Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
by Keith Aisner, Robert Alexander, Tanya Barfield, Stephen Belber, et al.
Edited by Erin Detrick
Foreword by Broadway casting director Kate Schwabe |
 
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$14.95 per book
Discover a monologue book like no other. Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men gives you an extraordinary array of cutting-edge new monologues, from comedic to dramatic and everything in between. Unlike other monologue books, the source of every monologue is easily accessible -- each play is available through one website (www.playscripts.com), where you can read nearly the entire published script online for free. Explore the work of today's most celebrated theatrical voices, including Naomi Iizuka, Mac Wellman, Tanya Barfield, Jordan Harrison, Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang, and many more!
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens
Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
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$14.95 per book
Looking for the perfect monologue? Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens is here to help. From hilarious comedy to cutting-edge drama and everything in between, an exciting selection of monologues is at your fingertips. Unlike other monologue books, the source of every monologue is easily accessible -- each play is available through one website (www.playscripts.com), where you can read nearly the entire published script online for free. From classwork to competitions to auditions, this book has you covered!
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
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| "This is an excellent monologue book for middle and high school students with applications for competition as well as use in drama, speech, or English classes." |
| --Terrilyn Fleming, The Midwest Book Review |
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Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
by Liz Duffy Adams, Robert Alexander, John Augustine, Stephen Belber, et al.
Edited by Erin Detrick
Foreword by Broadway casting director Kate Schwabe |
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$14.95 per book
Discover a monologue book like no other. Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women gives you an extraordinary array of cutting-edge new monologues, from comedic to dramatic and everything in between. Unlike other monologue books, the source of every monologue is easily accessible -- each play is available through one website (www.playscripts.com), where you can read nearly the entire published script online for free. Explore the work of today's most celebrated theatrical voices, including Naomi Iizuka, Rinne Groff, Jane Martin, Pulitzer Prize winners Lynn Nottage and David Lindsay-Abaire, and many more!
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens
Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
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Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
by Liz Duffy Adams, Janet Allard, Yuri Baranovsky, Courtney Baron, et al.
Edited by Jason Pizzarello
With "Tips for Student Actors" by director Jon Jory |
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$14.95 per book
Looking for the perfect scene? Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens is just what you need. From hilarious comedy to cutting-edge drama, this collection offers 40 exciting 2-person scenes with plenty of fascinating characters for young actors. Unlike other scene books, the source of every scene is easily accessible -- each play is available through one website (www.playscripts.com), where you can read nearly the entire published script online for free. From classwork to competitions to auditions, this book has you covered!
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
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| "The acting bug doesn't care what age you are. Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens is a collection of simple yet fun scenes aimed at younger teen actors who want to embrace drama as a hobby or even a potential career. Designed for two actors with themes and times easily doable for any would be teen thespian, Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens is a resource no drama teacher should miss." |
| --The Midwest Book Review |
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Comedy
Short, 3-7 minutes
1 female
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Snapshot.
A woman goes to great lengths to defend her theft of a federally-protected piece of petrified wood.
This piece is part of Snapshot, an anthology of short plays. To perform this piece independently, click "Order this play" above. To perform this piece as part of the full-length collection, go to Snapshot.
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Drama
Short, 30-40 minutes
6 females, 3 males, 3 either (9-15 actors possible: 6-9 females, 3-6 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
When their dad dies, city kids Trina and Abby are suddenly transplanted to a farm town that's being swallowed by the suburbs. Trina, an outcast in her old school, suddenly finds herself the center of attention in this new environment. Abby, the younger of the sisters, who has always made friends easily, teeters on the brink of being ostracized for her budding relationship with an aspiring bull rider. As both girls learn the rules of their new school, they quickly discover that both integrity and acceptance carry a cruel price.
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Drama
Full-length, 75-85 minutes
2 females, 1 male
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Following the death of her mother, a fragile 17-year-old girl, Christine, comes to live with her Aunt Marie and Uncle Dan. Upon her arrival, Marie begins to show off her considerable culinary skills. Together she and Dan initiate Christine into the pleasures of the palate. This exploration of appetite in their evening ritual begins to blur the boundaries between adult and child, thought and action, feeding and consuming. The play's climax lives in the intersection of these in-between spaces -- where the child becomes an adult; where thought creates action; where feeding becomes consuming.
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| "An intelligent examination... [Moore's] dialogue is impressively realistic... The subject matter here is sensitive, serious, and important." |
| --Madeleine Shaner, Back Stage |
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The End
by Dan Dietz, Jennifer Haley, Allison Moore, A. Rey Pamatmat, et al. |
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Drama
Full-length, 115-125 minutes
3 females, 2 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
When a young producer stumbles into town looking for stories and a fresh start, he believes he's found both in Ruth. Her made-for-TV tale captures his attention -- a broke young widow in a rural Kentucky town, unable to access the trust fund set up for her children after her husband's murder. But neither of them has told the other the whole truth, and a past tainted by racism threatens to destroy Ruth's already shaky existence. This story is interspersed with memorable monologues from fans and critics of The Dukes of Hazzard, who blow apart the Southern stereotypes that tend to define Ruth's world.
