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CATEGORY:Adult Christmas| 9 New Releases | ||||
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 BELIEVING IN-FINLEY CHRISTMAS Comedy By Andrew M. Frodahl |
 CHRISTMAS PRODIGAL, THE Adult Christmas By Dewey W. Todd |
 FINDING JOY Play with music By Laura Manning Turner |
 GIFT - WRAPPED IN LOVE Drama By Vicki Lake |
 LOVE STORE, THE Adult Christmas By Steven Orth |
 MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM HEAVEN Adult Christmas By Rev. Craig Howard |
 NEVER TOO OLD FOR CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Vicki Lake |
 PASS-IT-ON CHRISTMAS Youth Christmas By Will Ledesma |
 UNLIKELY CHRISTMAS SHEPHERD Adult Christmas By Elisabeth A. Marlowe |
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| UNLIKELY CHRISTMAS SHEPHERD Adult Christmas By Elisabeth A. Marlowe. 5 m, 4 w, 2 flexible, 1 child, extras, doubling possible Script: 36 pages. About 40 minutes. What do a robbery gone wrong, a case of mistaken identity, and a small church’s Christmas program all have in common? For thief Collin Evans, the opportunity to change his life. Collin and his brother-in-law Tim rob a toy store, more... | |
 | CHRISTMAS COMES TO DETROIT LOU Adult Christmas By Bobby G. Wood 7 m, 7 w Script: 40 pages. In this rest home-clinic setting on Christmas Eve, a group of people are waiting to see the doctor. Among them are Detroit Louie, the hard-hearted pickpocket; Harry, his dumb, but loyal right-hand man; John and Cara, who have just brought their father to be committed permanently and the Old Man, who more... | |
| CHRISTMAS PRODIGAL, THE Adult Christmas By Dewey W. Todd 6 m, 6 w, 2 girls, 3 flexible Here is a touching comedy, a modern-day spin on the story of the Prodigal Son. After years of being over-shadowed by her pretty and over-confident older sister, Peri leaves home, taking the money from her college savings. Like the story from the New Testament, Peri, once quiet and hard-working, live more... | |
 | CHRISTMAS RAPTURE Adult Christmas By Renee Vinson. 3 m, 4 w. Script: 28 pages. Performance time: 30 minutes. Kyle is bringing home his fiancee, Katie, a very religious young woman, over Christmas and the Murphys dread it. Talk about a damper on the holidays. Grandma won't even be able to eat her rum balls in peace! When Kyle and Katie start talking about the rapture, more... | |
| MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM HEAVEN Adult Christmas By Rev. Craig Howard. 3 m, 4 w, 2 flexible, 3 girls, 2 boys Script: 44 pages. About an hour. Delmas, a father of three daughters and several grandchildren, is fighting a losing battle to cancer. This comes only one year after his wife passed away. Delmas also grieves over an estranged brother with whom he wants to reconcile before it is too more... | |
 | CHRISTMAS ON MERRY LANE Adult Christmas By Mark Anderson. 4 m, 5 w, 1 child. Script: 26 pages About 45 minutes. Merry Lane is a nursing facility the Brittenham brothers call home. Rufus, the oldest brother, is a grouch who dislikes Christmas time. Edgar, the middle brother, is a kindhearted, soft-spoken man, the peacemaker, and Percy, the youngest brother, is scatterbrained, more... | |
 | ANGELS UNAWARE Adult Christmas By Cheryl A. Harrison. 7 m, 11 w. Script: 44 pages. Performance time: 60 minutes. An arguing couple, a hypochondriac, a singer who won't stop humming scales, two selfish daughters bent on putting their mother in a rest home, and other colorful characters are stranded at a remote mission house when their bus breaks down. Tired, cold, more... | |
| MISPLACED CHRISTMAS | MISPLACED CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Cheryl Harrison. 4 m, 6 w, extras. Script: 31 pages. Performance time: 40 minutes (or longer with optional nativity scene). Everyone wants this year's Christmas pageant at church done right - that means done their way! As the committee members argue over ideas at a fruitless (and funny!) meeting, they realize the Baby Jesus prop for more... | |
 | TWELVE PLAYS OF CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Pat Cook Widely flexible cast (suggested minimum 4 m, 4 w, 1 narrator, 3 children) About 80 minutes. These 12 Yuletide sketches will provide an evening of laughter while never losing sight of the holiness of the season. With flexible casting and only a chair or bench for scenery, they're just right for any stage and ideal for dinner thea more... | |
 | JESUS LOVES FRUITCAKES Adult Christmas By Kathleen Conner Combass 8 m, 12 w, 7 children Performance time: About 60 minutes. The colorful, crazy yet thoroughly Christian staff and residents of the Jesus House, a retirement home, prepare to welcome Ellery Jamison into their world. His daughter, whom he hasn't seen in twenty years, is responsible for arranging his present placement more... | |
 | ALL I NEED FOR CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Annette Tringham 1 m, 3 w, 1 flexible, 1 boy, extras Script: 26 pages One interior setting. Goldie, Frank, and Myrna, three counselors at an emotional helpline, have devised a way to have Christmas Eve off this year. They have engaged Thomas Wellmore, a charming but self-centered Wall Street type, to man the phones. He willingly embraces the more... | |
 | CHRISTMAS THAT ALMOST WASN'T Adult Christmas By Rollie Anderson 6 m, 8 w, 4 children, extras. Doubling possible. Script: 54 pages. Performance time: About 75 minutes. One main setting. Several others suggested. Here’s a wonderful comedy that’s sure to charm audiences of all ages. When pre-teen brats Jimmy Pate and his cousin Brianne don’t get the gifts they think they deserve, they more... | |
 | PS: MERRY CHRISTMAS Comedy By Pat Cook 3 m, 6 w, 1 flexible, 2 girls doubling possible Script: 60 pages Karen Brookshire loves writing Christmas letters. Not so her family - they'd much rather dive behind the couch. With a boy-crazy daughter, a smarty-pants son and a klutzy husband she has her hands full. So Karen has to write their Christmas letter by herself reca more... | |
| SECOND CHANCE CHRISTMAS | SECOND CHANCE CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Regina M. Ballard. 8 m, 8 w, 1 flexible, 1 child. Performance time: 60 minutes. This is the first Christmas Tim and Lisa have ever spent with both of their families together under one roof. It could be explosive since Tim's upper income family objects to his marriage to Lisa, who comes from a religious farm family. There are plenty o more... | |
 | CRICKET ON THE HEARTH Drama Adapted by Craig Sodaro from the story by Charles Dickens 14 m, 13 w, much doubling possible Script: 59 pages It's the 1880s and Dot Dallrimple and her friend May Fielding are Christmas shopping. A miserly store owner, Mr. Tackleton, has eyes for May and has her fiance Edward kidnapped and sent off to sea, never to return to England. Ten more... | |
 | GUIDING STAR Adult Christmas By Cheryl A. Harrison. 6 m, 5 w. Performance time: 45 minutes. The wealthy Hendersons have mounted a large, brightly lit Christmas star on their roof, and they do believe it will attract everyone's attention. It does - only not the way the Hendersons intended! In the middle of trying to tell their maid they're not interested in goi more... | |
| BENEATH THE GUIDING STAR | BENEATH THE GUIDING STAR Adult Christmas By Cheryl Harrison. 5 m, 6 w, 1 boy. Performance time: About 50 minutes. Last Christmas, the wealthy Hendersons found Christ beneath a certain bright star they had mounted on their rooftop. (see "The Guiding Star".) This year, Charles and Liz want to put Christ in everyone's Christmas, but that may not be so easy, at least not with Liz more... | |
 | RESPECTABLE BIRTH Adult Christmas By Kevin Stone 3 m, 3 w, 5 flexible Script: 31 pages. About 40 minutes. Here is the story of two births which happen on the same night in Bethlehem but turn out to be worlds apart. Simon, a well-to-do man, awaits the birth of his baby, hopefully a son. He has sent his servants on a frantic, last-minute search for a cradle “fit for a king,” but more... | |
| PERFECT CHRISTMAS | PERFECT CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Cheryl Harrison. 4 m, 5 w. Performance time: 30 minutes. The kids are coming home from college and the Air Force so Marsha Givens wants this Christmas to be perfect. That's why she's un-invited the lonely neighbor, who usually spends the holiday with them, and even told the minister they won't attend Christmas service. But e more... | |
| MAN WHO CAME FOR CHRISTMAS | MAN WHO CAME FOR CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Bobby G. Wood. 7 m, 2 w, 1 boy, 1 girl. Performance time: About 35 minutes. Here's the story of a mysterious stanger who, one night, changes forever the lives of a small group of stranded travelers. Each traveler has his own fear or weakness. The cripple depends on his crutches to gain sympathy; the woman feels she must wear valua more... | |
