In 1880 Bertha Pappenheim, a young Jewish woman, develops a ‘nervous cough’ while caring for her father. She is treated by Josef Breuer, a preeminent Viennese physician. Her symptoms soon progress to include severe visual, motor, speech, and mood problems. When she refuses removal to a sanitarium she and Dr. Breuer embark on an unorthodox protocol, involving sessions of discussion, storytelling, and hypnosis – essentially creating the techniques of ‘talk therapy’ and psychoanalysis. Breuer consults with Richard von Krafft-Ebing, a psychiatrist and psychosexual researcher, whose studies on homosexuality will ultimately result in its decriminalization. The play also includes an homage to Edward Lear. Fraulein Pappenheim subsequently becomes a fierce champion of women’s and children’s rights, until she and her work come under the deadly scrutiny of the Nazis, evocative of modern trends towards fascism. Anna O. depicts an intelligent, passionate, and sensitive woman in a protective but repressive society; a world in upheaval; and the importance of imagination and creativity in overcoming trauma.

• Cast Size: 3W – 8M (2W – 4M with suggested doubling)
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

As sisters Harmony and Destiny hike in the woods, they fall upon a building that does not seem to belong there, nor can they find it on the trail map. Destiny is convinced that the landscape is shapeshifting. Harmony is skeptical but also elusive about where she got the map. An ominous shadow cast by the sole window does not seem to move, no matter from what angle you look at it. Nor is there sunlight coming through the trees that would create it. Destiny is convinced that they have entered a time warp. But why? Can a trail map, an old news article and a displaced building hold the key to unlocking a family tragedy? 

• Cast Size: 2W
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance 

Five people (re)live their everyday lives during the year nine-year-old Liz died. We are invited to summon memories of our own since we were also there even if memory has faded or has yet come to pass. Childhood games propel the action making it apparent that the characters are eager to discover unconditional love. Mark and Chastity experiment with intimacy. Mark’s parents work to rediscovery their diminished passion while guarding against the discomforting realities of life. And Liz gives her unencumbered love to Mark which leads to accusation and to the coming of age and loss of innocence for all.

• Cast Size: 2-4M 3-5W (Gender Flexible)
• Running Time: 90+ Minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When former binge-eater Daphne notices she’s gained weight, her internal panic deepens when she lands a lucrative acting role as a character described as “fat.” Meanwhile, her best friend Jess, battling anorexia, faces her own casting dilemma: she’s been chosen for a major print ad, but only because of her dangerously thin appearance. As both women grapple with the harsh realities of an industry obsessed with body image, they’re forced to confront a defining choice—embrace the roles that exploit their insecurities for the sake of their careers or reject the commercial machine altogether. 

•  Cast Size: 2F, 2M, 1 F or NB
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Roger, a struggling writer, finds his life in a tailspin. He’s dead broke. His best friend’s wife has an out-of-control libido and keeps attempting to seduce him. His friend, oblivious to his wife’s flirting, tries to set Roger up with an inconceivable companion. And worst of all, he’s got no inspiration to write. Will Roger stave off his love-starved neighbor? Will he fall head-over-heels for an unlikely paramour? Will he leave his beloved Florida to endure five frickin winters in Minnesota? Or maybe, just maybe, this wild and wacky scenario will provide Roger with the very inspiration he craves.

• Cast Size: 2M 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Set in the eerie Elsinore Center for Restorative Care, a 1950s asylum, Hamlet: A Horatio Story reimagines Shakespeare’s tragedy through Horatio’s fractured mind. As Hamlet descends into vengeance, Horatio struggles to bear witness, torn between loyalty and a truth distorted by grief. The asylum’s sterile halls mirror Denmark’s decay, where love, betrayal, and madness blur reality. Through Horatio’s eyes, memory and trauma intertwine—are events as they were, or as his mind has reshaped them? This adaptation invites audiences into a world where ghosts linger not just in shadows, but in the depths of the human soul.

• Cast Size: 20M 10W VARIOUS
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Lineage challenges stereotypes as it confronts issues of race, adoption, religion, heredity and the often mistaken or disappointed expectations we have of one another. Jess and Greg want to adopt La Tonya’s baby. La Tonya wants to be a good Christian.  La Tonya’s estranged son wants a second chance after his three strikes and Greg’s teen daughter wants everyone to leave her the fuck alone.  After a drunken brawl, car accident, failed adoption and possible death, coupled with fantastical sequences involving luminaries such as Victor Frankl, Joan Crawford, L’il Abner and Jesus himself, Jess and the others begin to bury old wounds and redefine their concept of ‘family.’  With strong roles for women and POC, Lineage is a sharply insightful play that is both tender and surprisingly funny.  

