Best Plays for Community Theatres
You can’t go wrong with a play from Pioneer Drama Service for your community theater! From one acts to full lengths, we offer an incredibly broad range of family-friendly community theater plays including comedies and dramas, dinner theatre, murder mysteries with or without audience participation, literary adaptations, Christmas plays, and melodramas. In addition to staged performances, livestream and recording rights are available for all community theatre plays! The sets and costumes in most of our shows are designed to be as simple or as complex as your budget allows, and we encourage you to enhance your production with projections, as well. With fixed royalty fees that are the same no matter your ticket price, our plays also make fantastic fundraisers for your community!These are the 20 most popular plays done by community theatres.
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Cafe Murder
Cast: 2M, 5F, plus 2 roles that can be any, extras
Set/Time: Interior restaurant set / About 40 minutes Rosemary Saint-John is an annoying hypochondriac convinced she is allergic to water. When she disappears and is presumed murdered, the only objective witnesses are the audience members. More... |
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The Enchanted Bookshop
Cast: Flexible cast of 23 (8M, 9F, plus 6 roles that can be any)
Set/Time: Interior bookshop set / About 60 minutes During the day, A Likely Story may look like any other used bookstore. But at night, it’s a place where magic happens. More... |
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Big Bad
Cast: Flexible cast of 14 (3M, 5F, plus 6 roles that can be any)
Set/Time: Interior courtroom set / About 45 minutes The most notorious criminal in the fairy-tale world, Big Bad Wolf, is being slapped with a class-action lawsuit by the countless quirky characters he has wronged. More... |
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What Happened After Once Upon a Time
Cast: Flexible Cast of 17-24
Set/Time: Bare stage / About 50 minutes What really happened after “once upon a time”? You’ll find out in this fun, large-cast, simple-to-stage fractured fairy tale! More... |
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Murder’s in the Heir
Cast: 5M, 8F, plus 2 roles that can be any
Set/Time: Interior living room set / About 90 minutes Almost every character in this hilarious mystery has the weapon, opportunity and motive to commit the unseen murder. And it’s up to your audience to decide who actually did it! More... |
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North Pole’s Got Talent
Cast: Flexible cast of 15-28 (2M, 3F, plus 10-23 roles that can be any), optional extras
Set/Time: Bare stage / About 25 minutes It’s just days before Christmas at Santa’s Workshop, and there’s still lots of work to be done — like getting the elves and reindeer in the proper holiday spirit with song, dance, and big belly laughs! More... |
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Peter Pan
Based on the novel by J.M. Barrie
Cast: Flexible cast of 26, optional extras, doubling
Set/Time: Simple interior and exterior sets / About 75 minutes This superb adaptation captures all the magic and charm of everyone’s favorite story. More... |
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The Murder Mystery at the Murder Mystery
A Murder Mystery
Cast: 5M, 6F, plus 3 roles that can be any
Set/Time: Interior parlor room set / About 75 minutes Ready to tackle a murder mystery that really teases the brain? With a fun play-within-a-play plot that challenges both the mind and the metaphysical, this comic mystery is certain to have your audiences coming back for more. More... |
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Folk Tails
Animal stories from around the world
Cast: Flexible cast of 6 to 39
Set/Time: Bare stage / About 30 minutes There’s something for everyone in these delightful stories, told by six storytellers who narrate each tale while other actors don simple animal costumes onstage to act out the short scenes. More... |
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Cast: Flexible cast of 15-30, extras
Set/Time: Simple interior and exterior sets / About 70 minutes Based on the Lewis Carroll classic, this adaptation gives a modern view to an old classic, where nonsense makes quite good sense. More... |
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