We realize sharing your work online is important to some Senior Theatre groups.
Here’s some information to get started!
Don’t hesitate to contact us.

1) Resources and tips

Whether in real life or online, start with classes. Learn the fundamentals of teaching, adapt them to the online platform, and then move from practice to production.

Teaching Senior Theatre Classes Online  – TipSheet – Discover the tips and tricks we learned during our first online production.

Teaching Senior Theatre Classes – TipSheet – The fundamentals of teaching older actors!

Teaching Senior Theatre Classes Zoom Class Recording– Zoom Recording – Early in the pandemic, Bonnie L. Vorenberg presented a webinar demonstrating how to conduct an online Senior Theatre class.

Senior Theatre Adapts to the Pandemic: COVID-19 Teaches Older Actors New Tricks – Free article Bonnie L. Vorenberg, published in The Journal on Active Aging. November/December 2020, Vol. 19 no. 7.

2) Contact us to set up royalties, cast copies, and get a Streaming License

It’s easiest if you contact us early in your process. Please know that, a play performed online has all of the same requirements as a play performed in person. Whether or not you are charging your audience, you still must pay royalties for each performance. Cast, crew and directors must all have their own copies of the script. Cast copies are available for purchase at a much lower cost. It is illegal to copy and distribute perusal scripts.

Second, to further protect our playwrights, to perform a script online, we require a Streaming License. We will ask you how you plant to stream the show as well as how you will be handling your digital files (are you planning on keeping an archival copy).

A Streaming License grants you permission to broadcast your performance over the Internet for live viewing.
We sometimes also allow groups to share videos of performances on a closed network television station.

3) Choose your play!

Characteristics of plays that work well online include:

• Small casts
• Focus on character and plot
• Few technical elements
• Plays with limited movement
• Plays where action can be done vocally, such as with Radio Theatre.

The marvelous news is that most of our plays already meet these criteria!

4) Plays that work well online

Many of the ArtAge scripts are easily adapted to online platforms and because by their very nature, they require little movement and simple staging. Here are some ideas to get you started:

• Plays performed on a park bench
• Radio Plays
• Plays that take place in an elevator
• Perform plays on a theme

Listed below are just a few of the plays that have been performed successfully online!

New! Romance Reconfigured
15 minute comedy, 1 man, 1 woman
Mimsy and Stephan keep romance alive with their unique twist on weekly Zoom dates.

New! Telemarketer Torment
15 minute comedy, 3 men, 4 women
Silvia hatches a brilliant idea for how to handle telemarketers. She no longer hangs up with anger. With her new strategy, they can’t get off the call fast enough!

Gin and Tonic (French and Spanish versions, too!)
10 minute comedy, 1 man, 1 woman
This laugh-out-loud comedy offers a fresh look at the problems of senior dating. A ‘never-fail’ show!

G-O-A-L
11 Minute comedy, 1 man, 1 woman
Jay and Amanda are a couple waiting to happen–or are they? An under-five soccer game seems an odd place to find a companion but maybe the grandkids are the key.

Just a Song at Twilight
25 minute romantic comedy, 1 man, 1 woman
After unpacking from her move to a senior apartment, an older woman goes to the park and meets another tenant. Do they share a past? Can lost love be recovered?

Love in 4/4 Time
40 minute play for aging awareness
Two couples, confronted by the reality of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, forge ahead into life’s undefined future with humor and honesty.

Made for Each Other
30 minute comedy, 1 man, 3 women, 2 either
Pauline Stewart lives alone. To insure her mother’s safety, her daughter and son-in-law have hired companions for her. She fires every one of them until Annie Simms shows up!

Not Kate or Leo
10 minute drama, 1 man, 1 woman
Isidor and Ida Straus lost their lives prematurely on the deck of The Titanic, but their love, arguments, and an additional consolation survive the wave.

The Quibbles Radio Shows
10 five minute sketches, a cast of 4-40
The collection is reminiscent of old time radio shows, featuring a delightfully quarrelsome couple in skirmishes of everyday life!

Up and Down
10 minute comedy, 1 man, 1 woman
What happens when two people get trapped in an elevator? Find out in this delightful comedy about anxiety, anger, and connecting. Fun and very easy to stage!

Still Twenty-Nine
10 minute comedy, 1 man, 1 woman
Life is quiet, simple, and routine for stodgy retiree, Earl, until Aileen, his fun-loving wife, jostles the norm by joining a motorcycle club!