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A Gulag Mouse from Next Stage Press

Past Curfew from Next Stage Press


Also available for the Nook!

Guilty Moments from Original Works Press
Also available for Kindle!

The Christmas Princess from YouthPLAYS

What the Well Dressed Girl is Wearing from YouthPLAYS

How Blue is My Crocodile from YouthPLAYS

The Unsaddest Theatre Ten Minute Play Festival Book includes Bath Time is Fun Time

The Unsaddest Theatre Ten Minute Play Festival

Next Stage Press titles are also available at the Drama Book Shop in NYC


The official site for award winning screenwriter and playwright Arthur M. Jolly.


Discover the works of Arthur M. Jolly, download free monologues for auditions and classes, purchase playscripts, and get all the info on past productions, screenplays and upcoming events. Welcome!

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Latest News

Posted June 2013

FOX-4 NEWS reviews A Gulag Mouse!

PLUS - a RAVE review from the Anchorage Daily News, which ends: Jolly is not without his successes, but he remains a novice name in the world of theater. Ruhl has spent much of the last ten years acclaimed as a major talent and up-and-coming genius. But seeing these two shows back to back, "A Gulag Mouse" is the one that approaches genius, the one that has a chance of outliving its author, the one I'm thinking about as the next week begins and will be thinking about for a long time to come.
review by Mike Dunham.

Upcoming productions

TRASH will be revived by the Forget Me Not Theatre company - which produced my one act Thicker than Water last year, at the Noyes Street Cultural Arts Center in Evanston, IL, June 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th.

Forget Me Not

Video clips!

The Playwrights Round Table has posted If You Could Go Back... on You Tube!

This year's GI60 entry Parent Teacher is viewable on YouTube.

And here's the 2010 and 2009 entries, NOT EXPECTING THAT and HAVE YOU SEEN MY...