M, 4F, 1Any
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A play about the power of poetry, the poetry of power, and the perils of publishing. —And surely the world’s first verse play set in the offices of an in-flight airline magazine.

Cast Size: 3M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Verité, an African American Professor is at a crossroads. She’s complacent about her position and smug about her neutral stance regarding guns. Yet, she obsesses over a recent gun incident that resulted in the killing of an innocent black man. She closely follows the story on TV and radio and is torn between the need to defend oneself and the need to comply with law enforcement. At the same time, her student Maxwell perplexes her with his own fixation on guns. He even offers to teach her how to shoot. With her own college increasing preparation for security risks and sudden attacks, and ultimately actual danger, Verité must confront her cynical attitude, her physical safety, and her own beliefs.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Indifferent Blue tells the story of Stanley who is desperate to get out of heaven. He’s sick of the overwhelming sameness of it all and he decides to find his way out. Trying to stop him are his guardian angel, Gerald, a man who carries a heavy secret, and a smug St. Peter. Along with their friend, Elise, Gerald and Stanley embark on a quest to discover the nature of heaven, hell, and friendship.

” WINNER – 2008 Tennessee Williams One-Act Comedy Playwriting Award”

Cast Size: 3M 1W
Running Time: 45 minutes
Royalty: $40 per performance

INLAND EMPRESS is a full-length play set in California’s High Desert or Inland Empire that deals with many contemporary themes and issues. Louise is a career criminal who finishes her seven year stretch in Chowchilla Women’s Prison and comes home to find that her position as head of the family and the family business has been filled by her niece. The family believes that Louise has come back to take her place, but Louise reveals to them that in prison she had a spiritual enlightenment, and her life has changed. Louise explains that she has converted to the Muslim religion and at the same time reveals the answers to many, deep, family secrets. Louise tries to make amends and help the girls through their personal problems, but must confront the eldest girl, Sierra, who believes that Louise is trying to dethrone Sierra and take away the power that she has held over the last seven years.

Cast Size: 1M 5W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Arlen Weinberg, a Jewish anthropologist, is called to be an expert witness in a murder trial. The accused: a white police officer. His alleged crime: murdering a black man twenty years ago and burying the bones in the dirt floor beneath his brownstone. When Arlen arrives, he is shocked to find the defense lawyer is black. Ira Altridge is that black lawyer and he is not having a good day. His first expert witness has suddenly resigned from the case giving him only one thin lunch hour to get his new anthropologist up to speed. Soon, the two men discover that they know each other, having both grown up in the same suburb of Chicago. Ira was a gang member who often preyed on Jewish boys, and Arlen was the perfect target. Soon, their childhoods, cultures, and convictions come into conflict. Arlen’s namby pamby liberalism drives Ira nuts, while Arlen begins to question if Ira’s true purpose is to defend his white client.

Cast Size: 2M
Running Time: 1 hr 40 minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

An institution is often a place for the confinement of inmates, especially mental patients. Marriage can be defined as the social institution under which a two people establish their decision to live as husband and wife by legal commitments. Commitment can be defined as confinement to a mental institution or hospital….and we’re back where we started. So WHY is it called the institution of marriage again??? Carol M. Rice takes a cynical and humorous yet touching look at marriage in these monologues and scenes. From a woman who has been married eight times giving advice to her single friends, to a three-time widow describing her husbands’ crazy deaths, to why men and women have trouble being “just friends,” the situations are absurd yet realistic. Institution: any established custom or familiar, long-established practice (as in marriage).

Cast Size:1M 3W
Running Time: 45 minutes
Royalty: $40 per Performance

The main character in misanthropic novelist Victor Pagán’s third novel is Vivien Langford, who happens to be the world’s biggest movie star. Vivien Langford, however, is a flesh-and-blood human being — an accomplished writer herself — and she’s having none of it. Outraged by the unwanted misappropriation of her persona, she immediately sues to stop the book’s distribution. But she goes further — much further. Contacting Victor directly in a series of FaceTime exchanges, she proceeds to dismantle his misogynistic, condescending character (and meager oeuvre), finally leaving him one option for redemption: She’ll allow his book to come out if he agrees to a very public humiliation.

Based on true events.

Cast Size: 2M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The year is 1953, and the House Unamerican Activities Committee is at its peak, fomenting suspicion and distrust, nowhere more so than in the insular world of Academia. Adjacent to this world, but inextricably intertwined, five women, shackled by societal constraints, defined by their husbands careers and politics, are meeting for their monthly play reading – knowing that one of them has betrayed the others to save her husbands position at the University. This is the evening they have chosen to read Medea – and as they delve into the classic Greek tragedy, their own stories unfold, their secrets and betrayals are brought to light, and their friendships are tested, shattered, and renewed.

Cast Size: 1M 6W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Brought back to their childhood home to care for their ailing grandmother, young prodigal playwright Sloane and their botanist husband Gwyn are struggling to settle the estate after their lives are uprooted by tragedy. A sudden spiral of Sloane’s obsession with completing their masterpiece in the unsettling old house forces Gwyn to confront the safety of Sloane regurgitating their family trauma into their art. When Gwyn’s childhood friend Beckham arrives to help the couple bury the hatchet, they soon discover there may be more to the house, and to Sloane, hidden beneath the foundation. If the basement is the stomach… then what’s the basement door?

Cast Size: 2M 1W/NB 1NB
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Jack is an average man trapped in a post-apocalyptic world. Separated from the person he most loves, he is forced to find ways to combat his loneliness by any means necessary including striking up a heartfelt and quite genuine friendship with a scarecrow. It is through this newfound relationship that Jack discovers new purpose in life even if it takes him further away from reality.

Cast Size: 2M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Joey may be scheduled to die tomorrow, but that doesn’t mean he has to reverse a life of rebellion by adhering to the traditional “last meal.” Besides, he’s just not hungry. Joey’s refusal to “go along” has clogged the smooth running wheels of justice and has angered a lot of folks. Al, his cellmate on death row, is angry with him for not at least taking the meal, a nice thick steak, and passing it to him; Harry, the guard, is angry with him for disrupting his schedule; Sarge, who is in command of the death row cellblock, is angry because not being able to control his prisoners could prevent him from getting a promotion; Warden, who runs the prison, is angry because he doesn’t want to acknowledge to the Governor he can’t control his prisoners; Betty, Joey’s wife, is angry with him because his being in jail prevented them from fulfilling her dream of a family; Mother, Joey’s Mom, is angry because not eating could affect Joey’s health. Chaplain is the only character not angry with Joey because, belonging to the Church of Sacred Men, he just loves his work environment.

Cast Size: 6M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Josie Divine is making a comeback as a jazz singer when her life is violently cut short. In her after-death experiences, Josie learns that her lover Freddie was her killer and discovers her capacity for love and forgiveness. In this in-between state, the outcome of a test administered by the mysterious Announcer allows her, as an evolved soul, to perform at The Bardo Theatre. Josie auditions with her lover/killer, not recognizing him. Their earlier relationship repeats in compressed form, but this time he saves her life. Josie’s successful new life takes her to India to star in a film. She befriends a young writer, the reborn Freddie, who enlightens her about the divine creative source available to evolving souls, thereby enabling her to design her life to come.

Cast Size: 1M 1F 1M/F
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

We first encounter Edna at ninety-six, alone in her apartment in the small town where she has always lived. Like many others her age, she is awash in memories, appearing to await the end of her life. As we meet her best friend Margaret, and travel back in time through a handful of moments from Edna’s past, her very human journey unfolds. With good humor and the strength it takes to survive nine decades, Edna reminds us everyone’s story is full of dreams, some met and some lost, challenging our perception of the elders among us.

Cast Size: 2W
Running Time: Over an Hour
Royalty Rate: $50 per performance

On the eve of her wedding, Jodi, a stand-up comic, is having more than just the usual cold feet – she’s on the brink of calling the entire event off and has locked herself in the upstairs bathroom. While her brother Sam and his girlfriend Tina try to coax her out and get to the bottom of the problem – the evening goes from bad to worse. Jodi has learned that her fiancé, John (another stand-up comic), has been unfaithful to her and as the long night creeps into the wee hours of the morning – Jodi wonders what other secrets might be lurking under the surface of the relationship. Before the evening is over, the truth comes out and everyone’s view of love and commitment is pushed to the limits – as present and past relationships send everyone into a tangled web of emotional ruin.

Cast Size: 3M 3W
Running Time: 1 hr 45 min
Royalty: $75 per performance

While Ingrid Betancourt, a former senator and anti-corruption activist, was running for President of Colombia, she was kidnapped by the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (FARC), a Marxist revolutionary terrorist organization. This story is a theatrical imagining based on those events. The Woman narrates through “intrusive memory,” a symptom of PTSD, grappling with an ever-present series of moments in her life as the play moves in time and place via fragmentary scenes in a variety of locations. The Man shifts kaleidoscopically between roles including FARC commanders and guards; the Woman’s deceased father; her children, who are growing up without her; God; and her lover, a fellow hostage.

Cast Size: 1M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Mean Joe Buchanan has sexually abused his daughter, Marylee, for years, and as president of Pittston Coal, he’s treated young Tyrone and all the other miners horribly as well. Tyrone and Marylee meet, for the first time, in a bar. They each think that, in separate incidents during the day, they killed Buchanan. But this man never dies. They quickly fall in love, Tyrone confesses to being a descendant of Daniel Boone, and Marylee reveals she’s related to Betsy Ross. So with Joe and his boys on their heels, they flee across the country in search of knowledge of their ancestors and of “an America that used to be.” But when they arrive at Boone’s Carson City house exactly at the same time as Joe and his boys, all seems lost until a mysterious stranger points to a tree outside whose roots might lead them deep into the past…perhaps to a place where Daniel and Betsy are waiting for them. With Buchanan still on their heels, Marylee and Tyrone take the plunge in this (award-winning) dark, hysterical and very tender comedy.

Cast Size: 5M 4W (With doubling)
Running Time: 2hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

An isolated mountain cabin is the setting for the mystery/thriller KILL THE MOMENT. The unexpected appearance of a stranded motorist at the home of a former soap opera actress sets in motion a violent chain of events that includes lies, blackmail, betrayal and murder. Bodies refuse to remain buried-or dead, for that matter-and tend to reappear at the most inconvenient moments in a plot that is by turns morbid, darkly comedic, and wildly unexpected

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

Fiona Blake is a hot young actress who has just made her debut in a big summer horror movie; Stacy Clifford is a male figure skater headed for Olympic glory. They meet late one night at a Hollywood party, strike up a friendly conversation, and end up sneaking out together—but not without catching the attention of the paparazzi. When the gossip columns turn them into a couple, they decide to play along—in order to cover up the fact that, in reality, both of them are gay. As the lie snowballs, it begins to wreak havoc with their careers, their relationships, and every aspect of their lives.

Set amidst the neon-colored pop-cultural obsessions of the late 1990s, Kiss and Cry is a romantic comedy with a sharp satiric edge.

Cast Size: 3M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Kitty takes the stage in a smashing red dress. She is having a “pretty” day and wants to share it with the audience. Kitty came to New York fueled by fantasies of a Manhattan created by Woody Allen. Her day job pays the rent but her evenings are reserved for The Inwood Merry Players, of which she is a charter member. She’s still finding her way in the big, grimy playground and sometimes, being a pretty girl isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Lina, a self-possessed woman in her later years, follows her. Lina is on the other end of Kitty’s ride. An immi-grant from Portugal, she escaped her arranged marriage and through pluck, luck and a little on the side, had a career in publishing in New York City. Now retired, she still loves New York but finds there are new challenges for women of a certain age. Two vibrant, intelligent women bare their souls directly to the audience.

Cast Size: 2W
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

Three pregnant women of varying backgrounds and demographics bond during a weekend retreat that focuses on preparing for parenting. The weekend is led by an eccentric new age earth mother and a gen z doula who are both passionate about helping new mothers discover their life path. As they explore the “How to be a Mother” curriculum they learn there are no hard and fast rules to parenting, though some experiences are universal.

Cast Size: 5W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When a young maiden who has never touched a sword learns she must defend her inheritance in a duel, she struggles with a milksop suitor, a servant girl posing as a Prussian fencing master, a Prussian fencing master who thinks he is there to marry her, a stodgy lawyer and her domineering aunt – the finest blade anywhere – to save her house and lands. Like all classic farces, everyone gets the ending they deserve in unexpected ways… but will they be satisfied?

Cast Size: 2M 5W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

St. Louis, MO. 1858. Charlotte Cushman’s opening night as Romeo, one of her most famous male roles, leads to a case of the jitters, and encounters with an amorous young female fan and a frontier woman and her mail-order bride. Charlotte’s hectic life on and offstage is held together by her trusted assistant Sallie Mercer, a free and educated black woman during the time of slavery in the U.S. Based on the life of the most famous actress in the English-speaking theatre in the 19th century, who lived her life loving other women, including sculptor Emma Stebbins, designer of Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain.

