The use of story with dramatic presentation approaches produces an engaging and powerful instructional choice for today's adult ESL educators. Two engaging and timed-tested approaches are Reader's Theater and Tableau Vivant. Both provide English language learners with content tailored to their abilities in addition to numerable opportunities to engage in meaningful interactions with language, content, and teachers and peers. This article examines dramatic story and its learning outcomes, as well as provides instructional guidelines for implementing two time-tested and appealing approaches to dramatic story presentation.