Plays (105)

21 Pairs of Sneakers
A young equipment manager for a college gym saves the day when a pro team forgets their sneakers.
A Christmas Carol
In this adaption of the story by Charles Dickens, the playwright has used his skills as a playwright and researcher for a more authentic understanding.
A Christmas Stocking Full of Plays
Christmas,short plays
A Dickens Of A Christmas
Dickens’ favorite Characters Explode in His Christmas Ball for All. Till Auntie Christmas Calls! When Tiny Tim rescues the Christmas Spirit for All!
A Dickens Of A Christmas Tree
Heartwarming Dickens’ Family Christmas Tree yarn with Ornaments, Nativity coming Alive Bursting with Memories of Wonder and Ghostly Spirits.
A Habitation of Vanities
A fantasy play about characters who are requited after death to examine how their individual vanities affected their lives.
A Light To The World
An L.D.S. Christmas play set in America at the Birth of Christ following a ficticious family through the events leading up to that great night.
A Trail Of Bread Crumbs
An evil stepmother convinces her husband to abandon his children, Hansel and Gretel, in the woods. The familiar fairy tale with some twists.
A Visit From Saint Nick
A divorced mother is not in the mood for Christmas until some magic comes into her life.
Aesop’s Fables for Reader’s Theatre
Aesop’s Fables, Fables
All I Want For Christmas Is A Key
A boy and a girl that are sworn enemies get accidentally handcuffed together at Christmas resulting in a fun escapade of errors.
April Fools
Three girls play April Fools joke on their roommate, setting her up with a nonexistent guy, but, a a guy arrives who lost his memory.
Attics
A year after their father’s death, a brother and two sisters are not speaking to each other so their mother gets them to meet without them knowing.
Babe Ruth’s Ghost
The story of why the Red Sox couldn’t ever seem to win the nationals after Babe Ruth went to the Yankees.
Behold The Emperor’s New Clothes
A fun retelling of the Han’s Christian Anderson Tale.
Bigfoot, Campers, Cheerleaders, Nerds, and the Three Wise Guys
A few fun, short plays that are fun to perform.
Brawl At The Ball
This is a fun fairy tale twist with Cinderella taking her stepmother to court to address wrongs she has faced. Many fairy tale people are witnesses.
Buyer, Beware Darling?
When Harry buys his girlfriend, Errin, a ghost from Ebay as an exotic gift, a humorous time results when the ghost doesn’t want to leave.
Can You Hear Me Now
Amy and Wendy Tucker open a gas station in the little Washington town of Black Diamond. An inept robber armed with a toy pistol is so down on his luck he tries unsuccessfully to holdup the women who easily foil his attempt. But they are touched by the sto
Christian Life On the Stage
This is a collection of short, five minute plays with strong Christian messages of commitment and faith.
Christmas Show Memories
A young teacher learns something about her relationship with her mother. Christmas themed One-Act.
Cinderella and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White goes to the wrong house,Cinderella falls in love with the wrong prince?<br>Forget the Fairy God Mother!
Coming Home (The Play)
Shauna find herself in the small town her husband grew up in when her car breaks down. Interesting things start to happen. This also has a fun musical.
Cultural Differences
This is a fun sequel to <b>The Mail-Order Bride</b> where Anya’s father sold her. Now he comes to visit and finds himself strange culture.
Debt and Deliverance – Angels Among Us
World War II, and a strange man in town no one likes make for an incredible tale of understanding.
Early Heroes of the Faith
Christian,short plays,heroes
Easter Doubts And Promises
Two settings and two times, the first Easter morning and an Easter Sunday today, are combined to study two sets of characters and how they react.
Fairy Tale Justice
Goldilocks, the Big Bad Wolf and the Troll from "Three Billy Goats Gruff" are on trial in three separate cases.
Flagmaker
The story of the making of the United States flag
Four Chicks, Three Hunks, and a Frog
A clever blend of fairy tales Rapunzel, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, & the Frog Prince with good roles for all as four girls seek their perfect match.
Four Women Of Gallilee
This is a play in seven episodes. Each one is an event in the lives of the main four women who knew Jesus and their association with him and his life.
Friends Forever
Life in boarding school teaches the girls that to make a friend you need to be a friend. Overcoming tragedy. Social issues. Full-length.
Friends In Need
Two sisters and their brother find an alien transporter that brings people to them not as they are but as they describe them.
Godmother I and the Grump That Stole Christmas
Is About Love and a Grieving Widow seeking a dignified Burial for her Pickled Hubby. His Legacy a Garage full of Deposit Beer cans! Will it Do?
