Contemporary Full Length Plays. Compiled by American Conservatory Theatre, suitable play suggestions for high schools schools . Title Author Style Cast A Raisin Raisin in in the Sun Sun Hansberry Hansber ry Drama Dr ama A Street Street Car Car Named Named Desir Desire e Williams Will iams Drama Dr ama A Thousand Thousand Clow Clowns ns Gardner Comedy Comed y Ah! Wilderness Wilderness O’Neil O’N eilll Comedy Comed y 9M/6F 9M/ 6F All My Sons Miller Mill er Drama Dr ama Amadeus Shaffer Drama Dr ama And Miss Miss Reardon Reardon Drin Drinks ks a Little Little Zindell Zinde Comedy Comed y And they they dance dance real real slow slow in Jackson Leonard Drama Dr ama 3M/4F 3M/ 4F Angel Street Street Hamilt Ham ilton on Drama Dr ama Anne of a Thous Thousand and Days Days Anderson Drama Dr ama Ascension Ascens ion Day Mason Maso n Drama Dr ama 4M/5F 4M/ 5F August Snow Price Pric e Play Pla y 2M/3F 2M/ 3F Bad Seed, The A nderso nderson n Drama Barefoot in the Park Simon Simo n Comedy Barretts of Wimpole Street Besier Besi er Drama Becket Anouifh Drama Dra ma Belle of Amherst Luce Drama Dra ma Biloxi Blues Simon Simo n Comedy Blithe Spirit Coward Comedy Blue Denim Herlihy, Noble Drama 3M/3F Born Yesterday Kanin Comedy Boys Next Door, The Griffin Comedy 7M/2F 7M/2 F Breaking the Prairie Wolf Code Mueller Play 2M/4F 2M/4 F Brighton Bright on Beach Memoirs Simon Comedy 3M/4F Broadway Bound Simon Simo n Comedy Butterflies are Free Gershe Comedy Cactus flower Burrows Comedy California Suite Simon Simo n Comedy Cat on A Hot Tin Roof Williams Drama Chapter Two Simon Simo n Comedy Child’s Play Marasco Drama Dra ma Children of a Lesser God Medofff Medof Drama Dra ma 3M/4F 3M/4 F Children’s Hour, The Hellman Drama 2M/12F Chopin Playoffs, The Horovitz Comedy 5M/3F 5M/3 F Come Blow Your Horn Simon Simo n Comedy Courtship Courtsh ip Foote Play 3M/5F Cry Havoc Kenward Drama Dra ma 13F Curious Savage, The Patrick Comedy 5M/6F 5M/6 F Dark At The Top Of The Stairs Inge Drama Dark of the Moon Richardson/Berney Fantasy 28 both David and Lisa Reach Drama 11M/11F Design for Murder Baston Thriller 4M/6F 4M/6 F Diary of Anne Frank, The Goodrich/Hackett Drama Dra ma 5M/5F 5M/5 F Dining Room, The Gurney Gurn ey Play 3M/3F Dino Rose Drama 7M/11F Diviners, The Leonard Drama Dra ma 6M/5F 6M/5 F Effect of Gamma…, The Zindel Drama 5F Enter Laughing Stein Comedy 7M/4F 7M/4 F Fools Simon Comedy 7M/7F Foreigner, The Shue Comedy 5M/7F 5M/7 F Full Moon Price Drama 4M/5F Getting Out Norman Play Play 7M/5F Good Doctor, The Simon Comedy 2M/3F Hagar’s Children Joselovitz Drama 6M/3W I Hate Hamlet Rudnick Comedy 3M/3F I Never Saw Anoth Another er Butte Butterfly rfly Raspanti Drama 4M/7F Invisible Friends Ayckbourn Fantasy 4M/3F 4M/3 F It Happens Every Summer Rogers Roger s Comedy 7M/13F Lady’s Not For Burning, The Fry Comedy 8M/3F 8M/3 F Lemon Sky Wilcon Play 4M/3F Lily Dale Foote Play 4M/3F Love, Death, and the Prom Jory Jor y Comedy/Drama VARIABLE Lovers Love rs Friel Comedy 3M/5F
Leasing French DPS DP S French French DPS DP S DPS DP S DPS DP S Dramatist Dram atists s French DPS DP S Dramatist Dram atists s Dramatist Dram atists s DPS French DPS French French French French French Frenc h DPS Dramatists Dramatists French Frenc h French French French French DPS French French Dramatists Dramatists Dramatist s Dramatists French Dramatists Dramatist s French Dramatists DPS French Frenc h French French Dramatists Dramatists Dramatist s Dramatic Pub. French Dramatists Dramatist s Fre nch French French Frenc h Dramatists Dramatists Dramatist s Dramatists Dramatist s French Frenc h Dramatists Dramatists Dramatist s Dramatic Pub. French Dramatic Pub. Dramatists Dramatists Dramatist s Dramatists Dramatist s Dramatic Pub. Dramatic Pub.
