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The extraordinary novel from Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair BurkeFive years ago Amanda Pierce was excitedly preparing to marry her college sweetheart. She and Jeffrey had already battled through sickness and health, although their...

A witty and theatrical South Asian mystery novel set over the course of one single electrifying night, exploring the unfinished business death leaves in its wake.Nazia Sami is a celebrated author, but perhaps her greatest plot twist is yet to be produced...

When Trish arrives home one night to find the lights on and a stranger waiting at her bedroom window, she runs straight to her neighbor Liz's house for help. Though they haven't spoken in years, Liz invites her inside, but Trish immediately feels...

Arson. Affairs. Incest. Murder... are only the beginning of problems for the Whistler siblings. Mora's gotta find her birth mother, Neel's gotta find himself, and Illy's gotta keep her piece of the sky... but the birds have other plans. Julia...

An unflinching and emotionally insightful debut about cultural identity, homesickness, love and loss.In the five years following his brother's death, Aaron has built himself a life of solitary routines. After moving from Dublin to Boston, and...

A classic from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. "One of the best books by a mystery novelist whose work is always of first rank." -The New York TimesSomething is afoot at the Ivory Gallery in London. A string of suspicious incidents-a Kang-Tse vase...

Playwright Sharr White transforms photographer Larry Sultan's landmark photo memoir for the stage in this new three-character play. In the 1980s, Sultan spent a decade photographing and interviewing his parents and unearthing the memories beneath his...

Ginny and her half-brother Christopher are unmoored in the wake of their mother's death. Their close family friend Justice introduces them to a local artist named Lot a recluse and outsider hoping that he and Ginny can make a song together. Maybe that'll...

In this funny wise and heartbreaking debut from Emily Feldman a daughter's road trip with her father becomes a theatrical journey across more than just state lines. Though 36-year old Ella has nearly given up on life she agrees to accompany her father...

Four patients go to a skin cancer hospital for treatment but among the two doctors the patients and the people supporting them questions arise concerning who is sick who is healing and who has the power to decide.

The disappearance of a young boy casts suspicion on his newly-hired au pair as well as on the wealthy parents who have hired her. As the parents seek revenge upon one another the young au pair is hatching a plot of her own.How a Boy Fallsis a...

At an abandoned motel on a desolate American road a mother meets with a cult deprogrammer believing she will be reunited with her runaway daughter. What happens instead - in this smart harrowing edge-of-your-seat thriller - is something that will shock...

As she's being forced to move out of her home a septuagenarian enlists the help of her homebuyers to put together the last unfinished puzzle in her collection.

Winner! Three 1947 Donaldson Awards for Best Book Best Lyrics and Best Score Nominee: Seven 2005 Helen Hayes Awards Winner! Two 2005 Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Resident Musical and Outstanding Director This ensemble musical chronicles nearly...

The Underlying Chrisis a life-affirming and high-spirited look at how a person comes into their identity and how sometimes it's life's tiniest moments that most profoundly change our lives. In these divided times The Underlying Chrisserves as a...

After her release from prison Lettie is desperate to regain custody of her teenage children. Training to be an iron welder Lettie will stop at nothing to reclaim her family and start life anew. Inspired by real Chicago stories Lettieis a powerful moving...

In this modern revenge play Brenda Hendricks has her hands full dealing with her son Noah after he is expelled from a prestigious college and unexpectedly returns to their isolated Northern California home. When a mysterious woman arrives on their...

Charlotte has been a mother for nineteen years a wife for three decades and a respectable community member her entire life. But when her only child is incarcerated for sexual assault her once-immaculate world is forever tainted. Selina Fillinger's...

What happens when a brilliant lost soul comes to stay in his sister's basement and refuses to leave? And if the menacing brother-in-law doesn't approve? In a dog-eat-dog world these siblings find a haven of sorts in an unfinished basement as they attempt...

What would you do if you could live forever?Eleven-year-old Winnie Foster yearns for a life of adventure beyond her white picket fence but not until she becomes unexpectedly entwined with the Tuck family does she get more than she could have imagined...

When their eighty-five-year-old father dies sparring siblings Maggie and Jake must face a question: How to break the bad news to their brother Andy who has Down syndrome and has lived in a state home for years? Along the way the pair find out just how...

In modern-day Cape Cod Joy a baby boomer and proud hippie is holding a memorial concert for the other half of her popular musical duo Jump & Joy. When her tightly wound conservative daughter and her sweet rebellious granddaughter arrive from Oklahoma...

Susie Glenn a white eighteen-year-old from the Chicago suburbs was arrested at O'Hare International Airport for conspiring with ISIS. Recent Harvard Law grad and practicing Muslim Claire Fathi has been brought on to prosecute. Inspired by real court...

Set in San Diego this gripping time-bending story sheds light on a little-known chapter in medical history during the onset of the AIDS crisis. While navigating through the complexities of the medical establishment Roz and Raytells a profound story of...

Sherri Rosen-Mason is head of the admissions department at a New England prep school fighting to diversify the student body. Alongside her husband the school's headmaster they've largely succeeded in bringing a stodgy institution into the twenty-first...

