Kelly McCready

Eight interconnected stories told over 33 years explore how our planet’s changing climate will affect family, work, faith—and survival.

Set aboard a houseboat on a fashionable reach of the Thames in 1911, The New Morality tells the story of how the brazen Betty Jones restores dignity to her household and harmony to her marriage, by losing her temper and making a scene. A rising star, Harold Chapin had numerous one-acts and three full-length plays produced before he was killed on the battlefield in 1915 at the age of 29. “When Harold Chapin fell in France the modern British theatre lost a comic writer of high order,” declared the Sunday Times. “For intellectual foolery, his New Morality has no equal in present-day work.” The play was produced five years after his death to great acclaim, and then languished in obscurity for decades until our “lavishly crafted”1 revival introduced New York theatergoers to Chapin’s “unabashed comedy with bite.”2

When Sue's cousin Genelva visits her from Suriname, they go out to a fancy club with Sue's two best friends. After having an unpleasant encounter with the club's bouncer at the door, the course of their night changes completely.

A standing Sunday lunch is born after a grandmother invites herself to her granddaughter’s walk-up.

After nearly causing an international incident, Aphrodite (the Kardashianesque love goddess) is stripped of her powers. Will she regain her ​omnipotence by helping a super-single ​Brooklynite find true love, or be ​banished from the Pantheon forever?

Private Investigator, Ray, is offered a job from a wealthy real estate agent to catch her husband cheating. However, accepting the assignment creates doubts involving his own relationship with his fiancee, Sarah.

After losing her lead actor at the last minute, a music video director goes to extreme measures to get her talent to perform, pushing her team and the whole production to the brink of madness.