2018 Signature Theatre Company Production of Paradise Blue (Joan Marcus)
Every theatre maker has the same challenge: How do we get folks to come back show after show, season after season?
One surefire way to fill those seats is to present a series of related shows, making your audience look forward to the next installment.
How? You could present one full season of related plays or musicals, or you could spread the wealth over several seasons, featuring one show in the series in the same slot each year. (For example, each fall, you could open your season with one title from the same series.)
For comedies, treat the series like a sitcom, promoting each production as “the further adventures of ___,” saying, “You loved ’em last year… come back this year to see what they’re up to now!” For dramas, try focusing on the content, stressing the ideas and questions raised by the series through talkbacks, lobby displays or supplemental materials.
Whatever you do, enjoy the ride! This broad selection of trilogies, sets and series ranges from slapstick farces to penetrating, socially conscious dramas. Dive into the first show – and if your audience responds positively, make it a recurring event.
The All Long True American Stories series
by Julia May Jonas
This cycle of five “response plays” reimagines canonical 20th-century male-experience plays originally written by men as they’d be lived by other people – mostly women – as written from the perspective of a woman playwright. As of 2026, two of the plays in this cycle have been written, licensed and produced at professional theatres: the first a response to Arthur Miller’s All My Sons (US) and the second a response to Sam Shepard’s True West (US). Both offer substantial roles for women at the center of the stories and a chance to increase parity in your productions, from casting to creatives.
The Best Ever shows
by Jahnna Beecham and Malcolm Hillgartner, from work by Barbara Robinson*
These crowd-pleasing comedies are ideal for community theatres and youth groups, with colorful, entertaining characters of all ages. Comprising plays and musicals, this series of comical adventures features the hilarious Herdman kids – probably the most awful kids in history – who manage to ruin one event after another. With titles focused on Halloween, Christmas and the school year, this series can be programmed throughout your season.
- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (US/UK)*
- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: The Musical (US)
- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: The Musical JV (US)
- The Best Halloween Ever (US/UK)**
- The Best Nativity Musical Ever (US/UK)
- The Best School Year Ever (US/UK)
- The Best School Year Ever (Expanded Cast) (US/UK)
*The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is written by Barbara Robinson only
**The Best Halloween Ever is written by Jahnna Beecham and Skye Hillgartner, from the work by Barbara Robinson
The Brother/Sister plays
by Tarell Alvin McCraney
This triptych of plays set in the bayou of Louisiana draws on West African myths to bring the themes of family, love and heartache to the forefront. The first follows a “sister” track star who faces hurdles on her race toward womanhood, the second dramatizes the story of two brothers and the different choices siblings make for their lives, and the third brings us back to adolescence, telling a provocative, poignant and fiercely humorous coming-of-age story of a young gay man in the South. Each play offers varied and complex roles for Black actors, and programming the entire cycle allows a theatre to build a relationship with both these creatives as well as audiences who may resonate with the stories at hand.
- In The Red and Brown Water (US) – Chronologically first.
- The Brothers Size (US) – First play written but chronologically second.
- Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet (US) – Chronologically last.
The Christmas at Pemberley trilogy
by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon
This trio of Christmas plays by the widely-produced playwright Lauren Gunderson in collaboration with Margot Melcon explores the collaboration of the Darcy, Bingley and Bennet families as it brings to life the lives of the secondary characters in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice within a festive setting! For fans of Bridgerton, The Other Bennet Sister and anything Austen, these period pieces about love and female friendship offer a romance and wit-filled holiday concoction certain to delight all audiences.
- Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (US)
- The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley (US)
- Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley (US/UK)
The Coast of Utopia plays
by Tom Stoppard
Winner of the 2007 Tony Award for Best Play, this epic trilogy of sequential but self-contained plays vividly portrays a group of Russian intellectuals as they evolve from philosophers into revolutionaries against the backdrop of Tsarist Russia and European upheaval.
