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The Aviators
$7.00 – $55.00Price range: $7.00 through $55.00Two retired Marine Corps pilots, Rory “Roar” McMahon, and his longtime squadron buddy, Austin “Toad” Campion, conspire to "escape" from the Navy Regional Medical Center in Portsmouth, VA where they have both been admitted with a life-threatening illness. The two characters are opposites in everything except their love of flying. With the help of two old combat buddies, they plan how to outwit the hospital staff in one, last. "impossible" escapade. Great for seniors and community theaters. -
The Best Is Yet To Be
$7.00 – $30.00Price range: $7.00 through $30.00Emily Mason returns home to live with her son and his family--a wife and 2 grandchildren. They have her rocking chair ready for her. The problem is, she isn't ready for it. Will her family come around and let her continue the kind of life she is used to leading? -
The Boarding House
$11.97 – $55.00Price range: $11.97 through $55.00A one-act play, The Boarding House is a dramatic satire, by David.H. Klein, of the story by James Joyce. Mrs. Mooney, the owner of a boarding house of questionable reputation, exploits the wiles of her daughter Polly and the power of the Church to snare one of her more respectable boarders as her potential son-in-law. -
The Canterbury Tales
$13.70 – $170.00Price range: $13.70 through $170.00This full-length comedy play with music brings rapid-fire dialogue to an old classic. With a flexible cast, it is an excellent play for high school performances, college theaters, or community productions. Elvgren has selected the bawdiest and most satirical tales for this version. A sense of Chaucer's language is maintained but is made accessible to a modern audience. (Lead sheets available) -
The Cat in the Hat Takes Flak
$9.97 – $50.00Price range: $9.97 through $50.00A tribute to Dr. Seuss and a parody of "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back", where Nick & Sally are savvy enough to call Social Services to deal with both The Cat and the pink snow that he created. -
The Chimes
$13.70 – $200.00Price range: $13.70 through $200.00Give Scrooge a break for the winter holiday production! THE CHIMES is a full-length comedy and large-cast adaptation of another Dickens' classic Christmas/New Years tale. Toby Veck, an impoverished London porter wants to bless his daughter's marriage by New Year's Day. Alas, he doesn't have even a shilling in his pocket. Surely, the wealthy families he carries packages for will find enough work for him to do before the New Year comes and he must break a promise made on his late wife's deathbed. This Dickens' comedy is a great Christmas change-of-pace for schools, communities, and regional theaters. -
The Concise Christmas Carol
$9.00 – $45.00Price range: $9.00 through $45.00A 50-minute condensed monologue adapted from Charles Dickens' Scrooge. How the ghosts who haunt him, eventually transform a lonely, stingy, bitter old man into a generous, infectiously cheerful humanitarian. D.D. Delaney, a professional actor, playwright, journalist, and poet has adapted the familiar holiday classic for the stage. Written as a monologue, it can also be performed by 4 actors. Ideal for Christmas celebrations, house performances, and readers theater. Downloadable PDF available. -
The Crying Tree
$13.70 – $125.00Price range: $13.70 through $125.00A stunning drama with wonderful comic scenes, which received a special mention in the 2019 ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition. The story: in 2018, a black Congressman is caught up in a Trump impeachment battle and the alt right. Two hundred years earlier at the same plantation home, a slave is deciding whether to escape. Two parallel stories show how much has and hasn't changed about race and politics in America. -
The Dead
$13.70 – $145.00Price range: $13.70 through $145.00A one-act play adapted from "The Dead" in James Joyce’s “Dubliners”
During an annual Christmas celebration, Gabriel Conroy has to cope with his doddering aunts, discover the true nature of his relationship with his wife, Gretta, and confront his own academic pedantry. He condescends to the provincialism of his friends, family, and his wife. But a big surprise about Gretta awaits him after he retires for the night. -
The Devil’s Due
$11.97 – $55.00Price range: $11.97 through $55.00In The Devil’s Due, a one-act drama/comedy, an artist, Eric Talmadge, confronts the decline of his aesthetic powers and the possible dissolution of his marriage. In a satiric tour de force, a visitor—possibly a neighboring psychiatrist and possibly a more fearsome presence—offers him a possible way out of his dilemma. Is M. Boudreaux really an unorthodox psychiatrist practicing from his apartment in NYC or does he represent a power other than the mind? And what choice does he give Eric in order to regain his peace of mind and his artistic abilities?