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| "Moore, a native Texan who now lives in Minneapolis, has both the authority and the distance to write on such a deeply-felt topic ... She's written a thought-provoking play that inspires thorough contemplation." |
| --Rebecca Haithcoat, Louisville Eccentric Observer |
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$19.95 per book
NOTE: This book contains 10 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
Humana Festival 2009: The Complete Plays brings together all ten scripts from the 2009 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 33rd annual cycle of world premiere productions staged at Actors Theatre of Louisville. The seven full-length plays and three ten-minute plays represent an exceptional array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in American theater, from a mother-daughter comedy with a lethal twist (On The Porch One Crisp Spring Morning), to a family drama about a bullying patriarch on the verge of unveiling his biography (Absalom), to a gripping drama about three strangers confined to a hotel room (The Hard Weather Boating Party). This unique compilation is a must-have for any theater aficionado's bookshelf.
To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
3:59am: a drag race for two actors by Marco Ramirez
Absalom by Zoe Kazan
Ameriville by UNIVERSES
Brink! by Lydia Diamond, Kristoffer Diaz, Greg Kotis, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, and Deborah Stein
The Hard Weather Boating Party by Naomi Wallace
On The Porch One Crisp Spring Morning by Alex Dremann
Roanoke by Michael Lew
Slasher by Allison Moore
Under Construction by Charles L. Mee
Wild Blessings: A Celebration of Wendell Berry adapted by Marc Masterson and Adrien-Alice Hansel
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| "Signs of vitality, flashes of brilliance, displays of theatrical invention... The Humana Festival remains a must-attend event for theater professionals across the country." |
| --Time |
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$19.95 per book
NOTE: This book contains 10 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
Humana Festival 2011: The Complete Plays brings together all ten scripts from the 2011 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 35th annual cycle of world premiere productions staged at Actors Theatre of Louisville. This unique compilation features an exceptional array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in the American theatre, from a couple who abandon a hectic existence in modern-day NYC to live in a careful recreation of 1955 (Maple and Vine), to a sister and brother left to fend for themselves with a stuffed frog and a rifle for company (Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them), to an immensely wealthy trophy wife who hijacks her personal assistant's sister-bonding weekend (Elemeno Pea). This unique and diverse compilation of plays is a must-have for anyone searching for challenging, captivating, and bold theater.
To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
BOB by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Chicago, Sudan by Marc Bamuthi Joseph
A Devil at Noon by Anne Washburn
Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them by A. Rey Pamatmat
The Edge of Our Bodies by Adam Rapp
Elemeno Pea by Molly Smith Metzler
The End by Dan Dietz, Jennifer Haley, Allison Moore, A. Rey Pamatmat, and Marco Ramirez
Hygiene by Gregory Hischak
Maple and Vine by Jordan Harrison
Mr. Smitten by Laura Eason
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| "The plays [...] deserve to be celebrated. [That] so many past Humana premieres have gone on to wider audiences and captured major awards is an extraordinary testament to Masterson, his colleagues, and their predecessors, and the reason so many of us keep coming back." |
| --Educational Theatre Association |
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Snapshot
by Tanya Barfield, Lee Blessing, Michael Bigelow Dixon, Julie Jensen, et al. |
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Drama/Comedy
Full-length, 80-100 minutes
11 females, 11 males (4-25 actors possible: 2-15 females, 2-15 males)
$75.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: Each piece in this anthology can be licensed and performed separately.
A photograph captures and documents a single moment in time and space -- a snapshot of history, of a reality bounded by the photo's frame. But what lies outside, beyond, behind the photograph? And what stories, memories, or associations does an image of place inspire? In this multi-writer project from Actors Theatre of Louisville, a diverse assortment of talented playwrights encounter and transform Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, 1969, a compelling image of the monument by renowned photographer Lee Friedlander. Their thought-provoking scenes and monologues range from delightful comedy to utterly serious tragedy, each approaching the photo's themes through a new lens.
To perform the entire collection, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual piece independently, click on its title below:
A Quick Tour of the Monument by Craig Wright Monument by Honour Kane Scene at Mount Rushmore by Quincy Long Tyler Poked Taylor by Lee Blessing Rock Scissors Paper by Deb Margolin Little Pezidents by Michael Bigelow Dixon and Val Smith Defacing Patriotic Property by Tanya Barfield Her First Screen Test by Dan O'Brien Thrift of the Magi by Annie Weisman Night Out by Sunil Kuruvilla Here and Now by Chay Yew The Great Father by Victor Lodato American Klepto by Allison Moore Becoming American by Lynn Nottage History Lesson by David Lindsay-Abaire Bomb Squad by Craig Wright On Lincoln's Head by Julie Jensen
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| "A terrific collection of perspectives -- both directly and indirectly inspired by the photo, ranging from serious to sassy..." |
| --Back Stage |
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 65-75 minutes
2 females, 4 males (6 actors possible: 2-3 females, 3-4 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
In a sport where pushing past a body's limits sometimes isn't enough, runner Jake trains for the race that could put his dream in motion -- despite mounting financial pressures and familial sacrifice. Meanwhile, factory worker Lisa feels life accelerate as she discovers her daughter's amazing gift of speed. Ready... Set...
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