Eight edgy short plays to challenge high school actors, ideal for classroom use, competition or one-act festivals.

A musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Follow Alice as she discovers the bewildering world on the other side of the mirror.

A modern retelling of the famous friendships, family, and feuds between David, Jonathan, and King Saul—baseball style.

This sung-through urban opera deals with the tough choices facing youth in the streets of Philadelphia.

A spoiled princess must find three magical Christmas gifts for her parents if she is to escape an arranged marriage to the world's stupidest prince.

What if you could make your senior year of high school last forever? When a group of students tries to do just that, not everybody's jumping on their bandwagon. In fact, another group of students wants to pull the wheels right off. Who will win out?

An orphan named Pip overcomes adversity for the sake of childhood love in this timeless story of the enduring power of the human spirit.

JOAN is a dynamic and exhilarating modernization of the story of the peasant girl who led an army to help crown a king and was burned at the stake for her efforts.     

Facing indifferent audiences and inner turmoil, a struggling Commedia dell'Arte troupe battles to live up to that old saying, "The show must go on."

With the help of a ghostly librarian, a frustrated little league ballplayer and his friends take an unexpected trip into their parents' past to fix the present.

Two teenagers who don't know each other deal with tragedy and struggle in the search for one good thing.

What is a true friend? A fun, often zany contemporary fairy tale about identity and friendship.

A young girl comes of age in Jim Crow Mississippi in this authorized adaptation of the Newbery Award-winning classic.

A bilingual fable of young hunters competing for leadership of an ancient society which is threatened by a mysterious beast.

A young African-American girl takes an epic fantasy journey set against the backdrop of the busing movement, as two families, one on each side of the racial divide, grow to discover their love for each other.

Step aboard the Windship, then set sail with a lost girl seeking a home somewhere in the wide world of fairy tales.

The youth of a town on the brink of ruin battle the students of a local prep school that is gradually buying up their town, all the while protecting one of their own whose parents have abandoned him.

Four characters grow up before our eyes as they journey from elementary to middle school in this fast-paced series of scenes that inspire us to appreciate the extraordinary moments of ordinary life.

For a young girl aching to grow up, what could be better than to find a fairy that can grant her that wish?

The Native American tale of an eagle being raised as a prairie chicken is retold with a happy ending and as many bad chicken jokes as possible.

Based on an Italian folktale, this lively play centers on the joys of family and the wonders and magic of Italian food.

Little Phoebe spends her after school hours cowering in a closet -- until she spies a moth flying through a buttonhole that draws her in, hurling her into an alien galaxy and a perilous journey of self discovery.

 Bully Bree waits for her meet-up, poetic Locust, but her snarky comments outrage hippie chick Jessica, who Bree once stabbed in the back. 

When a lazy but basically good elf disappears, will her apparent abduction trigger a war between the elves and the gnomes?

Four high school students struggle to confront their own biases of multiculturalism and language.

Three teen apprentices at a summer Shakespeare festival experience the rollercoaster highs and lows of young love...all while awaiting their entrance for that evening's performance.

The musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat turns to reality when some of the cast members become jealous of the lead actor and try to oust him.

In the spirit of Shrek, this fractured fairy tale comically chronicles the
exploits of Goldilocks as she flees the Three Bears and seeks asylum with the compulsive kisser Georgie Porgie and a host of nursery rhyme
characters.

An intergalactic detective discovers a well-intentioned and possibly beneficial fraud, and must decide whether to reveal it.

Johnny Appleseed and his friend Pete travel the countryside encountering real and fictional female figures in American folklore.

Two sheltered girls imagine that the death of a pet rabbit means that one of them is pregnant.

Dogs in a rescue kennel come up with a plan to find themselves new homes.

A theatrical adaptation of Washington Irving's timeless tale of Ichabod Crane, the fair damsel Katrina Van Tassel, and the most feared spectre of the realm, the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.

Young Bessie Smith tries to find the courage to perform before a northern audience for the first time.

A two character tragic love story inspired by the account of Merlin's fall in Alfred Lord Tennyson's epic poem Idylls of the King.

Two teenaged girlfriends hesitantly share their fears and hopes about motherhood when they meet for the first time since one has had an abortion.

A little boy, a seal, and a mermaid join forces to save Nessie when a troll threatens to drain Loch Ness.

