This pathfinder will give community theatres a place to start looking for suitable plays. If you need more help, our librarians welcome any questions you may have regarding your search.
Visit our Library
A great way to start your search is by visiting our library either in person or online. You can find a complete list of resources in our collection by accessing our online catalogue. To locate suitable plays for community theatres, use these suggested keywords and phrases to search the catalogue:
Keywords to Search in the Catalogue
To search the catalogue for Keywords, perform the following search:
- Click the MultiSeek tab in the blue menu bar
- Leave the first drop-down menu as is (Keyword)
- Type one of the suggested words and phrases in the search field and click Search
Suggested words and phrases:
- community theatre
- community theater
- little theatre
- little theater
Recommended Titles
The titles below have been produced by Community Theatres in Alberta. Theatre Alberta has many of the suggested titles; however, we do not have all of them. For additional information on a specific title, search our catalogue or the Internet.
General:
- 84 Charing Cross Road
- Account in Time, The
- Affections of May, The
- All in Good Time
- Alladin
- Alone Together
- Amadeus
- Amahl and the Night Visitors & (Just About) Every Christmas Story Told
- Ampyityron
- Angel Voices
- Annie Warbucks
- Anniversary, The
- Antigone
- Any Wednesday
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Art of Dining, The
- As You Like It
- Babes in Toyland
- Barefoot in the Park
- Bells are Ringing, The
- Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The
- Better Living
- Bingo
- Birds and the Bees, The
- Birthday Party, The
- Black Comedy
- Blithe Spirit
- Breath of Spring
- Buddy Holly Story, The
- Bullshot Crummond
- Caught in the Net
- Celebrate You & Me
- Chapter Two
- Charley’s Aunt
- Charlotte’s Web
- Chase Me, Comrade!
- Christmas in the Country
- Cocktails at Pam’s
- Cocktails for Two Hundred
- Communicating Doors
- Coping
- Cotton Patch Gospel
- Country Wife, The
- Criminals in Love
- Crucible, The
- Curious Savage, The
- Cyrano de Bergerac
- Dancing with the Stars
- Death and Life of Lethargic Lad, The
- Diary of Anne Frank, The
- Dick Whittington
- Diviners, The
- Doctor Faustus
- Doll’s House, A
- Don’t Dress for Dinner
- Down Dangerous Passes Road
- Dracula
- Drama at Inish
- East of the Sun
- Educating Rita
- Enemy of the People, An
- Equus
- Faith by Fire
- Five Women Wearing the Same Wedding Dress
- Footprints on the Moon
- Foreigner, The
- Forty Carats
- Foursome, The
- Funny Money
- Fur Coat and No Knickers
- Glass Menagerie, The
- Godzilla
- Good Doctor, The
- Good Night Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet
- Hand that Cradles the Rock, The
- Happy Birthday, Wanda June
- Hay Fever
- Heaven Can Wait
- How the Other Half Lives
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
- Howard Buys a Motorhome
- I Hate Hamlet
- If We Are Women
- I’ll Be Back Before Midnight
- Impolite Comedy
- Importance of Being Earnest, The
- Inherit the Wind
- Ivanov
- Jehanne of the Witches
- Joytide
- King of Ice Cream Mountain, The
- Last Night of Ballyhoo, The
- Let’s Murder Marsha
- Li’l Abner
- Little Joe Monoghan
- Little Women
- Long Weekend, The
- Looking After Eden
- Lost in Yonkers
- Love According to John
- Love of the Nightingale, The
- Love in the Title
- Love Letters
- Love Rides the Rails
- Love, Sex and the I.R.S.
