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Four friends habitually play golf every Sunday morning, with a set-in- stone tee time of 9:36 AM. But when one of their number doesn't show up (and they can't track him down), and a random golfer from the "wait list" gets assigned to their foursome (and inveigles his way into the group), the three are forced to deal with some very real truths and ultimately confront a complete and total re-definition of the term “friendship.”

A modern-day Sabbath dinner is unfolding in Jerusalem, but this is no ordinary gathering. When Salah, a Harvard educated Palestinian who seeks peace with Israel, unexpectedly arrives at the invitation of his girlfriend, the evening turns into a web of political intrigue rooted in idealism and radical differences.

After the Emperor has exposed himself as a fool (by walking naked through the town square), he seeks to blame his Minister for the resulting riot. While the Emperor and the Minister debate the issue, the riot spreads and the kingdom crumbles.

Hank and Daisy have just made it to the afterlife and meet the administrator tasked with orienting them to their new existence. When Daisy is rejected from entry, the three work to determine what she must accomplish on Earth in order to join Hank.

Lise Meitner, often called “The Mother of the Atomic Bomb,” worked in Germany for over 30 years. When she arrived in Berlin from her native Vienna in 1907, she was among the first women to seek a place in science; when she fled for her life in 1938, she was one of the last (converted) Jewish academics not yet expelled by the Nazis.

When one woman appears to be at a low point in her life and needs a helping hand, three others, all virtual strangers to each other, combine forces to support her. It’s a difficult task, being that they’re all stuck in a hospital.

When Marilyn Monroe finds herself lost in the desert, can she overcome death with the help of two blind wanderers? Marilyn Monroe in the Desert is a Magical, Comical Dream Quest.

For her master’s thesis, Nora wants to write about Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but she struggles to come up with an original take on it. She finally decides to compare the traditional love in the play with a love that can be artificially induced like with Puck’s magic potion—or possibly through the techniques of modern neurobiology. As it turns out, her approach may be a little too original.

In 1897 Alabama, two Slave spirits—one African-American, one Indigenous—watch over a rural community that includes Okcate, a half black/half Muscogee Creek woman. When she and a white man fall in love, the Spirits' desire to fend off threats from a caste-based society upsets the precarious balance of their own limbic status.

How do we become entrenched in the beliefs we hold and what, if anything, can get us to walk away when those beliefs lead to chaos and destruction?

Jordan’s mission to infiltrate and report on an apocalyptic religious community has ended in disaster. Questions from an unseen interrogator trigger and inform Jordan’s memories of her time undercover, force her to confront the series of choices she made, and decide whether the beliefs that guided her mission are any less dangerous than the beliefs of those in the group.

A young student is brutally raped and murdered. Her parents, Tom and Christine, are now confronted with the daunting task of processing their grief and attempting to come to terms with the horror that befell their child. The paths they take in doing so, however, couldn't be starker in contrast. Christine has withdrawn into a deadened world of suppressed rage and bitterness that has left her incapable of seeing beyond the terrible tragedy that has visited her. Her husband, Tom, on the other hand, has taken the unusual step of publicly announcing his forgiveness of their daughter's killer. At the most difficult moment in their lives, a wedge has been driven between them, threatening to destroy the only thing they have left, each other. On this explosive evening of final reckoning, as home truths and simmering resentments are laid bare, each will learn painful, often brutal lessons on both the nature of forgiveness and the treachery of images.

Rebecca Bishop is frustrated. After seven years, her boyfriend, Scott Billings, still avoids making any long-term commitment about their future. As a result, she decides, with the reluctant help of her best friend/employee, Michael Allen, to look into online dating, not necessarily to find someone else, but rather, as she puts it, “to understand my options.” Nevertheless, she does discover a guy who looks promising, and she arranges a meeting. It goes well, and the two decide on a second date. Meanwhile, Michael, convinced that Scott is the one for her, schemes and conspires to try and get Rebecca and Scott back together.

Anke and Mel, professional, heterosexual women in their late-30s, both want to find love and have children. When the usual approach doesn’t pan out, Anke convinces Mel that they should make a family together—a choice that requires both women to stand up to societal norms and conquer their own fears.

Dale Odegard makes money running ‘You Too Can Break Into Show Business’ workshops. Dale’s son, Brian, is a Saturday Morning TV star. What most people don’t realize is that Dale had nothing to do with his son’s success. He walked out of Brian’s life long ago. After not seeing each other for ten years, Brian appears. He gets upset after finding out that his name is being used in the workshops, but he also has a proposition...

Jessie and Logan are in a long distance relationship. Over the first year of their relationship, we see them struggle with the distance, their insecurities, and the outside world from inside a little motel room halfway between their two cities.

In 1215, the wealthy and powerful barons of Great Britain rebelled against grumpy, intransigent King John, who had earned their ill will through incessant wars, attempted conquests, increased taxation, and abuses of power. This verse play revisits that insurrection and the disputes behind the creation and signing of the Magna Carta, the document considered by many to be the precursor of the U.S. Constitution.

Davey, a kindly, under-confident fella, stumbles across 72-year-old May waiting at a bus stop outside of her nursing home. Suffering from Alzheimer's, May believes she is her 24-year-old self needing to get to Belfast to redress a past mistake involving her sister. When Brian, a healthcare assistant at the nursing home, informs Davey that the bus stop is fake, set up to catch escapee residents, they band together to try to get May back inside without causing too much damage to her... or themselves.

Jeffrey Morrison is a highly successful senior partner at a prominent and extremely conservative Boston law firm. He is very close to achieving his life-long dream; being elected the firm’s Chairman of the Board. Suddenly, this dream is threatened when in the middle of the night, Jeffrey’s degenerate brother, Phillip, breaks into his Beacon Hill townhouse covered in blood. After Phillip confesses to murdering a man, Jeffrey has to decide whether to help his brother or protect his career.

Marina Johnson, a Miami hospice nurse, is tapped by Jesus to be God’s climate change prophet, but when Father Carlos, a priest in her neighborhood, arranges a meeting with Florida's Governor Todd Anderson it doesn’t go as planned. Can she help save the world before it is too late?

Kym thinks she’s lucked into the perfect resume-builder for a biracial college senior determined to find a career in academia: helping renowned feminist scholar Beverly Norden finish her ground-breaking book on Shakespeare’s Queen Margaret before Alzheimer’s makes the task impossible. As the passing months make clear that Beverly’s failing memory is not the greatest obstacle to their work, Kym reassesses her connection with Beverly, Beverly’s son, and academia itself. What can the Margaret story tell her about her own path forward?