Cast Size: 5W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Jerry is having the worst Christmas season ever. When he loses his job as a newspaper film critic for panning a blockbuster film that was made by his boss’s son – he’s not sure he can survive the holidays. In an effort to cheer him up, his girlfriend gives him an old lamp that just happens to contain a genie – who grants Jerry five wishes. As each wish takes him farther and farther into disaster – Jerry begins to worry that the odd number of wishes might come back to haunt him in the end.

Cast Size: 3M 2W 1 M or F
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

The Bronx, 1935. The end of prohibition turned all the speakeasies into legitimate nightclubs, if you want to call The Aardvark Club legitimate. Honey has worn nearly every hat you can wear; slinging drinks, cooking the books, but at the end of the day, she’s a stripper. Most people come and go like ghosts, but it’s hard to miss Zack, an aspiring comic who performs at the club. Zack’s got some talent. He might even amount to something. So why did he have to tell that joke? One bad joke, about Frankie’s girl, no less – and club owner Frankie is not known for his sense of humor. Now Frankie has given Honey one more job to juggle. She’s got to help Zack build a whole new act for an audience of one. And as they say in comedy; “You either kill, or you just die up there.”

Cast Size: 2M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

On a seemingly normal evening, drug runner and low-level gangster Teeny Boy decides to cook his old friend from lock up (Fang) a special dinner. The only problem is that this meal will be Fang’s last supper as Teeny Boy has been ordered by his boss (Dino) in the Kush Gang to execute Fang. Teeny Boy reveals his murderous plans and for complicated reasons, Fang agrees to share this meal before his demise. The two rehash surviving incarceration and navigating release in a world offering them few options. Their night is interrupted by the arrival of Teeny Boy’s parole officer (Agent Clarabella Evans).

Cast Size: 3M 1W
Running Time: 45+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Apotemnophilia is an actual clinical disorder where those suffering want to remove one or more of their limbs or extremities in order to feel whole. Leg of Lam is the story of Afghan war vet, Lamar Delgado, who enlists his father, Oscar, to help amputate his leg, is more than a story of a man suffering with a disorder, but intended as a timely magical allegory of every human’s need to eliminate the negative effects of past personal traumas and generations of familial dysfunctions to be the true expression of their soul’s intention. Set in an isolated Colorado hunting cabin in the midst of a blizzard, Lamar has only until sunset on this 25^th day of the ninth lunar month to complete his mission while miracles are possible. His fellow DeMilo’s around the world are also fulfilling their dream to be whole on this day, and counting on him with his most ambitious goal. Oscar’s late arrival with a hidden agenda complicates the situation, but the task of amputation miraculously ends as neither expected.

Cast Size: 2M
Running Time: 75+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Alex and Erik live in Battery Park, just minutes from the World Trade Center and the impact of history. In this terrible time, the tensions and challenges humanity grappled with are played out in the microcosm of one, small apartment. They don’t agree on most things … except their devotion to each other. At all costs.
What do you hold onto? What does it take to let go?

Cast Size: 2M, 1GN, 11Voice Only Roles
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The year is 1939. The offices of the Magnopolis Daily News are buzzing over the rumored return of Dr. Kasady, the evil genius intent on global domination. Kasady hasn’t been seen in the city in over 10 years. As the reporters race to get the story, the discover the unassuming shoeshine girl, Rishamie Reid, may know something about where Kasady has been and why he is returning. For Rishamie is no ordinary shoeshine girl. A genetic mutation hasturned her into the Lightning Bug, a super hero who can move faster than the eye can see. When Kasady arrives with his latest plan for global conquest, Rishamie may be the only person who can stop him.

Cast Size: 4M 4W
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

The play takes place in an upper East Side Manhattan apartment, switching back and forth in time from the early 1990s to present day. The earlier scenes explore the relationship of Richard, a handsome, irresponsible actor in his 40s, and Rodney, an slightly older, attentive, well-off member of a theater’s Board of Directors. The two are sometime partners, sometime roommates who share a tumultuous, unequal association, wherein Richard does not completely return Rodney’s affections, yet finds himself frequently availing himself of Rodney’s generosity. In the present-day scenes, some 25 years later, an older version of Rodney brings an older version Richard to his apartment to care for him in the end stages of Pancreatic cancer. The two have had no relationship to speak of for many years, and Richard is both perplexed and wary of Rodney’s motives in fetching him from his Brooklyn apartment after all this time. As Richard’s illness progresses, he has bouts of anger, amnesia and confusion, testing the limits of Rodney’s devotion to him. Taken together, Like Drowning is a complex, detailed exploration of the nature of unrequited love from both the giver’s and receiver’s point of view, and the bonds of friendship and devotion that somehow manage to withstand turmoil and time.

Cast Size: 4M
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In 1910 Chicago, the social reformer Louisa hires the immigrant mechanic Sully to build her a new heating system. After convincing Louisa that his steam boiler absolutely will not make her pregnant, Sully realizes he will get nowhere romantically without listening to her lectures about worker rights and suffrage. When the mysterious Mr. McRee pulls Sully into a campaign to challenge the banking establishment, he finally sees the struggle between capital and labor, and joins Louisa in a greater progressive movement that is worth their sacrifice. LIKE MONEY IN THE BANK is a comedy-history about one of the era’s most romantic events, the founding of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Cast Size: 4M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rte: $75 per performance

Alice, the daughter of a rock-and-roll legend, finds George, her father’s first guitarist and the one man noticeably absent from his funeral, in order to bring him to visit her father’s grave. Liner Notes reminds us that the past is only as amazing as the one who gets to write it down.

Cast Size: 1M 1W
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

It is 1975 and 100-year-old Nels has been residing in a Minneapolis nursing home for three years, being tended by, and matching wits with young Brad, his by turns loving and sadistic orderly. Brad is every bit as confused about his own future and death as Nels. His fellow orderly Pipe, 19, a Chippewa Native American, tries to reconcile the wreckage of his family and the lessons of his grandfather through caring for Nels and the abuse of peyote. Nels seems indestructible until one day he becomes convinced Brad killed his roommate. Is Nels unraveling or is it really Brad who has gone off the deep end? And will Pipe bring the kind of solace to Nels that has eluded everyone he knows? Meanwhile, the snow keeps falling.

Cast Size: 4M
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A thriller, with strong comedic notes, in which a murder has occurred in an isolated village – and seems to have otherworldly origins. Michael, a resident in the village, is intrigued and soon discovers that his wife, Lara, is responsible for the crime, and, furthermore, has concealed her terrifying, true identity. When suspicion falls on Michael he realises the full extent of Lara’s betrayal, and soon Michael and his uncle Frederick appear to be at her mercy. Denied access to outside help, they are forced to use their ingenuity to escape her non-human clutches.

Cast Size: 6M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

During a school shooting, a guidance counselor, history teacher, PTA president, senior class officer and football coach take cover together. While trying to stay quiet, most of the group believes they know which student must be shooting. But when that student enters the office to hide with them, the group is forced to back up their suspicions about the teen they think they know. Under constant fear of a gunman, maybe even hiding among them, the group must own not only own their prejudices but also the deep secrets each has connected to gun violence.

Cast Size: 2M 4W
Running Tine: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Helen Benedict, the playwright, created these seven monologues from interviews she conducted for her book, THE LONELY SOLDIER: THE PRIVATE WAR OF WOMEN SERVING IN IRAQ (Beacon Press, 2009.) Most of the monologues come from taped interviews, but some are combined with letters the soldiers wrote by e-mail. All are in the actual words of the soldiers. The marching cadences are also all those actually used by soldiers and marines. No words in this play are fictionalized.

Cast Size: 7W
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

Macon, a troubled, young man, is on the run. In shock and panicked, he takes a wrong exit, finding himself stranded beneath an old billboard, in a stolen car, with a flat tire. Feeling hopeless, Macon decides to turn the gun on himself until he realizes he’s not alone. Hidden by the billboard is Yinnie, a mysterious girl, familiar as she is foreign. She offers to help him find his way—but on her terms. Fancying herself his makeshift confessor, she manages, by hook and crook, to persuade him into confiding in her. But the more he shares, the more things unravel, and the deeper he sinks into her gaslighting cat-and-mouse game that will leave you wondering not what his next move will be…but hers. Loose Hog is a compelling and hauntingly beautiful southern gothic story that challenges us to reconsider exactly what it is that makes us good.

Cast Size: 1M 1F
Running Time: Under an Hour
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Sometimes we lose sight of what matters most.

Barry, an acclaimed artist, races the clock to finish his last painting before a progressive illness takes his sight. Haunted by the ghost of his grandfather (Nolan) and forced to rely on the help of a woman he jilted in high school (Amy), Barry must confront the lost and damaged relationships of his past before he can face his future. Will Barry be able to do this before he loses his sight?

Cast Size: 2M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The Love Song of Sidney J. Stein follows the relationship of Sidney, a 45-year-old man who works at an NYC half-way house, and Dennis, an 17-year-old streetwalker. Sidney is a snide, funny and guarded former prostitute who tries to set Dennis straight, despite Dennis’ immaturity and indoctrination into the street life. They begin tenuously living together, though Dennis is not quite willing to give up his past. Both end up bringing out something in the other that is revealing and unexpected. With humor and pathos, Love Song explores the struggle to truly connect with another human being, and the role one’s past has in dictating one’s future.

Cast Size: 2M
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Best friends, Bernie Bloomberg and Sol Rabinowicz have operated their own hardware store in New York, for 50 years. It all comes apart after Bernie defaults on a loan from mobsters. Sol pretends they are themselves mobsters and sets about threatening to kill the local kingpin, “Joey Legs.” It’s no surprise, then, when Sol and Bernie end up in the witness protection program in Texas, they have some difficulty “fitting in.”

Cast Size: 2M
Running Time: About an Hour
Royalty Rate: $50 per performance

It’s 1949, and Lucille Ball is starring in a hit sitcom on CBS Radio. When the network offers Lucy her own TV series, she has one condition. Her husband, Cuban-born bandleader Desi Arnaz, must costar. But CBS wants a more “All-American” leading man. This is the hilarious true story of how Lucy and Desi launched history’s most groundbreaking and influential sitcom: “I Love Lucy.” They challenged mid-century America’s social mores, including opposition to a Cuban American costar and showing a pregnant woman on television. The play is presented as an easy-to-produce 1950s-style radio broadcast, using recorded, radio-show-style music cues (supplied with the licensing of the script). Written by the son of “I Love Lucy” creator Jess Oppenheimer, this witty, fast-paced comedy has “as much heart and humor as the series itself” (SWVA Today).

Cast Size: 21M 6W 2 Any Gender (minimum with doubling 6M 2W)
Running Time: 65-70 minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

As the school year comes to an end; Amy is desperate to make some memories. Unfortunately, nothing exciting has happened until the principal goes missing! Can Amy organize a secret group of students to find out what happened to him before the bullies find out he’s gone!?

Cast Size: 1M 3B 3G (Gender Flexible)
Running Time: Under and Hour
Royalty Rate: $40 per Performance

Magpie is a story of identity, transformation, and sacrifice. With the support of her therapist, Maggie is beginning to claim her own story. Risking her troubled relationship with her mother, she searches to learn more about the father she doesn’t know. But can she summon the strength to find the one thing she needs the most, herself?

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Elena, a celebrated poet, has brought her troubled daughter Juliet, her student Rosaline, and her lover, Morgan, up to her late father’s cabin, deep in the Maine woods, to clear it out before she sells it, having not yet worked up the courage to tell her daughter, who loves the place and associates it with her missing father, Jack, who has abandoned his family and disappeared. Juliet has had drug and alcohol abuse problems, but is straightening herself out with the help of her new friend Rosaline, her mother’s favorite student, to whom Juliet has become very attached. What Elena and Juliet don’t know is that Rosaline has had an affair with Morgan, followed by a nervous breakdown and a relentless determination to destroy him for ending their relationship. Morgan begs Rosaline not to tell them, but she is having a really good time torturing him. He is forever writing but not completing a book about the mythic power of the woods as an ancient symbol of mystery and chthonic power. He loves Elena but she doesn’t really believe in or trust him. She worries he’s really after her daughter. Juliet worships her mother but is angry at her, would do anything to get her mother’s attention, and has never felt that her mother really loved her. She has always had a serious crush on Morgan, who loves Juliet like a daughter and wants the relationship with Elena to work, but finds Rosaline more attractive than he’s willing to admit to himself. Elena loves her daughter but is emotionally unable to connect with her and was always jealous of her husband’s close relationship to her. She sees Rosaline as a second daughter, more like herself than Juliet is. Sexual tension grows as Rosaline plays with the affections and desires of all three of the others, while Elena, still very angry at her dead novelist father, takes out more and more of her frustration on Morgan, who is drinking and increasingly feeling trapped. And Jack, the missing husband, moves through the play, in memory and imagination, as we begin to put the pieces of this complex puzzle together. A darkly funny and increasingly frightening webwork of explosive interrelationships that are veering towards some sort of catastrophe while something seems to be lurking in the woods all around them, waiting for them.

Cast Size: 2M 3W
Running Time: 120+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Mamma Mia – La Befana?! weaves the ancient Italian Epiphany tale, La Befana, into a contemporary American setting. Could the fun loving sixty-something Nonna from Florida really be the thousands of years old scruffy old woman who on January 5th delivers gifts to the good children and coal to the bad? The answer becomes evident as Nonna/Befana uses her holiday magic to find her lost and injured granddaughter, Mary. Every January, La Befana finds all the Italian children in the world, this year she finds one very special Italo-Americana, her granddaughter.

