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Figments by Billy St.John

It can be a hard show to mount, but Noises Off is one of my all time favorites.

Musical Comedy Murders of 1940

Great show and a cast of 5 and 5

Don Zolidis, The Birds. Great script, good adaptation of the Greek comedy.

You might consider the Government Inspector by Jeffrey Hatcher or Is He Dead by Mark Twain adapted by David Ives.  Both are very funny, and beautifully written.  There are some opportunities for gender swapping in both plays if needed.

I also recommend Musical Comedy Murders of 1940. I love The Foreigner. I am a little tired of The Nerd, slightly overdone. 

Kong's Night Out - we have the Kong hand for the show!

Kong's Night Out

My favorite comedy is An Evening of Culture by Mark Landon Smith. I've done it twice and plan on doing it again this May. It sends your audience into the lobby at intermission crying from laughter. However, the cast is 3m and 5f.

Play On! by Rick Abbot is like Noises Off in how things fall apart, but the set is sooooooo much easier, since it is supposed to be at a theatre strapped for cash.  I let my students use their terrible British accents for the play within a play.

I have also previously recommended Stardust by Walter Kerr on this forum.  Kerr was a theatre critic, and he pokes the American version of Stanislavky's system in the eye, setting the play in a small liberal arts college where the director is a bit mad.  It has an expandable ensemble of students, as well as 7 more developed roles.  And the set can be strange bits and pieces of sets you have hanging around.

For a tidy cast of 10, Fools by Neil Simon is a great chance to work on comic timing.  I've never built a balcony, just built a flat with a window around a 9 or 10' ladder with the paint shelf replaced by a board.