- Voyage (The Coast of Utopia, Part I) (US/UK)
- Shipwreck (The Coast of Utopia, Part II) (US/UK)
- Salvage (The Coast of Utopia, Part III) (US/UK)
The Connemara trilogy
by Martin McDonagh
All three plays in this trio set in the Connemara region of Ireland – where playwright McDonagh spent most summers growing up – during the early 1990s investigate a series of murderous occurrences in the western town of Leenane. Known for his dark comedic stylings and subtle but intricate theming, this set puts McDonagh’s special ability to “create a gallery of fascinating rogues” (New Republic) on display. Across the cycle, these characters ranges from two brothers living alone after their father’s death to two men working in the parish graveyard exhuming corpses to a manipulative aging mother interfering in her daughter’s first and possibly final chance for a relationship.
The Dad’s Army plays
by David Croft and Jimmy Perry
The classic BBC TV comedy series – about the Home Guard of Walmington-on-Sea, who battle daily against the Germans and local ARP Warden Hodges – comes to the stage complete with all its beloved and hilarious characters, including “Stupid Boy” Pike, “Don’t panic, don’t panic” Jonesey and “Doomed, we’re all doomed!” Fraser, all under the command of the redoubtable Captain Mainwaring.
- Dad’s Army (UK)
- Mum’s Army (UK)
- The Deadly Attachment (UK)
- The Floral Dance (UK)
- The Godiva Affair (UK)
The Detroit Project
by Dominique Morisseau
Three provocative dramas shine the spotlight on three historical moments in Morisseau’s hometown: Detroit, MI. Starting in the 1960s, the first play focuses on the city’s 1967 race riots through the lens of a brother and sister and Motown music. The second jumps back in time to the 1940s, as a gifted trumpeter contemplates selling his once-vibrant jazz club in Detroit’s Blackbottom neighborhood as the shutdown for “urban renewal projects” looms large. In the third, we jump forward once more to 2008, exploring the effects of the Great Recession on the auto industry through the personal lives of a stamping factory’s workers. Each play in the trilogy centers the Black experience with detailed characters and poignant themes that bring both laughter and tears to adult audiences.
The Don’t Hug Me musicals
by Paul and Phil Olson
This series of musical comedies for the whole family all take place in Bunyan Bay, Minnesota, home of the World’s Oldest Moose and where they famously “say it with karaoke!” These small-cast musicals with simple costumes and props are easily producible, crowd-pleasing musicals that have been produced in over 250 cities across the United States and Canada in community and dinner theatres from Texas to Toronto (see a full list of their successes here). While the town and the characters appear in multiple editions, the stories are completely different, the music is all original, and they do not require you to see them in any particular order to fully enjoy them.
- A Don’t Hug Me Christmas Carol (US)
- A Don’t Hug Me County Fair (US/UK)
- Don’t Hug Me (US)
- Don’t Hug Me, I’m Pregnant (US/UK)
- Don’t Hug Me, We’re Family (US/UK)
- Don’t Hug Me, We’re Married (US/UK)
The Doublewide trilogy
by Jones Hope Wooten
These southern-fried, fast-paced comedies all take place in a mobile home park in Doublewide, Texas, where life is double the fun, double the joy, and where audiences double over with laughter! With heaps of hilarity with a whole lot of heart, each play can be performed as a standalone play in its own right or in the order listed below to sold-out audiences at your community theatre.
The Elliot trilogy
by Quiara Alegría Hudes
The character of Elliot Ortiz – an Iraq War veteran who returns home in the first of the trilogy, explores his relationship with his biological mother and his aunt who raised him instead in the Pulitzer Prize-winning second play, and who returns to his military trauma on the set of a docudrama in Jordan in the third – is the through-line in this trio of award-winning plays by Quiara Alegría Hudes. Drawing from her lived experience growing up in the Puerto Rican American community in Philadelphia, Hudes brings the stories of her community to the stage with authentic, heartful, lyrical, character-rich writing.
2012 Second Stage Theater Production of Water by the Spoonful (Richard Termine)
The Eugene trilogy
by Neil Simon
Neil Simon’s acclaimed, crowd-pleasing autobiographical trilogy brings laughter and tears as it follows the exploits of Eugene Jerome and his hilarious family. Over the three plays, Eugene matures from a wildly imaginative adolescent in 1930s Brooklyn to a well-meaning but inexperienced young recruit in Biloxi, Mississippi, to an aspiring comedy writer balancing career ambitions and family loyalty in postwar New York City.