Cast Size: 3M 4F
Running Time: Under an Hour
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

A fellowship of five thirtysomething friends have been playing Masters of the Dark Realm (a Dungeons & Dragons type roleplaying game) since high school. One night, their Game Master, Joel, and his wife, Nicole, announce that they’re going to have a baby, so it’d be a good time to end their game. Forever. Seeing how upset their friends are, Joel and Nicole decide to help them each find new, personal quests in their lives. Things don’t go as planned and bad feelings grow between them. Then when the fellowship is confronted with an unexpected tragedy, they must choose between giving up on reality, or pulling together to slay their personal dragons.

Cast Size: 3M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The Valley Isle serves as the backdrop for this tale of relationships attempting to navigate rough waters. When straight-laced Stanley takes his estranged wife, their recent college grad daughter and her milquetoast fiancé to Maui, what should be a celebratory trip quickly turns ugly. The group finds themselves rooming next to a homosexual couple who have traveled to Hawaii to have a civil union ceremony, but who soon find their relationship is starting to show cracks as well. It’s only with the help of an overbearing ex-Flamenco dancer, that the couple realize that it’s facing the challenges of relationships head-on that will steer them through rough seas and enable them to land on calmer shores.

Cast Size: 5M 4W
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

Winner of the 2009 Mark Twain Prize for Comedy Playwriting.

Chance is the creator of Queer-Boy comics. What else would you expect from a kid who grew up in Metropolis, Illinois? When his father decides to kill Superman in order to get his son to come home, he dies in the process and now Chance must go home for the funeral and its aftermath.

Cast Size: 4M 3W
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

An alcoholic magician tries to win his family back through a disappearing act. Staked outside The Milky Way Cabaret, a pair of clown-costumed assassins reveal everything. And the grown-up version of the magician’s daughter travels back in time, through black holes, to try to save her father’s life.Is humanity bigger than the universe? Is a heart bigger than a planet? Set in a South Philly nightclub, The Milky Way Cabaret is a theatrical event inspired by the magical, time-travelin’, heart-exploding, meatloaf-making, hula-hooping, elephant-piss drinking people of the city of Philadelphia.

Cast Size: 3M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In an undisclosed location deep in the woods, a blindfolded stranger with the codename V arrives to join a group of befuddled yet earnest patriots to count ballots from a recent election. Over the course of several days, a sense of claustrophobia and paranoia takes over as manager T oversees worker bees R and S, just as V begins asking too many questions. All the while, a guy named Chuck stands menacingly on guard in the corner as an ominous contraption known as “The Bloodhound” sits in the middle of the room, hungrily waiting to be fed. Little by little, identities are uncovered, loyalties are tested, and lunch is eventually procured. But will it be too late to make a difference in the election?

Cast Size: 2M 3W
Running Time: 90+minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Ever have trouble getting the lid off the mayonnaise jar? Ever not be able to find the last piece of the jigsaw puzzle you’ve been working on for a month? Ever wondered why life is full of things that inconvenience us? After hitchhiking along Houston’s busy FM 1960, a young waitress comes face to face with an unlikely duo who claim to be responsible for the minor inconveniences in our lives

Cast Size: 2M 1F
Running Time: 40 minutes
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

A bit of humor, a bit of romance, a bit of irreverence, a bit of Irish fairy tale. On a foggy Christmas Eve in a pub in Ballydonal, a small remote village that time and place have forgotten, 3 men gather to say farewell to Eileen. A newborn is discovered in the loo. All three men believe the child is theirs and will right their lives. Stories of an assignation with the Virgin Mary, whispers from God, and baptism by Guinness, lead to a resolution for all. But it is through the healing nature of forgiveness, redemption, love, and family, that a true miracle is achieved.

Cast Size: 3M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Earl Jackson, Jr. (E.J.) and Larry Johnson (L-Dog) are U.S. Army Rangers, serving in Somalia, under “Operation Restore Hope” in 1994. E.J. has gotten romantically involved with Halima Ibrahim, a young Somali woman. They meet clandestinely in dangerous, war-torn, Mogadishu, Somalia. Halima’s older sister, Jamila and E.J. ‘s fellow Army Ranger and friend L-Dog, oppose the relationship, which ends with tragic circumstances. This is a tale of war and love.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Molly Jones loves baseball, specifically the NY METS, still she’s never been to a real game. This brilliant 9-year-old reads Seneca and dreams of catching baseballs, while sleeping under a canopy of monitors in NY Presbyterian Hospital, being treated for Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Her Make-a-Wish is, of course, a Mets game and she has a ticket, not to just any Mets game, but a sudden death playoff game against the “Braves she hates”. Meanwhile her physician, Dr. Teigen Marshall, has the rare opportunity to administer a new miracle drug, (Fluxamean) but, it must be today, right now, to save Molly’s life. The multiple chemo and radiation treatments haven’t worked. Molly is getting worse and both she and her Doctor know it’s “bottom of the ninth and Casey may be at bat”. Molly does not take this news well and decides to escape the hospital and steal away to the game. With the help of Lance Lane, a burned-out ex-Mets pitcher and Tammy the Toucan, an eccentric hospital clown, Molly sets out on her most unusual odyssey. Meanwhile Dr. Marshall and hospital security are just one step behind them.

Cast Size: 3M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cicadas chatter feverishly outside as a middle-aged architect startlingly awakes from a crippling night-terror. Returning to his childhood home for the first time in seventeen years when his mother dies, Kip must grapple with the ghosts of his past, his hostile and jobless brother who never managed to move out, and the financially crushing debts now left behind by his parents. Set in an aging, former steel town in southwestern Pennsylvania, Kip is joined by his noticeably younger girlfriend, Phoebe. She has come to assist with the funeral arrangements but discovers quickly that she’s in for much more than she bargained for. Kip’s brother, Ethan, won’t enter the bedroom where their mother died; and tensions rise when the sanctity of that space is abruptly invaded. Secrets buried deep are exposed. Old wounds are made fresh. And sibling rivalries scale new heights with potentially frightening consequences. Just as the town of Monessen has found a way to reinvent itself beyond the long-gone glory days of its Steel City heritage, so must two brothers… whose relationship has rusted, after years of neglect.

Cast Size: 2M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In Harvey, Louisiana, 1978, a derrick man named Monkey works the oil patch and lives at Clay and Minnie’s, a boarding house / bar run by ex-con and charming mobster Clay Boudreaux. One day a teenage boy named Sean arrives, just kicked out of his home in Minnesota. Monkey takes Sean under his wing, shielding him from Clay’s criminal operations, and from Janny, Clay’s 16-year-old niece. Discovering what everyone already knew about Clay and Janny, Sean convinces Monkey to get Janny out of Harvey. Forty years later in 2018 Sean is back to find out whatever happened to his old friend. What he discovers alters everything he understood about his life, as Monkey’s mysterious death threatens to converge with his own.

Cast Size: 7M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Five years after their breakup, architect Harry Wallace unexpectedly encounters his much-younger ex Jim, who wants him back. Unsettled, Harry reflects on their romance, one that was filled with great affection, great sex, and great classic movies. Harry’s no-nonsense sister Diane was deeply concerned by their significant age difference, while his brother-in-law Ben just wanted him to be happy. When a disturbing revelation imploded their motion picture perfect romance, Harry and Jim were left to pick up the shambles of their suddenly separate lives. Back in the present, Harry must confront the question: what’s stopping them from being together now?

Cast Size: 2M 5W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

As Evie mentally recovers from a life event that has shattered her, her husband Lumiedelivers more news that is liable to drive her to the edge. In an attempt to save their marriage and better understand her husband and herself, Evie discovers unlikely support from an array of colorful characters, all attempting to help Evie recognize the love she has in her life, in all its forms, has been there all along.

Cast Size: 2F 1NBM/TransM 1NBF/TransF 1NB
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Morisot Reclining tells the story of Berthe Morisot and Edouard Manet, whose contributions to painting in the nineteenth century shook the art world.  It is structured around five portraits Manet painted of Morisot, each of which documents a different stage in their relationship, moving from mentor/student to a deep connection between lovers whose feelings were never consummated. Their relationship reaches its apex as Manet creates “Berthe Morisot Reclining,” a work of unrivalled sensuality that brings forth the passionate connection between two diverse personalities who could never fully acknowledge — nor escape — the force that bound them together.

Cast Size: 2M 3W with doubling
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

The Man and The Woman stand at the edge of the water. They take a blank piece of paper from their pocket. They imagine all of the things it could possibly be. They meet at a bar for the first time over and over and all at the same time. They fold the paper into a sailboat. They sit in their apartments and press their faces against the glass. They place the sailboat on the water and give it a gentle push. They journey through their broken pasts, broken futures, and broken skin, revealing everything to find the beautiful place together inside of the knives.

Cast Size: 1M 1W 1 Any Gender
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Miriam has a problem. She’s engaged to an older, rich man but she’s with child despite the fact that she has “known not a man.” Her parents are no help and her betrothed, Joseph, for all his prayers, doesn’t believe in miracles. Everyone insists he accept this child as ‘King of the Jews’ but is this the same King those three ‘Magi’ are looking for or are they just out for a buck? As Miriam’s womb grows Joseph must make a decision — let wife and child die or believe the impossible and discover Love? A comedy written by a Jewish mother about the ultimate Jewish Mother, this play investigates the politics of sex and the politics of religion within the story of the coming of the new messiah.

Cast Size: 6M 3W (Doubling possible)
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

On the final night of spring semester, a newly-dating college couple meets in a dorm to prepare for a move. She is packing for a summer in Spain. He is trying to find out where things stand. Their rapid-paced banter tackles everything from Shakespearean quotes to sexy state capitals, from the rules of wishing to the perils of romance, from teddy bear voodoo dolls to the dreaded energy drink of death. As they fill up the boxes and open up about the relationship, their comical conversations, confrontations, and confessions explore past loves, present feelings, and future plans.

Cast Size: 1M 1W
Running Time: 45 minutes
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

This is a loose adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” decidedly not for children. The play begins with Alice Liddell playing with Charles Dodgson, and ends when Alice succeeds in getting into the garden. The twelve scenes explore aspects of Alice and Dodgson’s relationship with her through various character pairings and re-interpreted scenes (the Tea Party, the Caucus Race) from the novel.

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes

Broadway veterans, Mary Ellen and Mary both have had quite successful and satisfying careers. Now in their golden years, Mary invites Mary Ellen to dinner to question why they didn’t stay close. What caused them to become estranged for decades? Was it guilt from an illicit affair? Or envy that caused betrayal? After sorting through some cloudy memories, the truth comes out. Or does it? When they start sharing moment-to-moment intimacies, Mary proposes that they collaborate on a play about their lives to perhaps find the truth of their existence. Mary Ellen agrees and in the process of building their legacy project, their bonds begin to grow even stronger. Fact, fiction, fantasy and frustration all blend together in a bittersweet tale of trying to find meaning at this stage of their lives. What results is touching and totally unpredictable.

Cast Size: 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Based on a true story of rags to riches to redemption, Margaret grows up on a farm in thirteenth century Tuscany and blossoms into a beautiful teenager. She runs away with Arsenio, a handsome nobleman. When Arsenio is murdered, Margaret is cast out by his family and then by her cruel stepmother. She is taken in by a kindly friar and experiences religious visions. She becomes a nun, nurses the sick, and assists with an exorcism. Margaret goes on to establish a hospital and miracles are attributed to her. Margaret becomes a saint whose body remains incorruptible.

Cast Size: 4M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When seventeen-year-old purse thief Jeremy climbs through his bedroom window with some loot, the last thing he expects is to be followed by the middle-aged, asthmatic husband of the woman whose purse he stole. Jeremy has a lot going on: his mother is a television addict and always on his case, he used all his money to buy his crush (Ellen) flowers, and his dad has just died. The man who follows Jeremy is Leon, who wants his wife, Mona’s, purse returned. Jeremy and Leon meet for the supposed first time in Jeremy’s bedroom, but as the play goes back in time, we find this isn’t the first convergence between Jeremy and Leon’s families. A comedy that explores how our worlds are smaller than we think, and how our similarities connect us more than our differences.

Cast Size: 3M, 2W, 1 Teen B, 1 Teen G (with doubling)
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In the alternate London of 1820 during the reign of King Stanley V8, Elinor and Marianne Wood, the illegitimate daughters of Sir Henry Dashwood and his cook, have become Nell Dash and Nance. They find themselves whirling up against Fagin, The Artful Dodger, Miss Havisham, Celia and Polly Peachum, and a barber named Todd, among many others. Their vile half-sister-in-law, Lady Fanny Ferrars Dashwood, stops at nothing to keep them from getting a single penny of the fortunes accrued from the Dashwood Meat Packing Empire whilst at the same time tries to attain the two strands of pearls given the girls when they fled Devonshire years before, pearls which have mysteriously disappeared and have a strange history of their own.

