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Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
51. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Doug Goheen
Cast: 8 M, 5 F (With doubling: 7 M, 4 F)
Time: Approximately 75-90 minutes, 79 pgs

CLASSIC. Audiences of all ages will enjoy this wholesome, heartfelt classic. Since the death of her husband three years ago, Mamsie Pepper struggles to provide for her five children by mending coats... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's
52. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's by Doug Goheen
Cast: 4 M, 3 F
Time: Approximately 90-120 minutes, 81 pgs.

CLASSIC HORROR. Adapted from the novel by Mary Shelley. Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with discovering the secret of life, so he spends several months fashioning a man out of dead body parts. Whe... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Get Off My Cabbage!
53. Get Off My Cabbage! by L. Don Swartz
Cast: 2 M, 2 F
Time: Approximately 60-75 mins,

COMEDY. In this hilarious sequel to Regrets Only, cranky curmudgeons Lottie and Bernice are back and they are grumpier than ever! This time they are lounging on Lottie’s front porch selling cabbages... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Ghost of a Chance, A
54. Ghost of a Chance, A by George Hosker-Bouley NEW!
Cast: 3 M, 2 F, 1 flexible, extras
Time: Approximately 75 minutes, 61 pgs

COMEDY. Eager to sell a posh penthouse that has been on the market for 10 years, a real estate agent thinks he’s in luck when he meets a mob boss and his wife who are keen on purchasing the apartment... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Glance at New York, A
55. Glance at New York, A by Arthur Reel
Cast: 9 M, 7 F, 7 flexible, extras (Doubling possible)
Time: Approximately 60-75 minutes, 54 pgs.

COMEDY WITH SONG. A hit in its day, A Glance at New York (1848) was one of the first plays to portray working-class life and speech, providing a snapshot of what life was like for those living in New... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Government Inspector, The
56. Government Inspector, The by Jack Skeeter Dennis
Cast: 8 M, 7 F, 14 flexible, extras (Doubling possible.)
Time: Approximately 90-120 minutes, 80 pgs

CLASSIC FARCE. Audiences will love all the twists and turns, mistaken identities, and absurd situations in this timeless, side-splitting farce adapted from the play by Nikolai Gogol. The mayor of a ... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Great Expectations
57. Great Expectations by Tracy Wells
Cast: 17 M, 13 F, 1 flexible (With doubling: 13 M, 10 F, 1 flexible)
Time: Approximately 120-150 mins, 100 pgs

CLASSIC. Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens. Pip, a young orphan, lives with his abusive sister and her husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. While visiting the graves of his parents, Pip encou... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Great Gatsby, The
58. Great Gatsby, The by Doug Goheen NEW!
Cast: 6 M, 7 F, 12 flexible, extras (With doubling: 5 M, 5 F, 6 flexible, extras)
Time: Approximately 100-120 minutes, 76 pgs

CLASSIC. Adapted from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to Long Island where he rents a bungalow next door to the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a wealthy bu... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Green Carnation, The
59. Green Carnation, The by C. Edward Wheaton
Cast: 3 M, 3 F
Time: Approximately 75 minutes, 64 pgs.

SATIRE. This play is adapted from the scandalous novel by Robert Hichens (1894), which satirizes fashionable London society and figures associated with the Aesthetic Movement, most notably Oscar Wild... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Guess Who's Coming to Supper
60. Guess Who's Coming to Supper by Eddie McPherson
Cast: 6 M, 5 F, 1 flexible, opt. extras
Time: Approximately 90-100 minutes, 95 pgs

COMEDY. Ally is afraid to introduce her boyfriend, Kevin, to her parents. Even though Kevin is good looking, a law school graduate, and has a wonderful job, he has one major flaw and Ally is terrifi... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Hamalot
61. Hamalot by Nicholas Conti
Cast: 7 M, 8 F, extras
Time: Approximately 75-90 minutes, depending upon length of royal festival, 62 pgs.

