Comedy Articles for Drama Teachers

Many people deal with body issues but what happens when your body has issues with you? In the one-act comedy for high schools, Body Body by Lindsay Price body parts come to life to take charge and...

Do you remember how you kept your balance on the first day of middle school? In the one-act comedy, School Daze by Lindsay Price, middle-schoolers navigate the tricky tightrope between being a kid...

Sometimes it’s not the words themselves but the spaces between them that say the most. In the vignette play betweenity by Lindsay Price students have a chance to explore the beats, pauses and...

Attention all high school Drama Teachers: Get on the move with Moving by Lindsay Price. As part of Moving/Still, a collection of two one-act plays, Moving is a rapid-fire character-driven comedy...

Welcome to our Featured Play Spotlight. Today we look at betweenity, a vignette play that explores the beats, pauses, and never-ending silences in conversation. The girl who tries to tell her best...

No Horse Town by Lindsay Price is all about style—style in the language with the specific manner in which the characters speak, style in the action with the numerous character ‘poses’ and the very...

Romeo and Juliet may never be the same, thanks to the comedic classical adaptation, Drop Dead, Juliet!, by Allison Williams. Director Catie Reardon and the drama students at Rio Grande High School...

Ahoy, Drama teachers: take high school to the high seas with Steven Stack’s The Dread Pirate Sadie. The swashbuckling students at Miss Edgar’s & Miss Cramp’s School in Montreal, Quebec set sail on...

Smarty Pants by Bradley Hayward is a fantastic comedy production for high schools or middle schools. Jeremy Toth and the students at Trinity Catholic School in Tallahassee, Florida recognized that...

Whether you’re technologically challenged or cellphone savvy, you’re sure to enjoy ths phne 2.0: the next generation _by Lindsay Price. This modern comedic vignette play will have audiences...

Nothing brings Cheshire Cat-sized grins to an audience like the comedic, classical adaptation Aliceby Lindsay Price. Audiences in New Zealand followed director Juliet Cottrell and the Drama...

Drama teachers: When your class thinks of grammar, do the words silly, outrageous, one-act comedy come to their minds? If not, then you can definitely make it fun by checking out Apostrophe’s by...

When two worlds collide sparks are bound to fly! Such is the case in the movement-based comedy _Beauty and the Bee _by Lindsay Price. Perfect for high school and middle school students alike, this...

Drama teachers: How do you teach your students about what happens when their orderly way of life gets turned upside down? They Eat Sunshine, Not Zebras by Dara Murphy is the perfect comedy for high...

It can be tough at times to get students excited about Shakespeare but that was before Cobweb Dreams by Lindsay Price. This fun-filled fantasy parallels the events of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer...

We know about ‘decking the halls’ but now is the time to Deck the Stage!. Audiences and students alike will be left feeling holly-jolly with this festive collection of six short Christmas plays by...

Time for a Tfolk Top Ten Plays for…Comedies. Read one, read them all! Click the link and you’ll be taken to the webpage for each play. There you’ll get the details and read sample pages. All the...

This week we spread the love for Malled: Two One Act Plays for Young Women by Colleen Neuman.