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On the Wings of a Mariposa

On the Wings of a Mariposa
Alvaro Saar Rios

Productions (10)
  • Play with music
  • 60 - 70 minutes
  • 4 W, 1 M, 5 Any (9-13 actors possible: 4-13 W, 0-6 M)

Based on Barbara Joosse’s beloved children book, On the Wings of a Mariposa is a story about one girl’s quest to keep her abuelita’s memory alive set during the beautiful annual monarch butterfly migration. Read more

From the Mouths of Monsters

From the Mouths of Monsters
Idris Goodwin

Productions (10)
  • Drama
  • 65 - 70 minutes
  • 1 W, 1 Any (2-10 actors possible: 1-4 W, 0-3 M)

For teenage poet Michelle, performing at a poetry slam feels impossible, until she is offered a mask with the power to remove the wearer’s doubts. Read more

Just Great

Just Great: A Retelling of Some Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dani Stoller

Productions (9)
  • Drama
  • 60 - 70 minutes
  • 9 W, 3 M, 2 Any (14-30 actors possible: 9-25 W, 3-15 M)

Through his social media feed, high schooler Jason Carraway watches it all. But it’s not until getting enrolled in the exclusive Dalton Prep that Jason has a chance to see the world of the elite up close. Read more

Ghostlight

Ghostlight
Stephen Gregg

Productions (104)
  • Comedy
  • 80 - 85 minutes
  • 3 W, 1 M, 15 Any (15-19 actors possible: 3-18 W, 1-16 M)

Garbiela Nettles starts to hear sounds that no one else hears: ghost echoes from the remnants of a long-ago tragedy in the school’s theatre. Read more

The Bugs

The Bugs
Don Zolidis

Productions (25)
  • Comedy
  • 90 - 100 minutes
  • 8 W, 1 M, 19 Any (20-40 actors possible)

When a couple of disgruntled honeybees discover their habitat is going to be destroyed to make way for a swimming pool, there’s only one thing for them to do: forge an alliance with the other bugs who live in the yard and stop it. A hilarious satire about ecological disaster and labor issues, with a smattering of Greek Gods thrown in for fun. Read more

Community Garden

Community Garden
Justin Borak

Productions (29)
  • Comedy
  • 40 - 80 minutes
  • 5 W, 6 M, 7 Any (8-18 actors possible: 3-12 W, 3-13 M)

A series of heartfelt and humorous vignettes about the bustling community that passes through Uptown City Gardens. Read more

Children's Book Adaptations

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Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!

Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!
Allison Gregory

Productions (332)
  • Holiday Comedy
  • 85 - 90 minutes
  • 4 W, 6 M, 1 Any (11 actors possible: 4-5 W, 6-7 M)

Junie B. Jones, First-Grader, is super-excited about the upcoming Holiday Sing-Along and Secret Santa gift exchange at her school. Too bad tattletale May keeps ruining all of Junie B.'s fun. So when Junie B. draws May's name for Secret Santa, she comes up with the perfect plan to teach her nemesis a lesson! Read more

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by John Glore, based on the book by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
John Glore

Productions (364)
  • Comedy with music
  • 55 - 65 minutes
  • 3 W, 4 M,  (7-30 actors possible: 3-14 W, 4-18 M)

Though the characters may be familiar, each of your favorite storybook fables is uproariously derailed in this adaptation of Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith's quintessential children's book of fractured fairy tales... Read more

Bedtime Stories (As Told by Our Dad) (Who Messed Them Up)

Bedtime Stories (As Told by Our Dad) (Who Messed Them Up)
Ed Monk

Productions (907)
  • Comedy
  • 45 - 65 minutes
  • 6 W, 4 M, 16 Any (12-31 actors possible: 6-27 W, 4-25 M)

It's Dad's turn to tell his three rambunctious kids their bedtime stories, but when he gets fuzzy on the details, the classics get creative: a prince with a snoring problem spices up The Princess and The Pea, The Boy Who Cried Wolf cries dinosaur instead, and Rumpelstiltskin helps turn all that pesky gold into straw. You may think you know your fairy tales, but not the way Dad tells them. Read more

Miss Nelson is Missing!