• Cast Size: 3M 4W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 Per perfmance

Monster Girl is obsessed with monsters. Her nocturnal pals help to keep her safe from the real monsters of this world -predatory cousins, vicious brothers and uncaring parents. She is alone in this world until she meets another “weird kid” – Anna – at a party circa 1982.

• Cast Size: 2M 4W
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

This play is an episodic, comedic reimagining of the familiar Biblical story of Noah and his ark in light of the demands of modern bureaucratic red tape (accordingly, much of the dialog is comically anachronistic). The arc of the play runs from Noah’s initial encounter with Yahweh in the desert to their final encounter following the global flood. It is written as 2 acts of 5 scenes each, with each scene having a title suggesting location and action. (There is an intermission, but the play could be presented without it, if desired.)

• Cast Size: 8M 4W + EXTRAS
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A live radio theater troupe attempts to put on its most challenging show: a hard-boiled steampunk thriller about aliens trying to take over the world! In this tribute to Ed Wood, Dashell Hammett and dysfunctional community theaters everywhere, the story-within-a-story of Detective Bunny Omega’s desperate struggle to save the planet from bizarre space beings weaves in and out with the AbletownLive Radio Players’ struggle to put on a good performance with a script they’ve never seen before. The result is a comedy about hubris, derring-do, and the importance of having a good live foley team.

• Cast Size: 9-10 actors, any gender
• Running Time: 90+ Minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

An adventurous father, Steve, and his conversely risk-averse son, Henry, embark upon one last road trip to visit the Grand Canyon. Along the way, they pick up a witty hitchhiker, Dabria, who encourages them to rediscover their childlike spirits. Set against the backdrop of desolate highways and vast landscapes, their journey is muddled with trials and tribulations. The found family shoulders the burden of grief together through humor and heart, and even in the face of adversity, their momentum and persistence is unstoppable. Together, they find themselves having the experience of a lifetime. 

• Cast Size: 7M, 2W, 2ANY
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When Romaine and Jeff stumble into a quirky late-night coffeehouse run by eccentric bohemians, they don’t realize they’ve entered a den of vampires, with a taste for poetry, politics, and strong coffee.  Elvis, the flamboyant head vampire, is moody, dramatic, and maybe a little too into Jeff. But it’s Romaine’s no-nonsense charm and sharp tongue that catch his eye, he’s tired of ruling with out-of-touch bloodsuckers and wants a partner with brains, backbone, and zero patience for bullshit.  As tensions rise and loyalties shift, Romaine must decide whether to try to outwit the undead or become their reluctant queen. A sharp-witted, blood-soaked satire, Suckers gleefully skewers both human and vampire egos in a comically caffeine-fueled battle for power.  

• Cast Size: 5M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Back in high school, Ronnie, Val and Daryl made a vow to take care of one another if any of them got sick. When Ronnie’s abusive homelife and mental illness test their vows, the three separate to start new lives. Years later, when Ronnie is found wandering the streets of Trenton, NJ, Daryl and Val reluctantly reunite to try to get Ronnie the treatment she should have gotten years ago. In the process, old wounds are reopened, and the three friends are forced to confront how they failed one another in the past, as well as the need to forgive one another in the present.

• Cast Size: 3W 1M
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Just how well do you know all your “friends” on social media? In this fast-moving “light comedy about dark people leading private lives in public places,” when the grieving Charlie Windsor meets the gregarious Diana Black-White in a New York Theater District bar they become instant BFFs. Much to the consternation of his closest friend since childhood, Broadway actor Ed McGrath, Charlie is almost immediately hurled into an overwhelming whirl of dark secrets, questionable loyalties, and highly dysfunctional family dynamics; a world for which Charlie is completely unprepared. Goddess Of The Hunt is a gleefully silly homage to those romantic comedy thrillers of the 1960s via Roman mythology, updated to the creepy, contemporary world of social media and – perhaps too much – information sharing.

• Cast Size: 4M 1W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cassie, a young LDS woman who has spent years in Chicago, returns to her family home in Utah in July 2015 to mark the tenth anniversary of her father’s death. Her visit comes soon after the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage. As she reconnects with her cultural and religious roots, Cassie and her family struggle with how the deeply held beliefs of the LDS faith shape their views on family and personal happiness. Amid these tensions, they navigate the complexities of faith, identity, and love in a changing world.