Cast Size: 4M 4W 1GN
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Professor Sergei Kaminski, a noted expert on the “Butcher of Minsk” serial murders, champions the release of a man he believes has been falsely charged with the crimes. Opposing him is Major Natasha Baranski, an ambitious police official who is suspicious of the criminologist’s motives. Kaminski’s life begins to unravel when he is approached by the accused’s girlfriend who, believing that Kaminski is the real culprit, creates a fantastic and dangerous plan to free the prisoner. She wants him to commit another Butcher murder – this time on her.

Cast Size: 3M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

1969. Paulie Parcells, MIA in VietNam, assumed to be dead, appears a year later at his family’s New Jersey home. Julie, his old girlfriend, who’s been involved with his brother Nicky, returns to Paulie. And his father, Gus, who recently refused to buy a new truck for the younger Nicky, buys one for Paulie and invites him into the family business. Nicky, devastated by these betrayals, discovers a secret about Paulie’s tour in VietNam. In a desperate attempt to win back his father and Julie’s love, he embarks on an action that will bring havoc to this family forever.

Cast Size: 3M 2W
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

For our heroine, Joy, her story is a familiar one – a small town girl leaves home, and tries to make it in the big city. Except Joy’s story begins at the end, where we find her standing at a ballet barre in a pool of blood – murdered. NEW YORK CITY 523 is a whodunit hybrid play, which combines naturalism with impressionistic dialogue, choral work, fantasy, story theatre, and at the same time, incorporates movement elements and dance directly into the narrative. So put on your red shoes and dance the blues!

Cast Size: 2M 2F
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Night and Silence is the story of two professors who spend one evening battling over the ownership of art, literature, and death–all spurned by the discovery (by one of them) of Shakespeare’s missing play Love’s Labour’s Wonne. As the evening rolls onward, the stakes get higher and higher as violence erupts between the two–leaving only one left standing.

Cast Size: 2M
Running Time: 1hr 45min
Royalty: $75 per performance

Roy and Helen Akers live a quiet and peaceful life in their little home. Their tranquility is interrupted one night by the arrival of a trio of men who have managed to “unsuccessfully” rob a nearby bank. What follows next is a tense, humorous and even heartbreaking account of a group of people who are thrust together in the most unlikely of circumstances and the will to survive that drives them all.

Cast Size: 6M 1F
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Comedic slice-of-life story about a happy-go-lucky Chicago cab driver, Earnest, who loves to sing “Bluebird on my Shoulder” to keep the blues from overtaking his life, and Howard, a hard-driving businessman, who jumps into Earnest’s cab for a life changing ride to O’Hare Airport. As the two slowly make their way to the airport for Howard’s big trip to St. Louis, Earnest’s good nature begins to take hold of Howard and soon he is apologizing for his less than appealing behavior. As Earnest drives, the relationship between the two unlikely friends begins to grow. Before long they are exchanging life stories – how easy Howard’s life has been, but he still finds it necessary to sing the blues and how hard Earnest life has been but, despite the hardships, he usually finds a way to look at the bright side. Ken Crost’s charming one-act weaves a tale that not only entertains, but reminds us to always looks on the bright side.

Cast Size: 3M 2W
Running Time: 1 hr
Royalty: $40 per performance

A frazzled director in rehearsal for a musical finds herself contending with the executive director’s latest dimwitted girlfriend, who can’t sing, the quarrelsome male lead, who can’t quit complaining, and the executive director himself, who can’t stop interfering. His uncle, the owner of the theater, begins to wonder if the show really must go on. Music is forgotten when confusion takes the stage, as theater staff and cast members clash in pursuit of art, commerce, and romance.

Cast Size: 3M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In 1930, E.M. Forster met and fell in love with Bob Buckingham, a policeman 23 years his junior. Before long, fear of discovery forced Bob to court and marry May, a young nurse. The ensuring love triangle, turbulent and unique, evolved until Forster’s death nearly forty years later.

Cast Size: 3M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

“Norma’s Rest” explores the poignant journey of Norma, a compassionate woman running a sober living home. As she battles cancer and confronts her mortality, a local pastor presents a tempting offer to buy the home, stirring inner conflict. The play delves into themes of forgiveness, second chances, and the shared humanity that unites us, revealing that even the most flawed individuals are not so different from the rest of us.

Cast Size: 3W, 2M, 1NB
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Susan, in her 50’s, suddenly starts forgetting things and blanking out. It’s as if she’s suddenly left the room. Both her mother Joyce and her daughter, Alli have noticed this and become concerned. When, after mishaps at work and in her car, Susan is finally diagnosed with early onset dementia, the world of the three women changes drastically. Susan makes her mother promise to care for her at home. The grandmother and the daughter after making the promise, are forced to play caretaker and breadwinner as the dementia worsens. The grandmother and Alli pay the price as their lives begin to degrade as well. But a promise is a promise, isn’t it?

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
Cast Size: 1M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes

Everyone in mid-century Dublin knows Mamie Cadden — she’s the boorish woman who motors around the city in her bright red sports car. She also happens to be a notorious backstreet abortionist who profits off the secrets of Dublin’s most powerful men. When the body of pregnant Helen O’Reilly is found dumped outside of Mamie’s flat, the infamous nurse is sentenced to hang. Can a Divine intervention save Nurse Cadden’s soul before it’s too late?

Cast Size: 1M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

David has a talking penis named Richard that lands him smack in the middle of an emotional minefield after taking Kate home from the bar. She’s struggling to move forward from a bad relationship without exploding everything around her. He’s struggling to not be a dick about it. Things take a turn for the complicated when David falls in love with Kate’s friend Becky. Trying to make the whole thing NOT end badly becomes a very delicate dance.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

On the Air! is a farce-comedy that is set in New York City in the 1940s during the height of radio theatre. The workers of WLL are excited when the most popular show of the era, The Shroud, brings its cast and crew to their station to broadcast the famous program. When a dark figure dressed in the Shroud’s cloak begins causing havoc, chaos reigns in the station. As others begin cloaking themselves, the confusion and humor run amuck in this tribute to the golden age of radio and to the farce play.

Cast Size: 5M 3W
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

On the Expectation of White Christmases takes place in 1975 suburban New York from Christmas Eve through Christmas Day. It tells the story of Mary, an 11-year old girl who is waiting for her long-estranged father to show up for a Christmas dinner reconciliation. Mary lives (quite uncomfortably) in her Irish grandparents’ house with her mother Katherine. Her Nana, the unquestioned authority in her home, is decidedly against the prospect of hosting a dinner for the man who abandoned her daughter and pulls no punches in letting Mary know exactly what she thinks of him. Mary waits fruitlessly for her father’s arrival with her promised bike, but dinner and the rest of the night go by. When the father finally appears drunk at 3 in the morning, the entire family is forced to confront very real Christmas ghosts.With equal parts humor and pathos, On the Expectation of White Christmases explores the trials of familial love, hope and redemption.

Cast Size: 2M 4W 1G
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

Maya was eager to start her freshman year in college, but one night in September changed the landscape of her life forever. Plunged into an unexpected emotional turmoil, she found herself grappling with feelings she had never foreseen. Despite the presence of her supportive friends, can Maya navigate this darkness? Or will the secrets of that fateful night ultimately consume her?

Cast Size: 3M 4W 1NB
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Sometimes it takes a lifetime of stories to tell the story of a lifetime.

Sonia and Mason meet weekly to share stories from their individual lives. They tell each other just about everything – tales of unrequited love, an accidental shooting, posing in the nude, an abusive marriage, religious epiphanies, and nuns miniaturizing first-graders. Among many others. Tension mounts as each story reveals more about these two appealing individuals and the unexpected circumstances that led to their separation three decades before . . . and as Sonia begins missing their meetings without explanation. “One Time” uses humor to explore how social and religious constraints impact our most personal decisions . . . and how those decisions affect the lives of others and of ourselves.

Cast Size: 1M 1F
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Twenty years after their romantic and ultimately tragic encounter described in Alexander Pushkin’s great narrative poem EugeneOnegin, Onegin and Tatyana encounter each other at a spa in Odessa, and as they try to make sense of the events that pushed them apart years ago, we see them reliving these events and gradually are able to piece together the puzzle of their tragic love story. Onegin, a handsome and cynical young man, has inherited a rich uncle’s country estate, and is living there, burnt out and bored, until he is befriended by a young, idealistic poet named Lensky, who innocently brings his new friend to meet the Widow Larin and her two beautiful daughters: the fun-loving Olga, who Lensky loves, and her darker and stranger sister Tatyana, who reads books and looks at the moon. Tatyana falls hopelessly in love with Onegin, writes him a letter offering herself to him, and Onegin, rather to his own surprise, decides not to take advantage of her innocence. But later, at a ball celebrating Tatyana’s Name Day, Onegin dances one mazurka after another with Lensky’s love Olga, precipitating a duel and a tragic death. Later, Oneginencounters the married Tatyana in St Petersburg, married to a wealthy Prince, and finds himself hopelessly in love with her. Complex, moving and at times also surprisingly funny, this retelling of the greatest Russian poem is part of Nigro’s ongoing Russian cycle of plays.

Cast Size: 4M 4W
Running Time: 120+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Wyn, a newly-minted “wizard” with a brand-new wizard badge, recruits a tall dwarf, Hilda, and a forest elf, Acetaminophen (“Ceta” for short) to go on a quest to defeat the evil queen by finding the orb of Mags Guffin. Along the way they encounter a swamp lion, have to traverse the Lair of Nozid (whatever that is), deal with some very rude bully wizards, and come face-to-face with a dragon, among other things. Not to mention those strangely familiar-looking tavern workers in each town…

A loving homage to classic fantasy novels and role-playing games, Orb Quest: the Quest for the Orb features a cast of 8 (with doubling) and so, so many bananas. The final installment of the Banana Trilogy (whose stories are unrelated except for using bananas as props).

Cast Size: 2M 2W 4GN
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A darkly-humorous, yet, foreboding look at post 9/11 America, Osama Been Laughing gives witness to the collateral damage inflicted by Mary Leary’s terrorist-obsessed paranoid delusions… Mary spends her days glued to her telescope, scanning suburbia to rip the invisible terrorist weeds from her neighbors’ manicured lawns. When she convinces herself there are Al Qaeda wannabe’s in the neighborhood plotting the demise of western civilization, she turns to the only thing she believes has the clear answers, her religion. Can a conniving, pedophile priest be the one to convince her that her country’s salvation rests solely on the sacrifice of her only son?

Cast Size: 5M 1W
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

Jameson is a troubled community college student in love with Fiona, his Psychology 101 professor. Jameson has adored Fiona since he was a small boy and Fiona was his live-in nanny. Fiona is in love with David, Jameson’s extremely wealthy and powerful father who everyone regards as a genius and a wonderful man but who is in truth terribly cruel to Jameson. Jameson becomes convinced that David and Fiona had an earlier affair when Fiona was the nanny and this led to his mother’s suicide. Jameson resolves to expose the earlier affair, ruin his father, and free Fiona from his clutches. But how does a neurotic child defeat a genius father without becoming a genius oneself?

Cast Size: 3M 2W 1NB
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

How do you know your purpose in life?

When Maggie asked for guidance from the other side of the sky, she didn’t think she’d really get it. Or when she did, that it would be more confusing than ever before. With a best friend, a boyfriend, and now the Mother of God all offering advice, what on Earth or in Heaven is Maggie going to do?

Cast Size: 3M 1W
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

A drama with some comedy. While the characters are all middle school students, The Others Club should be performed by adult actors. A student starts a club for all the kids who feel left out of mainstream society. She gains five diverse members, but they face a huge challenge when two popular bullies decide to join as well — and, under the club’s rules, cannot be prevented. What do we do when our rules don’t protect us?

Cast Size: 4M 4W
Running Time: Under an hour
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

On the verge of a spiritual crisis, Barbara attempts to make up with her sister Annie before getting married to keep from bringing any of that baggage into her new life. That’s easier said than done when Barbara’s carrying a secret about their past and Annie can’t get over the fact that her pet turtle died – when she was five years old. Amid the difficulties of their reconciliation, Barbara’s Bride’s Maids are determined to give her a Bridal party to remember. Nothing can ruin Barbara’s big day except perhaps her domineering Mom and a therapist with a soothing voice and no boundaries. Will Barbara finally grow up and take control of her own life?

Cast Size: 1M 8W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Lucrece wanted a good man for a husband. She found one in Gerald. She wanted a sweet boy, a good son; she got one in Charlie. She wanted a picture-perfect little family; she’s had one. Now, she wants one last thing, a promise Gerald made her on her wedding night — all those years ago — that when the time had come, she could get a divorce. The time has come, in her opinion, and come today. Which is why we find Lucrece on her roof — on an otherwise average, run-of-the-mill Tuesday — having herself a very big day putting her foot all the way down, as she stands ready and willing to show Gerald and Charlie, that sometimes the only way to keep a family together is to tear them apart.

