Read entire plays for free! These titles are perfect for your theatre, school, and competition performances. Simply scroll over the title, click on the "READ NOW" button, and enjoy!
Lysistrata
Ellen McLaughlin
This fresh, fast-paced comedy, inspired by the Aristophanes play, follows Lysistrata, an Athenian who calls for the women of Greece to help end the Peloponnesian War. She proposes a radical plan: All Greek women must refuse to engage in lovemaking until the men see reason, lay down their arms, and come home to lie down with their wives in peace. The women agree to make the sacrifice and all hell breaks loose as men wander the country in an agony of unsatisfied lust. Will Lysistrata and her crew accomplish what the politicians could not?
Learn More
Comedy
60 - 80 minutes
13 W, 7 M,  (13-26 actors possible: 8-16 W, 5-10 M)
Home for the Chalidays
Sharyn Rothstein
A suburban Jewish family returns home on the third night of Chanukah to find that their house had been broken into. Panic and distrust conspire to convince the family that their neighbor's latent anti-Semitism has played a role in the vandalism. Home for the Chalidays is a hysterical satire about the conflicting roles of secularism and cultural differences and, ultimately, the evolving nature of the American Jewish family.
Learn More
Holiday comedy
15 - 25 minutes
2 W, 2 M, 
Jimmy Carter was a Democrat
Rinne Groff
Air. Traffic. Control. Welcome to the world of Samuel B. Shostakovitz. Stuck in his apartment in Flushing, Queens, Sammy can't help but ponder the summer of 1980: Jimmy Carter flounders in the White House, hostages rot in Tehran, America's air traffic controllers prepare to make the mistake of their lives, and Emily, a hot young labor organizer, can't decide who not to sleep with. A comedy with one song.
Learn More
Comedy
65 - 75 minutes
2 W, 3 M, 
The Gift of the Magi (full-length version)
Jon Jory
Jim and Della eat potatoes for dinner every night and stuff their boots with newspaper to get by, but everything they want is for each other. They're so head-over-heels in love they can make a cozy home in turn-of-the-century New York with little more than the coins in their jam jar. But what's to be done about Christmas? When a strange twist of fate leads the young couple to find the perfect gifts for one another at an unexpected cost, Jim and Della learn the true meaning of the holiday. Classic Christmas carols punctuate this sweet and joyful retelling of the O. Henry story.
Learn More
Christmas comedy
75 - 95 minutes
5 W, 4 M, 2 Any (9-15 actors possible: 5-9 W, 3-7 M)