The Falsettos trilogy
by William Finn*
Most theatre fans know that Falsettos is a combination of two one-act musicals, March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland. But William Finn’s Marvin saga actually began with In Trousers, his hilariously quirky debut about a young gay man coping with anxiety and adolescence. Over the course of three musicals, neurotic Marvin comes out, leaves his wife for a male lover, learns to be a proper father to his son and cares for his long-time lover as he battles AIDS. Tackling contemporary subjects with humor and heart, Finn’s masterpiece features an eclectic score that remains unmatched in the musical theatre canon.
*Falsettoland and Falsettos were written by William Finn and James Lapine.
The Farce trilogy
by Jones Hope Wooten
Each play in this trilogy of lunacy takes place at Reel ’Em Inn, the finest little fishing lodge in the Ozarks. These absurdly funny southern-fried romps bring recurring characters – including owner D. Gene Wilburn, the owner and his fiesty sister Maxie – combined with signature Jones Hope Wooten comedy that make them a farce to be reckoned with… and a huge hit with community theatres!
The Farndale Avenue plays
by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jr.
The ladies of the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild (F.A.H.E.T.G.) Dramatic Society power these plays that bring all of antics of an amateur theatre to comedic life. In each, the ladies present their ambitious evening’s entertainment – ranging from A Christmas Carol to Macbeth to even a whodunit – with mishaps so wrong it makes the laughter go right and audiences titter with delight!
- Chase Me Up Farndale Avenue, S’il Vous Plait! (US/UK)
- Farndale Avenue … Christmas Carol (US/UK)
- Farndale Avenue … Macbeth (US/UK)
- Farndale Avenue … Mikado (US/UK)
- The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery (US/UK)
- The Haunted Through Lounge and Recessed Dining Nook at Farndale (US/UK)
- They Came from Mars and Landed Outside the Farndale Avenue Church (US/UK)
- We Found Love and an Exquisite Set of Porcelain Figures Aboard the SS Farndale (US/UK)
The Four Old Broads series
by Leslie Kimbell
This hugely successful series by Leslie Kimbell centers on a group of colorful characters who live at Magnolia Place Assisted Living – from retired burlesque queen Beatrice Shelton to her best friend Eaddy Mae Clayton to a former Elvis impersonator named Sam Smith – as they take vacations, set sail, compete in pageants and even throw a Christmas extravaganza! Written with authenticity, pathos and humor, these broads make audiences clutch both their bellies from laughter and their hearts from sentiment.
- Four Old Broads (US/UK)
- Four Old Broads on the High Seas (US/UK)
- The Miss Magnolia Senior Citizen Beauty Pageant (US/UK)
- The Four Old Broads Christmas Extravaganza (US/UK)
The Fried Meat Trilogy
by Keith Stevenson
Beginning with Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Rd., this series of delightfully quirky comedies centers on an eccentric group of affable hillbillies who welcome others into this hilariously dysfunctional family in a West Virginia countryside motel. With the plays’ laugh-a-minute comedy and zany characters, there is never a dull moment with the Fried Meat bunch!
- Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Rd. (US)
- A Fried Meat Christmas (US)
- The Unfryable Meatness of Being (US)
The Futrelle Sisters trilogy
by Jones Hope Wooten
These southern-fried hometown comedies are brought to life by the vivacious Futrelle Sisters – Frankie, Twink, Honey Raye and Rhonda Lynn – who constantly find themselves in trouble in their town of Fayro, Texas. Whether dealing with the chaos of a wedding, a church Christmas program or saving the town from extinction, these ensemble comedies bring joy through misadventure.
The Honeycomb trilogy
by Mac Rogers
Mac Rogers’ critically acclaimed, award-winning The Honeycomb Trilogy is a three-part sci-fi epic, all set in the same universe, that chronicles a primal conflict that will redefine the nature of the human race. Beginning with an astronaut who returns home after the first manned mission to Mars with secret cargo and continuing with a sister and brother at odds on an Earth radically changed by alien occupation, and completed with the resolution of the siblings’ story, this trilogy is best performed in sequence, whether all in a row or in subsequent seasons.
