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