• Cast Size: 3M 6W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Renowned author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has spent years in pursuit of contact with the other side. Famed magician Harry Houdini has been on a parallel journey–to debunk the very notion. With the help of the brash

and unpredictable medium Mina Crandon, the two come to the table for one final seance. The baggage all three bring with them results in a chaotic and strange experience that none will ever forget. In an era when society’s relationship to truth and evidence was rapidly evolving, what does it mean to ask for one–or receive one?

• Cast Size: 2M 1W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Natalie and Sam Grayson are out for a quiet Sunday morning walk when they find themselves embroiled in an argument with a stranger who kidnaps their dog, Jackson. They report the incident to the police, and their case is assigned to a friendly but vaguely threatening sergeant who insinuates himself into the most hidden parts of their lives. The play examines the nature of irreparable loss, the consequences for our lives, and the slow disappearance from the world of the ancient touchstones we have always relied on for comfort and sustenance.

• Cast Size: 3M 1W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Lucia Beltran, a Mexican immigrant with no political experience, dares to run for City Council in her adopted city. She’s driven by a conviction that the poor deserve better—but her campaign puts everything at risk: her government-funded job, her safety from an obsessive ex, and her place in a country that doesn’t make space for outsiders. With forces pressing in, two voices battle for her soul—Star Spangle, the relentless champion of assimilation, and Santa Lucia, the patron saint of integrity and self-definition. Caught between survival and belief, Lucia must navigate treacherous terrain where identity, justice, and resilience collide. Will she find the strength to stand her ground, or will the system silence her before she’s even heard?

• Cast Size: 4W 4GN
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A door-slamming comedy about mistaken identity and aborted infidelity. “A Night in the Garden of Eden” is the story of a very conservative gentleman who is inveigled to spend attempting to have one night in the decadent Garden of Eden Speakeasy with a very sexy showgirl during the Roaring 20’s. Of course, this being a farce, everything goes wrong for our would-be-philanderer husband, including finding his wife at the Garden of Eden finding his wife with at the Garden of Eden with another man.

• Cast Size: 5M 3W 1GN
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Mandy Gladstone is struggling to write a play about her father Clark, an inventor. She relives her adolescent fascination with Clark’s secretive nature, his manic episodes, his trips to California, and how, at the end of his life, he received a series of mysterious and threatening postcards from Sadie Hurtz, a giant doll shackled to a chair in an abandoned amusement park trailer. When Mandy herself receives similarly threatening postcards from Sadie, she decides to investigate. Her pursuit of the truth reveals carefully guarded secrets about her family, about her father, and about the haunted nature of creativity.

• Cast Size: 3M 3W
• Running Time: 90+. minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

This contemporary re-imagining of the Joan of Arc story takes place over the course of one night in Oakland in May of 2020, as five teenagers shelter in a candle factory following a George Floyd protest. Stories and timelines combine as moments from the past reverberate into the present, illuminating the revolutionary vision of Joan of Arc, exploring solidarity in the face of oppression, and revealing the way this classic heroine’s spirit continues to permeate our world today. At once humorous and harrowing, this 60-minute chamber piece unravels at a break-neck speed, alternating between realism and an avant-garde theatrical style as the past and present collide, turning the Saint Joan myth on its head and revealing the ways in which each of us is both the savior and destroyer of a world that is burning. 

• Cast Size: 4W 1NB
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Grace, a young teenager, and her sister escape their abusive stepfather after a very scary evening. They are each placed in different foster homes. The home Grace is placed in at first seems to be the perfect place. The truth quickly emerges when she finds herself in a Cinderella-type situation. Grace longs to be loved and supported. She keeps her treatment a secret in hopes of finding what she wants, a family.

• Cast Size: 1M 7W 6GN
• Running Time: 40 minutes
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Shiloh struggles with anxiety as he navigates a day filled with challenges. Desperate for a change, he goes to a wishing well outside of town and makes a wish for a better day. The wishing well’s spirit awakens to grant his wish but warns him of the consequences. Sending Shiloh back in time to relive the day. Initially, everything seems to go right for him, but soon he realizes that his friends and teachers are facing escalating troubles as a result. In a moment of panic, Shiloh calls on the well spirit for help to wish for another chance to make things right, learning that true change comes from facing challenges. Be careful what you wish for.

• Cast Size: 10+ Any
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The paths of six intriguing characters intersect as they navigate the unpredictable and challenging twists  and turns of aging. On the slide into seniorhood, they encounter relationships and experiences, some painful, some sensual, and some just downright silly. When all is said and done, will they  find that life has  left them with anything more than simple memories?