FARCE. After Princess Opheliac encounters the ghost of Sir Gawain, she learns that he is doomed to walk the grounds of Elsenomore Castle in Hamalot, Denmark forever until he brings the Holy Grail bac... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Hamlet Goes Hollywood
62. Hamlet Goes Hollywood by Dwayne Yancey
Cast: 9 M, 4 F, 8 flexible, extras (With doubling: 8 M, 4 F, 5 flexible)
Time: Approximately 75-90 minutes, 69 pgs.

INTERACTIVE FARCE. Determined to make Hamlet a Hollywood blockbuster, a director elicits the help of Shakespeare to make a few “minor” changes to the script. Thinking the original script is trite an... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Harmony Romances
63. Harmony Romances by Ron Hill
Cast: 3 M, 5 F
Time: Approximately 75 minutes, 55 pgs.

ROMANTIC COMEDY. The hilarious church ladies who make up Harmony Church’s funeral committee are back in this side-splitting sequel to The Ladies of Harmony. This time, the church ladies are in charg... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Healin' Home
64. Healin' Home by Kari Catton
Cast: 4 M, 5 F
Time: Approximately 90 minutes, 89 pgs

DRAMA. This heartwarming sequel to The Track Home tells the story of three runaway orphans, Andalusia, Casey, and Bit, as they struggle to uphold their dying mother’s wish…to stay together as a famil... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Heidi
65. Heidi by Tracy Wells
Cast: 9 M, 13 F, 3 flexible, opt. extras (With doubling: 7 M, 10 F, 2 flexible)
Time: Approximately 100-120 minutes, 89 pgs.

CLASSIC. Adapted from the novel by Johanna Spyri. After her parents die, Heidi is taken by her aunt to live with her reclusive grandfather in the Swiss Alps. At first, Heidi’s grandfather resents h... READ MORE | BUY NOW

House of the Seven Gables, The
66. House of the Seven Gables, The by David John Preece
Cast: 9 M, 9 F, 6 flexible, opt. extras (Doubling possible.)
Time: Approximately 90-120 minutes, 89 pgs.

CLASSIC. Adapted from the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. After refusing to sell his land to rich landowner Colonel Pyncheon, Matthew Maule is hanged for witchcraft and places a curse on Colonel Pynch... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The
67. Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The by Tracy Wells
Cast: 14 M, 20 F, 20 flexible, opt. extras (With doubling: 13 M, 18 F, 16 flexible)
Time: Approximately 120 minutes, 102 pgs

CLASSIC. Adapted from the novel by Victor Hugo. In the towers of Notre-Dame lives Quasimodo, a deformed bell ringer. Mocked and shunned for his appearance, Quasimodo falls in love with the beautifu... READ MORE | BUY NOW

I, Witness
68. I, Witness by Craig Sodaro NEW!
Cast: 5 M, 10 F
Time: Approximately 75-90 minutes, 69 pgs

COMEDY. When Marliss discovers her boss at Squeaky Cleaners is laundering dirty money instead of clothes, she and her three kids are forced to hide out in the witness protection program until she can... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Interruptions
69. Interruptions by Burton Bumgarner
Cast: 3 M, 5 F, 2 flexible
Time: Approximately 90 minutes, 71 pgs.

COMEDY. Former high school teacher, Howard Weems, has hit it big writing a series of successful romance novels under the pen name of Ariana Dupre LaRoche. However, while writing his latest novel, “T... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Is There a Martian in the House?
70. Is There a Martian in the House? by Kamron Klitgaard
Cast: 4 M, 6 F, 3 flexible, opt. extras
Time: Approximately 90-120 minutes, 47 pgs.

INTERACTIVE FARCE/MYSTERY. Two FBI agents, Mold and Skull, have tracked a Martian to a café where seven wacky customers are stranded due to a recent avalanche. Thinking the Martian has taken on a hu... READ MORE | BUY NOW

It Was…The Butler!
71. It Was…The Butler! by Bryan Starchman
Cast: 9 M, 7 F, 12 flexible (With Doubling: 9 M, 5 F, 7 flexible. Tripling possible.)
Time: Approximately 75-90 minutes, 68 pgs.