- Loves of Cass Maguire, The
- Lucky O’Learys, The
- Lunch Hour, The
- Madigan’s Lock
- Maintenance Man, The
- Man Who Came to Dinner, The
- Maskerade
- Matchmaker, The
- Meet Me in St. Louis
- Miracle Worker, The
- Mikado, The
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Misalliance
- Month of Sundays, A
- Moon Over Buffalo
- Motor Trade, The
- Mousetrap, The
- Move Over Mrs. Markham
- Murder Among Friends
- My Kinda Town
- My Three Angels
- Mystery of Edwin Drood, The
- Nerd, The
- Night Mother
- Night of January 16
- Night of the Iguana, The
- No Sex Please, We’re British
- Noah
- Noises Off
- Nude with Violin
- Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii
- Odd Couple, The
- On Golden Pond
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- One for the Pot
- Opal
- Opening Night
- Other Side of the Pole, The
- Our Town
- Out of Order
- Outsiders, The
- Parallel Lives
- Perils of Persephone
- Pets
- Pith!
- Playing Doctor
- Professor Nicolai Telsa Explains It To You
- Real Inspector Hound, The
- Reluctant Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes, The
- Return Engagements
- Rhinoceros
- Rivals, The
- Rope
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- Round and Round the Garden
- Run for Your Wife
- Saint Francis of Hollywood
- Same Old Moon
- Saving Grace
- See Bob Run
- Separate Tables
- Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n Roll
- Shadowlands
- She Stoops to Conquer
- Silver Dagger
- Sing it Again
- Six Degrees of Separation
- Social Security
- Soldier Dreams, The
- Some Assembly Required
- Sound of Murder, The
- Special Occasions
- Steel Magnolias
- Street Car Named Desire, A
- Sylvia
- Table Manners
- Taming of the Shrew, The
- Tartuffe
- Tea and Arsenic
- Tempest, The
- Truth About Cinderella, The
- Translations
- Ugly Man, The
- Vampyre, The
- Village of Idiots
- Visit, The
- Wait Until Dark
- Waiting for the Parade
- What the Butler Saw
- When the Reaper Calls
- When We are Married
- Where Stars Walk
- Whit Sheep of the Family
- Who’s Under Where?
- Wild Guys, The
- Windfall
- Wings
- Winter’s Tale, The
- Witness for the Prosecution
- Wonderful Life, A
- Wonderful World of Jillian Jiggs, The
- You Can’t Get There from Here
- You Can’t Take It with You
- You Have the Right to Remain Dead
Youth:
- Adventures of Picocchio, The
- Aesop’s Fables
- Alice in Wonderland
- Anne of Green Gables
- Annie
- Charlotte’s Web
- Cinderella
- Colour of Rain Filled Air, The
- Cric-Crac Folk Tales
- Emperor’s New Clothes, The
- Flying Tortoise, The
- Hans ‘Christmas’ Anderson
- Hey Diddle Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle
- Hobbit, The
- James and the Giant Peach
- Jungle Book, The
- King Stag, The
- Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The
- Little Bit of Magic, A
- Lunch with Munsch
- Nutcracker, the story
- Phantom of the Opera House
- Pinnochio
- Prince and the Pauper, The
- Puss n’ Boots
- Raggedy Ann and Andy
- Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories
- Rumpelstiltskin
- Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The
- Snoopy
- Three Muskateers, The
- Velveteen Rabbit, The
- Wizard of Oz, The
Musicals:
- Adrift in L.A.
- Anne of Green Gables
- Annie Get Your Gun
- Anything Goes
- Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The
- Blood Brothers
- Bye Bye Birdie
- Cabaret
- Christmas Chorale
- Company!
- Crazy for You
- Day in Hollywood, A Night in Ukraine, A
- Fantasticks, The
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Godspell
- Grease
- Guys and Dolls
- Gypsy
- I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
- Into the Woods
- Jesus Christ Superstar
- Kiss Me Kate
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
- Lend Me a Tenor
- Little Night Music, A
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Mikado, The
- My Fair Lady
- Nunsense
- Oklahoma!
- Oliver!
- Once Upon a Mattress
- Pirates of Penzance, The
- Rocky Horror Show
- Secret Garden, The
- Singin’ In the Rain
- Sound of Music, The
- South Pacific
- Wiz, The
- You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown