Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.

Following the sudden deaths of her father and autistic younger brother, Cedar Lee spends the summer working at a Shakespearean theater festival, making a new friend, and coming to terms with her grief.

Famed Hollywood actor Dayne Matthews struggles to deal with the shocking discoveries he has made about his past and to find the strength to forgive.

After graduating from college in 1941, Elizabeth Jerrold pursues her dream of becoming a stage actress, landing a position as an apprentice in a summer theater company where she hones her acting skills and falls in love with an aspiring director.

When the Briar Creek Community Theater mounts its newest Shakespeare production, library director Lindsey Norris gets involved when one of the cast is poisoned.

Sixth-grader Charlie encounters a lot of drama when she auditions for the junior high school musical.

Charles meets Cooper, a spunky corgi, while rehearsing for a play, and needs the little dog in order to stay comfortable while onstage.

When the cast of a local theater group raises money for an experimental treatment for the director’s granddaughter, who has a rare form of cancer, one member raises her concerns, creating tensions within the community, which leads to murder. Soon, an arrest is made. In the run-up to the trial, two young lawyers sift through the material—emails, messages, letters—with a growing suspicion that the killer may be hiding in plain sight. The evidence...

Notes reveal drama on and off stage between a group of South High students as status-obsessed senior Tara finds herself drawn to freshman Matthew after both audition for leads in Grease.

Retired scientist Miss Tracy comes to Ella Mentry School to teach about the planets and the solar system and casts A.J. as Uranus in the school play.