Cast Size: 2M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

What happens when you cross Agatha Christie with Monty Python? You get The Party – a sort of drawing room murder mystery set in a posh London apartment where everyone is either named Richard or Mildred, which adds to the sheer madness. Richard and Mildred have planned a dinner party for all of their best friends, but did Mildred send out the invitations? When Richard, a neighbor and uninvited guest, shows up in a tux and feigns ignorance of the party all hell breaks loose resulting in the unfortunate shooting death of the crasher. When no one else shows up, Richard and Mildred decide to head off into the night, leaving poor Richard’s body lying on their floor covered in a tablecloth. Later, Richard and Mildred discover that Richard’s body is no longer under the tablecloth. Where did it go? To help unravel this mystery, the police arrive in the form of Lieutenant Richards, and Richard and Mildred’s two best friends, Richard and Mildred, show up to lend their support. The play careens along until everyone is dead and the bodies have piled up like so much fire wood.

Cast Size: 4M 2W
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

In Arthur M. Jolly’s fellowship winning play Past Curfew, the dysfunctional relationship between a single mother and her teenage daughter erupts on the night 17 year-old Kirstie sneaks home late after a disastrous first date, and is caught by her mother, Sarah. During the course of one night, years of bitter conflicts gradually erupt as Sarah and Kirstie finally confront the unspoken issues between them through a vicious series of head games, where lies are buried under lies, and the truth is brought out only as the ultimate weapon. The arrival of Kirstie’s would-be boyfriend Michael only compounds the issues – but as dawn approaches, all the lies are stripped away; the core of their relationship is finally exposed – and can be rebuilt. Arthur M. Jolly -an academy recognized screen-writer and award winning playwright -explores some of his darkest territory yet in this harrowing drama.

Cast Size: 1M 2W
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

Caroline Nobles in a single mother living in the small Texas town of Horsenettle with her eight year-old daughter. At first glance, we think Caroline to be the epitome of the perfect mother. As the story unfolds, however, we find that Caroline will do anything to keep her daughter happy…including blackmail, lying, causing personal injury, and even murder!

Cast Size: 1M 1W
Running Time: 40 minutes
Royalty: $40 per performance

When Kira – a newly-single and struggling entrepreneur – finds out she is pregnant, she seeks support from her mother and sister, who bring with them their own birth-related baggage. As Kira prepares to bring new life into this world, she begins to question and examine her lineage, uncovering information that will change her family dynamic forever. Meanwhile, a parallel story unfolds as we see a woman journey through her own milestones across a lifespan. With each season of her life she finds herself rediscovering her own version of womanhood. Within both stories is a celebration of female empowerment, motherhood, sisterhood, and the women who lift us up.

Cast Size: 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

PERMAFROST is the third in a Climate Change Cycle of Plays which opened with “Starlight” and went back in time to “1969”; we find The Scientist in a room overlooking the Atlantic in the company of a Cat, poring through research and documents going back to the mid-19th Century which may hold the solution to climate change and extinction.

Cast Size: 1-2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Growing up gay in the “fabulous” 70s was no picnic for the precocious budding writer Phillie McDougal. Through nuns, priests, bullying classmates, parents – and years later the realization his best friend may not be the person he thought she was – he lived to tell the tales, with results no one bargained for. Including him.

Cast Size: 3M 4W with doubling
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate $75 per performance

In the ‘super-natural’ drama Piece of the Sky, the battle between fate and free will takes its toll as six souls search for meaning and truth outside of the confines of time.

Gilbert, while drinking to forget his troubles, introduces himself to Jack, who has stopped off at the bar to relax before heading home to his young son. Total strangers, Benjamin and Gabby, happen upon each other while celebrating the end of a long work week with friends. The two pairs’ soul-tending, angelic bartenders are struggling with the meaning of life and their responsibilities towards humanity. All six characters take a philosophical journey toward a deep understanding of their places in and out of time.

Cast Size: 3M 1W 2 ANY
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Sam has flown to Colorado from New York to visit her brother Tom, and to meet his much younger fiancée, Dee-Dee. But it turns out she has other reasons as well-she tells Tom she’s learned something specific about Dee-Dee, something he should know. He’s not interested in digging through her past, though, and instead turns the spotlight on Sam and her own hang-ups. Sam, impatient with being examined herself, tells Tom that what she flew out to tell him is that Dee-Dee used to star in pornographic videos. Tom decides to take the high road and not to let Dee-Dee’s youthful indiscretions poison his view of her. But Dee-Dee’s surprising reaction when he confronts her sends him over the edge, and the situation quickly becomes dangerous.

Cast Size: 1M 2W
Running Time: 1 hr 45 min
Royalty: $75 per performance

Valerie’s world is turned upside down when she learns she is being unjustly fired by St. Sebastian University. As she attempts to save her career from freefall, she discovers the corruption running rampant among her conservative, religious male colleagues. Meanwhile, Valerie’s star student, Marina, is lured into sex work to pay her tuition. As the costs become too high to bear, Valerie and Marina find the seedy underbellies of their career paths exposed, but which profession is more corrupt isn’t entirely clear. As religion, sex, and politics collide, both women must answer the question: how much should be sacrificed for a job?

Cast Size: 3M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In May 2018, a three-day traffic jam persisted on the Schuylkill Expressway—a pride of peacocks, escapees from the nearby Philadelphia Zoo, were purposefully marching down the side of the highway on a top-secret mission. The birds (Tom, Dick, Harry, and Pat) kept successfully evading capture, despite the efforts of zoo officials (Zoo Official) and state police (State Policeman), as covered by the press (Jim, Andrea). Two exhausted birds eventually returned to the zoo, one was hit by a car, and the youngest of them has yet to be found. This is their story, from their POV.

Cast Size: 5M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Needra and Marlene enjoy a perfect post-racial friendship until “black” robots walk into their lives. These automatons, based on Westinghouse’s 1930 brown-skinned robots, place them at opposite ends of society in an alternate past. This hilarious comedy delves into our traumatic legacy and explores new ideas about how to move forward.

Cast Size: 3M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

This comedy of “speculative fiction” explores inter-gender politics in a time when a “matriarchal” society has replaced the world order we know. In this time, procreation is a highly regulated business with forms to file, quotas to meet, and successful “mergers”absolutely essential. It’s perceived as the perfect system; a vast improvement over “the old way.” But is it really? One by-the-book “breeder” will be left to wonder that when he arrives at the estate of an eccentric woman for what he assumes will be a routine breeding “session.” What he discovers upon his arrival will be anything but routine!

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

THE REAL TALE OF JACK AND JILL gets to the bottom of what actually happened that day up on the famous “hill”. Jack and Jill are 25 years old and still living in their parent’s ramshackle hut – sans plumbing. When their cousin Dave and his friend George unexpectedly drop by on their way to Waxahachie, TX to become professional kissers – the day quickly deteriorates. Before long, the foursome find themselves up on the hill battling falling buckets of water, flying knives, mad cow disease, and amnesia. The truth would have come out years ago if Mother Goose wasn’t such a pathological liar.

Cast Size: 3M 1W
Running Time: About an Hour
Royalty: $40 per performance

RED & SCOOTER is a Hollywood story of the meeting of a woman with a dream of stardom and an old timer who’s seen almost all of it and doesn’t care much anymore. RED, who is no longer in her 20’s, has come to Hollywood to escape Wilkes-Barre, Pa. She pays a visit to SCOOTER, a film director with little to do but drink and play with his electric trains. She’s got an audition the next day for a big television show and is desperate for help. SCOOTER thinks she’s cute, so despite his better judgment, he decides to give her a hand. They end up singing, dancing, performing magic, eating Chinese food, and falling in love…if only for a little while. When the night ends, RED goes off for her big chance and SCOOTER returns to his trains. It’s New Year’s Eve: December 31, 1949.

Cast Size: 1M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate $75 per performance

Granny hasn’t been visited by her red-hooded grandson in a while, and with Dementia being the only one keeping her company, she can’t remember how long it’s been or who he is when he waltzes through her door. In this contemporary twist on Little Red Riding Hood, what Wesley thought would be a simple trip to Granny’s house, turns into a battle against Dementia to remind her who he is…long enough to reveal the reason behind his spontaneous visit.

Cast Size: 1M 2W
Running Time: Under an Hour
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

“Hen” Loudin, a self-absorbed middle-aged man has shut himself off from the distractions and annoyances of the outside world, aided by his opinionated assistant Ginnie who runs errands-and interference–on his behalf. One day, Hen’s neighbor, the free-spirited Lissie bursts into his life, creating havoc with his well-ordered existence. Exasperated and enchanted by this distraction, Hen begins to recognize his self-imposed limitations and to yearn for something more. At the same time, Ginnie grows jealous of Lissie’s influence on Hen. “If you’re waiting for him to notice you, you could be waiting a long time,” Lissie cautions. “Just remaining in someone’s orbit is not enough. Not when it’s some-one like Hen.” Angered, Ginnie makes a desperate and impulsive move that causes Hen to see both of them in a new light. “Orbit” is a seriocomic examination of co-dependence between three slightly dysfunctional people each seeking a chance at happily-ever-after.

Cast Size: 1M 2W
Running Time: 2hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

2020 Chernobyl. Jim arrives at the infamously contaminated site of the dilapidated nuclear reactor to take part in a secret new life-changing treatment that promises to help him attain his “best self.” But what he thinks is a self-help retreat turns out to be less of a day at the spa and more of a mind-bending quantum physics experiment, one that will reveal the shocking truths of what the future actually holds for him. Could his “best self” be the key to mankind’s salvation?

Cast Size: 3M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Riley, living with PTSD, navigates the loss of her grandfather while her older sister, Shae, imagines a new life for herself outside of her marriage. Their grandfather’s will reveals a surprise: a huge sum of money that could change their lives. Shae is desperate for the money, but Riley has serious reservations — all of which can be explained by a mysterious envelope that Riley urges Shae to open. But Shae is reluctant to be pulled into another of Riley’s “dramatic stunts.” As they clear out their childhood home, the sisters come to terms with their fractured relationship and try to see a new way forward together.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Three sisters journey back to the place that has been their biggest source of contention – Roswell, New Mexico. To the oldest, it is a place of wonder. But to the others, it brings only frustration. Perhaps, though, this trip will be different. Perhaps this time they will find something truly out of this world.

Cast Size: 3W
Running Time: 60 minutes
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Earth. The near future. When technology brings the world to the brink of disaster, a new regime decides to dream it all up again: the children. Round Went the Wheel opens in a waiting room, fitting for a play about the nature of time. For David, every second that passes is a frustrating reminder of his lack of purpose in this brave new world. Today is different: he’s invited for a rare interview with the “Boy”, the leader of the retro-revolution. But David’s wife, Eloise, has other plans: she’s pregnant, and a baby in this world will surely be taken. With time running out, will she risk everything to protect her child? Featuring a generation-spanning cast of eight, this dystopian thriller imagines a future built from the pillars of the past. It’s time…to begin again.

Cast Size: 3M 3W 1B 1G

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When an African-American “deserter” wanders into the camp of the Irish Brigade near Gettysburg, conflicts intensify, but the soldier carries an old statue that his family calls “Saint Somebody,” since they don’t know her real name. Based on real events at The Wheatfield, the play, SAINT SOMEBODY, suggests one solution as to how the Brigade of 600 held back Confederate troops for three days when they were outnumbered by thousands. What the Irish Brigade needed—and found—was a miracle. A play about the women and other unsung heroes in the Civil War, SAINT SOMEBODY explores a part of history that has not been dramatized. It confronts the brutalities of war (to include behind-the-battlefield issues), and the characters demonstrate love’s resilience and the necessity of hope to keep the spirit alive in dire straits.

Cast Size: 3M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A child disappears and the detective investigating the disappearance, childless herself, assumes the father of the child is guilty. The father, bereft at having looked away from his child for a moment, is at first willing to take the blame for the loss of his child, guilty or not. But then, forming a strange duo with the detective, other possibilities drive father and detective into ever more dangerous personal waters, where both chance drowning. From this simple plot, “The Same Life Over” spins a complex web of deceit and compassion.

Cast Size: 3M 2W 1F toddler mannequin
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

Living in the Appalachian foothills in Northeast Georgia, Abetta Asbury has an unusual gift: the ability to enter the minds of others and remove their pain and suffering through a psychic process her family calls bleeding. After her sister-in-law, Bella, convinces her to ignore a generations-old warning about bleeding family members, Abetta begins to bleed her shut-in brother, Harlan, with disastrous results. Harlan’s greatly improved mood coincides with a series of mysterious murders. And as Harlan seems to get better, Ethan, Abetta’s patient and crush, begins to slide further and further into mental decline. As Abetta tries to strike an impossible balance, she begins to learn about the unpredictable consequences of trying to mold the world into a happier place.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Time does not heal all wounds. Best friends Jessica and Sam each have scars from their pasts that have not healed. Jessica has never been able to get past an extremely damaging romantic relationship from her formative years in college, while Sam has been ignoring a painfully fractured relationship with her sister. After years of denial, an impromptu lunch date and a surprise overnight guest forces them both to confront these wounds and face what they didn’t want to see head on.