When their eighty-five-year-old father dies sparring siblings Maggie and Jake must face a question: How to break the bad news to their sister Amy who has Down syndrome and has lived in a state home for years? Along the way the pair find out just how much...

From the nationally recognized Educational Theatre Association's Thespian Playworks competition come four short scripts all created by high school-aged playwrights! Included in this volume are:Flopsieby Nick KrentelPigeon!by Garrett M. RyanTalking to...

On December 14 2012 Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed twenty-six innocent souls before taking his own life. These twenty-six innocent deaths like pebbles thrown into a pond created ripples and vibrations that were felt far...

Behold the Spectatorium: an audacious visionary 12 000-seat theater designed for the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 by Steele MacKaye the now-forgotten theatrical impresario around whom this haunted forty-year love story spins.The Light Yearsis an epic...

In the wake of a local tragedy involving gun violence at a community college single mother Elizabeth Miller and her withdrawn son Bailey try to jump-start their relationship across the breakfast table. But with berserker appliances shifting astronomy and...

The Play About My Dadis a look at Larry Killebrew through the eyes of his playwright daughter Boo. His words his family his job as an emergency room surgeon his community of Gulfport Mississippi and Hurricane Katrina which almost turned Gulfport into a...

Eleven-year-old Winnie Foster yearns for a life of adventure beyond her white picket fence but not until she becomes unexpectedly entwined with the Tuck Family does she get more than she could have imagined. When Winnie learns of the magic behind the...

A reclusive singer-songwriter makes an album that rocks the world.Now as the music industry implodes two siblings must come together to battle over their legendary mother's legacy and her twenty years of silence.A play about music and art connection and...

Ten-year-old Kai is given a magical crystal doorknob by his grandfather that enables him to travel through space and time to see future events in his life. The further along he goes the less he feels like he's seeing into his future but more that he is...

Eight-year-old Tina Denmark knows she was born to play Pippi Longstocking and she will do anything to win the part in her school musical. Anything includes murdering the leading lady! This aggressively outrageous musical hit garnered rave reviews during...

At long last the dreaded teen years have been captured with the usual MOM hilarity with MOMologues 3: The Final Push. Responding to pleas from moms who saw the first two shows the writers understood that comedy would abound as they experienced their own...

Londos D'Arrigo the hard-hitting comedy writer for Phyllis Diller Lily Tomlin and Joan Rivers brings the sensational new comedy Spreading It Around.Angela Drayton a wealthy widow living in an up-scale retirement community is tired of handing out money to...

Jack's unexpected return throws his family into a frenzy and his sister Lorna needs answers. Is he coming home or running away? Where is his wife everyone hates? And how did he get all that money? Theresa Rebeck's new comedy tackles the timely issues of...

Genre: Drama Character: 1 male and 3 females Scenery: Interior After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip 21 year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91 year-old grandmother Vera in her West Village apartment. Over the...

Characters: 5 male 1 female Genre: Drama Unit Set Jeff is a Minneapolis sports anchor who hasn't had a drink in years - not a drop. When he hears that his 23 year-old daughter Margo's stutter has caused her to stop speaking altogether he heads out into...

The MOM crew is at it again! MOMologues2: Off to School offers a frank and funny look at the true tales of motherhood from homework hell to multitasking mania. Four separate characters tell their individual stories either directly to the audience in...

Characters: 2 maleBare stageA Couple of Blaguards a two-man show by literary greats Frank and Malachy McCourt is a bubbling stew of their well-known humor with a dash of poignancy to sharpen the flavor. A comedic springboard for Angela's Ashes 'Tis and...

Theatre for Young AudiencesCharacters: 6 males 4 females 6 males or females plus extras"To my way of thinking there are no such things as strays; only those who have not yet found their homes."From the imaginative mind of award winning TYA author Chris...

MusicalCharacters 8 male 7 female plus 18 childrenCarol Ryrie Brink's Newberry Award-winning novel Caddie Woodlawn is brought to exuberant life as a musical. Caddie (the iconic high-spirited Wisconsin pioneer girl beloved by generations of readers) leads...

Characters: 3 female 1 maleIf you had the power to revise your past what would you change? Who would you be? Trust fund darling Emma imagines what her life would have been like had she come from a less privileged background. Trouble is she chronicles her...

Drama / 2m 3f / Simple SetCome Back Come Back Wherever You Are a play by the widely-acclaimed Tony Award-winning theatre legend Arthur Laurents is an intimate emotional drama about a cabaret singer coping with the devastating death of her husband while...

ComedyCharacters: 4 femaleSimple SetThis original comedy about motherhood rips away the gauzy mask of parenthood to reveal what all mothers know but don't always talk about: it's overwhelming and exhausting but also very very funny. From the joys of...

Drama / Characters: 2m 4f plus 1 male or female character and 1 male voice over / Simple Set / Dawn revolves around Hampton an abusive alcoholic who has completely alienated his wife and children. Can he stop drinking and make up for the past even amidst...