| ONE CHRISTMAS EVE | ONE CHRISTMAS EVE Adult Christmas By James Rhodes 3 m, 5 w, 3 flexible parts and extras. About 40 minutes. The wealthy Collins family returns from dining out Christmas Eve to find their home empty, thanks to three bumbling burglars who not only took all the furniture, but every one of the perfectly wrapped Christmas presents! With nearly all their wordly possessions gone, Mom more... | |
| WINGS OF CHRISTMAS (Harrison) | WINGS OF CHRISTMAS (Harrison) Adult Christmas By Cheryl A. Harrison. 7 m, 9 w. About an hour. Marcy Bradford, a self-centered movie star, is distraught over being delayed at the airport on Christmas Eve with the possibility of being late for her performances. Add to that the antics of three senile, sweet old ladies, two small-time thieves and a doctor and his wife trying to get away o more... | |
 | HOPE'S DINER Adult Christmas By Phillip D. Smith 2m, 3w, 1 girl About 35 minutes. It is a snowy Christmas Eve at a lonely roadside diner. Hope, the owner, and Darla, a waitress, are working the evening shift, anxious to close up and get home. But late-arriving customers need food to warm their bodies and faith to warm their souls. Rusty, a quiet truck driver, arrives first more... | |
 | JUST LIKE THE ONES I USED TO Holiday Comedy By Terrie Todd 2 m, 3 w, 1 boy, 1 girl Script: 20 pages. Performance time: 30 minutes Split stage: Simple interiors of two living rooms (Special note: Play calls for a short amateur video.) Ted and Jane are hosting Ted’s mother and sister for Christmas. As they share memories of their childhood home (acted out live) it becomes clear that their more... | |
| EMERGENCY CHRISTMAS | EMERGENCY CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Rev. Craig Howard. 5 m, 5 w, 3 flexible, 5 children. Performance time: About 50 minutes. It is Christmas Eve and Randy and Karen Rogers are preparing for their first Christmas at home with their new infant son and the arrival of both of their families. It will be baby Devon's first Christmas but it will not be the Christmas his pare more... | |
 | CHRISTMAS PLAY Adult Christmas By Rev. Craig Howard. 6 m, 4 w, 2 teen girls. About 30 minutes. If putting on the church's isn't hectic enough under normal circumstances, Randy Rogers has the added problem of whether to use two new members. Fred and Royce Fink are ready to act, but they are so comical and bumbling, the other church members don't want them anyw more... | |
 | STRANGER FOR CHRISTMAS Play with music By Carol Lynn Pearson. 2M, 7W, 3B, 2G + extras if desired. 1 Interior Script: 40 pages. Florence and Myrna, residents of a rest home in Pasadena, make up a story to test Myrna's children. Florence has never had a real family Christmas. Myrna had years of storybook Christmases with her five children who live in Idaho, but now her health n more... | |
 | TWELVE MONTHS OF CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Scott Icenhower Cast: 5 m, 5 w, extra children Script: 56 pages. Full evening. Ray awakens from a coma to learn that the country is celebrating Christmas every month, (Hanukkah every quarter), in order to stimulate the economy. “A Christmas Carol” is constantly playing at the local community theatre, Christmas lights blaze all night, and the more... | |
| CHRISTMAS REUNION | CHRISTMAS REUNION Adult Christmas By Renee Vinson. 6 m, 4 w. Performance time: 30 minutes. The Murphys are back in another heartwarming, spiritual comedy. (Meet them in "A Christmas Rapture".) This year they get a lot more than they bargained for when they adopt a nursing home patient for the Christmas holidays. What was hoped to be an opportunity to minister turns into more... | |
| STRING OF LIGHTS | STRING OF LIGHTS Drama By Terry Earp 1 w, 1 flexible 24 pages. About 30 minutes. This is the story of two displaced people: Esther, an escapee from a nursing home, and Nathan, a young runaway who is fresh to the streets. They break into an apartment and she feeds Nathan a meal he will never forget. Together they create memories, making up events that they each wish w more... | |
| CHRISTMAS TRAPPINGS | CHRISTMAS TRAPPINGS Adult Christmas By Brian Shoop 2 m, 2 w, 1 flexible, 1 child, extra voices Performance Time: 40-45 minutes. Rev. Cordell opens the play as he recalls a Christmas some 20 years earlier when he was trapped with a handful of other strangers by a blizzard in a small Oklahoma diner. He wasn't a pastor then, but a young man full of questions. Seamlessly, we joi more... | |
| COMIC COUNTRY CHRISTMAS | COMIC COUNTRY CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Jack Burchett. 5 m, 6 w, 2 extras. Script: 36 pages. Performance time: About 45 minutes. Crazy, colorful Buster and Martha Smith, an elderly couple, are awaiting the arrival of their children and grandchildren for a traditional Christmas homecoming. They reminisce, in flashback, about the Christmas of 1955 when their youngest son, Erne more... | |
 | MERRY CHRISTMAS-NO MATTER Adult Christmas By Kathleen Conner Combass. 3 m, 7 w, 5 teenage girls, 2 teenage boys. About 60 minutes. Jacob and Marie Carlson have been married for 17 years, and all that time, Jacob's father, Melvin, and Marie's mother, Antoinette, have hated each other. Disastrous holidays have been avoided by alternating their parents' invitations to special more... | |
| TO SEE CHRIST AT CHRISTMAS | TO SEE CHRIST AT CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Gregory Banks. 4 m, 7 w, 2 boys, 1 girl. Performance time: 30 minutes. Looking for a play that will bring forth the holiness of the season and unite your congregation as never before? This exquisitely moving play is our choice. The Grant family is a family divided. Mrs. Grant and the daughters are strong Christians, but they can't more... | |
| ANGEL INN | ANGEL INN Adult Christmas By Paulette Rogerson. 3 m, 6 w, 1 girl, extra teens. Performance time: About 45 minutes. Unless there's a miracle, will have to close its doors after Christmas. Dorothy and her niece, Ronnie, just can't pay the bills. But luckily, Christmas can happen anywhere, including the homey little inn, where a snowstorm has forced together more... | |
| HALFWAY TO CHRISTMAS | HALFWAY TO CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Alberta Hawse. 2 m, 3 w, 1 boy. About 70 minutes. Lyne and Gary Ambrose don't have the Christmas spirit yet, and may not get it at all this year! Their somewhat spoiled daughter and pampered son-in-law are living with them while he's out of work, and it's a little tense around the house, to say the least. On top of it all, L more... | |
| ABIDING IN THE FIELDS | ABIDING IN THE FIELDS Adult Christmas By Gregory Banks. 5 m, 8 w, 5 children. Script: 25 pages. Performance time: About 40 minutes. The angels who announced the coming of the Messiah proclaimed it first to some simple shepherds . Here is a very special Christmas play that reminds us that sometimes the church must reach out to those in the streets around us. Bo Miles, a new more... | |
| MANGER FOR ALL SEASONS | MANGER FOR ALL SEASONS Adult Christmas By Beth Loughner. 6 m (doubling possible), 4 w, 2 flexible, 2 teen boys, 2 girls. Performance time: About 45 minutes with music, 30 minutes without. The life-size nativity is up once again for public display along a busy sidewalk. Different views of Christmas abound and each will leave their mark on the nativity. Meet the attorney who bel more... | |
| NO TRUMPETS BLOWING | NO TRUMPETS BLOWING Adult Christmas By Alberta Hawse. 6 m, 6 w, choir. Performance time: 60 minutes. Three shepherds hear the message of the Christmas angels and each has a loved one he hopes to bring to the Savior. Idealistic Nathan wishes to take a beautiful but selfish singer from the inn aged Lemuel wishes to take his weak son and nagging daughter-in-law and Amos wishes more... | |
| ANGEL IN THE PARK | ANGEL IN THE PARK Adult Christmas By Maxine Minson. 7 m, 10 w, extras. Script: 16 pages. Performance time: 25 minutes. Each Christmas season an eccentric philanthropist disguises himself to bestow a reward on some worthy recipient for outstanding moral characteristics. This year, disguised as a beggar in the city park, he encounters some colorful characters such as Disco D more... | |
| BY A FLICKERING LIGHT | BY A FLICKERING LIGHT Adult Christmas By Len Cuthbert. 3 m, 5 w, 2 girls, 3 flex. About 40 minutes with suggested songs The Biblical story of the prodigal son is the basis for this modern-day play. Steve, a high school senior, hates living at home and wants to quit school to escape. His dad, also fed up, gives him the money he has saved for him for college. Out on the street, more... | |