Cast Size: 2M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

What do we do when the past refuses to let the present move into the future? Five contemporary women find themselves bound in varying degrees to what happened to Eastern European Jews during World War II. Four of the women are second- and third-generation descendants of Holocaust victims. The fifth is a survivor herself. The protagonist in the play is losing her sense of identity in a debilitating way. She needs to know details of what happened to the survivor, her grandmother, or all will be lost. In desperation she reaches out to strangers and the stories unfold, the secrets are revealed. With varying degrees of success, the past is confronted and dealt with. Based on true stories and extensive interviews.

Cast Size: 5W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

This is the story of Lisa Duvall, a rising young operatic soprano who is understudying the great role of Tosca in Puccini’s opera of that name. Set backstage at Opera California, the play provides a rare and fascinating view into the hothouse world of opera. A controlling conductor-fiancé, a legendary diva, a starstruck young composer, a sarcastic gay brother, and a singing ghost are just some of the colorful characters who add to the chaos of Lisa’s life, as she struggles to come to grips with the daunting role and hopefully earn her first contract at the Met.

Cast Size: 4M 4W
Running Time: 120+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Seven charming and sometimes fiery Southern lesbians volunteer to plan the first LGBTQ prom for the local high school students. The twenty plus years of life since college have not dulled the jealousy and unrequited love of a few of the old friends. A successful sorority sister returns to town determined to romance the woman she has loved all of her life. Grief and mourning are on full display as the lovers expose their separate pain. As prom night arrives, plans unravel, infidelities are revealed and these women are forced to confront their fears. The first dance commences at dusk on the worn floor of the café in hopes that dreams really can come true.

Cast Size: 7W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When three sisters reunite for a reunion, they discover they re all having romance troubles. The recent widow is diving back into the world of dating, the newlywed is worried she has made a mistake yet again, and the youngest has become invisible to her husband. Can they all help each other solve their problems?

Cast Size: 2M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Single Again is a laughter-and-tears play about middle-aged, post-divorce dating. Robin goes on a couple of dates from hell, attends a singles reception, and embarks on three very different relationships. What knits the play together and impacts the relationships is Robin’s evolving relationship with her father and how that influences her choice of men. Single Again is kind of a Heidi Chronicles when Heidi hits middle age. Robin exhibits her vulnerabilities, fears and desire to be loved as well as her increasing awareness of the complexity of relationships and her emotional growth.

Cast Size: 4M 2W
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

THE SINLESS portrays the conflict between faith and desire. Annabelle and Tuvia are a married Orthodox Jewish couple living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Tuvia is a rabbinical student and a man of deep faith, whereas Annabelle got swept up in the religious life due to its readily available community, a balm for the loneliness of being young and single. However, she is ambivalent about her marriage and the constricting religious world she finds herself in. When Tuvia leaves for the weekend to go to his brother’s bachelor party in Atlantic City, Annabelle embarks on a rebellious journey of exploration to indulge her deepest, unspoken desires. When Tuvia unexpectedly returns early, they must both confront the uneasy state of their marriage and the fictions which bind their lives.

Cast Size: 1M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

“…immediate assistance to fetch us off the Smalls before the next Spring or we fear we shall all perish, our water near all gone, our fire quite gone and our house in a most melancholy manner.” – Henry Whiteside, builder of Small’s Lighthouse, January 1777

Staring out into the cold oblivion of the Irish Sea, Thomas Griffith and Thomas Howell must fight for their lives trapped inside the Small’s Lighthouse; a tree house built on the edge of the universe swaying back and forth amidst the relentless violent waves and unforgiving storms off the coast of Wales.

Cast Size: 3M 1W
Running Time: 45 minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Six Feet Apart is a series of monologues focusing on the impacts of living during the COVID-19 pandemic. The individual interviews were conducting via Zoom with five friends during February 2021-June 2021 focusing on the topics of: the beginning of the pandemic, life in quarantine, the impact on jobs, COVID hitting home, coping, COVID summer, and coming together. This project reflects an intersection of those stories at a time we thought we had seen it through to the end.

Cast Size: 1M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In Six Sour Raspberries, the universal concept of unrequited love is explored in alternatively comedic and dramatic sequences that unfold over the course of five years in the lives of Duv, a thirty-something writer and his best friend since high school, Callie. Duv has long carried a torch for his friend Rob who is in a committed relationship elsewhere, and Callie is making the first tentative overtures to Lori, a new co-worker. Told in fast-paced scenarios that play out with almost no break between, the audience bears witness to clumsy attempts at flirtation, heartfelt confessions of true feelings, and a heated debate over just who is the sexiest castaway on Gilligan’s Island.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

1966. In an all-Black private middle school on Chicago’s south side, precocious young Sunny befriends the new White history teacher, but her best friend, a budding young radical, doesn’t approve, and the older boy she has a crush on, is mysteriously quiet. In this coming-of-age story, the characters confront their deepest secrets in a thorny struggle to understand themselves, each other and the changing world around them.

Sex, Secrets, Civil Rights and Surviving the Holocaust– how does a Black girl make it through junior high?

Cast Size: 3M 2W
Running Time: 120+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

An “old dark house” mystery about our war on facts. It’s 1931 and Dorrington, America’s most brilliant detective, is trapped on an island with some of the country’s most elite socialites. As the evening wears on and backstabbing plots are revealed, Dorrington becomes convinced that the house is under siege by Diabolicus – a master criminal that no one has ever seen, Dorrington realizes that he must do whatever it takes to convince the others that Diabolicus is responsible – even if he doesn’t even exist.

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cast Size: 4M 2W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Snowball is a fantasy comedy set in the present day in a suburban home. It’s about a middle-aged couple who run a business together but whose marriage is in trouble. But then their recently deceased cat Snowball returns, reincarnated as a young woman. Unfortunately, she still has the habits and characteristics of a cat. They try their best to teach her how to behave like a human being, but without much luck. She winds up turning their lives upside down, which in the end is just what they needed to save their marriage.

Cast Size: 3M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Brother and Queenie wait in the colored chapel at Angola State Prison, Louisiana, for a Maundy Thursday foot washing during Holy Week 1934, their last before their death sentence. Floyd, another prisoner, kills Queenie in the chapel, and, in the second act, Queenie finds himself dining in the kitchen in Heaven with Floyd, posing as David, the New Orleans police officer who had Queenie sent to prison.

Cast Size: 4M
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Plasmatics is an inner-city blood plasma donation center that hosts a diverse, multi-generational band of donors who exchange plasma for money. The center is the life’s work of Darla, a self-made businesswoman who has long treated the donors at her facility like a family, but after a business deal gone wrong, the means of survival are threatened for donors and staff alike. The intelligent, but domineering Sandridge, wise and kind Mr. Bobby, earthy Lindy, conservative Kinnon, observant Ros, and more, are left to define family, expose the boundaries of capitalism, trust, and racial inequity as they wrestle with haunting pasts, the hard-scrabble present, and uncertain futures.

Cast Size: 4M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Alan and Rose are a middle-aged couple in the midst of “empty nest syndrome” and trying to reconnect during a weekend getaway. Matthew and Daniel are brothers staying in an adjacent room at the same small motel. Into their midst wanders mysterious, aloof Amy, barefooted and wearing a bedraggled bridesmaid’s dress. Over the course of the next two days, as Amy’s story comes to light, the lives of all five people become intertwined. SOMEONE ELSE’S LIFE demonstrates that sometimes, it’s easier to confide in a perfect stranger than it is to talk to someone who knows you well. And no matter how content we may be, there are moments when each of us finds ourselves wishing that, even for a short while, we could live “someone else’s life.”

Cast Size: 3M 2W
Running Time: 2hrs
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Based on the work of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, the Sound of Silence follows Robert Graham and Anna Hart as they embark on their pursuit of following their dreams in showbiz. The two cross paths at the most renowned theater in Hollywoodland. Robert is working as a stagehand and Anna is starring in her first play. Upon meeting, the two heroes experience love at first sight only to be separated and brought together for the rest of their lives. Will their love be able to persist through the trials and tribulations or will it fall by the wayside? Only one thing is certain…silence is golden, but true love is pure.

Cast Size: 2M 1W 3+ Gender Neutral
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Set seven years in the future, during the second American Civil War, South Star is the story of a survivor, an inspiration, a reluctant hero who wishes she could just stop running. Stelfinds herself in the company of two men – one an apparent victim, and one an apparent predator. What commences is a figurative game of three-card-Monty; the stakes are Stel’s life.

Cast Size: 1M 1W 1MorW
Running Time: Under an hour
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Space Leader Grizelda Braithwaite, Space First Officer Keem, and Space Officer Expendable are sent on a dangerous mission to recover a space diplomat – or is he a space prince? – from his kidnapping by the Big Dipper Syndicate. Along the way they encounter any number of obstacles, hula hoops, and also bananas. Many, many bananas. This outer-space comedy is loosely based on a certain beloved 50+-year-old sci-fi franchise.

Cast Size: 1F 1M 1NB 5M/F
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In a world where you swipe to hookup and ghost to end a relationship, finding something meaningful, or even just normal feels nearly impossible. Hard-edged Bridgie and quirky, buttoned-up Kate navigate the New York City dating landscape in an attempt to find something real in the parade of 10 guys that pass through their midtown bar. Based on true life stories and spectacularly failing the Bechdel test, Squirrel Screams and Other Dating Sounds is an honest look at how difficult it is to date in the new millennium and how the relationships we find aren’t always the ones we’re looking for.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Maggie has to take her beloved car to be junked. En route, she’s visited by the memories of the defining moments of her life. Her car has witnessed love and heartbreak, rejected bad boyfriends, held her in times of great trauma, participated in the creation and destruction of relationships, and maybe, just maybe, it will help her out one last time.

4M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A woman lawyer, Bayley, and her girlfriend, Shue, a struggling classical musician, see their relationship teeter as Bayley’s mother falls to Alzheimer’s and the looming memories of her own unloving marriage to a lighting scientist. In stylized storytelling with the World’s Fair in the background and the WNBA in the foreground, Bayley seeks to recharge her life and chart a new path.

Cast Size: 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A comedy about two lonely New Yorkers on a high stakes blind date. Stella, a chatty, lovable dog trainer is no stranger to the world of J-Date, a label she longs to shed. Even with her intense baggage and deep-dark secrets, she has a hopeful shot tonight with Isaac, an affable, jazz-loving, alcoholic schoolteacher with his own skeletons in tow. Adding to the tension of the night is a third character, Don, a bully, a “Force” — born from Stella’s own neurosis — out once again to destroy her last chance at love, sanity, and happiness.

Cast Size: 2M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Stud Ducks and Horny Toads follows the misadventures of Milton Day and his grandson, Russell, as they blaze a trail of bull$#!+ across West Texas in this All-American comedy of warmth, wit, family, and taxidermied lizards!

Winner of the 2003 KCACTF Region III One-Act Playwriting Competition.

Cast Size: 4M 2W 1B
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 performance

Independent, tart-tongued, and unorthodox, herbalist-healer Grace sticks out like a witch’s teat in a God-fearing community and stands accused of conjuring a late-term miscarriage, bewitching crops, and shapeshifting. When the court orders a trail by water, Grace is stripped and cross-bound in a burlap sack and ducked into the waters of Lynnhaven River. Will she sink or swim?

Cast Size: 4M 5W
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

Dave and Pete Granger, age 17, are twin brothers in rural Ohio in 1970. Dave enlists in the Army as a combat medic and is sent to Vietnam. Pete, a piano prodigy and gay, goes to Canada to pursue his education in music and avoids the draft. Their parents – Hal, a veteran of the Korean War, and Deb, a nurse – are left to deal with the consequences of their sons’ actions and their future as a family. Over the next five years, their lives are changed forever by the war and the choices each of them has made.

Cast Size: 3M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Henson, an aging best-selling author with writer’s block wearily returns home after speaking at a conference, looking forward to quality time with Rachel, his much younger fiancé who has herself just arrived from taking care of her elderly mother. Rachel discovers a real estate contract has arrived; without asking her, Henson has bought back his old family home, in a restricted community. If the past represents a haven to one and anguish to another, can a couple find common ground in the present?

Cast Size: 1M 1W
Running Time: 40 minutes
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Cassandra has only one functional, fulfilling relationship in her life, and that’s with Izzy – her cat. When he dies in her arms, she is plunged into debilitating grief and sets out to find him. What follows is a rumination on morality and personal journey through sorrow and back, ultimately, to a newly negotiated comfort.

Cast Size: 1M 2W
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

Sandy and Morgan, both attractive and seventeen, are set for a fun night at their beach house in New Jersey. Morgan is a great student, Sandy is a little prettier, but they have been best friends forever. Jimmy, a motorcycle riding bad boy who Sandy has secretly met ,comes over to pick up Sandy for a date that Morgan knows nothing about. Morgan is at first jealous and abandoned, and then tries to steal Jimmy for herself.

Cast Size: 1M 2W
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty: $75 per performance

Ellie Wolcott, a Southern Baptist woman fearing a tepid and lonely old age, attempts to reunite her daughter, Kate, with long time paramour Alan John in order to salvage her remaining years with some semblance of dignity. When Kate shows up with an unexpected “guest”, Ellie is forced to confront many demons including her ideas about race, biology, bigotry, and sexuality.