Miss Nelson is Missing!
Jeffrey Hatcher

Productions (616)
  • Comedy
  • 60 - 75 minutes
  • 4 W, 6 M, 

Miss Nelson can't control her crazy classroom because she's just too nice. But when she disappears, her replacement is the hard-as-nails, detention-loving, recess-canceling, homework-overloading substitute teacher Viola Swamp... Read more

Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables
Peter DeLaurier

Productions (199)
  • Comedy/Drama
  • 120 - 130 minutes
  • 8 W, 3 M,  (11-13 actors possible: 8-10 W, exactly 3 M)

When aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert send to the orphanage in Nova Scotia for a boy to help them on the farm, they get more than they bargain for. Read more

The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows
T. James Belich

Productions (79)
  • Theater for young audiences
  • 70 - 80 minutes
  • 2 W, 1 M, 18 Any (14-30 actors possible: 0-29 W, 0-28 M)

What begins as a peaceful summer on the River is soon disrupted by Toad and his obsession with motorcars. After crashing several cars, he then steals one and lands himself in jail. Will Toad escape from jail and regain Toad Hall? Will he learn a lesson about his boastful and impetuous ways? A spirited adaptation of a timeless classic. Read more

A Wicked Christmas Carol

A Wicked Christmas Carol
Bobby Keniston

Productions (48)
  • Holiday
  • 110 - 120 minutes
  • 14 W, 10 M, 7 Any (10-40 actors possible: 7-37 W, 3-33 M)

The Wicked Witch of the West wasn't always that way, and when a ghostly figure whisks her away on a journey through her past, present, and future, she may find a second chance on Christmas Eve. Read more

Unbreakable Timmy Cratchit

Unbreakable Timmy Cratchit
Tyler Dwiggins

Productions (38)
  • Comedy
  • 30 - 35 minutes
  • 14 W, 9 M, 23 Any (9-40 actors possible: 0-40 W, 0-40 M)

There are people who are excited about Christmas, and then there's Tiny Tim Cratchit - he's never met a seasonal sweater he didn't love... Read more

A Seussified Christmas Carol

A Seussified Christmas Carol (full-length)
Peter Bloedel

Productions (323)
  • Comedy
  • 65 - 85 minutes
  • 6 W, 11 M, 22 Any (11-39 actors possible: 5-28 W, 6-33 M)

A whimsical reinvention of Dickens' most beloved Christmas story in wacky rhymed couplets. With zoot fruited juices and binka bird geese, from Bed-Headed Fred to Timmy Loo Hoo, this tale of glorious holiday cheer is similar to something Dr. Seuss might have come up with -- if he ever had his way with the story... Read more

Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!

Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!
Allison Gregory

Productions (332)
  • Holiday Comedy
  • 85 - 90 minutes
  • 4 W, 6 M, 1 Any (11 actors possible: 4-5 W, 6-7 M)

Junie B. Jones, First-Grader, is super-excited about the upcoming Holiday Sing-Along and Secret Santa gift exchange at her school. Too bad tattletale May keeps ruining all of Junie B.'s fun... Read more

A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play

A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play
Joe Landry

Productions (291)
  • Holiday Play with Music
  • 75 - 90 minutes
  • 2 W, 3 M,  (5-41 actors possible: 2-18 W, 3-23 M)

The Charles Dickens holiday classic comes to life as a live 1940s radio broadcast, complete with vintage commercials for fruitcake (extra-fancy), and the magic of live sound effects and musical underscoring. A handful of actors bring dozens of characters to the stage, as the familiar story unfolds. A charming take on a family favorite that will leave no one saying "Bah Humbug!" Read more

A Krampus Carol

A Krampus Carol
Brent Holland

Productions (8)
  • Comedy
  • 50 - 60 minutes
  • 2 W, 5 M, 14 Any (15-21 actors possible: 2-16 W, 5-19 M)

On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus’s oft-forgotten demon partner, Krampus, is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley, who hopes to get him to see the error of his ways. Hilarious and irreverent, A Krampus Carol pits Dickens’s classic redemption tale against a stubborn holiday fiend who doesn’t think he needs to be saved. Read more