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

At 3:15 AM on November 13th, 1974, Ronald “Butch” Defeo took a .35 caliber Marlin Rifle and murdered his entire family in cold blood. Adapted from a series of interviews conducted over the span of four decades, this dramatic thriller explores the chilling events that occurred at the infamous Dutch Colonial on 112 Ocean Avenue, known throughout the globe as the Amityville Murder House.

• Cast Size: 5M 9W
• 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

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

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

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

The Story: A trio of high school girls sneaks into a R-rated movie, and each one’s moral character is challenged by the experience.

• Cast Size: 1M 3F
• Running Time: 20 minutes
• Royalty Rate: $20 per performance

The Story: To “impress” her followers on social media, Xavia, a teenage girl, sneaks into the morgue to participate in “The Dodo Challenge,” an online dare to take a selfie next to a dead body. Unfortunately for Xavia, a dissatisfied spirit follows her home…

• Cast Size: 12 (Flexible casting)
• Running Time: 30 minutes
• Royalty Rate: $20 per performance

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

Paris, 1924. Haunted by the book that made him famous, Gaston Leroux reluctantly agrees to meet with Lon Chaney, the Hollywood movie star set to portray the Phantom of the Opera on the silver screen. But Lon wants more than just advice. He wants the truth. Did the Phantom of the Opera actually exist? The tragic love story of Christine Daaé, her mysterious disappearance, and the deformed ghost that haunts the Paris Opera House, comes to life in this faithful yet subversive adaptation of the classic novel. Discover the magic behind the mystery, the madness beyond the music, and the monster within the mask.

• Cast Size: 9M 8W
• Running time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rte: $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

You’re cordially invited to a party to die for. Adapted from the Vincent Prince classic, The House on Haunted Hill tells the twisted tale of millionaire Frederick Lauren, his fourth wife Annabelle, and five, money-hungry guests who will each received fifty thousand dollars if they stay in a supposedly haunted house until sunrise. Filled with double crosses, jilted lovers, a wicked sense of humor, and a restless spirt or two, Haunted Hill proves to be a night you’ll never forget.

• Cast Size:5M 6F
• Royalty Rate Per Performance: $75 per Performance
• Royalty for the Original Music CD Rental: TBA
• Running Time: 2 hrs.

1937. A Hollywood party celebrating the completion of the filming of Little Miss Miracle, the latest from Audrey O’Rourke, child star and box office darling. When a budding starlet turns up dead and a powerful studio chief is found unconscious, all the glittering guests become potential next victims as well as suspects. A twisty and funny mystery that captures the glamour and history of Hollywood’s Golden Age

• Cast Size: 3M 6W 1FC
• 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

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

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

In a world plagued by a viral infection, which causes individuals to become mindless and bloodthirsty, a small group of survivors struggle to survive. Their problems increase when a young woman named Jess arrives at their door, who is a person of interest to both the Government as well as to dangerous psychopaths. While trying to protect Jess, the group struggles with trying to balance the needs of their family, with the needs of survival, and some of their choices may have tragic consequences.

• Cast Size: 5M 9W
• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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