Most Popular Plays
  1. The Eight: Reindeer Monologues
    (over 685 productions to date)
      ---plus 36 readings & excerpts (thru 2011)
      ---plus 5 reading (after 2011)
      ---plus 4 excerpts (after 2011)
      ---thru Dec 2019 does NOT include ANY prods from Calendar-Year 2020; last updated January 2020
      ---DOES include the following unverified productions:
        ---2012 University of Baltimore / Iron Crow Theatre Company (reading)
        ---2015 London Voice & Movement - I believe this 2nd production was licensed, but may have been cancelled due to a loss of the Lion & Unicorn theatre space
      Year-by-year
        1993 - 1 reading
        1994 - 7 productions
        1995 - 5 productions
        1996 - 5 productions + 1 excerpt
        2020 - 8 productions + 1 reading + 1 excerpt
        2021 - 9 productions (but 1 was cancelled)
        2022 - 4 productions (plus 1 cancelled)

  2. The Ubu Plays
    (over 77 productions)
      ---counting multiple performances of a high schools competition tour as ONE production
      ---51 UBU: 29 known, 22 assumed ("Ubu Plays"), thru Wylie East High School in Apr 2017
      --- approx 13 Ubu In Chains productions ---thru Nov 2011 (Oakland Mills HS is last KNOWN prodn)
      ---approx 13 Where's Ubu? productions - thru Nov 2011 (Oakland Mills HS is last KNOWN prodn)
      stop keeping track of THIS stat because Im not sure what i meant by it: ---49 *separate* schools have produced UBU plays (that is, counting an evening of UB1 & UB2 as one "production") thru 2014 Great Bridge

  3. Poona the Fuckdog and other plays for children
    (40 productions)
      ---plus 5 screenings; 6 excerpts; 4 readings
      ---thru Northern State University 2022 (counting orig open circle run in 1999 as 2 prodns)
      (counting Rebel Theater and Edinburgh Festival in 2000 as 2 prodns)

  4. Princess Gray and the Black & White Knights (aka Don Quixote and the Black Knight)
    (33 productions)
      ---Princess Gray (14 productions) thru Clifford Smart revival 2018
      ---Don Quixote (19 productions) thru 2013 Rosemere High School's 2nd production

  5. Aesop Refabled
    (20 productions)
      ---plus 3 readings (SkyPilot)
      ---plus 14 excerpts (Cheer Squad)
      --- [I have decided to count Reflect Production as full production only, NOT as an excerpt]
      --- [I counted Bridgewater 2020 though it was probably cancelled for covid]
      ---thru Nov 2022 (Corbett Junior High is last production)
      ---entered top ten in Feb 2016 at #6 !!

  6. Seven Santas
    (16 productions)
      ---plus 7 readings
      ---thru Fire Pit 2019

  7. Marley's Ghost
    (10 productions)
      ---thru Dec 2019 prodn
      ---plus 1 if you count Unknowns MarXmas 2006
      ---top ten list DEBUT Nov30.07

  8. Larry and the Werewolf
    (9 productions)

  9. Anger Box
    (approx 9 productions)
      ---thru Denton 2012; not counting ThZone fundraisers preparatory to Edinburgh 2004; counting BU 2008 as one-half

  10. Your Swash is Unbuckled
    (9 productions)
      ---plus 1 reading (Oklacon)
      ---thru Nov 2015 Lincoln Land Community College - Steam Pirates editio
      ---(counting Rage Theatrics prod'ns at Iowa Fringe and Englert Theatre as 1 prodn)

  • Elephans
    (8 productions)
      ---thru 2022 Beaver Off-Broadway

  • Prague-nosis!
    (8 productions)
      ---plus 2 reading
      ---thru (beginning of) SkyPilot 2012 prodn
      ---currently counting SkyPilot 2012/2013 serialization as 1 full prodn, but as of Jan 2013 it was only 1 episode
      ---bumped from top ten Feb 2016 by Aesop Refabled

  • HKFN: The Abbreviated Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    (8 productions)
      ---plus 1 cancelled production
      ---*thru 2020 BAD Theatre Company*

  • Lesbian's Last Pizza
    (approx 7 productions)

  • Dracula Rides Again
    (7 productions)
      ---plus 1 cancelled production
      ---*thru 2022 Showtimers prodn*

  • Narcissus & Echo
    (6 productions)
      ---thru 2004 Athens
      ---bumped from top ten Nov 18, 2010 by Marley's Ghost

  • Bullying, Ink.
    (7 productions)
      ---thru Lithonia 2022

  • Ring Cycle! The Musical
    (5 productions)

  • Savin' Up for Saturday Night
    (5 productions)
      ---thru 2016 Mount Vernon OH
      ---plus excerpts in 2016 (OCTA)
      ---includes 1 reading Carlsbad 2018

  • Love Loves a Pornographer
    (5 productions)
      ---*thru 2022 Rover Dramawerks prodn*
      ---plus 4 readings (thru Reality Aside)
      ---plus 1 excerpt (thru 2014 ACTF)

  • Dead Panther Cabaret
    (4 productions)
      ---*thru 2005 Idaho prodn*

  • Aesopera
    (3 productions)
      ---thru 2013 Hollywood Fringe

  • Christmas 2: Return to the Nativity
    (3 productions)
      ---thru Xmas 2014

  • Yes, Svetlana, There is a Grandfather Frost
    (3 productions)
      ---thru 2015 Studio Players

  • Lit on Fire: Twelve Short Parodies of Reading List Classics
    (3 productions)
      ---thru Montclair 2022

  • The Emancipation of Alabaster McGill
    (2 productions)
      ---thru 2012 Studio Roanoke

  • Witch Slap!
    (1 productions)
      ---plus 3 readings
      ---thru October 2014

  • Fursona Non Grata
    (0 productions)
      ---plus 8 readings
      ---thru 2016 Mephit Fur Meet
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