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"During World War II a select number of female pilots were selected to serve as WASPs, Women Air Service Pilots. They were not embraced by their male counterparts and struggled for acceptance daily. After the war, four WASPs meet to reminisce about their challenges and successes. The conversation soon shifts to a redacted report about a fellow pilot who was killed while trying to land her aircraft. What really happened? Someone knows the truth. Censored on final approach journeys into a time and place often left out of the history books"--P. [4] of cover.

A government investigator looks into the cover-up of a deadly plane crash in this aviation thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of Lockout. In the control tower at Kansas City International Airport, all the radar displays are red. But for the experienced pilots of North America Airlines, the thunderstorms aren’t the problem: NAA has been cutting costs to stave off bankruptcy, and will do anything to keep their planes in the air. Unfortunately, no matter what they do, one is on its way down. After the aircraft collides with another plane on the Kansas City runway, in one of the worst aviation disasters of the decade, National Transportation Safety Board investigator Joe Wallingford arrives on the scene. As he studies the wreckage and pieces together the events that led to the tragedy, he realizes there’s far more at play than pilot error or equipment malfunction. Wallingford will have to risk his career—and perhaps even his life—to solve the puzzle of the crash.

Synopsis: A haunting tale of family, history, regrets and shame. The Booth family was America’s greatest acting clan. Generations of Booth sons tread the boards of American stages garnering great acclaim and riches until the youngest and arguably most famous of them all, John Wilkes, turned the country upside down. Eight years after the assassination of President Lincoln, Edwin Booth returns to his family’s theatre in New York to sort through his younger brother’s storage trunk which the government has recently returned. Ghostly memories of his father and brother appear to him as he struggles to rectify issues that have plagued his family name since that fateful night at Ford’s Theater. Cast Size: 5 Males, 3 Females “colorful and boldly entertaining” —Indyweek.com “spellbinding theatre” —The Durham Sun “engrossing drama” —Youngstown News “profoundly theatrical” —The Raleigh Times

Synopsis: Astrid, a single lesbian of a certain age, put off motherhood until the absolute last second. Now on her final egg, she has less than 48 hours to acquire the other vital ingredient for conception. Thanks to an awkward young scientist, she gets her hands on a small container of dark matter, a fundamental building block of the universe. With the clock running out and no options left, she decides to improvise with a turkey baster full of the stuff. And it works. Quickly. In just a couple of weeks, she's expanded to three times her normal size. Her baby is coming early, and its arrival has implications for us all. Cast Size: 5 Males, 1 Female, 1 Trans Female. (Racially diverse)

Synopsis: Vile Affections is the true story of Benedetta Carlini, a seventeenth century abbess, who is brought up on charges of false mysticism. It is only when Benedetta begins to upset the church that government officials are forced to investigate. The investigators seek the truth, but the truth they uncover shakes their world beyond anything they could have imagined. This is the story of the first written record of a lesbian relationship. Cast Size: 3 Males, 5 Females

Synopsis: During the Age of the Rabbit, no one died. That is to say no one died in the typical way we now view death (the mystical removal of life from the body). Instead people became rabbits. This could happen very suddenly, or gradually over a long period of time. But sooner or later everyone became a rabbit. When hard working young farmer Walter suddenly sprouts a fluffy tail, his journey to where all good rabbits go begins, and there is no turning back. Cast Size: 1 Female, 2 Males, 5 Chorus “The world of this play is strange and a little silly, but the issues at its heart are life-and-death: terminal illness and grief.” —San Francisco Gate “Cochran’s writing is full of vivid imagery and almost poetic cadences.” —For All Events