Theatre Licensing
The agency specializes in representation of live stage rights, more formally identified as dramatic-musical rights, including dramatic, musical, live stage works, opera, operetta, dance, and puppetry. The agency represents playwrights and composers, as well as negotiating these rights on behalf of producers for third parties in domestic and foreign markets. For more information, please email susan at schulman agency dot com or to fill out a production request form, click here.
HOLES, Adapted for the stage by Louis Sachar from his National Book Award winning novel.
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys “build character” by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment--and redemption.
Cast: 7 children, 7-12 adults — The play includes a minimum of 7 parts for children but 18 speaking parts which can be played by individuals or utilize duel casting
Location: Camp Green Lake past and present
Running Time: Two versions are available: Two act version running 2 hours with a 15 minute intermission; One act version running 45 minutes suited to classroom presentation
SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL, Adapted for the stage by John Olive
Bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Louis Sachar knows how to make readers laugh. And there are laughs galore in perennial favorite Sideways Stories from Wayside School adapted from three chapter books (Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Wayside School Is Falling Down, and Wayside School Gets a Little Strange)
Accidentally built sideways and standing thirty stories high (the builder said he was very sorry for the mistake), Wayside School has some of the wackiest classes in town, especially on the thirtieth floor. That’s where you’ll meet Bebe, the fastest draw in art class; John, who only reads upside down; Myron, the best class president ever; and Sammy, the new kid—he’s a real rat. Enter the world of Wayside School in this wacky adaptation by Louis Sachar and laugh your way through a not so typical school day!More than fifteen million readers have laughed at the clever and hilarious stories of Wayside School. So what are you waiting for? Come visit Wayside School.
Cast: 5 adults (which can also be played by student actors) and 7-up to an entire classroom of children
Location: The 30th-floor classroom of Wayside School. Up there everything is sideways!
Running Time: Two versions are available: Full length version for family audiences running 2 hours with 15 minute intermission; 45 minute version suited to assemblies or class time
BEAST ON THE MOON by Richard Kalinoski
Inspired by harrowing true events, Beast on the Moon follows the lives of an immigrant refugee and his teenage, mail-order bride. Seta and Aram are two polar opposites who have one tragic experience in common. The play, set in early 1920s Milwaukee, unfolds around the effort of the couple to have a child. Infertility threatens not only their dreams, but also their relationship, until the presence of an orphaned boy forces them to reckon with each other and the past. Peppered with humor, irony, and bittersweet surprise, theirs is a universal story of hope, healing, redemption, and finally, love.
Beast on the Moon has been performed in over 20 countries and has been translated into 19 languages, the latest being in Turkish.
Cast: 4 Characters: 1 Female – 3 Males
1 set: Interior House