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A List of Good Plays for Jr. High and High School Productions or Classroom Study

FULL LENGTH PLAYS

I Hate Hamlet, Paul Rudnick, DPS (highschoolers really go for this one)
The Foreigner, Larry Shue, DPS
Impassioned Embraces, John Pielmeier, DPS
Baby with the Bathwater, Christopher Durang, DPS
    (highly controversial)
Pretty Fire, Charlayne Woodard, William Morris Agency
    (one woman show, or have several girls portray the main character)
Talking with..., Jane Martin, SF
Lost in Yonkers, Neil Simon, SF
Rumors, Neil Simon, SF
Brighton Beach Memoirs, Neil Simon, SF
?De Donde?, Mary Gallagher, DPS
The Amen Corner, James Baldwin, SF
Rehearsal for Murder, D.D. Brooke, Richard Levinson and
    William Link, DPC
The Diviners, Jim Leonard Jr., SF
Scapino!, Frank Dunlop and Jim Dale, DP
R.U.R., Karel Capek, SF
Feiffer's People, Jules Feiffer, DPS
The Crucible, Arthur Miller, DPS
Vanities, Jack Heifner, SF
The Odd Couple (female version), Neil Simon, SF
The Miser, Moliere/Roland L. Reed, AP
The good Doctor, Neil Simon, SF
Mother Hicks, Suzan Zeder, AP
Maggie Magalita, Wendy Kesselman, SF
In a room somewhere, Suzan Zeder, AP
Voices from the High School, Peter Dee, SF
Class Action, Brad Slaight, BP
What I did last Summer, A.R. Gurney Jr., DPS
Babies having Babies, Kathryn Montgomery and Jeffrey Auerbach, BP
The code Breaker, Pauline Conley
Simply Maria, or the American Dream, Jennifer Lopez, Arte
    Publico Press
Apologies, Brian Kral, AP
Love, Death and the Prom, Jon Jory, DP
3 Girls and Clorox, Belinda Acosta, NP
The Analysis of Mineral #4, Moses Goldberg, AP
Runaways, Elizabeth Swados, SF
The Forgotten Door, Gregory Falls, AP
Newcomer, Janet Thomas, AP
I Never saw another Butterfly, Celeste Raspanti, DP
This is not a pipe dream, Barry Kornhauser, AP
Sojourner, Pat Sternberg and Dolly Beechman, AP
Wiley and the Hairy Man, Suzan Zeder, AP
Androcles and the Lion, Aurand Harris, AP
You Can't take it With You, Kaufman and Hart
The Pinballs, Aurand Harris (adaptation)
Blithe Spirit, Noel Coward
Selkie, Laurie Golbin
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
Arsenic and Old Lace, Joseph kesserling
Our Town
Dark of the Moon

ONE ACT PLAYS

Your life is a feature film, Alan Minieri, SF (highschoolers love it)
The Actor's Nightmare, Christopher Durang, DPS
The Fifteen Minute Hamlet, Tom Soppard, SF
This is a Test, Stephen Gregg, DP
Present Tense, John Mcnamara, DPS
The Bald Soprano, Eugene Ionesco, SF
Zookeeper, Juan Shamsul Alam, Penguin Books
Chamber music, Arthur Kopit, SF
La Llorona Llora, Silvia Gonzalez S., DP
The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare/ adapted by Charlotte Brown,
    IEC
Dog Lady, Milcha Sanchez-Scott, DPS
The State of the Adolescent today, Elizabeth Haviland, DG
Fortress, Patricia M. Loughrey, BP
The inner circle, Patricia Loughrey, BP
Sparks in the Park, Noble Mason Smith, SF
Trifles, Susan Glaspell, BP
The Lottery, Brainerd Duffield, Shirley Jackson, DP
The Proposal, Anton Checkhov
Addict, Jerome McDonough
Alky, Jerome McDonough
Doors, Susan Zeder, AP
Step on a crack, Susan Zeder, AP
The Code Breaker, Pauline Conley
E.R., Irene Elliot
*A fellow teacher recommends David Ives one-acts - thanks for the suggestion :)

KEY - (which you probably already know)

AP - Anchorage Press
BP - Baker's Plays
DG - Foundation of the Dramatists Guild
DP - Dramatic Publishing Company
DPS- Dramatists Play Service
NP - New Plays for Children
SF - Samuel French