Resources

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In this new and theatrical retelling of the classic tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet letter on her chest as punishment for committing adultery in Puritan New England. Throughout time, The Scarlet Letter has endured as a way to examine societal expressions of shame, guilt, and ultimately, redemption.  (A one-act version of this play is also avai...

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Sure technology has made some things easier, but has it really made everything easier? Now, with a new mobile home system of drones from Amazon-Google-Microsoft-Apple, technology can truly help you win at life. Do you need your food chewed and regurgitated into your mouth like a baby bird? Done. How about all that pesky parenting that takes so much of your time? Solved. Think about all the wasted...

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Colby learns from a young age that he can find success by being vague with the people in his life. Colby’s “art" of being vague continues to grow throughout his life as he convinces his classmates he’s cool, persuades an interviewer he’s best for the job, and rises to the top of the top. Although this seemingly fantastic art initially brings him great success, it ultimately comes at the...

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It is 1976 and the leaders of the ERA movement are just three states short of their dream of legal equality for women. Kate O’Halloran, barely in her 20s and not interested in feminism, has snagged an interview with suffragette legend and ERA proponent Alice Paul, aged 93. Arriving at her small cottage in Connecticut, Kate, unbeknownst to Paul, has no desire to discuss the ERA but to uncover the...

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One bright, blue fall afternoon a shooter walks in Three Roads High School and kills five students and two adults. During the shooting, students in one section of the school put up a makeshift barrier of desks, chairs, music stands -- and a photo of the wall goes viral. In the hours, weeks and months after the wake of another tragedy, students and teachers deal with grief, the media frenzy and unc...

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One bright, blue fall afternoon a shooter walks in Three Roads High School and kills five students and two adults. During the shooting, students in one section of the school put up a makeshift barrier of desks, chairs, music stands -- and a photo of the wall goes viral. In the hours, weeks and months after the wake of another tragedy, students and teachers deal with grief, the media frenzy and unc...

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Building a relationship over a virtual platform can be...difficult. In this collection of short plays written for virtual performance, young theatre makers explore the space that exists between us, our screens, and the person on the other side. Imagine an app that lets you talk to dead people or realize you are a character in a play. That is ending. Very soon. What if you were partnered for an on-...

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A collection of monologues inspired by the hearts of young people. Each piece feels immediate and intimate as characters wrestle with the timely situations we all face. Some of the monologues are about the pandemic, some aren't, because while our kids lived through a historical event, it's not who they are.

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It’s time for another nightly edition of KFKE’s Newstime, your nightly real news leader despite the accusations that KFKE is fake, fake, fake. News anchors Rusty and Sandy serve up only the hottest real news including an interview with an unfrozen cave man, a revealing expose on the mysterious Illuminati, and a prospector mining for gold. Stay tuned for the weatherman, Bob Deepmantan, who clai...

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Let Captain Theatre Nerd take you on a whirlwind tour of the history of theater from ridiculous melodramas to sweeping musicals. Everything on stage happens just as it's supposed to, except when it goes horribly and hilariously wrong. Actors on strike, indecisive directors, wrong cues and costumes... But the show must go on! Right? Leave it to the techies to save the day.