BY AND BY is a heavy-on-the-science sci-fi thriller about a father, the edge of technology, and the lengths we go to for love. The play provides a wild and challenging doubled-role for an actress to pull off a bit of a coup-de-theatre at the end.
Steven is a nerd of a father who's daughter Denise has just found out that she is very, VERY special. Denise breaks from her father after hearing this news, running away to find out for herself who (and how) she is. As Steven chases after his daughter across the northeast he is met/haunted by his wife, the woman he lost all those years ago, the woman who's love he's been trying to recreate.
In the end Steven is forced to let go of everything or risk losing both the memory of his wife and the bright future of his daughter. A play about the threat of edgy science turns out to be a play about how even the people we've lost continue to make us better people if we let them.