A feisty kid sabotages a live television broadcast to make a statement about gun violence in this anti-violence comedy.

When Persephone runs away with the boyfriend from hell (literally), her mother--who happens to be the goddess of the harvest--holds the whole earth hostage. 

When a beautiful princess is cursed with the face of a pig, she sets out on a magical journey - only to discover that true beauty is found within.

A mother and daughter go shopping for a prom dress and battle for control over who will choose which dress to buy.

Professor Sasha Marlowe's newest experimental device has split her into seven elemental parts, but now that they're free, not all of the elements of Sasha want to go back to the way things were before.

Events rapidly "go viral" after a group of teens put an inappropriate photo online.

A new kid shows up and disturbs the secret hideout of a group of misfits in this play about making friends, navigating change and exploring imaginative worlds lurking just beneath the stairs.

When her role as Storyteller is challenged by an enthusiastic new neighbor, Ivy must decide whether it is more important to be a lonely queen, or a creative collaborator!

When a gnome and a troll become friends, they must overcome the prejudice of their families if they are to maintain their friendship.

A Japanese serving woman dresses as a man to accompany her mistress through a dangerous forest.

The gun is missing from the pot on the right rear burner at the Doe house, replaced by an egg.

A recovering transplant patient determined to stock up before he leaves the hospital. Doctors supplementing their salaries by selling an organ or two. A kleptomaniac kid on the loose. A soup-cooking candy striper right out of Sweeney Todd. Calling it a health care crisis would be an understatement...

In the style of La Ronde, a group of high school students meet at a local coffee house to gossip, confess and confront each other about everything from relationships to addictions and longings to suicide...

Four strange, funny, and offbeat stories told in rhyming couplets.

A wise peasant girl teaches King Alexander how to solve the bizarre problems in his kingdom.

Two teenagers struggle with how to defend themselves against a bully.

Two young adults look for love in a convenience store--with more than the usual baggage.

Will Jack and Jill finally break the vicious cycle that they've been trapped in for as long as they can remember...?

While two sisters watch a meteor shower, their divorced mother's annoying cell phone "tweets" force them to question their uncertain future and the reality of their lives, ultimately bringing them closer together.

Shannon is Shaun's idea of perfection, but when she forces her admirer to come up with one flaw, could it spell the not-so-perfect ending for their relationship?

An updated version of the classic fable The Ant and the Grasshopper.

Two teenage boys find that a Girls Gone Wild DVD is a lot more--and less--than they bargained for.

A gay teen shakes things up in his home ec class when he wants his boyfriend to be his "husband" for a family budget assignment.

Two teenage girls stuck in detention till they've written a letter of apology.  No way.

Freaked out Serafina hasn’t been on a date in ages, so Coco comes to the rescue with a head-to-toe makeover.

 A young prince goes on a quest to slay a dragon to win the admiration of a princess.

A battle between two siblings over a diary and a video game controller gives way to fears about their Dad being "erased" from their memories...

When best friends Rain and Sophia attend their first school dance, they accidentally cause the boy who's captured both their hearts to fall, quite literally, for another.

A teenage girl doesn’t let the death of a boy she loved end their friendship.

Two young girls wait for their wounded father to return from his tour of duty.

A teenage boy hitchhikes along a highway that seems to be disappearing into a black hole. 

Christmas Eve, 1971: Amidst the pall cast by the Vietnam war, a pair of young lovers in a sleepy coal mining town struggle to find hope and common spiritual ground as they confront news which threatens to alter the course of their lives.

A girl tries to make Christmas for her cynical brother in their elegant, cold New York apartment. 

Two stressed-out senior girls at a high school dance look for a way out of the frenetic round of résumé-building--maybe accidentally on purpose forgetting the condoms on prom night could provide a welcome escape?

Will a teenage girl's reunion with the mother who abandoned her be everything she's wished for?

An innocent but dangerous flirtation between a young black soldier and a white farm girl in the WWI-era South.

A train loving thrill-seeker tries to scare some romance into his straitlaced date by taking her onto a train trestle at night.

Up a tree in the middle of the night, two children consider pressures from parents, classmates, and unwanted Barbie pajamas, and come up with an exciting new adventure forward.

When it comes to the Dating Game, will even the friendliest of advice prove to be the proverbial Trojan Horse...?