| SOS: CHRISTMAS | SOS: CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Renee Vinson. 3 m, 2 w, 1 boy, 2 girls. Performance time: 30 minutes. Overworked and over-committed, Jim and Mary McIntyre are frazzled! Their three kids are acting up and they've got a thousand and one things to do at the church for Christmas. Instead of feeling the joy of the season, they're feeling resentment. Enter Mason Ang more... | |
| OLD SHOEMAKER'S CHRISTMAS | OLD SHOEMAKER'S CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas Dramatized by Chris Danyluk. Large, flexible cast. About 45 minutes. From the original story by Leo Tolstoy. Christmas Eve has come, but the old Russian shoemaker, Papa Panovich, is sad and alone. When he begins to read the story of the very first Christmas, the treasured words take on new life as he imagines and interacts with the words of Sc more... | |
| GRANDPA HANGS THE HOLLY | GRANDPA HANGS THE HOLLY Adult Christmas By Don Elser 4 m, 7 w, extras Script: 67 pages Ever since tragedy befell Grandpa Howard on Christmas Eve 25 years earlier, he makes life miserable for everyone including himself. He won't let Mrs. Howard borrow his car for a fund-raising drive and won't listen to a plea from Mr. Howard and daughter Susan to borrow money for a very imp more... | |
| NIGHT BEN FILBERT WAS TOUCHED | NIGHT BEN FILBERT WAS TOUCHED Adult Christmas By Gregory Giordano. 9 m, 2 w, 3 flexible (some doubling possible). Performance time: About 30 minutes. In this hilarious comedy Ben Filbert is a successful businessman who has all that money can buy, except one thing: a new heart. This Christmas Eve the modern-day Scrooge revels in belittling his employees and brusquely refuses an employee more... | |
| ANGEL ON A STEPLADDER | ANGEL ON A STEPLADDER Adult Christmas By Alberta Hawse. 3 m, 3 w, extras. Performance time: 60 minutes. Donnie, an ingenious young boy, is determined his father is going to develop faith even if he has to impersonate Gabriel. He might have a dirty robe and a crooked halo, but somehow he gets his point across. Very skillfully blended into this play is a short, sacred pageant. more... | |
 | IF WE HAD ONLY KNOWN Adult Christmas By Hilary Mackelden. 3 m, 3 w, 1 flexible, extras. About 35 minutes. The host of a television talk show investigates the recent birth of a King. She interviews several people, all of whom give her insight into the nativity of the new King of the Jews, and at the same time, display prejudices - theirs and ours - against those who are different. more... | |
| MR SCROOGE - SPIRITS OF... | MR SCROOGE - SPIRITS OF... Adult Christmas By Susan A. J. Lyttek. Many flexible roles with doubling, 8 players. Performance time: 35 minutes. In this sequel to Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Marley returns one year after Scrooge has become a more generous and loving man. When Scrooge protests that he keeps Christmas, Marley responds, "Yes, but does Christmas keep you?" Thre more... | |
 | RETURN TO CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Stephen J. Martin 4 m, 6 w About 75 minutes. Rev. Sarah, the minister of a small-town church, finds Christmas barreling down on her. Like everyone, she, too, is caught in the trap of commercialization where everything has to be bigger and better, including the Christmas Eve service. But how is she supposed to get it all done? Her crisis pea more... | |
| CHRISTMAS ROSES | CHRISTMAS ROSES Adult Christmas By Carol L. Duff. 7 m, 6 w, 2 girls. Performance time: About 50 minutes. Chuck Overton is finally home for Christmas, but his welcome is far from reminiscent of the prodigal son. Because of Chuck's involvement in a robbery years earlier, his father, Aubrey, has shut him out and refuses even to talk to him. Seemingly nothing can pierce Aubr more... | |
 | MAIN STREET CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Dave Tippett 11 m, 10 w, extras About 80 minutes. This dramatic comedy tells the story of a Christmas in 1938 in the small town of Comfort Falls--population 603. The cream of society is getting ready for their out-of-doors holiday extravaganza at the town bandstand. Then they find out that the local church is planning a "competing" program, t more... | |
| EBBY NEEZER NEEDS CHRISTMAS | EBBY NEEZER NEEDS CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Pat Hines. Cast: 5 m, 8 w, 1 flexible, 1 boy, 1 girl, extras, doubling possible. Performance time: 40 to 45 minutes. Ebby Neezer hates Christmas so much, she leaves her estate every year on the 24th of December and goes to Bermuda. Her staff and great niece, however, love Christmas and have prayed for years for Ebby. It is their hope that on more... | |
| CHRISTMAS ON A HIGH NOTE | CHRISTMAS ON A HIGH NOTE Adult Christmas By David Dunlap. 2 m, 5 w, 3 children. Script: 30 pages. Performance time: 30 minutes. Grandma likes to follow tradition at Christmas and that means having the whole family over at her house for presents, turkey, and carols around her organ. So when unexpected visitors become stranded at her home and the organ won't play a note, Gran more... | |
| BETHLEHEM ALLEY | BETHLEHEM ALLEY Adult Christmas By Alberta Hawse. 2 m, 4 w, 1 boy, 1 girl. Script: 35 pages. Performance time: 60 minutes. The Christmas manger scene that James Bradbury put up for his children's pleasure five years before has become a neighborhood tradition. It is the WHOLE of Christmas to young Oliver. This year, family conflicts and a death on the street have q more... | |
| CRICKET ON THE HEARTH | CRICKET ON THE HEARTH Classic Adapted by Eileen Enwright Hodgetts 5 m, 5 w. 2 Interiors. About 70 minutes. To find a is a sign of good luck. John Peerybingle, the parcel carrier, and his young wife, Dot, are happily at home with their baby and nursemaid, Tilly. Two days before Christmas John brings home a mysterious stranger who seems to upset Dot. The local toymaker, more... | |
| SHOEMAKER'S DREAM | SHOEMAKER'S DREAM Adult Christmas By Ellen Gans. 8 m, 4 w, 4 flex, extras. Performance time: 30 minutes. The Shoemaker and his wife want so much to have Christ visit their home during the Christmas season. They feel certain they'll know Him when He comes, but their only visitors are a poor woman and her baby, a rich old spinster, a beggar, and a young boy in trouble, more... | |
| INNKEEPER | INNKEEPER Adult Christmas By Jim Gant and Fred Hottensen. 4 m, 2 w, 2 m non-speaking. About 30 minutes. "If that means I have to charge more, so be it! If that means that the poor have to go hungry, too bad!" Those are the unfeeling words of Jonas, an in Bethlehem. His inn is full and business is booming, thanks to Caesar's decree. But Jonas' wife, Abi more... | |
 | NATIVITY ACTIVITY Adult Christmas By Matthew Wilson 4 m, 4 w, 4 flexible, extras Performance time about 35 minutes. Mark Nelson, an “Everyman” husband and father, has scheduled his family to participate in a live nativity, just to have them together for one night without distractions to focus on Christ and remind everyone else to focus on Him, too. But it’s tough! His wife Susa more... | |
| PASS-IT-ON CHRISTMAS Youth Christmas By Will Ledesma Cast: 3-12, gender flexible. Script: 32 pages. About 35 minutes. There's wonderful news in the air - the Son of God is born! Follow the adventure of a shepherd boy and his lamb as they cross the countryside telling anyone they can about the birth of the Messiah! But it turns out that not quite everyone shares their exciteme more... | |
| HOLLY DAY'S INN | HOLLY DAY'S INN Adult Christmas By Alberta Hawse. 4 m, 5 w, 1 boy, 2 girls, extras. Script: 40 pages. Performance time: About 60 minutes. Hollister Day is not sure why on Christmas Eve he is keeping open his hamburger stand, Holly Day's Inn. So many of the customers are unhappy including a young, troubled minister and his wife two girls, whose parents have seriousl more... | |
| ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN... | ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN... Adult Christmas By Alberta Hawse. 2 m, 4 w, 1 boy, 1 girl. Script: 40 pages. Performance time: 60 to 70 minutes. Erika, an 18-year-old adopted daughter, has developed a rather touchy and secretive attitude during the past few weeks. When she admits that she is working with her teacher, Rachel Duvall, to locate her natural parents, the world explodes for more... | |
| MEETING AT THE MANGER | MEETING AT THE MANGER Adult Christmas By Dave Tippett. Flexible cast of 23 (Approx. 8 m, 9 w, 2 flexible, 4 children, extras) About 60 minutes. Opportunities for songs. The church's Christmas play rehearsal is a disaster. The actors haven't had time to learn their lines and they're tripping and falling over each other. During a much needed break, Wendy, a busy more... | |
