ART SHULMAN
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Art Shulman
$4 Million Giveaway |
| 1st Produced: | Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theater, Hollywood | 2008 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Thriller | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | 18 years after taking a substantial amount of money from his employer a man returns to New York. His is now very rich. He calls together his ex-wife, ex-employer, ex-best friend and a homeless man. He tells them that he will give $2 million to two of them and that they must choose which two. | |||||
Bagels |
| 1st Produced: | Academy for New Musical Theatre, North Hollywood | 2009 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Two silver surfers meet. They have been chatting on an internet dating site. But a severe snow storm means that she has to spend the night at his apartment | |||||
Boxcar and Eugenia |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | Boxcar moves in with an elderly Jewish woman, Eugenia to stop her being moved into a home because she cannot look after herself. Her social worker is very suspicious | |||||
Career Day |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Approx 80-90 mins | Mystery/Farce | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 6 flexible, opt. extras | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Hilarity abounds when 10 wacky guest speakers arrive at Greenwood High's Career Day to educate students about the "thrilling" job opportunities that await them. There's a plastic surgeon, a garbage man, an historian, a homemaker, a French dry cleaner, a philosopher, a lifeguard, an orthodontist, a hangman, and a circus worker. To add to the Career Day excitement, the assistant principal performs her own unusual brand of stand-up comedy, and the school's ditzy cheer coach demonstrates her cheerleading skills with zeal. | |||||
God Bring Me A Miracle! |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
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| Synopsis: | A family must decide whether to put their father into a home when he starts loosing his balance | |||||
Hole, The |
| 1st Produced: | Secret Rose Theater | - | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Joe Carbone's Job |
| 1st Produced: | North Hollywood: No-Ho Studios, CA, USA | 1994 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | full legth | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | 2 flexible, optional extras | |||||
| Notes: | Performance Time: Approximately 120 minutes | |||||
| Synopsis: | Everything seems to be going just fine for Joe Carbone, the owner of a poultry plant, until one day, he finds that he just doesn't have the stomach to kill chickens anymore. Joe keeps his problem a secret from his workers at the slaughterhouse and decides to moonlight as a waiter at Angie's Coffeehouse. Unsure whether he should sell the business and change his profession, Joe asks a host of wacky coffeehouse customers about their jobs. Along the way, Joe meets a gravedigger, an astrologist, a rabbi, and a suicide-prevention counselor. Will the loveable Joe Carbone continue to slaughter chickens for a living, or will he find a new job? This character-driven comedy satirizes the absurd workplace situations people face every day. | |||||
Old Man's Friend, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | When she learns that her father has not much longer left to live, Suzanne takes him into her home. However time goes on and he still has not died. | |||||
Rabbi and the Gravedigger, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | The rabbi contemplates suicide and goes to the cemetery where he meets a gravedigger | |||||
Rabbi and the Shiksa, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | His congregation think he is too liberal and a Gentile widow is interested in him. The rabbi has problems | |||||
Spacenapped Santa |
| 1st Produced: | North Hollywood: Group Repertory Theater, CA, USA | 1999 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Interactive Children's Christmas Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | 3 flexible, optional extras | |||||
| Notes: | Performance Time: Approximately 35-40 minutes | |||||
| Synopsis: | It's Christmas Eve and on the planet of Plantania, an alien scientist, Gar, has unveiled his newest invention, a giant magnet. But a power-hungry alien, Fisthead, steals the magnet, and points it into the sky at the exact same moment Santa and Rudolph are test-flying Santa's sleigh. Santa and Rudolph become caught in the powerful magnetic pull and are forced to land on Plantania, where they discover they have been spacenapped along with the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. Not only does the selfish Fisthead take all the Easter Bunny's eggs and make them into egg salad, but he steals Santa's toys so that he can be the most popular alien on the planet. | |||||
Trolls Who Stole The North Pole, The |
| 1st Produced: | North Hollywood: Group Repertory Theater, CA, USA | 1996 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Interactive Children's Christmas Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | 3 flexible | |||||
| Notes: | Performance Time: Approximately 30 minutes | |||||
| Synopsis: | It's just days until Christmas when two trolls divert a shipment of toy supplies destined for Santa's toy factory at the North Pole to their troll toy factory at the South Pole. It's all part of the trolls' scheme to manufacture toys and sell them at inflated prices. But when Santa discovers the trolls' devious plan, he sends Mrs. Claus, Rudolph, and two elves to the South Pole to retrieve the stolen toy supplies and bring them back in time to make toys for Christmas. This interactive show is great fun for children, and audience members can get in on the fun by guessing Mrs. Claus' first name. | |||||