Hard Biscuits
A humorous comedy set in a girls’ school. When a new girl comes, someone is out to get her, but the villain might not be who you suspect.
Harebrained Tales From Around The World
Some fun tales from Aesop Fables such as the Tortoise and the Hare. All contain a rabbit.
Home For Christmas
In Ellendale, Pennsylvania a rich, young man takes some orphans into his home for Christmas. They learn that his fiance is only wants his money.
Home Town Summer
Intergenerational play set in a backyard shows the essence of small-town life in Oklahoma. Full-length.
Hope And Redemption
Two short plays inspired by Bible stories cleverly updated to contemporary times.
Hypnotic Suggestions
Charlie, the old janitor, accidentally created a potion that will hypnotize people. Stu, the hero, must stop the villain before he can get it.
Joseph’s Story
This is a look at the Christmas story from Joseph’s point of view and what he may have gone through accepting Mary to be his wife when she was expecting.
Love, Sick, and Montezuma’s Gold
The evil Bartholomew Blackburn and his sister Priscilla have tricked the Mr. Giving into mortgaging the deed to his ranch for an old cave. Fun melodrama.
Magic Theatre Trunk
A modern retelling of three classic children’s stories, Rumpelstiltskin, Cinderella and The Emperor’s New Clothes.
Marreu and the Chocolate Policeman
Detective Comedy; machinations, mayhem and muddle in 1930s England country house.
Miracle in Bethlehem
Mary, a tourist, wants her husband to join her in visiting where Jesus was born. He feels it is all a waste of time.
No Christmas This Year
A story about a man who cancels Christmas for his family because everything goes wrong.
Outpost In Nazareth
A view of the birth of Christ from a Roman perspective.
Pride And Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is a stage version of Jane Austen’s classic novel of the same title.
Rapunzel
A simple retelling of the story of Rapunzel made famous by The Brothers Grimm.
Reverse Psychology or Beasty Girl
When two psychology majors can’t seem to get along, their professor creates an assignment to teach them a lesson.
Rock Star
The old Windcott Hotel is going to have to close due to lack of business. Then the workers hear a famous rock star might visit in disguise. Fun, confusion
Saint Fred
The story of a man that becomes a Christian, joins the Promise Keepers, and helps his friend.
Saint Nicolas And Rudy
An enjoyable, happy, captivating, comic, Capsule (Space) of Christmas National Customs. Revealed in a personable, adventurous survey by Santa.
Secret Santa
In a small resort hotel, is it really Jennifer’s possessive rich boyfriend who is helping her financially or is there someone else?
Seeing Roses
Seventeen-year-old Jason Grillo suddenly regains his sight after being blind since age seven. He finds that his life is unexpectedly complex.
Sense and Sensibility
Based on Jane Austen’s classic novel, Sense and Sensibility tells the story of two sisters who are star-crossed in romance.
Short Skits From Other Plays
A collection of some of the best and most humorous scenes from the plays and musicals by Daris Howard. They’re meant to stand alone for things like interp
Show Down At Bitter Creek
The villain has plans to take over the town and the only man that can save everyone, the sheriff, has left town, or has he?
Signs Of Messiah
The Rabbi, Simon, is seeing signs of the Messiah In the birth of Christ but wonders if it can truly be believed.
Snow White And The Seven Little Dudes
Mix together a wicked queen, Snow White, the greatest singer in Rocklandia, and seven little men that have their own rock band for a fun play.
Stories of the First Christmas
Christmas,short plays
The Big Story
To save the newspaper, the secretary, who has always wanted to be a reporter, decides to go after a big story, only to find there is more than she thought
The Bremen Town Musicians
This is a fun retelling of a favorite fairytale by the Brothers Grimm. It would be a great choice for traveling High School or Middle School groups.
The Christmas Reindeer
Jack and Mary are nine year-old twins. Mary gets a return e-mail advising that Santa’s Reindeer have disappeared. Mary and Jack look for a way to help.
The Christmas Truce
During World War I, at Christmas time in 1914, for a brief moment, the two sides laid down their arms and celebrated Christmas together.
The Conversion Of Lucius Caisus
A story about a young Roman soldier who becomes a Christian in ancient Rome. It is a wonderful story set with politics and predjudices of the time.
The Courtship of Senorita Florabella
Florabella is a beautiful but not too brilliant girl. She is also a very good swordsman. Her suitor Don Juanis is handsome,brilliant, but no swordsman.
The Curse of the Prom
A group of misfit, trouble-making high school students find themselves in hot water for yet another school prank.