| ANGELS' RETURN | ANGELS' RETURN Adult Christmas By Dewey W. Todd. Cast: 10 m, 11 w. Performance time: 60 minutes. A year ago two angels, Angela and Debra, found themselves on a mission to keep a homeless shelter open. They did so with the help from a busload of stranded travelers and a couple of loveable bums. Now, a year later, the angels have returned for a happy reunion party which turns more... | |
| LOVE STORE, THE Adult Christmas By Steven Orth 1 m, 4 w, 1 flexible, 1 boy, 1 girl Script: 28 pages If you’ve ever thought that Christmas has become too commercialized (and who among us hasn’t felt that as we pulled out the credit card yet again) this is the play for you. Several customers wander in to a rather bare, nondescript store during the Christmas shopping season. All more... | |
| COAL MINERS' CHRISTMAS | COAL MINERS' CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Daniel Kehde. 4 m, 3 w, 2 girls, extras. Performance time: 90 minutes. It's almost Christmas in a poor coal mining town in the early 1900s. When a foundling baby girl appears on the doorstep of the company store, Annie, the possessive wife of the proprietor, takes a shine to her. But Arly, who works at the store and makes Christmas pres more... | |
| CHRISTMAS WITHOUT THE ANGEL | CHRISTMAS WITHOUT THE ANGEL Adult Christmas By Tambra Petrie. 4 m, 8 w, 4 b, 3 g. About 80 minutes. Millionaire Jonathan Bingsley suddenly has his mansion and life turned upside down when a social worker friend asks him to take in six young children for the holidays. It's just a "temporary" measure until the children, who have lost their parents and home in a tragic fire, can be more... | |
 | W-O-R-D RADIO, CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Dave Tippett Lead roles for 7 m, 7 w, 1 boy and 2 girls. Also numerous supporting roles for adults and children. About 90 minutes. It's December, 1944. W-O-R-D Radio station manager Arthur Kensington hopes a special show will raise the ratings and advertising dollars, but his staff is in disarray. There's a dyslexic sound man, a po more... | |
| HIS ONLY SON | HIS ONLY SON Adult Christmas By David Dunlap. 2 m, 4 w. Script: 40 pages. Performance time: 60 minutes. Richard Franklin is a bitter man who can't stop blaming his son, William, for an accident which killed an older Franklin son one Christmas some 20 years ago. The tragedy has soured their father-son relationship although Richard, an important church member, and more... | |
 | BABY IN CHRISTMAS, THE Adult Christmas By Bev DeMello. 3 m, 3 w, 1 teen g, 1 boy, extras Performance time: About 40 minutes without music Ordinary people pull us into their lives as they endure the hectic days before Christmas. A mother is expecting, but the baby's father has left her. Little Jacob is being bullied, while Sara is trying to get through her teen years. Sara's more... | |
| SHEPHERDS WHO GATHER | SHEPHERDS WHO GATHER Adult Christmas By Mark Anderson. 5 m, 6 w, 1 child. Performance time: 50 minutes. The Shepherds are a family in name only. Tyler, a minister who's lost sight of his calling, and Dylan, a cynical news reporter who rejects all religion, are brothers who cannot get along even when their parents and wives try to get them to work out their differences. Ne more... | |
 | MERRY CHRISMUKKAH! Adult Christmas By Susie M. Finkbeiner 6 m, 5 w, 1 extra, 1 boy, 1 girl About 80 minutes. Grandpa, along with Luke, Ellen, and their two teens, fly to Texas to celebrate Christmas with the rest of the family. Grandpa's other son is a real down-home cowboy, and, unbeknownst to everyone else, has recently gotten married. His new wife, a former New Yorker and more... | |
| VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS | VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Bruce and Susie Kunkle, Ruth Nagy. Cast: 5 m, 6 w, 6 boys, 4 girls, extras About 90 minutes. It's the 1800s and Emily Ainsley, an idealistic young lady, is trying to provide a home to young orphans. She rents space from a greedy businessman, Aloysius Penningham, but gets behind in the payments. He proposes marriage to her (so that more... | |
| IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE | IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE Adult Christmas By E. Flo Collitt. 6 m, 7 w, 1 g, 10 children, extras, doubling. Performance time: 45 minutes. Dave Moore is home for the holidays having given up a successful army career for a "new line of work." His progressive parents wonder what fabulous paying job this might be. When David explains he is going to be a minister, they are deflated mo more... | |
 | SNOW ANGELS Adult Christmas By Kathleen Conner Combass Cast: 5 m, 9 w, 2 girls About an hour. Emory and Eleanor Vanderbilt take pride in hosting their big annual Christmas Eve party for family and friends, but this year's gathering will be a life-changing event. While a snowstorm prevents most of their friends from attending, their daughters are certainly adding "life more... | |
 | HOMELESS CHRISTMAS ANGEL Adult Christmas By Marilyn Stone 4 m, 7 w, 2 male teens, 2 female teens, 2 boys About 45 minutes. An angel, who remains comically nameless throughout the play, shows a small group of squabbling strangers what the phrase "Merry Christmas" really means. From a well-off but rude family to a stressed waitress at a café, and from some tense and terse bank customers more... | |
| CHRISTMAS SERVED HERE | CHRISTMAS SERVED HERE Adult Christmas By Mindy Starns Clark. 2 m, 3 w, 2 flexible. Performance time: About 30 minutes. It is the day of Eleanor's annual church Christmas dinner for the poor and she has brought along her new boyfriend, Leo, to meet her grown granddaughter, Jane, for the first time. Jane has also brought along her new boyfriend, Bobby, to meet her grandmother more... | |
| MIRACLE AT CHRISTMAS CAMP | MIRACLE AT CHRISTMAS CAMP Adult Christmas By Gregory Banks. 5 m, 6 w, 2 boys, 4 girls, extras. Performance time: 35 minutes. Some 10 years earlier a dying little boy taught B.J. Grant, a skeptical teenager, about Christ ("To See Christ at Christmas"). Now a youth minister, B.J. gets a chance to do the same. He arranges a Christmas church camp where Gary, a lonely boy, finds love more... | |
| HOPE CRADLE | HOPE CRADLE Adult Christmas By Melanie Sita. 7 m, 10 w, 9 children, doubling possible. Performance time: About 70 minutes. The holidays are approaching and the members of St. Peter's Church of Riverview have to choose: either spend Christmas Eve with some local orphans or hold their traditional celebration. While many are generous with material gifts, sacrificing thei more... | |
| GIVE US BACK THAT NIGHT! | GIVE US BACK THAT NIGHT! Adult Christmas By Georgia Tuxbury. Six readers. Performance time: 15 minutes. Nativity scene may be composed of statues or actors. In this moving and unusual reading you can show your congregation just how much they value Christmas by taking it away. Three Non-Believers explain away Christmas, eliminating first the shepherds and wise men from the manger more... | |
| RENTED CHRISTMAS FAMILY | RENTED CHRISTMAS FAMILY Adult Christmas By Sherry Roseberry 2 m, 8 w (doubling possible) 1 b, 1 g, and carolers Script: 16 pages This turn-of-the-century Christmas is going to be a white one for bachelor Robert Kelley: white because his white lie has caught up with him! His boss, who only hires family men, wants to meet Robert's wife and kids. Robert decides to rent a family but more... | |
| SPIRITS OF CHRISTMAS | SPIRITS OF CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Rebecca Somoskey. 7 m, 7 w, 6 flexible parts. (Also non-speaking parts for nativity scene and optional choir.) Performance time: Approx. 30 minutes. The Spirit of Giving appears in court to prove he is the true spirit of Christmas. Using scenes from three modern homes, he exposes the ever-popular spirits of Selfishness, Greed, and P more... | |
| ANOTHER CHRISTMAS EVE | ANOTHER CHRISTMAS EVE Adult Christmas By James Rhodes. 5 m, 5 w, carolers. Performance time: About 30 minutes. Everyone who loved James Rhodes' original play, "One Christmas Eve," will delight in this sequel. This time we find the wealthy Collins', Bob, June, and their teenage son and daughter, Ken and Markie, now a secure, Christian family, waiting for their Aunt Rache more... | |
| SHINE BRIGHT THE STARS | SHINE BRIGHT THE STARS Adult Christmas By Miriam Schuman. 7 m, 5 w, 9 flexible. Time: 30 to 60 minutes depending if music is added. A group of young people from church have won the honor of decorating the grounds in front of city hall for Christmas, but when they put up the manger scene, an atheist businessman objects. Meanwhile, a younger sister of one of the group wages a persis more... | |
