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Because she is afraid to read an essay aloud in English class, young Patricia is invited to take Mr. Wayne's drama class where she paints sets, participates in fun exercises, and memorizes every part in the play the others are rehearsing.

When Pearl loses the leading role in a play to her best friend Wanda, she quits the production and wonders if her dreams of being a star are doomed, and if her friendship with Wanda is over.

When Ella Mentry School is threatened with closure due to budget cuts, A.J.'s new speech teacher, Miss Laney, comes up with a brilliant, if weird, plan to save the day.

Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.

Wiglaf faces the double embarrassment of having his wacky parents visit Dragon Slayers' Academy on Parents Day and starring in the school play as the brave but small knight, Sir Tinybottom.

When the Stratford Zoo closes for the evening, the animals sneak out of their cages and use their limited acting ability to put on an unusual version of Shakespeare's "Macbeth.".

Grishka has grown up in the closed world of a puppet theater in Russia, but now that world seems to be falling apart - his best friend needs an operation, financial difficulties are forcing people out, his homosexual friend Sam, the jester, is leaving for Holland and Grishka no longer knows what role he himself is playing.

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Examines the ways Broadway musicals throughout the twentieth century incorporated issues challenging American society at the times they were produced.

"Grayson, a transgender twelve-year-old, learns to accept her true identity and share it with the world"--Provided by publisher.