The Inspector Drake plays
by David Tristram
The four farces below all featured the intrepid Inspector Drake as he seeks to solve the crimes of the century. Whether it’s the mystery of a levitating dead body, the question of why a doctor married a warthog and murdered his fourth wife, the death of a oil tycoon by sword, or even his last case, the Drake whodunits are perfect for audiences who like their crimes served with a heaping dose of comedy.
- Inspector Drake and the Time Machine (US/UK)
- Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime (US/UK)
- Inspector Drake and the Black Widow (US/UK)
- Inspector Drake’s Last Case (US/UK)
The Kentucky Cycle
by Robert Schenkkan
This Pulitzer Prize-winning series of nine one-act plays uses the stories of three fictional families struggling over land in the Appalachian Cumberland Plateau to explore the mythologies of the American West. This sweeping epic begins with Masters of the Trade and spans 200 years of American history, beginning in 1775 and ending in 1975.
- Masters of the Trade (US)
- The Courtship of Morning Star (US)
- The Homecoming (US)
- Ties That Bind (US)
- God’s Great Supper (US)
- Tall Tales (US)
- Fire in the Hole (US)
- Which Side Are You On? (US)
- The War on Poverty (US)
The Little Grimley plays
by David Tristram
These fast-paced comedies about Little Grimley’s Amateur Dramatic Society follow the antics of the “world’s worst” Am-Dram as they desperately pander for an audience. Ranging from pantomime to Shakespeare to whodunits to even “Sex Factor on Ice,” their theatrical escapades – and mess-ups – are sure to create memorable results.
The full collection can be viewed via the collection, Plays About Little Grimley (US/UK).
- Last Tango in Little Grimley (US/UK)
- Last Panto In Little Grimley (US/UK)
- The Fat Lady Sings in Little Grimley (US/UK)
- Little Grimley Presents Strictly Sex Factor on Ice (US/UK)
- Lockdown in Little Grimley (US/UK)
- Murder in Little Grimley (US/UK)
- Little Grimley – Saving The Planet (US/UK)
- To Be, or Not to Bother? (US/UK)
2023 Roundabout Theatre Company and New York Theatre Workshop Co-Production of The Refuge Plays (Joan Marcus)
The Mama trilogy
by Jones Hope Wooten
The through-line of this trio of ferociously funny plays by Jones Hope Wooten is the character of Mama, a willful woman on a mission – and a memorable character for community theatre audiences! In each play, Mama brings the cast of characters along for an adventure, be it a high-octane family road trip to beat the stork when her son’s wife goes into labor early, a mother-daughter powered race to get Alabama to California in time to attend a wedding, or a festive ride to get Mama married herself!
The My Big Gay Italian series
by Anthony Wilkinson
These hysterical, feel-good plays mix the ultra-serious and the ultra-silly to confront gay and Italian stereotypes with comedy and heart. Whether at a wedding or a funeral, during mid-life or the holidays, these over-the-top characters are accompanied by jokes galore and a few sweet family moments to create an “insanely funny and fun confection” (Edge New York) for your stage.
- My Big Gay Italian Wedding (US/UK)
- My Big Gay Italian Funeral (US/UK)
- My Big Gay Italian Midlife Crisis (US/UK)
- My Big Gay Italian Christmas (US/UK)
The Nibroc trilogy
by Arlene Hutton
This critically-acclaimed set of three plays explores the lives of a young couple living in Kentucky and later Florida in the 1940s and 1950s, offering a poignant and insightful look into a marriage that blossomed from a boy-meets-girl romance, lasted the consequences of World War II, and navigated the crush of dreams and families after moving to Florida. Each of these charming plays “look at rustic Americans who are to be treasured for their simplicity and directness” (Associated Press) and offer a sweet, simple set of shows for your season or subsequent seasons.