| GIFT FROM THE HEART | GIFT FROM THE HEART Adult Christmas By Mark Anderson. 6 m, 6 w. Performance time: 50 minutes. Here is a modern story of a "prodigal son" and a "prodigal father" as well. Matt McCord left home at an early age because his wealthy father, Sam, who claimed to be a Christian, was so strict. Now, years later, Matt has come home this Christmas Eve, saved and repentant of his earli more... | |
| PIONEER CHRISTMAS | PIONEER CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Stan Hudson. 2 m, 1 w, 5 children. Performance time: 45 minutes. The Rev. Robert Harper came out West to serve the needs of other pioneer settlers, but he and his wife, Sarah, find their faith wavering. Finally, in the midst of a terrible snowstorm on Christmas Eve, after having attended to an ill woman, Robert and Sarah concede that the more... | |
| CHRISTMAS AT THE PARSONAGE | CHRISTMAS AT THE PARSONAGE Adult Christmas By Nancy Hedrick Harper. 4 m, 7 w, 2 boys, 2 girls. Performance time: 60 minutes. If you think your Christmas is hectic, look in on the Taylors at the parsonage! The four Taylor children are unhappy about being in more pageants, stranded travelers need help, a troubled high school couple wants advice about getting married, and on top of it more... | |
| GUARDIAN ANGELS | GUARDIAN ANGELS Adult Christmas By Rev. Craig Howard. 4 m, 3 w, 2 teen girls, 2 boys. Performance time: About 45 minutes. Following a divorce, Judy Williams has become bitter and tries to shut out the world and move away from her troubles. The only problem with that is, God isn't finished with her, and He moves her right into the middle of a bunch of caring Christian more... | |
| THREE NATIVITY PLAYS | THREE NATIVITY PLAYS Adult Christmas by Linda Aranda Flexible Cast and staging About 45 minutes total As "The Reluctant Shepherd," ten-year-old Toby invents numerous excuses to keep from participating in the live nativity at his church. Later, standing on the cold hillside under the sparkling stars, Toby and the other shepherds bring the true meaning of Christmas to life for passi more... | |
| ARRIVAL | ARRIVAL Adult Christmas By Lori Lee Triplett. Cast: 3 men, 2 women, 1 girl. About 45 minutes. Meet two families who struggle to remember Christmas without allowing "Time" and "Money" to overtake their lives. Susan and Bob, young marrieds, don't even have time to talk once a week, let alone plan for Christmas. Bob is always flying out of town on business, and Susa more... | |
| BE STILL AND KNOW... | BE STILL AND KNOW... Adult Christmas By Eddie McPherson. Cast: 1 man, 3 women, 1 boy, 1 girl, extras. Script: 34 pages. About 45 minutes. It's Christmas Eve inside Sizemore's Department Store. Janet, a sales associate, is a new widow trying to cope. The store manager, Mr. Fox, in an attempt to impress his boss, Ms. Sizemore, constantly harasses Janet over small thin more... | |
| DECISIONS OF A CARPENTER | DECISIONS OF A CARPENTER Adult Christmas By Mark Anderson 3 m, 6 w, 1 boy About 30 minutes. It's almost Christmas and it's hectic! Ragan and Sabrina Carpenter, young marrieds, are trying to help Sabrina's mother and sister get Grandma Lois moved into the garage apartment. In addition, Ragan is expecting his brothers to join him, including Ryan, alone due to marital proble more... | |
| RICH MAN'S CHRISTMAS | RICH MAN'S CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Renee Vinson. 4 m, 3 w. Performance time: About 30 minutes. It's Christmas Eve and successful businessman Thomas Benson is having the worst day of his life. His wife announces she is leaving with their pregnant teenage daughter to live with relatives where they will be away from his condemnation, and his accountant has news from the IRS more... | |
| UNEXPECTED GIFT | UNEXPECTED GIFT Adult Christmas By Lori Wilkerson. 6 m (with doubling), 3 w, 1 adult flexible, 1 boy, 2 girls. Performance time: About 30 minutes. See the Nativity through the eyes of a family in the second century, "new" Christian believers in awe of the recent miraculous events. Jacob, a middle-aged shepherd, visits the home of Gaspar and Vashem and their children. The ch more... | |
| CHRISTMAS APART | CHRISTMAS APART Adult Christmas By Gregory Banks. 2 m, 2 w, 1 teen g, 3 b, 2 g, extras. Performance time: 30 minutes. How do you explain to three kids that from now on, every Christmas might be a ? Ever since Lee Ann and the children started going to church, husband Jake has felt alone and unhappy, so he's moved out. It's arranged that he'll visit with the ch more... | |
 | ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT Adult Christmas By L. Don Swartz. 5 m, 4 w, 3 boys, 4 girls About 90 minutes. A small group of weary travelers discover the power of the season while trapped in a lonely train station on Christmas Eve. As a blizzard rages outside, the troubled people are forced to turn to each other for companionship. Trying to make them more comfortable is the old stationmast more... | |
 | PERFECT TREE Adult Christmas By Tim Snyder 5 m, 5 w, extras as nativity characters, carolers and shoppers About 40 minutes (longer with nativity) Joe, deeply hurt by his daughter's rebellious marriage to Mark, has not been able to accept his son-in-law or the child which prompted the marriage. When Mark, sent by his wife, arrives at Joe's Christmas tree sales lot t more... | |
| HEADING HOME | HEADING HOME Adult Christmas By Carol L. Duff. 6 m, 4 w, 1 child About 45 minutes. Three days before Christmas, a snowstorm has closed the airport and stranded travelers on their way home for the holidays. Behind each face is a story: the young man returning to make amends for a past left behind 15 years earlier; the young woman who feels she's a failure, running hom more... | |
 | BUCKY B's CHRISTMAS MIRACLE Adult Christmas By Kenny Blade 18 flexible characters Performance Time: About an hour. The Breckenheimers are a loving Christian family celebrating Christmas with a unique hillbilly flair all their own. As our story begins, we flashback to the day Poppa delivered some very exciting news to Mama, his parents and his children Bucky, Queazy, Myra Jean and Lindy. more... | |
 | CHRISTMAS AT HAPPY VALLEY Adult Christmas By Walter L. Black Adults (4 m, 5 f); Teens (3 m, 4 f); Children (1 boy); flexible (4) Script: 51 pages isn't going to be so happy for Leo or his forgetful buddy Al. There're the only two residents of the retirement home not leaving to spend the holiday with family or friends. Leo especially is undone over the plans put in motion by h more... | |
| AND A LITTLE CHILD SHALL..... | AND A LITTLE CHILD SHALL..... Christmas Play By Nancy Hedrick Harper 3 m, 3 w, 1 teen girl, 1 boy, 1 girl, and pageant cast of 14 Number of script pages: 29. Performance time: About 50 minutes. Michael is too busy and unconcerned to have any time for God. His twins, Chris and Camille, realize his need for God and are trying to persuade their father to go to the church Christmas program more... | |
| AIRPORT: A CHRISTMAS STORY | AIRPORT: A CHRISTMAS STORY Drama By Charlee Cardon Wilson 4 m, 3 w, 1 flexible, 3 kids Script: 32 pages. Set in a crowded, snowed-in airport waiting area on Christmas Eve, different types of stranded passengers present their views on Christmas. There's the Cynic (who serves as our Everyman), the efficient Travel Agent, and a bumbling paramedic and a super-efficient Nurse. more... | |
| CHRISTMAS LOTTERY | CHRISTMAS LOTTERY Christmas Scenes By Dave Brandl, Charles and Donna Ault 4 m, 3 w 3 girls, doubling possible. Multiple simple sets. Number of script pages: 52. Performance time: About 75 minutes. Three related one-acts are woven together with scenes in a radio booth. George and Mary Williams are $14-million lottery winners. They host "Radio Riches," a local broadcast, more... | |
 | WHY THE BELLS CHIMED Adult Christmas Adapted by Will Ledesma Inspired by the short story by Raymond MacDonald Alden 2 m, 1 w, 1 girl Script: 20 pages. Performance time: 35 minutes. Raymond MacDonald Alden's short story, “Why the Chimes Rang,” tells the legend of long ago when, on Christmas Eve, it was the custom for all the people to bring to the church their offerings to the more... | |
 | UPON THIS NIGHT Adult Christmas By Terri Dill Large flexible cast. Minimum with doubling: 8 m, 4 w, 8 children, 8 angels, extras. Script: 32 pages with suggested songs. Performance Time: About an hour. Three storylines intertwine beautifully to tell the Christmas story. It’s 1917 in the small town of Bridger Falls where a widower and his five children get ready to celebr more... | |
 | LITTLE PEACE FOR CHRISTMAS, A Adult Christmas By Tim Mogford Cast: 7 m, 5 w, 11 teen girls, 3 teen boys. Setting: Living room. Script: 46 pages. About an hour. The Davies’ house is a picture of confusion and complications this Christmas Day with the arrival of various extended family members and guests. No one can find Uncle John, there’s body glitter all over Kelly’s room, Sandy and h more... | |
