Community Theater Plays to Perform

Discover good plays for community theater, play scripts for community drama groups and amateur dramatic groups to perform. Find good scripts for community theatre plays with a flexible cast, Most scripts with a large cast of actors have flexible casting. There are scripts with small casts, plays with simple easy staging, multi-racial casts, and diverse roles.

Community drama and amateur drama groups often need play scripts for small groups with a broad range of roles for casts of different ages, races and acting abilities. Comedy scripts for community theater are most popular. Community drama groups often prefer to build an evening of theater from several short plays to give all the group members a chance to perform on stage.

“Best Always, Marilyn Monroe”

$11.00 – $75.00

A small-cast, full-length play by Kathleen McBlair dramatizes the limited private moments of Marilyn Monroe's life after she became a star. Both Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller take the stage in her downward spiral. Her life-after-fame was eerily lonely and filled with long telephone conversations with friends, doctors, and strangers as she groped to find a sense of peace and belonging. This play was a finalist in the 1988 Virginia Prize for Playwriting.

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A Cold Day in Hell

$11.97 – $45.00

A Cold Day in Hell portrays one man’s effort at resolving his despair at his dilemma of having a hospitalized, comatose wife, apparently with no hope of recovery, and grown children who seem to him to be self-absorbed and detached from his plight. A tour-de-force single-character play by author Jan Quackenbush, its actor, Michael Liscio was awarded a 1988 Los Angeles Dramalogue Award in a long-running production by the California Cottage Theatre, 1988-1991.

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A Dark Day for Hinkley, J.

$9.97 – $50.00

John Hinkley Jr. (attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan) must use his newly-learned coping skills to deal with the news that the "love of his life", Jodie Foster, is not "playing on the same team" that he'd always assumed she was.

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A Dish Best Served Cold – A Revenge Fantasy in 10 Minutes

$9.97 – $50.00

A man is lied to when he volunteers for a psychological experiment on the role of pain in learning. His experience leaves him scarred. Twenty years later, he confronts the psychologist who conducted the experiment. To inflict revenge? T0 get an apology? Does he even know why? Do we?

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A Pastor’s Tale – The True Story of Silent Night

$11.97 – $60.00

A one-act Christmas comedy - a play with live music for young actors, telling the story of how the Christmas song "Silent Night" came to be written. Set in Oberndorf, Austria in 1818, the play is staged with live guitar in a Readers Theatre format. Memorized historical vignettes are combined with a straight-forward Christmas reading. But it soon goes "off-book" as student readers question the truth of the text they're reading, and they end up squabbling on stage among themselves. Just when their performance seems doomed, Josef Mohr remembers a short poem he had been writing—Silent Night.

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A Slippery Slope

$6.95 – $30.00

A middle-school teacher is in a war zone between two students when both their reports turn out to be about the Layson Albatross. Does she side with Davy whose report says that Layson couples raising their chicks are sometimes both female? Or does she come to Beth's defense when Beth wants to silence Davy's report as "fake news."

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A Touch of Frost

$11.97 – $49.95

Three 20-minute comedies in one act. Wilford, from New York, has just bought and moved to a new homestead in Vermont, but he realizes that his new neighbors may not be from this planet! Mila, her son Klig, and husband Kulerie Klee, live on a farm next to Wilford’s and their adjoining farms are separated only by a stone wall which is beginning to fall apart. What to do? Knock it down? Build it back? – and what are they walling in and walling out? Can be performed by high school, college, university students or groups.

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ABC’s of Memory

$14.70 – $75.00

Lianne's ABCs of Memory touch on cultural milestones such as Elvis, Nancy Drew, Wonder Bread, 9-11, and Ty Cobb, as well as personal memories of family life. These poems both celebrate and mourn America's past and present. These are dramatic poems. Life happens. Events occur. Here is an elegy for our American Dream. As such. these poems are naturals for forensics, scene study, and spoken word events.

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Alice in Wonderland

$13.70 – $145.00

A delightful, one-act play script adapted from the classic Lewis Carroll tale. Staying true to the original, this adaptation for the stage brings all the characters of the original Wonderland to life. Great for classrooms with a diverse student body, for children's theater, competitions and for reader's theater.

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Alice Through the Looking Glass

$13.70 – $145.00

Alice takes the plunge yet again in this madcap one-act comedy. A glorious romp for the stage, the world behind the mirror leads her to a realm where everything is backward. Sense is nonsense. Backwards is forwards. The faster you run, the further behind you get. Easily performed either in the classroom or on stage. A delight for school drama groups with diverse casting challenges. Downloadable PDF's for purchase available.

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Alice! In Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass

$13.70 – $275.00

This madcap full-length comedy chases Alice both down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass. Two 45-minute acts of mayhem and upside –down logic provides roles for all students. Mirror the logic and language of today’s global circus. Great opportunity for doubling.

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All Dressed Up

$11.97 – $55.00

A one-act high school comedy / drama, Melissa has been taught what she is "supposed to" learn as a young woman: to be dependent, to bat her eyelashes, never to win a game against a boy. How well does this education help her when she has to make important decisions about sexual activity. Great for teen drama groups and touring. PDF download available.

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All the Year

$9.97 – $50.00

Where has the time gone? The eighth and final installment of Hinton’s Playroom series, “All the Year”, is set in the living room – one decorated for every big day on the calendar.

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An Enemy of the People

$13.70 – $225.00

Cut but uncensored! This full-length play by Jean Klein is true to the original text which savages corrupt institutions, greedy corporations, arrogant politicians, and our disdain for protecting the environment. This large-cast play can be performed by 10+ actors and plays well for high school, colleges, universities, community and professional theaters.

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An Evening With Joyce’s Women

$9.95 – $90.00

A trilogy of one-act plays, The Boarding House, Eveline, and The Dead
Based on Dubliners by James Joyce; adapted for the stage to allow us to enter the lives of three Dublin women. Dublin society of the first decade of the 20th Century comes to life through the frustrations, fantasies, and follies of Irish women who are also victims and victimizers of their mates.

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And Sarah Laughed: A Full-Length Musical Comedy For Three Female Performers

$13.70 – $155.00

And Sarah Laughed is a 3-woman musical comedy glimpse into the world of women as they navigate to find their own place in a man’s world Part comedy, part in-your-face slapstick, And Sarah Laughed is a matrimonial cabaret.

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