• Cast Size: 3M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A two-act present-day farce about a New England Armenian-American family. Mr. Gregorian collects junk he finds at yard sales and pays zero attention to his family. His wife entertains their boring neighbors and tries to rescue her daughter from a debilitating depression. Occasionally Mr. Gregorian and his wife quote Armenian proverbs. Their son, Evan, a student with wild ambitions of becoming a writer, is engaged to an older woman, Marjorie, an OB/Gyn insanely bent on being a wife and mother. But Evan agonizes over his choice of a fiancée, and even his sister takes a dim view of Marjorie. Throughout the Christmas holidays the family fights and makes up and fights again. Will Marjorie have the wedding of her dreams?

• Cast Size: 2M 5W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

HEAVENLY SUNLIGHT takes place in 1984 in the home of a middle-class black family from Haines, Illinois, on the occasion of Calvin (Cal) Thorne’s thirty-fifth birthday. Family pathology is the underlying theme: the ideological brick wall that separates Ben and Cal (father and son); the enabling of Lily toward Cal (mother and son) and her unspoken dread; Jean’s pressure to be the perfect daughter; and Ben’s feeling of invisibility. With the arrival of relatives, the Thomases – Miriam, Ben’s older sister; Abe, Miriam’s conservative husband; and Harris, their son who is on the spectrum – comes competitiveness, resentments, the gay baiting of Cal, and a well-kept family secret. It is a play about dreams deferred, moments missed and great expectations.

• Cast Size: 4M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A 3-part psychodrama set in two versions of New York City in 1907: Edith Wharton’s uptown and Jacob Riis’ downtown. Four characters toss their tangled versions of a single narrative back and forth, reenacting unreliable memories, jumping in and out of time, space, character and gender. The fifth character is Delancey Morris, who’s never seen, but holds the others’ lives in the balance. In Leisure, Grace’s Hunter’s closeted husband Harry has just committed suicide, so she and her maid Lucy reenact the events leading up to his death, including Grace’s affair with Delancey. Labor rewinds to the days right before Harry’s suicide, with events told from the point of view of servants, Lucy and Gilbert. Lust fast forwards to moments before Harry’s suicide, where a still alive Harry expands the narrative even further, reliving his tortured life as a closeted man and years-long love affair with, again, Delancey Morris.

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cast Size: 2M 2W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Aphra publishes an article detrimental to her ex-husband, Professor Oliver Randall, and he confronts her about it. Did Oliver help Aphra or did he take advantage of her, as she asserts in her article? Aphra brings up the past and how a much-older Oliver manipulated her when she was his student. She accuses him of exerting his power over his female students and blurring the line between seduction and consent. Catharine, another former student of Oliver’s, arrives and together the women recount how Oliver seduced his students with wine and sex games. The women warn him that they have told the college what he has done but Oliver refuses to admit his behavior was improper and he leaves. Helen, the department chair at Oliver’s college, appears in Oliver’s office shortly after with a plan of her own.

• Cast Size: 1M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty rate: $75 per performance

This full-length queer crime family drama follows brothers Danny and Travis Greenwood as they unravel the crime of their deceased sister Willow, and who exactly killed her. As Danny and Travis formulate a plan to catch the killer, we realize that Travis’ wife Erin may be hiding her sexuality and past relationships from both current partner, Detective Gwyneth Berkeley and her family. All the while, Danny just wishes he could have something to keep Willow alive. To try and rekindle their relationship, Erin decides to propose to Gwyneth during Willow’s funeral celebration nonetheless – which backfires. This sends everyone into a spiral, hurting Danny the most, leading him to try and commit suicide, and landing unconscious in a hospital room and grasping at straws with his former lover. Once Danny recovers, it’s now up to him and Travis to find out who really killed their sister out of love or closure.

• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
• Cast Size: 4M 3W 1NG
• Running Time: 90+ minutes

This moving and familiar tale about a puppet, woodcarver, blue lady, and talking cricket is told in a new gender-inclusive way that references popular culture and borrows from different performance styles, including vaudeville, classic cartoons, silent film, and sketch comedy, to ask, “What does it mean to be human?”  Based on the 1883 children’s fantasy novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, The Tragical, Comical, Historical Adventures of Pinocchio was commissioned by Playmakers of Baton Rouge and produced with a mix of 27 professional and student actors as part of the 2011-2012 main stage season.  It was then workshopped and staged with 9 actors at the 2013 Patti Pace Festival as a keynote performance.