 | HELPING OF CHRISTMAS Drama with humor By Kathleen Conner Combass 5 m, 8 w, 1 flexible, 4 teen girls, 1 boy Script: 52 pages. About 80 minutes. Setting: Church fellowship room. Volunteers from several local churches have opened a mission kitchen, but they soon discover it’s not just the hungry and homeless who need help this Christmas. Claire, one of the mission organizers, is more... | |
| MAGI | MAGI Classic Adapted by Susan Barsky Lustig From O.Henry's short story “The Gift of the ” 2 m, 3w Script: 14 pages. About 20 minutes. Time has passed. Della and Jim, the young couple from O. Henry's short story, are now elderly. At their yearly Christmas Eve visit to a simple coffee shop, they encounter a melancholy woman. Touched by her sadness, more... | |
 | JESUS STOCKING Adult Christmas By Kathleen Conner Combass 5 m, 6 w, and several flexible About 75 minutes Christmas is going to be a little unusual this year as the family tries to celebrate their first "official" holiday after Grandma's death. Over the past year, Grandpa, Samantha, and her teens, Mary and David, have each responded differently to their loss. Samantha ha more... | |
| SEVEN FOR CHRISTMAS | SEVEN FOR CHRISTMAS Christmas - Resource By Donna Valentine. Cast: from 2m, 2 w, to 5 m, 7 w. Script: 70 pages. Performance time: 10 to 30 minutes each. These seven skits look at Christmas from different angles. Some titles include "Grandma, the Lights Are Out," about faith in our Lord and His provisions for us; "The Perfect Gift," and why no one will accept it; "The Christmas Questi more... | |
| ROAD TO BETHLEHEM | ROAD TO BETHLEHEM Adult Christmas By Robert Blaskey. 8 speakers. Performance time: 15 minutes. Relive the nativity when each of 7 speakers tells about Jesus' birth from his or her point of view. Thoughts and emotions of that holy night come from Elizabeth, the Innkeeper, Joseph, Herod, a Wise man, a Shepherd, and Mary. Each insightful monologue is followed by a spe more... | |
| VOICES OF THE NATIVITY | VOICES OF THE NATIVITY Adult Christmas By Jill Lamkin. 3 m, 3 w. About 30 - 45 minutes. What do you say when you see an angel? How do you say thank you when the child you've longed for is finally born? How do you let go of your daughter to her new husband and expected child? What are your first words to the tiny, newborn Son of God? Through Christ's birth, God entere more... | |
| WHY MY CHILD? | WHY MY CHILD? Adult Christmas By Gregory Banks. 6 m, 8 w, 1 flexible part. (Also 3 boys, one line each.) Performance time: 30 minutes. Gina and Steven Hart are ready to take their newborn son home from the hospital Christmas Eve when a man they think is an orderly takes the infant from their arms. Soon they, and the doctors, nurses, minister, and others realize the baby h more... | |
 | BETHLEHEM INN Christmas Musical - Adult By Johana Garrison. 7 m, 2 w, 8 flex, extras. Full evening with dinner. Although only a few pages long, this script provides the basis for a memorable celebration as members of your congregation experience the real Christmas. They dress in Biblical attire to partake of a Biblical meal and see the story of the manger unfold. As "guests" eatin more... | |
| CHRIST...LIGHT of the WORLD | CHRIST...LIGHT of the WORLD Adult Christmas By Eleanor and James Green. Here is an impressive, 45-minute, candle-lighting service for the congregation. The program can be presented with minimum time for rehearsals for there is little memory work needed. Most portions may be read. It's a new and different presentation to interest those who have become bored with the same message hea more... | |
| SUPPLICANTS: AN ADVENT DRAMA | SUPPLICANTS: AN ADVENT DRAMA Advent Drama By Robyn Parnell 2 m, 2 w, 1 flexible and chorus About 20 minutes Using historical and contemporary voices, "" broaches thought-provoking Advent themes that are often overlooked during the holiday season. The play's characters, including a Hebrew man circa 10 BCE, a present-day businessman, a physician, a soldier, and a homeless woman, antic more... | |
| SCARLET RIBBON | SCARLET RIBBON Adult Christmas By Alberta Hawse. 8 m, 6 w, narrator. Performance time: 90 minutes. In Part I a modern wife, serene in her happiness, scoffs lightly as her old-fashioned mother tells the children the Biblical story of Christmas, acted out in pantomime with a narrator in Part II. In Part III the modern wife finds, in near tragedy, that the of Christmas, more... | |
| PRODIGAL | PRODIGAL Drama By Stephen Guschov 5 m, 1 w, 4 or more flexible Number of script pages: 31 THE tells the story of Daniel Harvey, the youngest son of fast food magnate Horace Harvey. Daniel has worked for his father's company, Harvey's Hamburgers, for his entire life, but grows resentful of his father's control over him and decides to cash in hi more... | |
| HOLLY'S CHRISTMAS DETOUR | HOLLY'S CHRISTMAS DETOUR Adult Christmas By Alberta Hawse. 3 m, 4 w, 1 boy, 2 girls, extras. Performance time: About 70 minutes. Hollister Day is trying to get home to his beloved wife, Mamie, in time for the Christmas church service, but his detour to a small motel may be heaven sent. He's needed to unite a regretful grandmother with her lonely grandchild and bitter daughte more... | |
| GLORY EXCELSIS | GLORY EXCELSIS Adult Christmas By Rhonda Marie. 3 m, 2 w, 1 girl, carolers if desired. Performance time: 50 minutes. Simple barn setting. The family is trying to ready the barn for the annual nativity scene, but no one feels much like celebrating since Brenda has just suffered a miscarriage. Eleven-year-old Anna Bell is taking it the hardest, especially since her fa more... | |
 | LIFE SUPPORT Adult Christmas By Hilary Mackelden 3 m, 5 w, 1 flexible 71 pages. About 90 minutes. With just two days to Christmas, all demons are completely swamped with work and cannot take on more. However, Lucy Farr and her assistant Bea L. Zaybub may have to. Their problem is Pauline Salmon, a hard-bitten businesswoman who has been one of Lucy's finest subject more... | |
| HOLLY'S CHRISTMAS RUNAWAY | HOLLY'S CHRISTMAS RUNAWAY Adult Christmas By Alberta Hawse. 5 m, 4 w, 2 teen b, 3 teen g, 1 g, extras. Performance time: About 70 minutes. Another Christmas Eve at Holly Day's Inn! New customers including two young runaways, one on drugs, as well as old customers including the parents who almost split up last year, are back at the inn. Holly Day's Inn is not a fancy plac more... | |
 | MANGER MIX-UP Adult Christmas By Stuart B. MacMillan 4 m, 2 w, 1-2 flexible A reader’s theatre play. 19 pages. About 20-25 minutes. Howard Sinclair is ready to direct the church’s outdoor manger pageant again, but since the previous one five years ago was a complete disaster, his wife Gladys wants everything to run smoothly. But of course that doesn’t happen! First the ren more... | |
| THREE AT THE INN | THREE AT THE INN Adult Christmas By Maria Painter Script: 42 pages Here are three dramatic one-act plays, each 20 to 30 minutes long, which can be presented separately or as a unified whole with suggested hymns to bridge the acts. "The Man Child" (3 w) is about Mary, the mother of Jesus, who is now an old woman. She tells her story of the nativity to a young visitor and reco more... | |
| HIDDEN GIFT | HIDDEN GIFT Adult Christmas By Walter Butts. 4 m, 4 w, extras. Performance time: 60 minutes. It is a very much depressed Wallis family on Christmas eve that meets to discuss their problems. They hardly have enough money for wood for the fire, Emma may lose her job, Carol's boyfriend is hurt and may die, and brother Joe is in prison. They are all waiting for Judg more... | |
| ASSIGNMENT CHRISTMAS SPIRIT | ASSIGNMENT CHRISTMAS SPIRIT Adult Christmas By Virginia Kidd. 4 m, 10 w, extras. Performance time: 30 minutes. Angel Charles Persindon has a month on earth to find out what is the "Christmas Spirit." He visits many places, but seemingly hasn't come up with the right answer. With only twenty-four hours to go, he happens onto the Cavindish Orphanage. The antics of two girls, Ti more... | |
| UNTO US A CHILD... | UNTO US A CHILD... Adult Christmas By Nancy Harper. 5 m, 5 w, 1 boy, 1 girl, extra teens as youth group. Performance time: 40 minutes. Elizabeth, pregnant with her third child, blames God for the recent car accident which killed her husband, Mark, a young minister. Distraught and grief-stricken, Elizabeth even contemplates giving up the baby for adoption. Her parents, strong more... | |
| CHRISTMAS CROSS | CHRISTMAS CROSS Adult Christmas By Dr. E. Nelson James. 1 w, 7 flex. Performance time: 25 minutes. A federal court has ordered that a traditional on top of the fire station not be lighted this year. At a town meeting numerous people voice their opinions, including an ACLU attorney, a born-again Christian, and the free-thinker who brought the suit against the city in th more... | |
