The play follows the escapades of two charming bachelors, Jack and Algernon, who lead double lives to escape their social obligations. Jack pretends to have a wicked brother named Ernest, whose mischievous behavior provides him with an excuse to escape his country life and pursue romantic interests in London. Algernon employs a similar tactic, creating [...]

Giraffes are gentlemen, aardvarks are card sharks, and animals rule the world in this retelling of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. When young lioness Violet is separated from her twin brother by a storm at sea, she must find her way alone in an unknown country. Disguised as a boy, she finds work helping a preposterous peacock win the [...]

When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women “computers,” charting the stars for a renowned astronomer who calculates projects in “girl hours” and has no time for the women’s probing theories. [...]

Junie B. Jones is having a rough day – no, scratch that, a rough week! First off, she is about to lose her first tooth. What will she even look like once it comes out? And what does the Tooth Fairy want all those teeth for anyway? Even worse, everyone in her class except for [...]

In 1920, the Russian writer Isaac Babel is a war correspondent with the Red Cavalry. Seventy years later, a mysterious Stasi agent spies on a woman in Dresden and falls in love. In 2010, an aircraft carrying most of the Polish government crashes in the Russian city of Smolensk. Set in Russia and East Germany [...]

In the kingdom of Middlefield, there is a tradition. On a princess’ sixteenth birthday, she is tied to a rock, kidnapped by a dragon, rescued by a prince, and lives happily ever after. But what happens when the prince is too afraid to fight, the princess wants to do the rescuing herself, and the dragon [...]