Arthur Keyser was a corporate attorney in the Philadelphia metropolitan area for fifty years. After retiring and at age eighty, he embarked upon a new career — playwriting. In the past few years, he has written over thirty short plays and six full-length plays. His popular ten-minute play, High School Reunion, was selected as the Best Play in the Odyssey Festival. His shows have been read and performed at numerous Senior Theatres throughout the country. Arthur is a member of the Sarasota Area Playwrights Society, The Dramatists Guild of America and The Playwrights Center (Minneapolis, MN).
Pictured right: “Suncoast View” television program featured Arthur’s book, Short Plays by the Dozen.
Also check out his new book, Ten Plays without Boundaries.
Ten narratives, each in a different setting from the Oval Office to County Cork, yet all speak to our relationship to truth and each other.
A couple's routine life is interrupted by an alert of the emergency broadcast system. And that's just the first of unexpected announcements.
Martha knows how to guilt-trip and manipulate people. Now with both son and daughter-in-law, who will win?
Susan and a handsome man get stuck in the elevator. Attracted and interested in her life, he asks her to dinner. But is this brief encounter too good to be true?
Molly's been keeping secrets from her friends Beth and Fran. What she tells them when she returns from her month's-long trip is truly shocking.
Harry has a problem. And while his sister's loan may be able to hold off the bookie's frustration for a week or so, what he really needs is an angel.
12 fun-filled, and often poignant plays for performance or classroom, each 10-15 minutes.
A retirement community's new resident is stunned to learn he will be the latest award in an astonishing lottery.
A wealthy widow, pining for her late husband, seeks solace in a Hindu temple, only to discover her guru's goal is far from guiding her spirit.
Penny, Carla and Maggie, all past wives of the same man, meet for lunch to compare horror stories about their former spouse.
Patrick, 101 years old, at his annual high school reunion, is in for a surprise. Best Play in the prestigious Odyssey Ten-Minute Play Festival.
The story is a humorous and exaggerated tale of what happens when the salesman uses the hard sell to get his customer into a new auto. Buying a car has never been this funny!
When Honey arrives at the car dealership, she meets with Cardelia, the agency’s only saleswoman. Audiences relate to this play and respond with a lot of laughter!
Solly and May meet in an urban park to share secrets in a relationship that connects them in a bright new future.
Anthony and Charles wait on a bench in the passenger area of a train station. We think they’re taking the next train but…
Jen is meeting her online date in person. He looks like a great match or is he? Surprise ending!
Norma and her closest friend, Molly, resolve problems that keep their worlds intact in a heartwarming comedy.
Though Harry Goldstein has only two things in mind, his will and his bad habit, he learns new life lessons in a touching play!
An older person calls tech support to get their new computer and printer working. On the other end of the line, somewhere in Calcutta, India, tech support is anything but helpful!
Molly Sullivan is 72 years old. It's always a struggle to get her daughter to show up for visits. So Molly and her compatriots concoct a madcap scheme to solve the problem.
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