Cast Size: 1M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

On the evening of Sunday, June 24th, 1973, thirty-two men perished in a fire at The Upstairs Lounge, a sanctuary bar for working-class homosexual men in New Orleans. On that same evening, several blocks north, nearly a dozen women, including a gifted young nursing student, Sydney (Syd) Trahan, were taken into custody and charged with lewd and lascivious conduct for dancing together at Brady’s, a notorious lesbian bar in the French Quarter. Hopeful that the deadly fire and the controversy surrounding its multiple victims might overshadow Syd’s arrest, Bud, a reputable blacksmith, and Helen, a God-fearing woman, do everything in their power to curtail the impact of their daughter’s transgression on their seemingly near perfect lives.

Cast Size: 2M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

As Natalie and Steve return from taking their last child off to college, we see they are not the stereotypical couple suffering from empty nest syndrome. Steve has rented some X-rated movies to spice up their marriage; however, their plans for the romantic weekend are thwarted by the nonstop visits from their dysfunctional family members, and this makes for a hilarious romp of a weekend.

Cast Size: 3M 5W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Nick and Tammy injured their daughter, Teenie, when she was an infant. After a short prison sentence, they were able to turn their lives around and start a new family…but Teenie remained completely debilitated and bed-ridden, under the custody and care of a woman named Marion. Just after Teenie’s eighteenth birthday, Marion grants Nick and Tammy permission to visit her for the first time in all those years, so that they can see the long-term effects of what they did. When things take a turn during the visit, Nick and Tammy find themselves confronted with brand new consequences for something they did as teenagers.

Cast Size: 3M 3W 1M/W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In the New York City Asylum for the Insane in 1843, Eliza Clemm tells the story of how she murdered her father, Edgar Clemm. In doing so, she desperately insists that she is not insane and beseeches the audience to understand her reason for the crime. As she is repeatedly told by an unfeeling nurse, a brutish orderly, and the memory of her cruel father that the asylum is where she belongs, Eliza begins to accept her fate and considers embracing her new life among the lunatics. This retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s frightening tale retains the horror found in his original short story.

Cast Size: 2M 2W
Running Time:50-60 minutes
Royalty: $40 per performance

Talk shows abound in today’s media, but did you know they also existed in the Elizabethan period? No? Then travel back in time to the Globe Theatre with this production of The Terry Stinger Showto meet the great Terry Stinger, talk host extraordinaire, who welcomes members of the feuding families, the Capulets, and the Montagues. Watch as we learn of their family secrets, including the special one that only Romeo and Juliet know about, and then watch the sparks fly, especially when, Ethyl, Romeo’s secret lover appears; I bet you never heard about her? And let’s not forget the ever-present, period correct, commercials that are offered, yes, even back then, to help in financially supporting the show. The Terry Stinger Show is a parodic take on today’s talk shows set in the Elizabethan period. You know Shakespeare would have done this if he’d thought of it. And who knows, maybe he did?

Cast Size: 4M 4W
Running Time: 30 minutes
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

In a crumbling chain hotel, two estranged daughters, come together to care for their dying, demented mother. Each of their traumatic pasts and shaky futures converge in one night of surreal, burlesque devastation. Together, this prickly family of three, find their deepest love, longing, and losses as they attempt to escape an ancestry of demons as well as the rented room they seem unable to leave.

Cast Size: 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A popular teacher, to teach critical thinking and provoke debate, tells his eleventh-graders that the Holocaust didn’t happen. When the press gets word, sharp battle lines are drawn in his small ski-resort town.

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
Cast Size: 3M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes

In this dark comedy play, three high-borne women in Victorian Era England must face a brutal reality when the patriarch of the family passes away, leaving them with no money and with little hope for the future. When a strange man appears at the doorway, it seems that hope may be restored. Or will it only get worse from there?

Cast Size: 2M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Inspired partially by the biblical story of Jacob and the sisters Rachel and Leah, who become his wives, the play follows the changing dynamics between the three characters as their lives keep spinning in time. The story begins to unravel on a first, mythical isle where Jacob, Rachel, and Leah first meet and form their frail, yet long-lasting triangle. Coming to an abortive end, the story then picks up on a historical isle, Ukraine, 1918, then on another, Germany, 1943, and yet another – New York, the present day. Rachel, Leah, and Jacob mature in History — as History itself comes of age.

Cast Size: 1M 2W 1B
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Tinderbox takes place during the East St. Louis Riots of 1917. The Potts Family, black migrant workers from the South, arrive along with 470 other blacks in February 1917 at the height of management-labor conflict and increased racial tensions in industrial East St. Louis. The play leads up to the May 27 conflicts leading up to the deadly July 2 attacks by white rioters on blacks, the wanton destruction of property in the black section of East St. Louis, and the senseless massacre of hundreds of Blacks. The mob violence escalates, threatens the South End section of East St. Louis where they live, and the Potts are forced to defend themselves from imminent danger.

Cast Size: 4M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A play about philosophy, love, and saving the Universe: Set in a desolate post-apocalyptic land called “the Universe” characters Hannah (a young woman philosopher from “the Beyond”) and Vlad (an older male teacher from “the Beyond”) come together to “help” the people of the universe: the Citizens and the Givers. Six actors are required to play the Citizens and Givers, each role can be played by any gender. All roles can be played by any race or ethnicity. Centers female characters. Dystopian drama that is experimental, fantasy, and political. A distinctly original take on the legacy of totalitarianism.

Cast Size: 1M 1W 6 Any
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Dina Kummerspeck, a filmmaker in a small country that isn’t America, has been taken by the newly-fascist government and tortured for making supposedly seditious films. Now returned home under house arrest with an electric shackle on her ankle, she and her husband Tomas invite over their actor friends for a party, but unbeknownst to them, it’s going to be a secret reading of Dina’s new screenplay loosely based on her torture.

Cast Size: 3M 3W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

TRASH takes place entirely in a dump – a municipal landfill, where two estranged sisters have come to look for a letter from their mother. They’ve come from their mother’s funeral – the first time they’ve seen each other in years, and as they dig through the literal and metaphorical trash heap, they get further and further into their complicated relationship – and with the lives they led under the shadow of a domineering mother who still controls and influences them even after her death.

Cast Size: 2W
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty: $60 per performance

Aaron Barnes, a widower, lives next door to an interracial couple who do their best to avoid his racist, sexist, and homophobic rants. Aaron seeks help for depression, but he is administered an experimental drug and changes into Erin, a younger African American woman. Vanessa, a transgender Latina, offers Erin advice on how to accept his new identity. Erin meets Tess, a lesbian whom he decides to date. By the end of Erin’s journey, Aaron learns some powerful lessons about acceptance by walking in the shoes of someone very different from himself.

Cast Size: 4M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Resist or collaborate? Risk everything or lie low? Go along or get out? Ordinary people must make life-altering choices as the Ku Klux Klan pits neighbor against neighbor in a small Indiana town in the 1920’s. The religious prejudice and xenophobia of a century ago still echo in contemporary American society.

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cast Size: 3M 4W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

A Tree Grows in Longmont: A year after Allen’s death, Philip visits the park in Longmont, Colorado, where a tree has been planted in his memory. There he meets with Allen’s spirit, and they remember their life together.

Allen’s Big Adventure: Memories come flooding back as a spouse says goodbye to his soulmate.

Last Exit: Moving day brings closure to a relationship. Or does it?

Going for a Walk with Sam: Allen, Sam, and Philip meet up at a park in the spirit of remembering good times and the last time they were together.

Another Park, Another Sunday: Allen and Jill, two spirits, meet up every Sunday at the park to talk about life, the universe, the meaning of life, and peaches.

Cast Size: 3M (1 dog), 1W
Running Time: Variable
Royalty Rate: $75 for the whole evening, contact for individual plays

Nell is the human incarnation of the Yoruba God Esu Elegba, who is being forced to live a mortal life as penance for human deformities and suffering. We are given a glimpse of three time periods: her life in Southern Louisiana; during the Harlem Renaissance; and finally, Nell as an old woman, nearly forgotten by everyone.

Cast Size: 3M 2W Plus Dancers
Running Time: 1hr 10 minutes
Royalty: $40 per performance

Set in a bar in the late 1960s, as old and new worlds collide in violent fashion, the story revolves around Jack, a charismatic yet dangerous bartender, who thinks getting over is winning, and Evie, his protégé, a young woman seeking acceptance and adulthood by adopting the attitudes and icons of the past . . . until it hurts too much.

Cast Size: 4M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cat and Mouse – Marcus Meekus is a Hollywood movie director. Jade is bussing tables having just appeared in her first acting role — a tampon advert. When their paths cross, Jade thinks her life will change forever, but both are in for a shock.

Sylvie and Sly – Sylvie and Sly tells the tale of an aging actress, who is in denial about her tragic reality, and decides to save a floundering career with the help of a devoted friend and social media.

Beach Break – Beach Break, two young female friends go away to a holiday resort to escape problems at home. It’s only a matter of time before something terrible happens. Something that will have dark and explosive repercussions.

Cast Size: Flexible
Running Time: 60+ minutes for all plays, 15-25 for individual works
Royalty Rate: $75 for the full evening, $25 for individual plays

Shortly after her husband’s premature passing, Cedar finds herself with two new tenants in her home. Her husband would have eased the transition of Dawn, her mother-in-law, but now that task is up to her. Then there’s Reed, whose baggage is mostly metaphorical, except for the turtle, Ambrose. The three must learn how to cohabitate while Cedar prepares to bring yet another member into the household, an adopted baby.

Cast Size: 1M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Twelve short interconnected plays based in modern day France at Christmas time. Twelve stories set in Paris, Brittany, Normandy and Provence which weave together wild boars and hunters, swans on the Seine, partridges in plum trees, lonely lovers and more…

Cast Size: 2M 4W w/ Flexible Casting
Running Time: 60+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Type O Negative is a mystery/thriller with two women vying for the affections of a philandering opera producer. When the producer’s ex-wife hires the new girlfriend for some secretarial work, it sets in motion a complicated web of deceit, betrayal, and revenge. With their passions for the same man driving them, the women devise dangerous schemes to eliminate the other from the love triangle. Who will survive their confrontation?

Cast Size: 2M
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty Rate: $60 per performance

In March of 1978, Gantscho Ganev and Roman Wardas, two Polish refugees living in Switzerland, exhumed the mortal remains of a certain silent film star in order to hold them for ransom. This story is as true as it is unbelievable. And while the Who, What, When, Where and How are all matters of fact, the question of Why is…up for question. In an unlikely yet romantic blend of comedic farce and dramatic realism, both satirical and lyrical, this revisionist account explores why these two desperate men would commit such an absurd crime on that strange and surreal night.

Cast Size: 2M
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A collection of quirky characters gather for a focus group about why Americans don’t vote. The neurotic moderator loses control of the participants, resulting in a melee of violence and exploding peanuts. The audience then sees what’s happening behind the two-way mirror, revealing that the moderator and participants are not what they seem. Chaos ensues as the group, and the room itself, falls into ruin while a few, desperate souls attempt to save the country from destruction. This modern comedy is about apathy and its disastrous effect on American democracy.

Cast Size: 3M 5F
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

High-powered film executive Caroline Davis is on her way to a very important meeting on the Oregon coast. Preoccupied with phone calls, she takes a wrong turn and ends up stuck in the mud, on an old logging road. Thunder rolls. Cell service drops. Rain begins to pour. But there’s a light, in the distance. A cabin in the woods. Perfect! Caroline jumps out of the car and hurries off, through the rain, in search of a phone, unaware that her life is about to change forever, thanks to a mysterious old woman who lives in the cabin. Her name is Violet Underwood, and she’s the last living resident of Valsetz, Oregon – Population 1.

Cast Size: 2W
Running Time: Over an Hour
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Junie Holguin returns home after three days and learns he’s been dead for three years. To figure out his death and his life he returns to his mother, his wife, and his daughter. Love, forgiveness, and magic play an important part in Junie learning who he really is.

Cast Size: 1-2M 3F
Running Time: Under sn Hour
Royalty Rate: $50 per performance

Dan and Eric have a new marriage license, a new baby, and a new house in the country. As they settle into this new life, Dan is having what seem to be sleepwalking episodes. A ghost story told by a young visitor leads Eric to suspect that Dan’s sleepwalking incidents are actually something far more sinister — but are they what he thinks they are? Or are there other forces at work? WAKE is a ghost story for the post-AIDS generation, a play about marriage, expectations, and the power of narrative to both heal and harm.

Cast Size: 4M 1W
Running Tine: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival. An ordinary woman, Isabel Kennard has to protect her daughter, Anna-Jane against alien invaders who are taking over the Earth. Based on the novel by H.G. Wells.

Cast Size: 10M 8W 2B 1G 2Puppeteers 2 Violinists
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A family drama set in the Piney Woods of East Texas. A fiesty elderly woman, Dottie, has ended her own life, but returns to help her daughter come to terms with her decision. She forms a magical connection with her young granddaughter and with the neighbor, whom the granddaughter calls Mrs. Alzheimer’s.

Cast Size: 1M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

“The Way Station” is the story of three strangers from different places and times, each pulled out of their travels and dropped off at a mysterious way station.