| AUNTIE LUV/CHRISTMAS ORPHANS | AUNTIE LUV/CHRISTMAS ORPHANS Adult Christmas By Thelma Rae Pawloski. Large, flexible cast. Performance time: 60 minutes. Auntie Luv struggles without complaint to provide a home for a dozen orphans of all ages and nationalities. She is helped by the beautiful Merry Star, an orphaned Huron Indian, who is hopelessly in love with Peter, the young schoolmaster. Church services are being more... | |
| NEVER TOO OLD FOR CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Vicki Lake 3 m, 5 w, numerous extras, choirs, optional pianist Script: 20 pages. Performance time from 30 to 45 minutes, depending upon music selections. Convinced that God doesn’t really care about the elderly, 84-year-old Beatrice has become the resident Scrooge of her nursing home. No matter what her roommate says, or what Bible more... | |
| GLAD ANGELS ARE SINGING | GLAD ANGELS ARE SINGING Adult Christmas By Ray Bergman 2-3 adults, 7 children 1 Interior. About 30 minutes. It’s Christmas Eve in the 1770s, and a father is depressed he cannot afford to buy his eight motherless children any gifts. Suddenly he thinks of a present that won’t break or wear out, one they can all enjoy together. He sings a beautiful round about the Savior’s birth an more... | |
| DIVIDING TREE | DIVIDING TREE Adult Christmas By Mark Ogle 2 m, 2 w, 1 teen girl, 1 teen boy, 1 girl. One Interior/Exterior. About 2 hours. Script: 64 pages. A unique and relevant holiday drama that tells the story of a newly formed, mixed-religion family and the sometimes humorous, sometimes tense conflicts that arise during the Christmas/Hanukkah season. Sam, a Christian, and Mic more... | |
| JOE'S WAIT | JOE'S WAIT Adult Christmas By Thomas J. Gardiner 4 m. 1 Interior. About 20 minutes. A modern retelling of the Job story from the Bible. A fascinating discussion about the differences in modern religions. In the waiting room of an airport in the American Midwest, Joe Barnes, a prosperous businessman, is met by his doctor, Ed Tishman. Joe's wife and children wer more... | |
| CHRISTMAS PAGEANT PRESENT | CHRISTMAS PAGEANT PRESENT Holiday Play By Burton Bumgarner 5 m, 9 w, 2 boys, 1 girl, extras Script: 50 pages It's frantic in the Albert home. Mom is trying to direct a Christmas pageant that no one wants to be in. Dad, an obstetrician, is hoping he doesn't have to deliver any babies the night of the pageant so that he can attend. David, 12, is trying to avoid Victoria Mon more... | |
| DUST ON THE CHRISTMAS | DUST ON THE CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Alberta Hawse. 3 m, 4 w, 1 g. Performance time: 70 minutes. Kate Sherman, grieving over the deaths of her daughter and son-in-law from a car accident, finds it almost impossible to show her love for granddaughter, Tammy. Kate won't even allow any Christmas decorations in the house including the now dusty star Tammy's daddy made f more... | |
| AIRPORT: CHRISTMAS STORY-MUSIC | AIRPORT: CHRISTMAS STORY-MUSIC #1643B - Sheet music for "Airport: A Christmas Story" by Charlee Cardon Wilson. Songs include "Alleluia" and "Listen and Learn." #1643B - $9.95 more... | |
| GIFT - WRAPPED IN LOVE Drama By Vicki Lake 4 m, 4 w, 2 flexible, extras, choir Script: 24 pages. From 40 to 60 minutes, depending on music selected. Harry Hamilton, a local town council member, successfully persuades the council to eliminate the manger scene from the town square, only to discover that just a block away a local community church will host a living nativity. more... | |
| FINDING JOY Play with music By Laura Manning Turner Speaking parts: 1 m, 3 w, 2-3 girls. Nativity non-speaking roles for 3 m, 1 w, 2 teen boys. Also children’s choir, optional hand bell choir or other musicians. Script: 22 pages. "" tells the poignant, but funny story of Lucy, a grandmother struggling to find joy this first Christmas after her husband has passed awa more... | |
| BELIEVING IN-FINLEY CHRISTMAS Comedy By Andrew M. Frodahl 6 m, 3 w, 2 flexible, extras Script: 66 pages. Heather Finley is bringing home her fiancé, Kevin, to meet her devout Christian family. There is only one problem: Kevin is an atheist! Meanwhile, Heather's bickering grandfathers, Jeremiah and Roosevelt, are returning from a failed expedition to find Noah's Ark. more... | |
| PAGEANTS OF PRAISE | PAGEANTS OF PRAISE Adult Christmas By Roy Speckhard. These five different Christmas pageants put the Gospel of Jesus firmly at the center of spiritual dramas that grapple with the events and basic needs of everyday life. Each hour-long program represents an entire service, including a responsive reading, a place for a message from the pastor and an offering, all interspersed with more... | |
| REAL MIRACLE | REAL MIRACLE Adult Christmas By Carol B. Eckel. 5 m, 10 w. Performance time: 15 minutes. What is the Christmas miracle? The Angry Man feels the only miracle is that we are still alive. The Tired Woman feels the miracle is that we still bother with the holiday. The Greedy Boy believes the miracle is getting anything you want. The Sad Woman has stopped believing in more... | |
| HOLLY'S CHRISTMAS ANGEL | HOLLY'S CHRISTMAS ANGEL Adult Christmas By Alberta Hawse. 2 m, 3 w, 1 teenage girl, 1 boy, extras. Performance time: About 70 minutes. Hollister Day wants to spend the day before Christmas at home with his beloved wife, Mamie, but she insists they help their friend, Octavia, who is weak and bitter from surgery. And help they do - first with Octavia's divorcing daughter and more... | |
| ADVENT WREATH | ADVENT WREATH Adult Christmas By Rochelle Pennington. Cast: 4 to 5 readers. Performance time: 5 minutes each. Enhance your Advent services with meaningful weekly worship skits. Each skit, centered around the traditional holiday , addresses one particular aspect of the Christmas story. Four candles represent a theme on the wreath and are discussed in turn each week: The Can more... | |
| CELEBRATING JESUS | CELEBRATING JESUS Adult Christmas By Debbie Entsminger. Tis' the season to be...busy! Here's a collection of five skits, ranging in length from five to seven minutes, that challenge Christians to take time throughout the Christmas holiday season to celebrate Jesus. These skits highlight the truth that even when circumstances are less than ideal, Christians always have more... | |
| CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS | CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Brian Shoop. Cast: 3 m, 1 w. About 40 minutes. Three wounded Confederate soldiers are confined to a makeshift field hospital and cared for by Liddy, a black woman. As the men's differing personalities begin to clash, they gradually uncover a dark, common past which has shaped their present, and threatens to destroy their future. The more... | |
| DREAMS COME TRUE... | DREAMS COME TRUE... Adult Christmas By David Dunlap. 4 m, 4 w, 1 child. Performance time: 35 minutes. This is not a happy Christmas Eve in the Stewart home. While young Cory prepares, unwillingly, to be an angel in the church pageant, the oldest son, J. J., who has just returned from several months in juvenile hall for burglary, struggles to regain the trust of his mother, more... | |
| CHRISTMAS VACATION | CHRISTMAS VACATION Adult Christmas By David Dunlap. 9 flexible parts, approx. 3 m, 5 w, 1 child. Performance time: About 45 minutes. Linda is worried because her recently widowed mother, Susan, is adamant about staying in her Florida condominium rather than coming up north to celebrate the holiday. Linda decides she and her husband and children better see what's wrong, more... | |
| CHRISTMAS ON AN ELEVATOR | CHRISTMAS ON AN ELEVATOR Adult Christmas By Myron Carter. 9 speaking parts (8 adults, 1 child). Performance time: About 20 minutes. An assorted group of people are more than a little tense when the elevator they're on gets stuck just as the mall is closing on Christmas Eve. But their forced confinement makes them think more seriously about the "mindless celebration" that the more... | |
| GOOD NEWS FROM BETHLEHEM | GOOD NEWS FROM BETHLEHEM Adult Christmas By Rev. John Wintermute. 6 m, 3 w, 6 flex, extras. Performance time: 20 minutes. Bring the biggest news story ever to your congregation with special, on-the-spot reports from the hills of Bethlehem. Reporters interview villagers on the scene including shepherds who tell how the singing of angels led them to a stable where a baby has just more... | |
| MELCHOIR'S JOURNEY Pmaster | MELCHOIR'S JOURNEY Pmaster Adult Christmas By Susan A. J. Lyttek. Cast: 12 men, 4 women. Performance time: 60 minutes. When Matthew, the future evangelist, visits Melchior to tell him about the life and death of Jesus, he is surprised that the old Wise Man knows about the Messiah already. Melchior tells Matthew about when he was young and troubled, he and his fellow Magi, Caspar and Bal more... | |
