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Community Theater Plays for Community Audiences

Discover a range of scripts for plays suitable for community audiences. Browse comedies, dramas, fun adaptations of Shakespeare, fairy tales, classics, spiritual and bible-based plays. There are one-acts, full-length plays and short plays that can be combined to make a longer show. Many are also great for touring theater companies. There are plays for holidays, Christmas shows, Nativity plays, plays for adults, plays for family audiences.

  • Drake Disappears

    $8.00$35.00
    “Drake Disappears” set in the kitchen, is the first installment in the Playroom series. When Drake goes missing during an everyday game of hide-and-seek, his older sister Marla discovers that he has slipped from our timeline and probably discovering the bay of San Francisco. Is he inadvertently today’s answer to Sir Francis Drake?
  • Dreams of Glass

    $12.95$29.95
    A one-woman short play with comedic and dramatic elements. Daisi Dickie, a young woman with dreams of becoming a clairvoyant and a changer of lives discovers her power to influence her own life.
  • DropOut

    $13.70$145.00

    DropOut, a one-act comedy for teens, puts Norman Tubbs, a guidance counselor in charge of keeping high school kids in school, especially those that don't want to be there. The characters in the play find school a challenge for a variety of reasons-the impact of a divorce, clowning to deflect emotion and commitment, learning difficulties, and peer pressure.

    Great for high school, community theaters, and talk-backs after the show.
  • Drowning Ophelia

    $13.70$95.00
    The set of this one-act comedy for four actors is Jane's bathtub. She finds it inhabited by a strange, Shakespearean woman whose enigmatic commentary intrudes on Jane's thoughts and her new romantic relationship. This dark comedy is about the long-term consequences of childhood abuse and a love letter to those who have suffered. There is always hope.
  • Four one-act comedy plays for seniors by Pat Montley, for the young-at-heart senior community, these plays dramatize a variety of romantic relationships among characters who are determined to live their lives to the fullest. They may be performed as a complete program for the evening or separately as short plays. Running time is about 10 - 15 minutes apiece. Great for senior or retirement communities. Downloadable, printable PDF available.
  • Employee of the Month

    $8.00$35.00
    Randy works at a large department store but is very creative in generating sales. Just when he thinks that he'll win "Employee of the Month" for the 2nd time in a row (and impress Mary in the process), he learns that his winning would not fit with the company goals.
  • Eveline

    $7.95$50.00
    A one-act play by David. H. Klein, "Eveline" adapts the story from Dubliners by James Joyce. Eveline is a  young woman trapped by society and manipulated by her father and brother. Like too many women, she believes her higher purpose is in service to her family, a belief her father and brother foster--until she meets Frank! Perfect for high schools, colleges and universities, women's groups, and community theatersDownloadable PDF available
  • EveryKid

    $7.99$75.00
    With roots in the morality play, EVERYMAN, this fun participatory play for children by Gillettte Elvgren, depicts the adventures of two contemporary kids, Everygirl and Everyboy as they explore some of the temptations of our American culture. The kids decide they don't need each other and take off separately into the adult worlds of Moneyland, Beautyland, Factland and Success City. Can be performed for and by children.
  • Fanny & Manny Tie The Knot

    $11.00$100.00
    This play is a full-length interactive fundraiser. It’s a spoof wedding between a Virginia Pig Farmer family and a socialite Jewish family from the City. The bride and groom are very much in love, but, oh, when those families clash! The Emcee and Wedding Coordinator are members of the cast, but the caterers are real, of course.
  • Far from the Tree

    $7.25$35.00
    A father should be proud to witness his ambitious son strive to fulfill his career goals, except if the father is a narcissistic dad whose failures come to light by his son’s successes. In "Far from the Tree", a comedy short play within "Legacy of a Father" series by playwright Monique Franz, the main character has to overcome his father’s tactics of sabotage to stay focused on his future.
  • In Kentucky, caves were popular tourist attractions and a source of revenue. In 1925 Floyd Collins hoped to find another entrance to the Mammoth Cave, He got trapped undergound for two weeks  and a frantic media circus ensued, heightened by a new invention, public radio broadcasts.
  • A 3-character poem-play that reveals the first ten years of the life of an abused child struggling on the cusp of mental illness and successfully hiding it from his dysfunctional family.
  • Going to the Dogs

    $6.97$17.99
    In this 10-Minute original farce, a free-thinking retired woman, Sylvia, discovers that her deceased husband has been reincarnated as her dog. A surreal and hilarious Fantasy/Comedy by Pamela Steadman. Acting script.
  • This is the female version of GROUP S.O.S. by Bonnie Culver, the S.O.S stands for Survivors Of Sexual abuse.  In this 2-act, 95-minute play, female survivors both confront and comfort one another in a therapy as they begin their processes of healing. Appropriate for a teen or adult audience, previous productions of these plays have led to audience members seeking help as they begin to recognize themselves among the characters.
  • Group S.O.S. Male

    $13.70$125.00
    This is the male version of a partner play also titled Group S.O.S. The S.O.S. stands for  Survivors of Sexual Abuse. There is a female version and a script which includes both male and female versions. The separate versions are full-length plays in two acts, running about 95 minutes each. In Group S.O.S. by Bonnie Culver, survivors of sexual abuse confront each other's strengths and weaknesses in the setting of group therapy sessions.   Each character has his own story and his own secrets which lead to a redemptive past.
  • In GROUP S.O.S. by Bonnie Culver, the S.O.S stands for Survivors Of Sexual abuse.  In two separate full-length plays, male or female survivors both confront and comfort one another as they begin their processes of healing. Appropriate for a teen or adult audience, previous productions of these plays have led to audience members seeking help as they begin to recognize themselves among the characters. Run time is about 95 minutes.

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