Dramatic Publishing

05/29/2026

Alicia enters a Mexican curio shop with her mother. When a simple stumble sends her reeling into a fantastical world, she encounters the sinister Elvira gang, who trap souls in pottery with the touch of a chicken claw. As she journeys through strange lands to find the Pottery Maker and uncover the truth about the trapped souls, Alicia navigates a vivid world of folklore and imagination that helps deepen her understanding of her national heritage.

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05/28/2026

Set in a North Carolina gold mine during the 1840s, 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘎𝘰𝘭𝘥 follows two 12-year-old girls—Lizzie, who is white, and Annis, an enslaved Black girl. Working side by side in harsh conditions, they confront the racial barriers between them while discovering the true value of education, friendship and freedom. Honest and thought-provoking, the play invites audiences to grapple with difficult questions about race, inequality and human connection in pre–Civil War America.

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05/26/2026

This authorized stage adaptation is true to the novel in which Orwell depicts with great power the horrors of man's fate in a society where Big Brother is always watching—where everything that is not prohibited is compulsory. As your cast presents the play, you will be participating in a theatrical event that is both powerful and disturbingly provocative. #1984

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05/22/2026

This drama about a young girl's courage is based on the true story of Marysia Pawlina Szul, a Polish Catholic teen, who saved the lives of four Jewish people during World War II. It reinforces the idea that one individual can make a difference.

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05/21/2026

Be sure to check out 𝘚𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘰 this coming June at the Regional Theatre Tony Award-winning American Players Theatre!
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The American Players Theatre (APT) announced Tuesday it had received a Tony Award, the most prestigious recognition in theater. Managing Director Sara Young said her team was thrilled, surprised, elated and a little overwhelmed by the news.

05/21/2026

This dramatization places the jungle of India on a children's playground. Mowgli, the human child raised by wolves in the jungle, must destroy Sherakhan, the tiger who killed his parents. But his use of rope stolen from the human village has broken jungle law. Now Mowgli must choose whether to defy the law or leave the jungle forever.

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05/20/2026

NEW IN PRINT!!!

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳: 𝘈 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘥𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘪𝘵𝘻𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘥 explores the final voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Great Lakes freighter lost during a massive storm on Nov. 10, 1975. The play examines both the human cost of maritime life and the enduring mystery of the ship’s tragic sinking.

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05/19/2026

Told through a series of two-actor scenes, 𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘋𝘢𝘺 (𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳 2108) follows six couples struggling with relationship issues in a high-tech but perilous future. These couples face challenges including a robotic arm gone rogue, advertising firms pushing products by implanting computer chips into participants’ heads, genetically engineered hybrid animals like the buffadillo and pandaroo and AI supervisors that may or may not be sentient.

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05/18/2026

Set in a juvenile detention center, 𝘑𝘶𝘷𝘪𝘦 depicts the life of kids who are scared, lonely and locked up. Some are drug offenders, some have killed and some are just misfits. Although the set never changes, the "juvies" venture out of their cells to tell why and how they were caught. The barren cell and lack of props are effective in keeping with each character's desolation.

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05/15/2026

A group of castaways in the South Pacific discover Captain Nemo—long thought dead—still haunting his now-crippled 𝘕𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘴. A debate arises between the men and the aged captain: in his years-long private war for revenge, was Nemo justified? Morally responsible? The play chronicles the interwoven histories of Professor Morgan Aronnax, a woman who has hidden her gender from the public at the behest of the French minister of science, and Nemo, as they voyage beneath the world’s oceans to the unclaimed tundra of the South Pole.

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