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A blog for playwrights, dramatists, dramaturges and theatre enthusiasts.
One-Act Plays for Kids: Short Scripts for Schools and Community Theater
Discover the best one-act plays for kids with fun, flexible scripts for schools, churches, and youth theater programs.
Best Elementary School Play Scripts for Young Performers
Find the best elementary school play scripts with flexible casting, simple staging, and engaging stories perfect for young performers and school audiences.
Script Spotlight: Traveling Back to the Old West — A Timeless Crossing by Bruce Thomas
Time travel meets the Wild West in this 60-minute play by Bruce Thomas—where one day in the past costs 16 months at home.
Great Plays for School Drama Groups
Plays for elementary, middle, and high school stages—age-appropriate scripts with flexible casting, easy tech, and school-friendly run times.
Script Spotlight: Milley and the Three Parrots That Learned to Be Kind by Gerald Okafor
Script Spotlight on Gerald Okafor’s Milley and the Three Parrots That Learned to Be Kind—a short, playful play about kindness, growth, and positive influence.
Scriptmore Blog: Large Cast Plays to Get Everyone Involved
Discover the benefits of large-cast plays for schools, churches, and community theaters—and find scripts that give everyone a meaningful role onstage.
Adapted Scripts to Bring Classic Stories to Life
Bring timeless stories to life with Scriptmore’s classic play adaptations—streamlined, flexible, and perfect for schools, churches, and small theaters.
Script Spotlight: Alice in Wonderland by Léo Woodland
Léo Woodland’s 45-min Alice in Wonderland adaptation is playful, customizable, and ideal for schools, with roles for kids of all ages.
Perfect Plays for Community Theater
Discover how to pick the perfect community theater script—flexible, fun, and audience-ready. Find plays that fit your cast, space, and budget.
Script Spotlight: The Sprocket-Maker by Frank Amaya
In Frank Amaya’s carefully structured half-hour drama, a man named Gary makes sprockets at a factory all day and then comes home to his wife every night. Gary struggles to find meaning and purpose in the endless routine of his days, but eventually finds new insights about himself and the point of his life. Amaya has self-published a growing collection of novels and has more recently started writing for the stage. We asked him a few questions about “The Sprocket-Maker.”