FARCE/MYSTERY. A murder-mystery series premiered on TV and would go down in history as the worst murder-mystery series of all time. It was entitled “It Was…The Butler!” And after an hour of murder,... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Jigger
72. Jigger by Jerry Berning
Cast: 11 M, 8 F (With doubling 5 M, 4 F)
Time: Approximately 120 minutes, 89 pgs.

COMEDY/MURDER MYSTERY. The WWII era comes alive in this hilarious down-home murder-mystery. It’s 1943, and with most of the able-bodied men drafted and the women working in factories, there aren’t m... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Joe Carbone's Job
73. Joe Carbone's Job by Art Shulman
Cast: 7 M, 6 F, 2 flexible, optional extras
Time: Approximately 90-120 minutes, 59 pgs.

COMEDY. Everything seems to be going just fine for Joe Carbone, the owner of a poultry plant, until one day, he finds that he just doesn’t have the stomach to kill chickens anymore. Joe keeps his pr... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Jukebox Diner, The
74. Jukebox Diner, The by Eddie McPherson
Cast: 5 M, 10 F, 2 flexible, opt. ext. (With doubling: 5 M, 9 F)
Time: Approximately 90-120 minutes, 75 pgs.

COMEDY. The one-liners and puns never end in this hilarious comedy! Everyone in town is eager for Shelby, a big-time country-music star, to arrive from Nashville to attend Uncle Roy’s memorial servi... READ MORE | BUY NOW

King William Travels the World
75. King William Travels the World by Tracy Krauss
Cast: 4 M, 6 F, 14 flexible, extras (With doubling: 4 M, 4 F, 7 flexible. Tripling possible.)
Time: Approximately 75 minutes, 58 pgs.

FARCE. The laughs never end in this zany Monty Python-esque farce. The pompous, narcissistic King William II has decided to travel the world accompanied by a snarky liege, a ridiculous yes-man with ... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Kiss for Cinderella, A
76. Kiss for Cinderella, A by Heather Lynn
Cast: 8 M, 23 F, 3 flexible, opt. extras (With doubling: 6 M, 19 F, 1 flexible)
Time: Approximately 90 minutes, 80 pgs

CLASSIC. Adapted from the play by J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan and Wendy. In this retelling of “Cinderella,” Miss Thing, a penniless London girl in WWI London takes in four starving refugee orp... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Ladies of Harmony, The
77. Ladies of Harmony, The by Ron Hill
Cast: 6 F or 6 M
Time: Approximately 90 minutes, 84 pgs.

COMEDY. The laughter is nonstop in this hilarious comedy. Six church ladies arrive at Harmony Church’s fellowship hall to plan a small funeral dinner for a man they despised. While eating doughnuts... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Last Resort, The
78. Last Resort, The by Eddie McPherson
Cast: 7 M, 11 F, opt. extras
Time: Approximately 120 minutes, 90 pgs.

FARCE. Grab yourself a can of Aqua Net hairspray! There’s a hot new beauty craze that’s driving the men of Lost Creek mad. It’s the beehive hairdo, and the higher the hair, the better. Dixie, a be... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Law and Disorder
79. Law and Disorder by Will Radford
Cast: 2 M, 3 F
Time: Approximately 75-90 minutes, 75 pgs.

COMEDY. Winner, 2006 McLaren Memorial Playwriting Competition. Eager to earn Brownie points at her law firm, Kate, an ambitious attorney, agrees to escort her boss’s nephew, Scott, around town and s... READ MORE | BUY NOW

League of Youth, The
80. League of Youth, The by Arthur Reel
Cast: 10 M, 3 F
Time: Approximately 120 minutes, 90 pgs.

