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I'm A Teenager Get Me Out of This Family by Jim Garvey

  • Comedy
  • |
  • 20 - 30 minutes
  • 2 W, 2 M, 15 Any (4-19 actors possible: 2-15 W, 2-15 M)
Productions (219)
(12)

Living with parents can be rough -- especially when Mom and Dad are nothing but ordinary. So when Julie and her mother get into a battle over... Read more

Living with parents can be rough -- especially when Mom and Dad are nothing but ordinary. So when Julie and her mother get into a battle over... Read more

Anne of Green Gables adapted by Peter DeLaurier

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • |
  • 120 - 130 minutes
  • 8 W, 3 M,  (11-13 actors possible: 8-10 W, exactly 3 M)
Productions (179)
(27)

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... Read more

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... Read more

Streaming Rights Available

Orphan Trains by Deborah Craig

  • Drama
  • |
  • 40 - 45 minutes
  • 10 W, 5 M, 2 Any (8-27 actors possible: 5-15 W, 3-12 M)
Productions (208)
(38)

From 1853 to 1929, The Orphan Trains Project joined adoptive parents with orphans in countless towns throughout the vast American landscape.... Read more

From 1853 to 1929, The Orphan Trains Project joined adoptive parents with orphans in countless towns throughout the vast American landscape.... Read more

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The Importance of Being Earnest (in 30 minutes) adapted by Jason Pizzarello

  • Comedy
  • |
  • 30 - 40 minutes
  • 3 W, 2 M, 2 Any (7 actors possible: 3-5 W, 2-4 M)
Productions (89)
(10)

In this one-act adaptation of Oscar Wilde's beloved romantic comedy, the stakes are even higher and the deadlines even tighter for poor Jack... Read more

In this one-act adaptation of Oscar Wilde's beloved romantic comedy, the stakes are even higher and the deadlines even tighter for poor Jack... Read more

Streaming Rights Available

Relative Strangers by Sheri Wilner

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • |
  • 25 - 35 minutes
  • 3 W, 
Productions (204)
(16)

A young airline passenger decides that the woman seated next to her might be the mother she never had. She finds an ally in a wacky stewardess... Read more

A young airline passenger decides that the woman seated next to her might be the mother she never had. She finds an ally in a wacky stewardess... Read more

Memory House by Kathleen Tolan

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • |
  • 80 - 90 minutes
  • 2 W, 
Productions (39)
(7)

One winter night a woman bakes a pie as a girl tries to finish her college essay. As the deadline looms, unexamined issues of the girl's adoption... Read more

One winter night a woman bakes a pie as a girl tries to finish her college essay. As the deadline looms, unexamined issues of the girl's adoption... Read more

Available as eScript

Trevor by Nick Jones

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • |
  • 80 - 90 minutes
  • 3 W, 4 M, 
Productions (36)
(5)

Inspired by true events, Trevor is a subversive comedy about fame, success, and the lies we tell ourselves in order to keep people from taking... Read more

Inspired by true events, Trevor is a subversive comedy about fame, success, and the lies we tell ourselves in order to keep people from taking... Read more

Streaming Rights Available

Painted Rain by Janet Allard

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • |
  • 40 - 50 minutes
  • 1 W, 2 M,  (3 actors possible: 0-3 W, 0-3 M)
Productions (75)
(5)

Painted Rain explores the relationship between two boys in an orphanage, on the verge of being separated by adoption. The younger boy, an... Read more

Painted Rain explores the relationship between two boys in an orphanage, on the verge of being separated by adoption. The younger boy, an... Read more

Streaming Rights Available

Anne of Green Gables adapted by Jon Jory

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • |
  • 50 - 60 minutes
  • 11 W, 3 M,  (9-15 actors possible: 7-12 W, 2-3 M)
Productions (43)
(21)

This innovative adaptation, using five different actors to play Anne, is the classic story of a fiery young girl named Anne Shirley. When Marilla... Read more

This innovative adaptation, using five different actors to play Anne, is the classic story of a fiery young girl named Anne Shirley. When Marilla... Read more

The Odyssey, Oedipus, and Others or Greek Story Theatre adapted by Stacey Coates

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • |
  • 65 - 80 minutes
  • 7 W, 10 M, 20 Any (10-50 actors possible: 6-26 W, 4-24 M)
Productions (22)
(7)