• Cast Size: 2M/TransM/NBM  2W/TransW/NBW  5-23+GENDER NEUTRAL
• Running Time: Under and Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

New York playwright Wilber Weinberg is having a hard time coping. His wife Candice accepted a huge promotion in Silicon Valley.  To help, Candice sends Wilber a unique gift– a very talented AI named Goldie. She is a tech-mate who is proficient at just about everything. When director Ben Garrison asks Goldie to help “revise” Wilber’s new scenes, everyone is amazed at her talent. everyone except Wilber that is.  He feels threatened. Consumed by jealousy, Wilber starts self-medicating with vodka tonics.  At intermission for the opening of his new play, the inebriated Wilber threatens to stop the show, claiming it is not his work anymore. What’s worse is when Ben confides to Wilber that he is in love with Goldie, Wilber announces that he’s going to dismantle her, pack her up, and sell her on Ebay. 

• Cast Size: 3M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

• YOU MAY HAVE 6 by DC Cathro

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm come to the modern age to tell five of their stories, each with a modern twist.

We see Hansel and Gretel told as a manga tale, The White Snake told as a raunchy slapstick comedy, Rumpelstiltskin told as a film noir, Rapunzel as a spy action flick and Little Red Riding Hood as a horror movie. Will these stories still hold up?

• Cast Size: 4M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cybil is hungry. Hungry for her mother’s attention. Hungry for her dad who left. Hungry for a life where she can just be. Unable to communicate these needs, she makes herself less by not eating and obsessing over “perfect” bodies that she pours over in her magazines. When Lulu, a model from one of her magazines comes to life, Cybil finds herself teaching Lulu how to be a teen in the real world, as Lulu has an intense hunger that can’t be filled. As Cybil becomes smaller and smaller (visually becoming the person she always wanted to be), Lulu finds herself wanting more from the real world, becoming filled by food – and everything in Cybil’s life that she hates as Lulu seemingly starts to become a “real” person. 

• Cast Size: 2M 4W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Jenny Robinson didn’t ask to be the last kid in the universe—she just wanted to survive her first day at the after-school program. But when the Earth is suddenly destroyed by the gelatinous tyrant Gor-Bagg, Jenny and her oddball classmate Duncan (who turns out to be an alien) are launched on a galactic journey that includes space pirates, sentient stuffed animals, and a surprisingly smug platypus. Along the way, they join forces with Rikki Rocket and the Catsairs, dodge the hungry Nom Noms, and try to find out if anything of Earth can still be saved. With irreverent humor, absurd detours, and an occasional musical number, this sci-fi comedy celebrates courage, friendship, and figuring out your place in a very big, very weird universe.

• Cast Size: 11M, 10F (extra parts possible, gender flexibility allowed, doubling possible)
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Nicodemus and Asher are just a couple of shepherds trying to stay warm together under the stars in a time and place where that sort of thing could get them killed. When a celestial visitation sends them to witness the birth of a miraculous child, they’re swept into a tide of messianic fervor and prophecy. The star-led masses and a visiting wise man offer hope, but Asher remains cautious. Nicodemus, enthralled by the moment, contemplates abandoning their relationship to pursue a safer, socially sanctioned life with a widow and her sons. As political violence erupts driven by Herod’s fear of a prophesied king the cost of devotion becomes all too real. This queer retelling of the Nativity explores longing, fear, and faith in a world that promises salvation, but doesn’t always deliver it to everyone.  

• Cast Size: 4M 1W 1Boy 
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
  

In the year 3047, aboard a Star Trek-style starship, the crew of the Astrov faces existential drift in a future that feels oddly familiar. On a diplomatic mission, Captain Jonas January transports the brilliant but pompous Professor Jason Cole, his enigmatic green-skinned alien wife Celaria, and the melancholy Doctor Rosy to a conference aboard a distant space station. But tensions bubble beneath the diplomatic surface: Celaria’s aura disrupts the emotions of nearly everyone on board, unearthing buried desires and regrets. Meanwhile, young Ensign Ally longs for love, and Rosy suspects Cole’s illness may be more imagined than real. In the forced proximity of the ship, the crew and guests contemplate love, usefulness, and the bitter comedy of longing in a setting that may be sci-fi, but feels like a drawing room. A Chekhovian tragicomedy with warp drive.  

• Cast Size: 4M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

It’s Halloween night at The Thatcher Theater, a run-down, privately owned movie theater in a quaint small town. As the last movie of the night ends,  three movie theater employees, Ben, an amateur director with big dreams, Ashley, a sarcastic fun seeker, and Kat, a true believer in the theatrical experience, begin to clean up after a busy night.  As they clean, their boss, Rodney, a washed-up voice actor,  gives them instructions before he leaves for the night. After the theater has closed, Ashley encourages Ben and Kat to goof off before cleaning.  During the horseplay of the game, Ashley and Ben inadvertently break an invaluable object, which releases a ghostly visitor. 

• Cast Size: 2M 2W
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty rate: $40 per performance