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FOR YOUR STAGE (US)
Community Theatre: Your 2026 Guide to Season Planning
Need help planning your next community theatre season? Check out these celebrated and noteworthy titles – arranged by genre!
LET’S LAUGH!
Comedy Mysteries: Gasps, Laughs and Thrills
With all the thrills of classic whodunits along with the delightful pace of a farce, these comedy mysteries keep audiences spellbound.
FOR YOUR STAGE (UK)
UK School Musicals – Let’s Travel
Where will you take your audience this year with a musical? Here’s a wide variety of exciting musicals for your school, gathered by setting!
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The Play’s the Thing: Shows Inspired by Shakespeare
From William Shakespeare’s poems and stage works, contemporary theatremakers have taken the liberty of creating their own unique plays and musicals. Here’s a selection of brilliant and thrilling works inspired by The Bard of Avon.
Lauren Gunderson in Five Plays
Lauren Gunderson is one of America‘s most-produced living playwrights. Get a glimpse of her passionate work with these five plays, exploring science, humanity, overlooked women, human nature, feminism and theatre.
K-12 Theatre: Your 2026 Guide to Season Planning
It’s time to plan the next season for your school theatre program! Here’s an assortment of great plays and musicals for you to consider, from crowd-pleasing musicals to cutting-edge dramas.
Listen to the Bees: Kate Douglas Discusses Her Play The Apiary
Playwright Kate Douglas talks about her new dark comedy, an unsettling and sharp-witted cautionary tale about death, the planet, women, power and bees.
Absurdist Theatre: Works That Challenge And Inspire
What does it mean to be alive, day after day and hour after hour? Discover how many of the theatre’s most gifted playwrights have answered this universal question in this collection of moving, challenging, memorable plays affiliated with the Theatre of the Absurd.
Tennessee Williams in Five Plays
Tennessee Williams has a decades-spanning legacy of incredible plays with complex and challenging roles for all actors, but especially leading ladies. Discover more about an American master with this sampling of five plays.