Four well-loved tales -- The Odyssey, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone -- are brought to life in this hilarious and accessible... Read more

Four well-loved tales -- The Odyssey, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone -- are brought to life in this hilarious and accessible... Read more

Humana Festival 2012: The Complete Plays by Courtney Baron and 12 others

  • Comedy
  • Drama
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  • 0 - 0 minutes
  • Various
(0)

Humana Festival 2012: The Complete Plays brings together all ten scripts from the 2012 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 36th annual... Read more

Humana Festival 2012: The Complete Plays brings together all ten scripts from the 2012 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 36th annual... Read more

Streaming Rights Available

Oedipus adapted by Ellen McLaughlin

  • Drama
  • |
  • 70 - 90 minutes
  • 1 W, 6 M, 6 Any (13-20 actors possible: 2-6 W, 8-13 M)
Productions (16)
(0)

A plague grips the city of Thebes. Desperate to save his people, King Oedipus sends a messenger to the oracle at Delphi and discovers that the... Read more

A plague grips the city of Thebes. Desperate to save his people, King Oedipus sends a messenger to the oracle at Delphi and discovers that the... Read more

Conspicuous by Winter Miller

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • |
  • 30 - 40 minutes
  • 8 W, 8 M,  (10-20 actors possible: 5-10 W, 5-10 M)
Productions (5)
(5)

Adoption brings a multitude of diverse people together, transcending race, culture, and traditional gender roles. In this fast-paced collection... Read more

Adoption brings a multitude of diverse people together, transcending race, culture, and traditional gender roles. In this fast-paced collection... Read more

Oedipus the King adapted by Stacey Coates

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • |
  • 12 - 15 minutes
  • 4 W, 4 M, 6 Any (5-23 actors possible: 2-11 W, 3-12 M)
Productions (6)
(0)

When Oedipus, the new king of Thebes, promises to bring justice to the murderer of former king Laius (and deceased husband of Oedipus's wife... Read more

When Oedipus, the new king of Thebes, promises to bring justice to the murderer of former king Laius (and deceased husband of Oedipus's wife... Read more

Baby Steps by Geoffrey Nauffts

  • Drama
  • |
  • 10 - 12 minutes
  • 1 W, 1 M, 
Productions (9)
(0)

Robert is applying to adopt a baby through an agency run by the stern, overworked Rosemary. Nothing about their meeting seems to be going right... Read more

Robert is applying to adopt a baby through an agency run by the stern, overworked Rosemary. Nothing about their meeting seems to be going right... Read more

Stray by Ruth McKee

  • Drama
  • |
  • 100 - 120 minutes
  • 4 W, 1 M, 
Productions (7)
(0)

Well-educated, middle-class couple James and Rachel have moved back to America from Uganda with their traumatized adopted son in hopes of... Read more

Well-educated, middle-class couple James and Rachel have moved back to America from Uganda with their traumatized adopted son in hopes of... Read more

Bass for Picasso by Kate Moira Ryan

  • Comedy
  • |
  • 80 - 90 minutes
  • 3 W, 2 M, 
Productions (1)
(2)

Food writer Francesca's dinner party features famous recipes from the Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, along with a guest list that's an almost certain... Read more

Food writer Francesca's dinner party features famous recipes from the Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, along with a guest list that's an almost certain... Read more

Quentin G by Joshua Mikel

  • Comedy
  • |
  • 45 - 60 minutes
  • 1 W, 3 M,  (4-5 actors possible: 0-4 W, 1-5 M)
Productions (3)
(3)

Convinced his mother died in a plane crash and tired of dealing with his absent-minded father, Quentin embarks on an epic journey across the... Read more

Convinced his mother died in a plane crash and tired of dealing with his absent-minded father, Quentin embarks on an epic journey across the... Read more

Minna and the Space People by Wendy Hammond

  • Comedy
  • |
  • 10 - 20 minutes
  • 1 W, 1 M, 
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Pregnant Minna insists that space people communicate with her through her mascara wand and put a baby inside her so the child can save the world.... Read more

Pregnant Minna insists that space people communicate with her through her mascara wand and put a baby inside her so the child can save the world.... Read more