theater

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Shakespeare and the theater

Discusses the history of theater during the time of William Shakespeare, describing how plays were written, funded, and staged, the life of actors and touring, and the differences between outdoor and indoor theaters.

Snow White and the seven dorks

a readers' theater script and guide
Presents a stage adaptation of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" where the dwarfs are played by dorks.

Morality play

1995
An itinerant troupe of actors, hiding a priest among them, unwittingly hits upon the truth when they devise a play out of a murder that has taken place in the town they are visiting.

Hair today, gone tomorrow

a readers' theater script and guide
2014
Presents a stage adaptation of "Rapunzel" where Rapunzel wants to be like the other girls at school along with tips about organizing and producing the play..

Farmyard security

a readers' theater script and guide
2014
Presents a stage adaptation of "Chicken Little" where Henrietta Hen convinces the farm animals that the sky is falling and they are offered refuge by a sly wolf and his extreme couponing wife.

The princess and the frog

a readers' theater script and guide
2014
Presents a stage adaptation of "The Frog Prince," where a spoiled princess loses her favorite ball and a small frog offers to retrieve it for one kiss.

Charlie Bumpers vs. the really Nice Gnome

2014
Charlie has looked forward to being in the fourth-grade play, but is not at all happy when Mrs. Burke assigns him the role of the Nice Gnome.

Bravo, Chico Canta! Bravo!

Young Chico Canta discovers the advantages of being bilingual when the cat Gato-Gatito threatens his mouse family's production of "The Three Little Pigs.".

Help! It's parents day at DSA

2008
Wiglaf faces the double embarrassment of having his wacky parents visit Dragon Slayers' Academy on Parents Day.

School play

2013
The class is putting on a play about George Washington Carver, and Missy is mad because she does not have an important part, but when the lead actor freezes, Missy saves the play.

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