Title Lydie Breeze Matchmaker, The Miracle Worker, The Museum Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 My Children! My Africa! My Sister Eileen Nerd, The Nice people Dance to Good Country Music Night Mother Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, The Noel Coward in Two Keys Odd Couple Of Mice and Men Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet On Borrowed Time On Golden Pond Once In a Lifetime One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ordinary People Ordinary People Our Town Our Town Peter Pan Philadelphia Story, The Picnic Picnic at Hanging Rock Pillow Talk Plaza Suite Pleasure of His Company, The Prank Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Private Ear, The Private Lies Pygmalion Rainmaker, The Rebel Without a Cause Reindeer Soup Rimers of Eldritch Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket, The Robe, The Say Goodnight, Gracie Scenes and Revelations Shadow Box, The Shayna Maidel, A Shooting Stars Six Characters in Search… Skin of our Teeth, The Sometimes I Wake up in the Middle of the Night Splendor in the Grass Spoon River Anthology Stand- up Tragedy Star Spangled Girl Steel Magnolias Story Theatre Street Scene Take a Giant Step Tea and Sympathy Teach me how to Cry Teahouse of the August Moon
Author Guare Wilder Gibson Howe Bishop Fugard Fields/Chodorov Shue
Style Play Comedy Drama Comedy Comedy Drama Comedy Comedy
Cast 4M/3F 9M/7F 7M/7F 9M/9F 5M/5F 2M/1F 5M/2F
Leasing Dramatists French French French Dramatists French DPS Dramatists
Blessing
Play
3M/2F
Dramatists
Norman Lawrence, Lee Coward Simon Steinbeck
Drama Drama Comedy Comedy Drama
DPS French French French DPS
Kopit
Comedy
French
Osborn Thompson Kaufman/Hart Wasserman Wasserman Guest Guest/Gilsenan Wilder Wilder Barrie Barry Inge Shamas Shapiro Simon Taylor Kalinoski Allen Simon Shaffer Coward Shaw Nash Fuller Pintauro Wilson Parnell Douglas Pape Garonzik Cristoffer Lebow Newman Pirandello Wilder
Comedy Comedy Comedy Comedy Comedy/Drama Drama Drama Drama Drama Fantasy Comedy Drama Mystery Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama Drama Comedy Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama Drama Drama Drama Play Drama Comedy Drama Drama Drama Comedy Drama Fantasy
2M/4F 1M/7F 12M/8F 5M/5F
DPS DPS French French French DPC Dramatic Pub. French French French French DPS Dramatic Pub. DPC French DPS French French French French French French French DPC A. Agent Dramatists Dramatists DPC DPS French SF Dramatists Dramatists French French
Collected
Comedy/Drama
10-20
Dramatic Pub.
Leslie Masters/Aidman Cain Simon Harling Sills Rice Peterson Anderson Joudry Patrick
Drama Collected Drama Comedy Plays Comedy Dram Drama Drama Play Comedy
24M/14F 13M/4F 6M/3F 17M/7F 25 MIXED 9M/6F 8M/18F
7M/5F
4M/5F 7M/10F 5M/5F
3M/4F
3M/2F 9M 6F 16M/11F 7M/7F 3M/7F 18M/8F/3C
DPS French French French Dramatists French French French AF Dramatists Dramatists
Title Tender Trap, The There’s A Girl in my Soup To Gillian on her 37th Birthday To Kill a Mockingbird Twelve Angry Men (Women) Up the Down Staircase Valentine and Valentina Vanities Wait Until Dark What I did Last Summer Who Will Carry the Word Whose Life is it Anyway? Whose Life is it, Anyway Windshook Winesburg, Ohio Women and Wallace You Can’t Take It With You Zoo Story, The
Author Shurlman, Smith Frisby Brady Lee/Sergel Rose/Sergel Kaufman/Sergel Roschin, Vacchina, Hastings Heifner Knott Gurney Delbo Clark Frayn Gallagher Anderson Sherman Kaufman/Hart Albee
Style Comedy Comedy Play Drama Drama Comedy
Cast
2M/5F 11M/6F 12M (12F) 12M/18F
Leasing DPS French Broadway Dramatic Pub. Dramatic Pub. Dramatic Pub.
Drama
8M/10F
Dramatic Pub.
