| Larry Loebell. Mr. Loebell's short plays include Angie and Arnie Sanguine, Edward and Ellie Supine, Prayers, The Lion Eats His Lunch, But Who's Counting, Emma Goldman Imagines the Millennium, and Just Before the War Between the Plates. His full-length plays include The Dostoyevsky Man; Pride of the Lion; Memorial Day; The Ballad of John Wesley Reed, which was recently premiered by Theatre Catalyst in Philadelphia; Girl Science, a featured play at the first Earth Matters on Stage Festival in Arcata, California; and La Tempestad, recently produced at the Ohio Theater in New York City. La Tempestad is also anthologized in Playing with Canons: Explosive New Works from Literature by America's Indie Playwrights.
Mr. Loebell is a four-time recipient of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, and a 2006 recipient of a new play commission from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. He has written a play for high school students called Living News which is performed during the school year at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Larry is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Inc., Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) and, in addition to writing and teaching playwriting and dramaturgy at Arcadia University, he works as a free-lance dramaturg.
|
|
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 |
 
|
|
$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
|  |
|
|
|
Comedy
Short, 22-28 minutes
2 females, 2 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Angie plays the lottery. Arnie plots to get ahead at work. The fridge is empty, but no problem -- the Prize Patrol is coming to deliver the big check. Or are they? It's just another day of hope, despair, murderous impulses, and something like love in the lives of four hyper-ambitious yuppies.
|  |
|
|
|
Comedy
Short, 15-20 minutes
1 female
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 2.
New Year's Eve, 1999. A charismatic young woman has invited a guy back to her stylishly furnished apartment and chained him up tight, in anticipation of her 2,000th sexual escapade. But she is no crazed dominatrix: Sweet, cultured, with a zest for the pleasures of life, she's kept detailed notes on every enlightening coupling over the last twenty years. And tonight she's going to share with the audience a bit of what she's learned, in one racy, rollicking monologue.
|  |
|
|
|
Comedy/Drama
Various durations
Various cast requirements
$9.99 per book
NOTE: This book contains 10 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
With a diverse blend of themes, styles, and cast requirements, Great Short Plays: Volume 2 contains ten extraordinary comedies and dramas. From the oldest living human with exactly ten minutes left before the end of the world (The Last Woman on Earth by Liz Duffy Adams), to marital advice from Mohandas Gandhi to a truck driver (Gandhi Goes Fishing by Al Sjoerdsma), to ethical discord involving world hunger and cat food (Aisle 17B by John Walch), these collections deliver a little bit of everything in half the time.
To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
Aisle 17B
But Who's Counting
A Free Man in Paris
Gandhi Goes Fishing
God Like a Jumpstart
The John Philip Sousa Workshop
The Last Woman on Earth
The Lessons of My Father
The Miracle of Chanukah
Views
|  |
|
|
|
Comedy for young audiences
Short, 10-15 minutes
6 either (2-6 actors possible: 0-6 females, 0-6 males)
$30.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
There's conflict in the kitchen, as the forks, spoons, and knives argue over who's the greatest of utensils. The steel knife is looking for action, the grapefruit spoon longs for another function, and the sterling fork keeps touting its lofty lineage. Beneath the clash of cutlery lies a sensitive allegory about identity.
|  |
|
|
|
Comedy
Short, 25-30 minutes
2 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Tomorrow David Williamson surrenders to federal authorities on an insider trading conviction. Today he has lunch at his private club, and strikes up a desperate conversation with the man who has been his waiter there for many years. Their strained interchange takes a surprising turn when the waiter reveals that he, too, has been playing the stock market -- using the same information that's sending Williamson to prison. (This play can be performed independently, or as Act I of Pride of the Lion.)
|  |
|
|
|
Drama
Full-length, 90-100 minutes
2 females, 2 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
David Williamson is called 'The Lion' by reporters, business associates, and even his family. The day before going to prison for insider trading, he has one last lunch at his private club, and tries to enjoy a final evening of freedom with his wife Helen. She has lost the strength and love to stand by him, though, and their daughter has a spectacular betrayal in store. Pride of the Lion is a subtle, dramatic triptych about a family slowly destroyed by greed and self-aggrandizement. (Act I of this play can be performed independently as The Lion Eats His Lunch.)
| |
|
|
|