The Donkey’s Tale
This is a story about a young girl that owns the donkey used by Mary to travel to Bethlehem, and what she learns traveling with Mary and Joseph.
The Four Gifts Of Christmas
Four stories about Christmas with greate messages.
The Gangster Priest
Lots of fun in this 20’s-era comedy about a guy who, for love of a gal, pretends to be a mob boss AND a priest. What could possibly go wrong?
The Gift
This is a Christmas story about a cast come together for a Christmas play who begins to experience it in their own way.
The Gift Of Speech
A fun Christmas story about people who inherit the ability to hear animals speak on Christmas eve while other people think they’re crazy.
The Gifts
Ellis Ruley, a successful artist and a gentle, religious, African American man, is found dead near his home, winter of 1959. Civil Rights issues.
The Godmother I
When Women Take Over The Mob and Go Legit! Funee! And The Mob with a Heart? Why Not? With more twists than Curly Macaroni!
The Godmother I-101
Godmother Re-orients her troops with Training on Sensitivity, Fashions for Men and Gals along with good Diverse Community Relations or Else!
The Great Recipe Rip-Off
A fun melodrama. The villain wants to get his hand on a great recipe no matter how.
The Kissing Bandit
All the social relations in the town are turned upside down when a kissing bandit appears in the park.
The Last Gift
A magic ring helps the princess learn that what is on the outside is not always what is on the inside. One-Act children’s comedy.
The Legacy
Is About Love and a Grieving Widow seeking a dignified Burial for her Pickled Hubby. His Legacy a Garage full of Deposit Beer cans! Will it Do?
The Mail-Order Bride
Eli Whittier sends money to his fiancee for her passage to join him in America, but unknown to him she has married and send a mail-order bride instead.
The Man Who Didn’t Need Christmas
A story about the inn keeper in Bethlehem who feels his life is fine but starts to learn maybe something is missing.
The Miniscule Chronicles
An Exciting Tale of The Minis (Gnomes) of The Hudson Valley whose sole desire is to help people, animals, environment and their Country survive!
The Princess Wore Sneakers
Sam, is magically taken to a castle where she must substitute for a real missing princess and realizes it is not perfect.
The Quit Claimed Ghost of the Old Viola Opera House
Molly O’Hara and her friend, Janet Johnston, decide to open an antique store but find the old opera house they want to purchase is haunted.
The Red Cat Of Chiang Mai
Set in a small Thai village, this short youth play is intended for cross cultural learning for both students and audience.
The Rented Bride
Marina has had nothing but problems with men. So when Jason comes to her temp agency to rent a wife, she is disgusted. But she learns things aren’t always what they seem.
The Royal Tutor
The Royal Tutor
The Shepherd Who Missed Christmas
A wonderful Christmas story about a shepherd whose luck keeps running against him to get to meet Christ.
The Stolen Kiss
An interesting story of two older people who return to college.
The Three Gifts
Justin, Tom, and Sam are convicted of stealing children’s Halloween candy at Halloween. Instead of jail the judge sentences them to 100 hours babysitting
The Wax Cradle
Louisa May Alcott is best known as the author of Little Women, but this is the true story of her life challenges.
The White Cat
This play follows the fairy tale by the same name.
The Will
The rich Jensens and the poor Flanovans had been feuding families for as long as anyone could remember, but the reading of a will brings a twist.
The Wishing Well
How do wishes and such things come true? Find out with the granters of wishes and good luck.
This Magnificent Madness
A retired Roman centurion reacts negatively to the events of Paul’s first visit to Philippi but eventually has a change of heart.
This Old Haunted House
Brad Naylor agrees to renovate a house once belonging to reputed mob boss, Vito Govanni. But there are those who don’t want him too, maybe even a ghost.
Three Religious Plays
Narratives of Barabbas’ Conversion, Participation in Worship, and Grief offer excellent opportunities for viewing, study, and discussion.
Three Wise Women
Mary, Elizabeth, and Anna , with wisdom from God, live out the events of Jesus’s birth.
Truth And Consequences
A fun melodrama with a will, political debate, and a truth potion. Quickly becoming one of our most ordered melodramas.
Two Rabbis
The story of Jesus as told by two wise Rabbis that were Pharisees.
What’s In A Promise
A man makes a promise to his daughter, and when work gets in the way, he has to make a decision.
Who Are You?
Short plays about Jesus, Gabriel, and John the Baptist
Will You Marry Me
Two cousins set out to find men to marry them in order to win their rich uncle’s fortune as his will requires.
Yuletide At Knoxshire
Take a trip back to Victorian England and help the Duke discover the true meaning of Chistmas and what gift he should bring the Christ child.