PUBLISHERS & BOOKSTORES

Act I Bookstore -- Full-service theatrical bookstore and trade store for the amateur and professional theatre and film community with dozens of play publishers represented in our database of over 23,000 titles.

***American Playwrights -- Our play is your play.

Anchorage Press -- The first publishing house to concern itself primarily with quality theatrical literature for young audiences.

Backstage Book Shoppe -- Created for the individuals who work backstage in theatre and entertainment.

Baker's Plays -- (Walter H. Baker Co.), 100 Chauncey St., Boston, Mass. 02111-1783, Fax: (617)482-7613

Bill's Playscript Library -- In addition to listing my published playscripts, my site is home base for the "Theatre Link Exchange." You will also find other useful links here to schools & theatres on the internet along with my "Info For Authors" - an ever growing source of information for playwrights who are trying to get themselves and their plays noticed via the internet.

Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. -- 56 East 81, New York, NY 10028, Fax: (212)772-8658

Broadway Press -- Books for theatre designers and technicians.

Brooklyn Publishers -- Quality drama for schools and theatres.

CenterStage Press -- Your school, theater troupe, or community theater can present fresh new adaptations of classic tales and fantastic original stories.

Crystal Theatre Publishing -- Creates original plays and musicals for youth and community theatre groups.

Children's Theatre Plays -- Quality scripts for productions of every size, scope and budget for children, young audiences, schools and families.

Contemporary Drama Service -- Box 7710, Colorado Springs, CO 80933, Ph: (800)937-5297 (order hotline), Fax: (719)594-9916

Denis J. Harrington Publishers -- Family-friendly stageplays.

Dramatic Exchange, The -- The Dramatic Exchange is a Web resource for playwrights, producers, and anybody interested in plays. We aim to provide a place where playwrights can make their plays available, and where producers and readers can look to find plays uploaded here by the playwrights.

Dramatic Publishing Co. -- 311 Washington St., PO Box 129, Woodstock, IL 60098, Ph: (800)HIT SHOW, Fax: (800)334-5302

Dramatists Play Service, Inc. -- 440 Park Ave. S., New York, NY 10016, Fax: (212)213-1539

Eldridge Plays and Musicals -- Among Eldridge milestones: Freeviews, which allow 20% of any script to be read online for free (we were the first drama publisher to offer this); printing-on-demand, which eliminates the need for any script inventory; state-of-the-art web technology for the convenience of customers and playwrights alike.

Encore Plays -- Plays for educational and amateur performances in auditoriums smaller than 500 seats.

Fun with Drama -- Kids learn through doing with this great selection of short plays and helpful hints on how to produce them.

FocalPress -- Technical books written by experts for students and professionals alike.

Heinemann Drama -- Publishes works by professionals for professionals which include books for theatre professionals, general books on education, and quality works of world literature.

Heuer Publishing - HitPlays.com -- Specializes in plays and musicals for educational and community theatres.

I.E. Clark, Inc., Publishers -- PO Box 246, Schulenburg, TX 78956-0246, Fax: (409)743-4765

Internet Theatre Bookshop, The -- Virtually every play currently published in the English language, particularly for those of you choosing a play for performance - browse Plays by Genre, where most titles include a brief synopsis and basic casting requirements. We also stock several thousand out-of-print plays and theatre-related books, any of which can be securely purchased online.

It's a Wonderful Life, the Musical -- An entertaining adaptation of the 1946 film, written by award-winning composer Bruce Greer and lyricist Keith Ferguson.

JW Pepper -- World's largest sheet music retailer.

Live Design Online -- Trade publication focusing on the art and technology of show business. Coverage includes design and technology in theatre, film, theme parks, concerts, and other live events.

Music Box International -- Dedicated to finding and distributing affordable musicals and stage plays for middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities, community theatre groups, as wells as professional theatre companies.

