"Maya lives and breathes musicals. When her chance to finally be a part of the summer musical program at the community theater comes up, Maya is convinced she will get the lead. After all, who knows The Drowsy Chaperone better than she does? However, things don't turn out exactly the way Maya's planned, and the summer turns out to be jam-packed with problems: dealing with her best friend's move, her parents' busy jobs, and—since her autism...

"Thirteen-year-old Calvin knows he's destined to be a star. . . if he can just stop making embarrassing mistakes onstage, like getting stuck on a single line—'Forsooth!'—during the school play. The summer after seventh grade, he's hoping for a fresh start. All he has to do is prove himself as an actor and fix the awkwardness with his friends that started after the play. But nothing's going according to plan. His parents don't get his...

¿Qué relación hay entre voluntad y fe? ¿Qué hace que algo sea verosímil? ¿Qué papel ocupa la voluntad en la sugestión? El dramaturgo y director de escena Pablo Messiez escribe y dirige La voluntad de creer, una obra que toma como punto de partida Ordet, la película de Dreyer, para aproximarse a la muerte y la resurrección. Como protagonista encontramos al menor de una familia de hermanos que sostiene ser Jesús de Nazaret. Sus hermanas...

A Comedy Murder Mystery Play in 2 Acts. Nothing much ever happens in the small town of Meridosa near Dead Man's Holler, nothing until now. A notorious outlaw Sergio Van Cleef is being kept in the jail for the night until Marshall Tucker can transport him to the train station to catch the 3:10 to Yuma. Mrs. Peacock, president of the Ladies Ethics Guild is none too happy about the arrangement, nor is she happy that the new Saloon "entertainer", Sadie...

Cet ouvrage offre un récit inédit de Toronto, ville d'art et de culture traversée par la diversité linguistique. Le contact entre les langues laisse des traces, des documents et des souvenirs, notamment dans le domaine du théâtre auquel l'autrice porte ici toute son attention. En se penchant sur la dynamique matérielle du « voisinage linguistique » qui anime le devant et le derrière de la scène théâtrale, elle décrit le virage médiatique...

"A high school stage manager has to face his complicated feelings about love when he catches himself falling for the same guy as his sister"--

In 10-Minute Plays for Kids, young thespians will find terrific plays by some of our most prominent playwrights – such as Sharyn Rothstein, Alex Broun, Jenny Lyn Bader, Claudia I. Haas, and Mark Harvey Levine, and by others less well known but equally terrific such as Sharai Bohannon, Suzanne Bailie, and Shirley King. The characters and situations portrayed are perfect for the kid actor. Some of the plays explore relatable tales of friendship and...

¿Por qué dos amigas no pueden tirar, por qué no tirar con los maridos o las mujeres de los amigos, por qué no desear a quien no nos desea, por qué no amar y dejarse amar sin condiciones, por qué no enamorar sin estar enamorado, por qué no dormir sin tirar, por qué no tirar sin dormir, por qué no tener una pareja no romántica o no sexual, por qué no amar a más de una persona? Ya lo hacemos, ahora dejémoslo ser. Gabriela Wiener escribe...

"you start every new day with an inventory: a moth, a cape, a parachute, a coffin, a gun, the wall you built to mount the gun." On the Subject of Fallen Things is an addictive, Chekhovian metanarrative: phenomenological, absurd, and dripping with black humour. James Kearns' speaker keeps company with Lazarus, an inept psychic, and a deceased superhero, but finds himself increasingly alone-lost in dialogue with mortality, both personal and anthropological....

Apocalypse, Pacific Daylight Time - Armageddon comes to suburbia in this dark comedy about a married couple who awaken to the sounds of imminent war. As Bill and Debra come to grips with impending doom and struggle with ways to survive, they reflect on their lives together, their regrets, and their feelings for one other. • Waiting For Valet - A parody of Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" set in a parking garage. • Dining, First Person Singular -...