Lenny Hort

Madeline P. Jacobson has clawed her way to the top of the bunny-nibble-bunny world of children’s book publishing, aided by loyal staff she alternately mothers and terrorizes. New York City all but shuts down for the storm of the century, but what’s a mere hurricane when Madeline needs to prepare for a groundbreaking trip to the Soviet Union?

Two soccer moms, one an insider, one a newcomer, bond over the course of five centuries.

A tradition gets started when a Jewish secretary who knows nothing about Christmas trees volunteers to obtain one for the newly-opened Rockefeller Center in 1933.

Two contrasting Jewish immigrant families raise chickens and children over three generations.

Two women, one an ancient priestess, one a contemporary astronomer, discover the same comet more than four thousand years apart.

Nine short comedies present mostly female characters personifying chemical elements, celestial bodies, tectonic plates, and other scientific phenomena in genres ranging from detective story to dating show to women’s wrestling smackdown.

Three daughters of a witch who tempted Macbeth must decide how to carry on their mother’s legacy. What should they tell Prince Donalbain about their troubled vision of his future?

Each mistakenly believing the other has drowned, twin sisters disguise themselves as boys and plot bloody vengeance on the brothers each blames for her sister’s death.

A ghostly image in the backup camera disturbs a father-daughter lesson in parallel parking.

Washington Irving put the US on the literary map with “Rip,” the oldest American story still widely read. Lazy, good-natured, justifiably henpecked Rip passes out after drinking a ghostly brew and awakens to find his colonial world changed to the United States and his friends long gone. This adaptation asks what new wonders Rip might discover if he dozed for 250 years and woke in the 21st century. Rip often felt out of place in his own time. How will he find a place in ours?

Based on the popular book by the author of the Newbery Medal-winning THE WHIPPING BOY, this madcap Wild West ghost story portrays a resourceful orphan’s transformation from outcast to hero. Nothing ever happens in Foggy Gulch until Professor Pepper rides into town promising to raise the ghost of a long-dead outlaw—live on stage. Opie, a twelve-year-old runt who earns money guiding folks through the fog, is thrilled when the Professor gives him complimentary tickets to the ghost raising. But there are some big surprises when the Professor opens the coffin of Crookneck John, leaving Opie to thwart a bank robbery after most of the town stampedes off in panic.

Superhero Expanding Universe and her sidekicks, the four fundamental Forces of Nature, emerge from the Big Bang to confront the threat of Entropy.

Dating show host Iona Bond tries to find the chemistry between Chlorine and Sodium.

Moon admires the lovely green on her mother’s surface, but how can she ever host life of her own? This Zoom-friendly play features half a billion years of letters between two familiar characters forced to maintain a quarter million miles of social distance.

Indigo confronts Violet outside the boardroom of Rainbow, Incorporated.

Two rival detectives interview possible witnesses and suspects including the Asteroid Belt, the Chicxulub Crater, and the element Iridium as they try to solve the mystery of who or what bumped off the dinosaurs.

The North American and Pacific Plates face off in a women’s wrestling smackdown.

Rival chefs [photo]Synth[esis] and [fun]Gus as well as their boss, Mother Earth, crack under the pressure of interviews for a Food Web Network profile on their unique eatery, Chez Biosphere.

Fashion journalist Janetta Sist interviews Dena, the design genius behind the designer genes, just as things start heating up at Chromosome Corporation headquarters.

Can long-suffering manager Crystal reunite Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic, the greatest rock group of all time?

A boy disturbs the ghost of an angry teenage girl when he unwittingly urinates on her unmarked grave.

Is Rome ready for a woman war correspondent? The Ides of March are looking like a slow news day until Claudia Platina happens upon the biggest scoop ever.

A retired teacher interviews to become a superhero.

Two young cousins make some unexpected discoveries when they accompany their grandmother aboard the Staten Island Ferry to scatter Great-Aunt Renata’s ashes on the seventy-fifth anniversary of her arrival from Italy.

Murderous monster or playful pussycat? The Sphinx tells her side of the Oedipus story.