The Norman Conquests
by Alan Ayckbourn
This trilogy written in 1973 showcases the same six characters (Norman, his wife Ruth, her brother Reg, his wife Sarah, their sister Annie and Tom, Annie’s neighbor) over the same weekend, with each individual play taking place in a different part of the house. All containing Ayckbourn’s signature small-scale drama, this poignant yet comedic set can be viewed or staged in any order. While the plays contain overlapping dialogue and similar moments, they were not written to be performed simultaneously, although Ayckbourn did achieve that some twenty-five years later with his plays House (US/UK) and Garden (US/UK).
The Nunsense shows
by Danny Goggin
Nunsense is habit-forming! Danny Goggin’s zany, wholesome, hilarious series of musical comedies about the Little Sisters of Hoboken are a heavenly delight. From the original Nunsense – set in the basement stage of a church in Hoboken, New Jersey – to riotous sequels set in Las Vegas, the Grand Ole Opry, an interfaith cruise and The Hollywood Bowl-a-Rama, these tuneful shows are guaranteed to keep audiences laughing.
The full collection can be viewed in the US or the UK.
- Nunsense (US/UK)
- Nunsense: The Mega-Musical Version (US/UK)
- Nunsense A-Men! (US/UK)
- Nunsense II: The Second Coming (US/UK)
- Nunsense II (Large Cast Edition) (US/UK)
- Nuncrackers (US/UK)
- Nuncrackers (Large Cast Edition) (US/UK)
- Nunsense Jamboree (US/UK)
- Meshuggah-Nuns! (US/UK)
- Nunsensations (US/UK)
- Nunset Boulevard (US/UK)
- Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Class (US/UK)
The Opal plays
by John Patrick
The lovable yet irresponsible Opal Kronkie, a middle-aged recluse living in a cluttered, tumbledown mansion, is the shining gemstone at the center of each of these comedies. In these adventures, she outsmarts a trio of con artists, runs for office against an oily politician, navigates a lie set to steal the wealth she doesn’t have, gets tricked into marrying a con man and discovers what she thinks is a missing masterpiece of art – all with fanciful entertainment and flair!
- Everybody Loves Opal (US/UK)
- Opal Is a Diamond (US)
- Opal’s Baby (US)
- Opal’s Husband (US)
- Opal’s Million Dollar Duck (US)
The Orphans’ Home Cycle
by Horton Foote
Inspired by the playwright’s Texan father, the character of Horace Robedaux leads us through three plays, three decades and three generations of a family beginning with the turn of the 20th century in this dramatic trilogy from acclaimed playwright Horton Foote. While most of the individual plays had been produced previously, in 2009, Hartford Stage and Signature Theatre Company co-produced the cycle in full for the first time, leading Foote to reminisce, “It’s incredibly moving to see all of these plays from my years of writing come together into the theatrical cycle that I’ve always envisioned.”
- Part One: The Story of a Childhood (US)
- Part Two: The Story of a Marriage (US)
- Part Three: The Story of a Family (US)
The Pazinski Family trilogy
by Tom Dudzick
The Pazinski family of six (4 kids, 2 parents) lives over a saloon in lower-middle class Buffalo, New York, and this working class family’s trials and triumphs are the focus of this trilogy by Buffalo’s own Tom Dudzick. Whether squabbling with the ruler-wielding Sister Clarissa in the Eisenhower years of the 1950s, coming together to mourn their late father and getting entangled in each others’s problems in the rebellious 1960s or saying their final goodbyes to their recently-sold childhood home, these characters experience both miraculous and comical mishaps and moments of great heart that will resonate with family members of all generations.