Music Theatre International -- 545 8th Ave., New York, NY 10018, Ph: (212)868-6668, Fax: (212)643-8465

***Musson Theatrical -- Specializes in providing theatrical lighting, sound, scenery, and special effects for performing arts, education, worship, photographic, film, video, event, television, trade show, and themed environment applications.

Performance Publishing Co. -- 978 N. McLean Blvd., Elgin, IL 60120

Pioneer Drama Service -- PO Box 4267, Englewood, CO 80155-4267, Ph: (800)333-7262, Fax: (303)779-4315

Playbill -- Serving theatre since 1884.

Play by Play Online -- The theatre newsletter by and for teens.

Plays for High Schools -- The one-act plays and monologues you'll read here have been performed thousands of times by high schools, colleges, professional theater companies, middle schools, camps, elementary schools, 4-H clubs, Girl Scouts, all-children's theaters, youth groups, , community theaters, and even nurses and social workers.

Playitstore Publishing -- We bring you award-winning plays that will captivate your audiences, no matter what their ages with ease in making a selection by providing sample pages of dialogue for each play.

Playscripts, Inc. -- An innovative publisher of new plays for theaters worldwide.

Playwrights Canada Press -- Canada's largest and oldest exclusive publisher of drama titles.

Samuel French, Inc. -- 45 W. 25th St., New York, NY 10010, Fax: (212)206-1429

School Play Productions -- Promotes theatrical works for performance by youth groups and schools publishing over 130 plays and musicals covering the whole age range up to 19.

Select Entertainment Productions -- Some of the most memorable musical revues that are currently being performed across the country. Whether you love the 40's, the 50's, the 60's or the 70's, your audiences will love these blasts from the past!

Simply Scripts -- Simply links to hundreds of Scripts, Screenplays, and Transcripts of Current, Classic and Soon-to-be-Release Movies, Television, Anime, and Radio Shows.

***Stagecrafter -- Twenty chapters detailing all of the fundamentals - everything the aspiring stage technician needs to know to get started in backstage work! All sections highlighted with photographs, illustrations and diagrams.

Stage Directions Magazine -- Serves the strategic, practical and technical information needs of small theaters across the country.

Steele Spring Productions -- Theatrical Licensing and Royalty House.

Summerwind Productions -- Professional theatre company currently licensing and producing high quality theatrical productions including My Way, A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra.

Tams-Witmark Music Library -- 560 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10022, Ph: (800)221-7196, Fax: (212)688-3232

Ted Swindley Productions -- For over twenty-five years, Ted Swindley has directed and produced over 200 plays. He is nationally known for creating the hit musical ALWAYS...PATSY CLINE,

Theatre Communications Group -- To strengthen, nurture and promote the professional not-for-profit American theatre.

Theatre Directories -- Providing theatre resources since 1984.

Theaterfolk -- Committed to producing high-quality scripts specifically for High School study and performance.

Theatrical Rights Worldwide -- TRW grants live stage production rights. It is our responsibility to ensure that those rights are administered in a manner consistent with the laws governing the usage of copyrighted materials. We also provide the authorized performance materials required to rehearse and present these musicals, in addition to innovative products aimed at helping the artistic and commercial value of your presentations.

Theatre Technology Handbook -- Written to assist rookie techies and experienced designers in streamlining the set-up process.

Theatrical Rights Worldwide -- We license productions to a broad range of customers, including elementary, middle and high schools; colleges and universities, community, civic and religious organizations; summer stock and dinner theatres; regional and residential theatres and opera companies; youth theatres, cruise ships, casinos, hotels, and producers of touring and Off-Broadway productions. In short, our customers include anyone worldwide who wants to experience and share the joy of live musical theatre.

Threads Magazine -- The eletter for people who love to sew.

YouthPlays.com -- A unique coalition of award-winning professional dramatists, each with an original theatrical voice, who are dedicated to expanding the vocabulary of theatre for young actors and audiences..

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