… Half a Dozen of the Other • Volume 11 Theatre for Young Audiences Series


#11  …Half A Dozen of the Other Clicking on any title below will take you to that plays’ Performance Licensing page. Liberated Cinderella by R. Rex Stephenson and Ginny Smith Conrad Premiered at the Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre, Ferrum, Virginia Different=Amazing by Matthew Ivan Bennett Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company of Salt Lake City, Utah The Little […]

Short Musicals for Young Audiences Book 2 • Theatre for Young Audiences Series Volume 6


Volume 6 — Short Musicals for Young Audiences Book 2 SEVEN SHORT MUSICALS FOR ALL AGES Before Nevermore: A Poe Adventure by Meg Phillips Crespy Commissioned by Talking Horse Productions, Columbia, Missouri The Wind In The Willows by Meg Phillips Crespy Commissioned by Talking Horse Productions, Columbia, Missouri Searching for Sparks by Dean Olivet Originally […]

Short Musicals for Young Audiences Book 1 • Theatre for Young Audiences Series Volume 5


VOLUME 5 — Short Musicals for Young Audiences Book 1 Clicking on any title below will take you to that play’s Performance Licensing page at Leicester bay Theatricals FIVE SHORT MUSICALS FOR ALL AGES The Zenith Escape by David Crespy and Meg Phillips Crespy won the 1st Place Prize at the 2017 Jackie White Memorial […]

Six of One… Six Plays for Young Actors and Audiences • Volume 4 Theatre for Young Audiences Series


#4 Six of One… Clicking on any title below will take you to that plays’ Performance Licensing page (at Leicester Bay Theatricals) Challenging Athena by Genevieve Aichele Jungle Book by R. Rex Stephenson Premiered at the Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre, Ferrum, Virginia Ruff by Jenifer Nii Premiered by Plan-B Theatre Company of Salt Lake City, Utah […]

FIVE Plays for Young Audiences • Volume 8 Theatre for Young Audiences Series


by Joanna H. Kraus A collection of FIVE plays that speak to young hearts and minds whether they are in school, in the home, or in the work force. These plays are about life and honor, about love and family, about the gifts of culture from around the world and right here at home. Written […]

Joanna H. Kraus • Author


Joanna H. Kraus is an award-winning playwright of twenty Theatre for Young Audiences produced/published plays, among them The Ice Wolf (Dramatic Publishing) and Remember My Name (Samuel French) both produced off-off Broadway. Picture books include Tall Boy’s Journey (Carolrhoda/Lerner), A Night of Tamales and Roses (Shenanigan Books) Blue Toboggan (Mascot Books), Bravo, Benny (Mirror Publishing), […]

The Blue Jeans Rebellion • An Early Readers Middle-Grades Novel


by Joanna H. Kraus The story is set in 1877 in Orderville, Utah, a planned Mormon community. Many of the families who volunteer to live there had been starving before they came and so they willingly agree to all the rules and regulations. One specifies that until the clothing you wear is worn out you must […]

The Headless Ghost Boy of Little Geronimo


by Shelley Bingham Husk inspired by the story “The Boy” which originally appeared in short story form in Ghost Stories of Texas by Ed Syers Now a novel for young people and their parents to read together (or separately) on a dark and stormy night! After so many requests to investigate the unexplainable, following their […]

Esther: The Musical Schpiel — The Original Cast Album CD


Book, Music and Lyrics by Lori Jacobs The classic Biblical story with a twist. With a score made up of original songs based in the styles of  Kletzmer Songs, Rap, Showtunes and even a little Country and Pop, this show is a rapid, surefire, farcical, tongue-in-cheek-retelling of the rise of Esther and her salvation of […]

Grandma’s Christmas Wish — Fiction


by Shelley Bingham Husk It would take the knowledge of her impending death, for Grandma’s Christmas wish to come true. The Cavanaugh’s are a young family torn apart by tragedy, reunited by a wish. All Grandma ever wanted for Christmas was to have her family together. Twenty-nine-year-old Claire eloped to escape the memories of her […]