The Pendragon County plays
by Don Nigro
A prolific playwright, the late Don Nigro penned over 400 works touching a wide variety of themes, but his Pendragon County plays are the heart of it all. The long cycle of over two dozen plays follows American history across centuries from the late 18th century to the 21st century through the eyes of several generations in a town in eastern Ohio. The full list, in chronological order, includes:
- Glamorgan (US)
- Horrid Massacre in Boston (US)
- Armitage (US)
- Fisher King (US)
- Green Man (US)
- Sorceress (US)
- Tristan (US)
- Pendragon (US)
- Chronicles (US)
- Anima Mundi (US)
- Beast with Two Backs (US)
- Laestrygonians (US)
- The Circus Animals’ Desertion (US)
- Dramatis Personae (US)
- The Reeves Tale (US)
- November (US)
- Pendragon County Ghosts (US)
The Love* Plays trilogy
by Donja R. Love
When playwright Donja R. Love didn’t see his story – stories of Black, queer folk throughout history – on stage, he wrote this trilogy of moving yet magical plays to offer artists and audiences the chance to see it. Set in historical settings known for their unkindness toward Black bodies including the Civil War and Jim Crow South, each of these plays offers a celebration of joy and queerness instead, providing the moments that perhaps didn’t make the historical record by dwelling on beauty and love in the face of some of the ugliest times in human history.
The Refuge Plays
by Nathan Alan Davis
Late at night, a ghost tells Gail she will die within the next 24 hours. So begins The Refuge Plays, an epic tale in three plays that follows one Black family over 70 years. This bold reimagining of an American “family play” follows four generations in reverse chronology as they carve out an existence for themselves in a southern Illinois forest. Each of the three plays runs for 60 minutes and can be presented together or individually.
The collection of plays can be viewed together as The Refuge Plays (US/UK) or viewed individually below.
The Rightlynd Saga
by Ike Holter
Chicago Tribune described this series of seven interconnected plays set in a fictional Chicago neighborhood as “one of the most significant literary achievements in modern-day Chicago.” Beginning with Rightlynd and ending with Lottery Day, the small ensemble plays bring the multicultural neighborhood of the 51st Ward to dramatic life in a way that allows for city communities to see themselves represented onstage and grows audiences’ empathy.
- Rightlynd (US)
- Exit Strategy (US)
- Sender (US)
- Prowess (US)
- The Wolf at the End of the Block (US)
- Red Rex (US)
- Lottery Day (US)
2006 Lincoln Center Theater Production of Bernarda Alba (Paul Kolnik)
The Rural Trilogy
by Federico García Lorca
The three most famous plays by Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca are often grouped together in an unofficial trilogy called the Rural Trilogy, named for their lyrical, symbolic mix of modernism and folklore of his native Andalusia. Adaptors love to explore Lorca’s poetry to bring it to life in English, and Concord Theatricals licenses multiple versions of each play in this trilogy that can be produced in a series with each other.
Blood Wedding
- Blood Wedding (Dewell/Zapata, trans.) (US/UK)
- Blood Wedding (Edwards, trans.) (UK)
- Blood Wedding (Groag, trans.) (US)
- Blood Wedding (Lujan/O’Connell, trans.) (US/UK)
The House of Bernarda Alba
- Bernarda Alba (Musical adaptation by Michael John LaChiusa) (US/UK)
- The House of Bernarda Alba (Dewell/Zapata, trans.) (US/UK)
- The House of Bernarda Alba (Lujan/O’Connell, trans.) (US/UK)
- The House of Bernarda Alba (Mann, trans.) (US)
Yerma
- Yerma (Dewell/Zapata, trans.) (US)
- Yerma (Lujan/O’Connell, trans.) (US/UK)
- Yerma (Luke, trans.) (UK)
The Russian plays
by Don Nigro
The prolific Don Nigro also expressed a fascination with Russian culture, history and literature, bringing each to life in the below cycle mostly about famous Russians, from Alexander Pushkin to Leo Tolstoy to Anton Chekhov and even Rasputin.
- Pushkin (US)
- Gogol (US)
- An Angler in the Lake of Darkness (US)
- Emotion Memory (US)
- A Russian Play (US)
- Rasputin (US)
- Mandelstam (US/UK)
The Suites trilogy
by Neil Simon
Neil Simon struck comedy gold with Plaza Suite, his hilarious collection of three vignettes set in the same room at The Plaza Hotel. The formula was so successful that Simon revisited it twice more, setting his subsequent farces at luxury hotels in Beverly Hills and Hyde Park. Easily produced on a single set, each play features fast-talking comedy and heartwarming pathos, all while offering actors an opportunity to play multiple roles.