Comedy Mystery Play Play Drama Drama Drama Drama Drama Comedy Drama
French Dramatists Dramatists A. Agent Dramatic Pub. DPC A. Agent DPC Dramatists Dramatists French
6M/2F 2M/4F 23F 9M/5F 4M/3F 1M/4F 9M/7F
Contemporary One-Act Plays Title A Young lady of Property Dance and the Railroad, The Dancers, The Happy Journey to Camden and Trendon, The High Tide Kaleidoscope Laundrey and Bourbon Lone Star Midnight Caller, The Painted Rain Pullman Car Hiawatha Sightings Tears of my Sister, The Why do we Laugh? Blind Date
Author Foote Hwang Foote
Style Drama Drama Drama
Cast 3M/6F 2M 3M/7F
Leasing Dramatists Dramatists Dramatists
Wilder
Comedy
3M/3F
French
Slaight Bradbury Mcclure McClure Foote Allard Wilder Slaight Foote Gregg Foote
Comedy/Drama Drama Comedy Comedy Drama Drama Comedy Comedy Drama Drama Drama
3M/2F 7M OR 7F 3F 3M 2M/5F 2M/1F 15M/18F 2M/1F 3M/4F 4M/4F
Bakers Dramatic Pub. Dramatists Dramatists Dramatists A. Agent French Bakers A. Agent Dramatic Pub. Dramatists
Musicals Title A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum Barnum Bye, Bye Birdie Carousel Cowardly Custard Dames At Sea Fantasticks Fiddler On The Roof
Author Shevelove, Gelbart, Sondheim Bramble, Stewart, Coleman Stewart, Stouse, Adams Rodgers, Hammerstein Compiled Haimsohn, Miller, Wise Schmidt, Jones Harnick, Stein, Brock
Style
Cast
Leasing
Musical/Comedy
LARGE MIX
MTI
Musical/Comedy/Drama
11M/8F
TW
Musical/Comedy
22M/26F
TW
Musical/Drama
12M/7F
RHML
Musical Revival
6M/6F
FRENCH
Musical/Comedy
4M/3F
FRENCH
Musical/Drama
8M/1F
MTI
Musical/Drama
12M/10F
MTI
Godspell
Schwartz
Musical/Drama
5M/5F
Grease
Jacobs, Casey Ephrom, Forster, Kahan Ashman, Menken Stewart, Herman Rose, Furber, Gay Sondheim, Furth Marx, Fisher,
Musical/Comedy
9M/8F
THEATER MAXIMUS FRENCH
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6-30 MIXED
FRENCH
Musical/Comedy Musical Musical/Comedy Musical/Comedy Musical
5M/4F 10M/5F 11M/8F 27 MIXED LARGE MIX
FRENCH FRENCH FRENCH MTI FRENCH
How To Eat Like A Child Little Shop of Horrors Mack and Mable Me and My Girl Merrily We Roll Along Minnie’s Boys
Title
Molly Bailey’s Traveling Circus 1940 Radio Hour Oklahoma Oliver Once Upon A Mattress Pippin Quilters Secret Garden, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Sound of Music, The Starmites Thurber Carnival Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall, The Wiz, The Working You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown
Author Grossman, Hackady Terry, Metcalf Jones Rodgers, Hammerstein Bart Rodgers, Barer, Thompson, Fuller Schwartz, O’Hirson Newman, Damashek Norman, Simon Manchester, Carr, Shuman Rodgers, Hammerstein Keating, Ross Thurber, Elliott
Style
Cast
Leasing
Musical Musical/Comedy
3M/4F 10M/5F
BROADWAY FRENCH
Musical/Drama
LARGE MIX
RHML
Musical/Drama
LARGE MIX
TW
Musical/Comedy
LARGE MIX
RHNL
Musical/Drama
11M/3F
MTI
Musical/Drama
7F
DRAMATISTS
Musical/Drama
11M/10F
FRENCH
Musical/Comedy
5M/6F
FRENCH
Musical/Drama
9M/15F
RHTL
Musical Musical/Comedy
6M/6F 4M/4F
FRENCH FRENCH
Gesner, Jac kson
Musical
4M/18F
FRENCH
Brown, Smalls Carnelia, Grant, Schwartz, Faso
Musical/Fantasy
MIXED
FRENCH
Musical/Comedy/Drama
10M/7F
MTI
Musical/Comedy
4M/2F
TW
Cast 3M/3F/10C 6M/4F 10M/6F 4M/5F 4M/1F 16M/5F 3M/3F 9M/5F 11M/5F 5M/4F MIXED 5M/2F 10M/3F 19M/7F 5M/2F 13M/7F 2M/2F 9M/4F 17M/4F 22M/2F 8M/3F 7M/6F MIXED 11M/3F 11M/3F+ 13M/7F+
Leasing Public French Public Public French Public French Dramatists Public Public Dramatic Pub. Public Dramatists Dramatists Public Public French Public Public Bakers Public Dramatists Public Public Public Public
Gordon, Gesner
Classics Title Antigone Antigone Alls Well That Ends Well Andromache Aria De Capo As You Like It Bald Soprano, The Cherry Orchard, The Comedy of Errors Contrast, The La Dispute Electra Enemy of the People Lark, The Medea Midsummer Night’s Dream No Exit Rivals, The Romeo and Juliet Saint Joan School For Wives Sea Gull, The Tis Pity She’s a Whore Twelfth Night Tw o Gentleman of Verona Two Noble Kinsman, The
Author Sopocles Anouilh Shakespeare Euripides Milay Shakespeare Inesco Chekhov Shakespeare Tyler Mirivaux Euripides Ibsen/Miller Anouilh/Hellman Euripes Shakespeare Sartre Sheridan Shakespeare Sha w Moliere Chekhov Ford Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare/Fletcher
Style Tragedy Tragedy Comedy Tragedy Poetic Fantasy Comedy Comedy Drama Comedy Comedy Comedy Tragedy Drama Tragedy Tragedy Comedy Drama Comedy Tragedy Drama Comedy Drama Tragedy Comedy Romance Romance