| STRANGERS AT THE INN -Pmaster | STRANGERS AT THE INN -Pmaster Adult Christmas By James Rhodes. 5 m, 4 w, 2 flex, doubling possible. Performance time: 25 minutes. Strangers meet at an inn in Bethlehem after the birth of Jesus. They all had things they wished to give Him but one by one, they gave their gifts to needy people. Finally, as a group, they decide to go to the stable and seek out the baby with the one thi more... | |
| CHRISTMAS IS CALLING ME HOME | CHRISTMAS IS CALLING ME HOME Adult Christmas By Ronald and Pamela Moss. Large, flexible cast, approx. 11 m, 9 w, and any number of children. About 40 minutes. This is one Christmas Eve you'll want to spend out of town - with the friendly folks of Nazareth, Texas. Modern day scenes with the flavor and poignancy of "Steel Magnolias" bring the Christmas story to life. From the Chic &# more... | |
| LUCIUS OF BETHLEHEM | LUCIUS OF BETHLEHEM Adult Christmas By John Teague With doubling: 7 m, 3 f. Extras as desired. About 60 minutes. The extreme peril and the boundless love surrounding Jesus' birth is beautifully dramatized here. Lucius, an ex-Roman soldier still vibrant although somewhat crippled, has escorted Mary and Joseph on the long trip to Bethlehem to register for the tax. In return J more... | |
| TIME FOR CHRISTMAS | TIME FOR CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Rachel Lukhard. 5 m, 7 w, extras. Performance time: 50 minutes. Here's the story of a woman of Bethlehem so caught up in the activities of the day that she missed the very first Christmas. It is also the story of some of the people of our own time who almost miss Christmas for the same reason. A closing nativity scene blends both more... | |
| WHY CHRISTMAS? | WHY CHRISTMAS? Adult Christmas By Elinor Brown. 4 m, 4 w, 4 teen g, 1 teen b, 2 b, 2 g, extras. About 40 minutes. An old man, puzzled about Christianity and the purpose of Christmas, sets out to learn about it by looking in on four different families, all of whom call themselves Christians. At the end he discovers to look toward Christ as an example, not other Christia more... | |
| LITTLE LIGHT OF LOVE | LITTLE LIGHT OF LOVE Adult Christmas By Rev. John Wintermute. 1 m, 1 w, extras, non speaking. Performance time: About 20 minutes. Here's an unusual and touching candelight service. Guardian angels Gabriel and Agnes are confused when they hear God is sending the Prince of Peace to earth as a baby. A baby?! No army, no muscle, no clout? Then the Child will certainly need the more... | |
| ANGELS' GIFT OF THE MAGI | ANGELS' GIFT OF THE MAGI Adult Christmas By Mindy Starns Clark 2 m, 2 w About 35 minutes Perhaps the most perfect Christmas parable ever written is O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi." In this one-act play version is the timeless story of Della and Jim, a struggling young couple who seek to give the other the ideal Christmas gift. They barter their most valued possessions to purch more... | |
| VOICE OF CHRISTMAS | VOICE OF CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas By Rev. John Wintermute. 2 speaking parts. About 15 minutes. A minister, alone in the sanctuary, wants something different for Christmas Eve service, something with a real emotional kick, perhaps a famous person. Then the Voice from above speaks. For every glitzy idea the minister has, the Voice counters it. Finally by recounting Jesus more... | |
| BRINGING THE GIFT OF LOVE | BRINGING THE GIFT OF LOVE Adult Christmas By Mark Anderson 4 m, 7 w, 3 children. Performance time: 45 minutes. Charity Magazine has chosen the Stetson family for an "at home Christmas" article. The family is well known: mother Monica is a children's author; Cody a soap opera actor; Brad a high-profile attorney; and Mallory a pediatrician. As the interview nears, however, the fam more... | |
| JUST AN OBSERVER | JUST AN OBSERVER Adult Christmas By Kaye Loughridge. 6 m, 7 w, 3 flex, 3 g. 2 b, extras. About 30 minutes. Easily staged using spotlights. Abia watches with interest when his cousin, Joseph, and his fiancee, Mary, become the talk of the town. From that time, throughout the major events in the life of Christ, Abia is simply a curious spectator. Abia is staying at the in more... | |
| GOOD NEWS, GREAT JOY | GOOD NEWS, GREAT JOY Adult Christmas By Dean Ridings and Dan Robbins. 1 m, 2 w, 5 flexible, 6 boys, 2 girls, extras. Performance time: About 50 minutes with suggested songs. The church children are practicing for the Christmas program when Katie asks Pastor Steve if they are going to do the program just once at the church. Katie wants her grandmother, who lives at Green Hills C more... | |
| JOURNEY, THE | JOURNEY, THE Adult Christmas By Lynda Pujado. 8 m, 8 w. Performance time: About 25 minutes. Here is a play which shows that the Christmas story is really a story of people on a journey. Mary and Joseph and the wise men travelled long, difficult distances physically, but more important are their personal journeys. They, along with the shepherds of the field and even a m more... | |
| WHILE ANGELS WATCHED | WHILE ANGELS WATCHED Adult Christmas By Rev. John C. Park. 4 speaking parts. Performance time: 60 minutes. Let your congregation sing their way into the Christmas spirit or let your choir shine in this special "Hymn Sing." In a cantata framework, three heavenly angels are in awe as they watch the nativity unfold. At appropriate times in the story, a narrator reads scriptur more... | |
| FOUR CHRISTMAS MONOLOGUES | FOUR CHRISTMAS MONOLOGUES Adult Christmas By Franklin Kincaid. Add something special to your holiday service with one of these beautiful monologues. Titles include "Footprints in the Snow," about a lonely old lady whose Christmas guest left only footprints leading into her home; "Old Otto's Song," about a young boy who receives an old man's gift of song which saves his village; more... | |
| WHIRLED TRUTH | WHIRLED TRUTH Adult Christmas By Len Cuthbert. 1 m, 3 teen girls, 3 teen boys. About 45 minutes. Megan, too young to have a job, secretly applies for a position as a waitress in order to buy her mom the perfect Christmas gift, a ticket to visit Grandma. Of course she has to make a few innocent "white lies" on the application to get the job. A co-worker, Denon, who ha more... | |
| GIFT OF THE SHEPHERDS | GIFT OF THE SHEPHERDS Adult Christmas By Mark Anderson. 4 m, 3 w, 4 flexible parts. About 60 minutes. Dylan and Tyler Shepherd, brothers whose arguing finally stopped when they were brought together one Christmas (see "The Shepherds Who Gather"), are back in this sequel. It's five years later and now they are working together on a Christian TV show. Unfortunately, the station more... | |
| HIRIAM, THE INNKEEPER! | HIRIAM, THE INNKEEPER! Adult Christmas By Rev. John B. Wintermute. 1 m, 2 flexible parts. Performance time: 20 minutes. Hiriam, the innkeeper from Bethlehem, interrupts the modern day speaker's sermon. Hiriam has been desperately seeking the couple he turned away some 2,000 years ago to now make amends to them. The modern day speaker and assistant are amazed then outraged more... | |
| OLD-FASHIONED CHRISTMAS | OLD-FASHIONED CHRISTMAS Adult Christmas AN By Andy Gregg. 3 m, 4 w. Performance time: 30 minutes. Janie wants a real , one that brings back the spirit of the old days, but her boyfriend is too busy working at the mission to help her. As hard as she tries, everything goes wrong - the popcorn balls are too sticky, the homemade candles collapse, and the live Christmas tree falls more... | |
| CHRISTMAS PRESENCE | CHRISTMAS PRESENCE Adult Christmas By Marla Steele Guerrero. 4 m, 4 w, 1 girl. About 30 to 40 minutes. Have you ever received a gift you didn't really want? A young married couple, Stephen and Pamela, find themselves on the receiving end of a grandfather's will, and the inheritance, should they choose to accept it, is his retarded adult son. Although they are Christian more... | |
| HOW FAR IS IT TO BETHLEHEM? | HOW FAR IS IT TO BETHLEHEM? Adult Christmas By Judith Clough. 6 m, 3 w, plus choir of angels. Performance time: 45 minutes. That question is asked from four different perspectives including Joseph and Mary, the wise men, the angels, and the shepherds. This play is simple to produce because each short scene except the last, a traditional nativity scene, can be rehearsed independent more... | |
| WONDEROUS GIFT | WONDEROUS GIFT Adult Christmas By Burton Bumgarner. 4 m, 5 to 7 w, 1 girl, 1 boy non speaking. Performance time: About an hour. It's Christmas Eve, (1960s) and Jake Johnson can muster only an uninspired, "Yeah, whatever," due to the stress of keeping his small, private hospital financially sound. In fact, he's just issued a new policy refusing to help anyone without more... | |
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