FARCE/SATIRE. This streamlined adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s The League of Youth (1869), cuts the original play by a third, allowing for Ibsen’s humor and wit to be showcased. The storyline focuses o... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Les Misèrables
81. Les Misèrables by Tracy Wells
Cast: 26 M, 20 F, 1 flexible (With Doubling: 18 M, 14 F, 1 flexible)
Time: Approximately 120 mins, 96 pgs.

CLASSIC. Adapted from the novel by Victor Hugo. Convict Jean Valjean is released from a French prison after serving 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread. No one is willing to give him food or shel... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Little Mermaid, The
82. Little Mermaid, The by Tracy Wells
Cast: 7 M, 15 F, 4 flexible (With Doubling: 6 M, 13 F, 4 flexible)
Time: Approximately 90 mins, 89 pgs.

CLASSIC. Adapted from the fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen. Melody, a teen mermaid, lives in the undersea kingdom of Undinia with her father, grandmother, older sisters, and her albatross, seaho... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Little Off the Top, A
83. Little Off the Top, A by Carl L. Williams
Cast: 4 M, 3 F
Time: Approximately 90-120 minutes, 75 pgs.

COMEDY. With the help of a toupee salesman, Steve and Jerry, two lonely balding bachelors, find a perfect toupee with which to attract women. The only problem is that they don’t have enough money to... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Little Princess, A
84. Little Princess, A by Tracy Wells
Cast: 6 M, 16 F, 1 flexible, opt. extras (With doubling: 3 M, 14 F, 1 flexible)
Time: Approximately 90-120 minutes, 96 pgs

CLASSIC. Adapted from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Sara Crewe is sent to live at an upscale boarding school run by Miss Minchin, a greedy and domineering head mistress. Sara’s wealthy fath... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Lottie and Bernice, Livin' Large
85. Lottie and Bernice, Livin' Large by L. Don Swartz
Cast: 6 M, 12 F, 8 flexible, 2 boys, 2 girls, extras (With doubling: 9 M, 5 F, 5 flexible. Tripling possible.)
Time: Approximately 90-120 mins, 87 pgs.

COMEDY. There are plenty of polkas, pierogies, and dog poo as we follow grumpy grannies Lottie and Bernice on new adventures in this side-splitting sequel to "Regrets Only!" and "Get Off My Cabbage!... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
86. Louisa May Alcott's Little Women by Doug Goheen
Cast: 5 M, 7 F
Time: Approximately 120 minutes, 96 pgs.

DRAMA. This adaptation remains true to the original novel and contains all the major events that made Little Women (1868) an American classic for both children and adults. The play opens on Christma... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Marvellous Land of Snergs, The
87. Marvellous Land of Snergs, The by C. Edward Wheaton
Cast: 9 M, 7 F, 12 flexible, extras (With doubling: 9 M, 3 F, 9 flexible. Tripling possible.)
Time: Approximately 120 minutes, 102 pgs

CLASSIC. Adapted from the 1927 novel by E. A. Wyke-Smith, audiences of all ages will be enthralled with this delightful tale, which inspired J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Joe and Sylvia run away from... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Matchmakers, The
88. Matchmakers, The by Eugene Shear
Cast: 3 M, 3 F
Time: Approximately 90 minutes, 75 pgs.

ROMANTIC COMEDY. Three single brothers—a firefighter, a mailman, and an accountant who carries around his dead wife’s ashes—arrive at a time-share for a relaxing weekend getaway and think they are in... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Metamorphosis, The
89. Metamorphosis, The by Thor Hopper
Cast: 2 M, 4 F, 4 flexible
Time: Approximately 60-75 minutes, 53 pgs.

CLASSIC. Adapted from the novella by Franz Kafka. Absurd, surreal, nightmarish, complex, illogical, humorous…this play defines “Kafkaesque.” Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up one morning... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Midsummer Eve, A
90. Midsummer Eve, A by Heather Lynn
Cast: 4 M, 6 F
Time: Approximately 75-90 minutes

CLASSIC COMEDY/FANTASY. Adapted from the play "Dear Brutus" by J.M. Barrie. A man of mystery has invited guests to his country home for a Midsummer Eve excursion into the woods. As the guests disap... READ MORE | BUY NOW

MINDCON
91. MINDCON by Paul DiLella
Cast: 3 M, 2 F, 13 flexible, extras (Flexible cast. Doubling possible.)
Time: Approximately 90 minutes, 61 pgs.

