Modern Drama

Mary Winters, a successful yet overextended marketing executive, has spent her life making sure everyone around her is happy—except herself. As Christmas approaches, Mary is caught between planning the perfect holiday for her family, juggling her demanding career, and attempting to secure a picture-perfect relationship, all while secretly longing for a more fulfilling life. After a freak accident sends her tumbling down a flight of stairs, she wakes up in an alternate reality where everything is seemingly perfect: she’s engaged to the man of her dreams, her career is at its peak, and ...

Sensitive Secrets & Hidden Lies Sarah has built a perfect new life with Tom, her loving boyfriend. But beneath their picture-perfect relationship lurks a past she's desperate to forget - one filled with mistakes that still haunt her dreams. When echoes of those dark days begin to surface, Sarah's carefully constructed world starts to crack. Each lie she tells to protect her secrets only entangles her further, threatening everything she's worked so hard to build. As the pressure mounts and her past inches closer, Sarah faces an impossible choice: keep lying to the man she loves, or risk ...

Desperate to keep her teenage daughter from running with the wrong crowd again, Elsie Anderson makes the painful decision to leave Seattle for good. For her, solitude is a small price to pay for keeping Sophie out of trouble. Love is the last thing on Elsie’s mind, especially in a small town like Smithfield, Virginia. Alex Becker is the star of Smithfield's firefighting department. He may be a hero, but at night he sees a broken man in the mirror. There was a time when he believed in love, but that all disappeared after he unexpectedly lost his wife late last year. They both need a second...

Una secuela que no existe. Una actriz que la necesita. Un embrollo monumental. Emmett es capaz de venderte un cuento mejor que nadie. Pero cuando se cruza con Tika, una actriz cuya carrera y matrimonio van en picado, se mete en un lío de proporciones épicas: le hace creer que está produciendo la secuela de una película de culto de los 90, y, por supuesto, tiene un papel para ella. “Una chica” es una comedia romántica cargada de humor que ofrece una reflexión mordaz sobre la vida moderna, donde las mentiras tienen una forma extraña de volverse realidad. ¿Y tú, qué haces cuando ...

Rabs fortunes have declined along with the fishing industry in which he has worked all his life, but now he eyes a glimpse of hope. A short play from Catherine Czerkawska.

“Bailey Ann Mayfair, when are you going to marry me?” With those words, Bailey Ann’s already messy world began to spin out of control. The dutiful oldest daughter, Bailey Ann is the one who came home to care for her parents, but she’s never felt more lost. Always the perfect child, she did everything the right way, including giving up the boy she loved. But Finn Malloy is back in town, too, and even he’s not sure where he stands with Bailey Ann. She once cut him so deep he never thought he’d recover. Now that she’s back, though… he can’t stop thinking about what might have...

In this short story from Nathan Englander's collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, a mental patient tries to get help from a rabbi to smooth over family problems his manic episodes cause.