As they search for a way to escape and move on, Daisy, Thomas, and Jack pull and push each other to admitting their transgressions. At this surreal crossroads, no excuse, lie, or self-delusion holds up to the scrutiny of the others, and each person must find the strength to see themselves truly and honestly. Only then may they move on.

Cast Size: 2M 1W
Running Time: 45 minutes
Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Several years after the country falls under the sway of criminal corruption, Maddie (a former activist turned convenience store clerk) finds herself stuck in her dead-end job, without hope and unable to move forward. When a gun-toting convenience store burglar convinces her to embrace the new America and turn to crime, Maddie embarks on a surreal journey involving a punk rocker, an philandering academic, a former child actor and a man in a giant penguin suit. WAYS TO BE HAPPY is a post-Trumpian comedy about rediscovering hope when you’re surrounded by insanity.

Cast Size: 3M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Anna is called suddenly to the surprise wedding of her prominent widowed father. The unknown bride threatens to ruin the Ellsworth’s beloved Indiana home. And she’s Canadian! The ceremony is timed to occur during the fall Equinox on a remote Great Lakes island resort where, seven years ago, Anna met and lost the love of her life. Since then, she’s become a bitter technical writer who loses her lunch at the first hint of an “I do.” As the family gathers for the ceremony, they uncover alarming details – Wiccan rituals, carnival schemes, dubious land deals. In desperation, Anna, her two sisters, and their Aunt Rusty plot to abduct the bride and enlighten the clueless groom. But who’s the handsome sailor with cousin Louella? Why is Aunt Rusty strangely protective of Anna? What is the bizarre report from the family doctor? Will Anna unscramble the mystery and discover who she can trust before it’s too late?! Based very loosely on the ridiculous antics of three sisters in Jane Austen’s Persuasion.

Cast 2M 5W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Paul and Anthony have been friends since birth. Paul said his first word in Anthony’s kitchen. But screw Missouri. Screw freshman year. They wanna live in this really cool patch of woods Paul found. Girls are coming! This is going to be a very good night. Anthony is pretty nervous. What happens when the girls actually get here?

Suddenly, the sounds of the woods are electronic. Suddenly they are older. They’re coming back here. What has life done to each of them? There’s blood? Paul’s blood. He’s desperate.

“Anthony? Help. Please.”

Will he?

Cast Size: 2M
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Willow and Poppy live in a society where Order is chaos, but they have found a constant- an empty stairwell they’ve claimed as their own secret Neverland. Appointing themselves Peter and Wendy, they vow to protect the Fourth Floor’s children (Chrys, Daff, and Violet) from the sinister truths of the world they live in. But when the shadows of their dystopian reality begin to seep into their haven, these “lost children” must learn how to hold onto the light and- more importantly- each other.

Cast Size: 1M 4W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

As a mixed-race police family, the Claytons thought they were the model of acceptance, tolerance and love. But when George Floyd dies under the knee of a white cop, the Claytons find themselves at odds with one another both in the riots in the streets of Winesville – or “Whitesville” as it’s known in rural Indiana – and in the family living room. Can white parents and their adopted black children own up to their own prejudice and reach a deeper level of honesty and support? Or will the nation’s unrest prove too much for this blended family to endure as a cop father in a gas mask faces off with his teen children with a mother/wife caught in the middle?

Cast Size: 4M 2F
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

New York City. 1993. Twenty five years to the week after the shooting of Dr. Martin Luther King. Racial conflicts are erupting all over the streets of NY. Mickey, an idealistic, white, Columbia student,meets Lorraine, a beautiful, black, aspiring writer, who’s spent all her life in Harlem. Despite enmity on both sides (Mickey’s cousin Ryan, also at Columbia, harbors strong racial resentment; as does Lorraine’sbrother Mercy, and her recent ex-boyfriend Danny). Mickey and Lorraine begin a deep and passionate romance, which unhinges the volatile Danny. Tensions deepen even further when Ryan discovers that his brother Scottie’s watches (Scottie was killed in a racial incident out in Brooklyn) are missing. Believing that Danny stole the watches, Ryan grabs a gun and races off into the Harlem night. He arrives at Mercy’s apartment at exactly the same time that the enraged Danny has confronted Mickey and Lorraine. Domestic and social tensions explode simultaneously in this brilliant, award-winning drama.

Cast Size: 7M 1W
Running Time: 2 hrs
Royalty: $75 per performance

Harry Hooter has enemies – and most of them are his friends! This interactive murder mystery is meant to be played out over a full 5-course dinner – immersing the audience into the crime scene. After a mishap with an air conditioning system – Harry ends up dead in front of the crowd, who now have to solve the crime before the evening is up. Who did it? Was it the bodyguard? The jilted girlfriend? The cocktail waitress? The Olive Man? The Detective? Perfect for fundraising or for groups who love interactive mysteries – “Who Killed Harry Hooter?” will keep your audiences guessing to the very end.

Cast Size: 4M 2W
Running Time: 2 – 2 1/2 hrs (Meant to be performed through a 5-course meal)
Royalty: $40 per performance

On a dark stormy night, five men arrive at a cabin for a soap star’s surprise birthday party. Each guest has been asked to dress as the birthday boy’s favorite actress, Joan Crawford, in one of her signature roles – and the results aren’t pretty. As they wait for the star, the five “Joans” begin drinking and dishing, dark secrets emerge and soon there’s one Joan less … and then another… Who Killed Joan Crawford? !

Cast Size: 5M
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Wickedest Woman tells the true story of Ann Trow Lohman, a female doctor (midwife and abortionist) in New York City throughout the 1800’s. Known as Madame Restell, when Ann began performing abortions in 1838 they were legal in the United States and when she committed suicide almost 40 years later at the end of her career, they were illegal. Madame Restell became the face of evil that the anti abortion movement used to rally people to their cause. A gender bending cast of 7 actors tells this epic story of Ann’s rise to notoriety and her struggle to keep her life intact as the scrutiny and even physical danger became ever more intense.

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cast Size: 3M 4W (Flexible Casting)

Running Time: 90+ Minutes

It’s a cold New York City winter at the turn of the millennium. Ryde, a 35-year-old boy who had everything and lost it is struggling to get it all back. He finds an unlikely ally in the rough-edged Dino, a man who has always felt locked out of life. The two of them fumble to find their way to money, love, and a place to stay. A story of class and friendship that unfolds in the shadows of some great apes.

Cast Size: 3M 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Famed playwright, inventor and actor William Gillette has just opened “Sherlock Holmes” at the Garrick Theatre to rave reviews; he meets his old friend, colleague and fellow founding Players club member James O’Neill following its Broadway debut to await the reviews and talk about success, happiness, family and the golden handcuffs of becoming a Matinee Idol of the Gilded Age as O’Neill already has with “The Count of Monte Cristo”, and their ghosts – William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Helen, Robert & Mary Gillette, and Edmund O’Neill – visit them.

Cast Size: 2M
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

After an unspeakable tragedy strikes, siblings Bianca and Evan are left to try and pick up the pieces. Both siblings attempt to cope in their own ways, Evan choosing to self-medicate while Bianca starts to seek help from an unconventional outside source. What both might not realize is that they could be getting much more than either of them bargained for, and this realization threatens to ruin all the progress they’ve made. With both parties keeping secrets along the journey to cope with what they’ve lost, the revelation of the truth might be more than either of them can bear.

Cast Size: 2M 1W
Running Time: About an Hour
Royalty Rate: $50 per performance

Shelley is cleaning out her old childhood home after the death of her estranged and reclusive father, Richard, when Chris, a teenage boy from up the street, comes by to retrieve something he had let her father borrow before he died. The object in question belongs to Chris’ father, Tom, who will be furious when he finds out that it’s gone missing, so Chris is absolutely desperate to return it before that happens…but when Shelley finds out what this particular item is, things take a dangerous and dreadful turn. Together, they must come to terms with matters of the unimaginable.

Cast Size: 2M 1W 1M/W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In this timely and provocative drama, Carmen, the wife of an entertainment legend, is interviewing a nurse, Lisa, to supervise the care of her husband, who is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s. In the process, the questioner becomes the questioned as Lisa confronts Carmen with sexual assault accusations against her husband and with her complicity in the alleged incidents.

Cast Size: 2W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

WOMAN HOLLERING CREEK is set in the fictional town of Dark Cloud, Texas, at the DRESSY BBQ FISH TACOS, a restaurant, dress, and bait-and-tackle shop that also offers fishing and hunting tours, as well as massages. DRESSY BBQ FISH TACOS is doing a booming business since the ghost town hopes to get into the Book of World Records for their Largest Ball of Dental Floss. The shop is like an old-fashioned General Store on steroids. It prides itself in finding you whatever you need, and they dabble in just about everything. But, when a “stranger” comes to town and promises to make them all rich, we learn that no one is who they claim to be in Dark Cloud and everyone has a secret. WOMAN HOLLERING CREEK, a serio-comedy with a farcical flair, takes its name from the creek that runs through San Antonio, and the script was inspired by the legend of La Llorona, the “weeping woman.”

Cast Size: 2M 5W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

THE SEALING OF CEIL (2M 2W)

There has been a bloody murder in Ceil’s apartment building. This terrifies Ceil, an abused, lonely housewife. She is befriended by a neighbor, Fran, who cares very much about Ceil. One day after taking a walk to Times Square, Ceil meets a handsome stranger, Hank, in a bar, who also begins to care for Ceil and wants to protect her. Ceils relationship with Fran, Hank and her abusive husband all lead her to discovering who the murderer is.

TIME WOUNDS ALL HEALS (2M)

Tom and his young assistant Ted are seated on a bench in a desolate part of a park at dusk. They are there on an important “assignment.” While waiting, their conversation turns to the subject of loyalty, karma and consequences. Eventually we discover what their assignment is and learn the truth about their relationship.

LIKE FAMILY (2M 1W)

Ron Henschel has just arrived at his sister and her husband’s home in Monroe, New York. It is a snowy winter night. He has just been in a terrible car accident. He reveals that both his and Helen’s parents were killed in the accident. Naturally Helen and her husband are very upset. The scene is a set up for a series of revelations about both Ron and the Gorders. With each new scene we learn more about who these people are and what their relationship is to each other.

Cast Size: Variable
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Seventy-five years in the future, an all-female crew and their male captain depart on what appears to be a routine mission to Mars … until the captain is murdered and the real mission comes to light. 4G examines relationships between women under extreme duress. Part murder mystery, part space thriller, 4G’s science fiction world asks questions about power, leadership, responsibility, and ultimately, sacrifice.

Cast Size: 7W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Five women meet at the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969 and reunite 50 years later at the funeral of the group’s emotional pulse, the glue that has kept the diverse group connected over the years. Finding their bond in danger, they invest in their friendship—literally—by forming a tontine, each contributing a substantial amount of money to ensure that the last gal standing will be taken care of financially. It is a proposition both tantalizing and morbid. Conflicting worldviews clash as scene by scene, the group dwindles. But those who remain discover the lasting influence that friends can exert on each other.

Cast Size: 5W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

WOUNDED tells the story of a woman in the role of caregiver to her husband after he has been severely mentally and physically injured in the Iraq war. The show starts when she, for the first time, is considering having a real relationship with someone new while still taking care of her husband. It explores the question of what loyalty you owe your spouse when they stop being the person you married.

Cast Size: 2M 1W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Wyatt Earp lived with a Jewish woman for forty-seven years without benefit of marriage. Upon Earp’s death, the woman, Josephine Marcus, buried him in a Jewish cemetery in San Francisco. This play dramatizes their meeting and courtship in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, shortly before and directly following the gunfight at the OK Corral; Marcus played a subsidiary role in the events leading up to the gunfight.

Cast Size: 4M 3W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

New York City, 1897. Christmas is almost here, and eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon is beside herself with excitement. Suddenly, though, she finds herself facing a crisis of belief when her friends tell her Santa Claus is a myth. Filled with doubt, Virginia asks everyone she knows to tell her the truth: Is Santa Claus real or not? Still unsure and dissatisfied, she finally takes her father’s advice and famously writes a letter to the New York Sun newspaper for a definitive answer to that most crucial of questions. Funny and heartwarming, this holiday play will delight audiences of all ages.

Cast Size: 2M 7F (3adults, 4 children)
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Janis and Merle, two middle-aged widows, are on their annual summer vacation trip when they are uncere-moniously abducted by Beau, a twenty year-old escapee from a prison work farm, who holds them captive in a motel room. From the outset, it’s clear that Beau hasn’t entirely thought through his escape plan. He only wants to make his way back to his high school girlfriend, but selecting Merle and Janis as his means to of getting there may have been more than he bargained for. Your Dilly Dilly Heart delivers full-out laughs while examining the quiet lies we’ve begun to accept as fact, in order to get us to the end of the day.

Cast Size: 1M 3W
Running Time: 1hr 45 minutes
Royalty: $60 per performance

The play takes place at a yoga retreat and reveals a variety of characters (including a blind woman and her dog) seeking love, peace, and friendship. They are all in love with the yoga teacher, who is present as a voice and only appears at the end when he adjusts each of them in a pose. The group succeed in becoming a community.

Cast Size: 3M 6W
Running Time: 90+ minutes
Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

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