SATIRE. Unique, fresh, relevant…this play will amuse audiences with its wicked wit! As part of a routine employment background check, Jeremy shows up at the MINDCON laboratory, where he inadvertentl... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Moms' Murder Club
92. Moms' Murder Club by Craig Sodaro
Cast: 3 M, 8F
Time: Approximately 75-90 minutes, 75 pgs.

COMEDY/MURDER-MYSTERY. The monthly meeting of the Moms’ Murder Club, a mystery book club, has added an item to its agenda…murder! Discussion of the latest mystery novel is derailed when the group’s ... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Most Lamentable and Excruciating Romeo and Juliet, A
93. Most Lamentable and Excruciating Romeo and Juliet, A by Daniel A. Kelin II
Cast: 3 M, 7 F
Time: Approximately 75-90 mins, 56 pgs.

FARCE. “For never was a story of more woe…” A student production of Romeo and Juliet opens in just two days and the drama group is desperately trying to complete rehearsals. Friar Lawrence recites ... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Murder by Farce
94. Murder by Farce by Kory Howard
Cast: 5 M, 5 F, 1 flexible
Time: Approximately 90 minutes, 78 pgs.

FARCE. A reclusive billionaire has invited a gold digger, a business teacher, a personal secretary, an underwear inspector, and a bratty teenager to his mansion to solve a murder―his own! Shortly af... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The
95. Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The by Doug Goheen NEW!
Cast: 9 M, 5 F
Time: Approximately 120 minutes, 101 pgs

MYSTERY. Adapted from the novel by Agatha Christie. Detective Hercule Poirot is forced out of retirement when his friend, Roger Ackroyd, is found brutally murdered. There’s a locked door, an opened... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Murder on the Links, The
96. Murder on the Links, The by Doug Goheen NEW!
Cast: 5 M, 6 F
Time: Approximately 120 minutes, 102 pgs

MYSTERY. Adapted from the novel by Agatha Christie. Famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and his friend Captain Arthur Hastings travel to France to meet with Paul Renauld, who has urgently request... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Murdered Again!
97. Murdered Again! by Kory Howard
Cast: 4 M, 3 F, 4 flexible
Time: Approximately 75-90 minutes, 77 pgs

FARCE. In this sequel to Murder by Farce, the usual suspects are now on trial for the “murder” of reclusive billionaire Tony Franstein. But just when the Butler admits to killing Tony Franstein, the... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Murder-Mystery Weekend of Doom:  A Love Story
98. Murder-Mystery Weekend of Doom: A Love Story by Steven Stack
Cast: 2 M, 9 F, 1 flexible
Time: Approximately 90 minutes, 82 pgs

FARCE. At this murder-mystery weekend, guests have a chance to win a “priceless treasure” if they can solve a fake murder. The guests include an eccentric millionaire who carries around a dead cat, ... READ MORE | BUY NOW

Mutiny on Mount Olympus
99. Mutiny on Mount Olympus by Tracy Krauss
Cast: 11 M, 13 F, opt. extras
Time: Approximately 90 minutes, 85 pgs

FARCE. Poor Hades! Being the god of the underworld stinks! Hades is lonely, but the girls aren’t exactly dying to go out with him. After all, it’s difficult to find a girl who likes to live in dam... READ MORE | BUY NOW

My Fair Redneck
100. My Fair Redneck by R. Eugene Jackson
Cast: 3 M, 6 F, 5 flexible
Time: Approximately 75-90 mins, 79 pgs.

SPOOF/FARCE. Inspired by George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion. Elizabeth hasn’t been in a movie for more than a year, so her agent, Freddie-Eddie, urges her to audition for the leading role of a red... READ MORE | BUY NOW

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