The Talley trilogy
by Lanford Wilson
Like Horton Foote, Lanford Wilson often wrote about what he knew best: His hometown. This series of three plays follows the Talley family of Lebanon, Missouri across three decades, beginning with the experience of post-Vietnam War disillusionment amongst the family and their friends in 1977 in Fifth of July. The latter two plays jump backward in history, both taking place on July 4, 1944. The first, Talley’s Folly, details the courtship between Sally Talley and her husband-to-be, Matthew Friedman, and the subsequent Talley & Son navigates the tumultuous relationship between Sally’s father and grandfather while World War II rages on overseas.
The Tombs shows
by Norman Robbins
Featuring all the thrills of classic whodunits along with the jokes and lightning-quick pace of farces, this set of comedy thrillers about afamily that plays together and slays together – the murderous Tombs – are sure to keep audiences spellbound. Their irresistible combination of spoof and baffling murder mystery, over-the-top characters and shocking plot twists will thrill and delight in equal measure.
The Tuna shows
by Ed Howard, Joe Sears, Jaston Williams
The “third-smallest” town of Tuna, Texas is the star of these comedies that affectionately satirize the goings-on in small-town Southern life. Known for using just two actors to play dozens of eccentric characters, the original Greater Tuna was a long-running off-Broadway hit but the entire series of shows can now alternatively be brought to life by a cast of any size in their hilarious send-ups of small-town morals and mores, from the original to the festive version to the patriotic version and more.
- Greater Tuna (US)
- A Tuna Christmas (US)
- Red, White and Tuna (US)
- Tuna Does Vegas (US)
- Deep in the Heart of Tuna (US)
The Ufot Cycle
by Mfoniso Udofia
This sweeping, planned nine-part saga began in 2016 with the premiere of Sojourners and the introduction of Abasiama Ekpeyong: a young Nigerian immigrant, newlywed and expectant mother in 1978 Houston. This past becomes present in Her Portmanteau when Iniabasi Ekpeyoung, the daughter Abasiama let go in Sojourners returns to America, demanding her birthright. In each play, we experience a new member of the Ufot family as they navigate all of the challenges and celebrations life has to offer. Two of the plays in this cycle are available to license from Concord Theatricals:
Learn more about the other plays in the cycle at Mfoniso Udofia’s website.
The Verdeen Cousins’ Texas trilogy
by Jones Hope Wooten
This set of southern-fried family reunion comedies all feature the three Verdeen cousins – Gaynelle, Peaches and Jimmie Wyvette – as they pick the worst time to hold a family reunion, throw a surprise birthday party that somehow turns into a chaotic funeral, then frantically attempt to produce the ultimate high school reunion before their old school building is demolished. The signature Jones Hope Wooten recipe of recurring characters and farcical comedy in the adventures of these cousins will keep audiences all through the night!
The Wexford Trilogy
by Billy Roche
Irish playwright Billy Roche is best-known for his three plays set in his hometown of Wexford that all premiered in the Bush Theatre in London in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as directed by Robin Lefevre. From a sleazy pool room to a betting shop on the day of the all-Ireland Hurling finals to the church vestry and belfry, each location and each play offers a glimpse of the southeastern corner of Ireland that Roche calls home.
The collection of plays can be viewed together as The Wexford Trilogy (US) or viewed individually below.
The Wonderettes shows
by Roger Bean
Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy and Suzy are four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts, and their adventures are chronicled in this collection of musicals celebrating the greatest hits of the 1950s and 1960s. Marvel at this fabulous assortment of the Wonderettes’ adventures, from the original The Marvelous Wonderettes to graduation special editions to flexible versions for any size cast to perform, all from the brilliant mind of Roger Bean. The Wonderettes Collection (US/UK) includes:
- The Marvelous Wonderettes (US/UK)
- The Marvelous Wonderettes ’58 (US/UK)
- The Marvelous Wonderettes: Caps and Gowns (US)
- The Marvelous Wonderettes: Caps and Gowns ’58 (US)
- The Marvelous Wonderettes: Dream On (US/UK)
- The Marvelous Wonderettes: Glee Club (US/UK)
- Winter Wonderettes (US/UK)
- Winter Wonderettes (Springfield High Edition) (US/UK)
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