During World War II in England, three motherless children, whose father is reported missing in action, go to live with their grandmother in London and join the members of their talented theatrical family in a school for stage training.

Accidentally an actor, Ed and his wacky friends have to perform on stage under a rare blue moon. Then the moon begins sucking Ed and his friends up into the sky. Only Ed knows how to control the strangeness.

Ellie loves musical theater and is used to getting leading roles, but after she moves to the big city, she has to share a part with a talented girl who seems determined to outshine her.

Lippy Lips is going to direct her own film, so all the Shopkins want to audition for a role on the silver screen--all except Strawberry Kiss, who has stage fright. The other Shopkins do their best to help her fight her fright, and maybe even win the leading role.

When Helen is cast as Halley's Comet in the school play, Martha the talking dog helps her to overcome stage fright, and later Martha struggles to play the Cheshire Cat.

It's 1949 and South Philadelphia bursts with opportunity during the post-war boom. The Palazzini Cab Company & Western Union Telegraph Office, owned and operated by Dominic Palazzini and his three sons, is flourishing: business is good, they're surrounded by sympathetic wives and daughters-in-law, with grandchildren on the way. But a decades-long feud that split Dominic and his brother Mike and their once-close families sets the stage for a re-match....

Transgender teen and aspiring actor August lands a spot at a prestigious performing arts high school in New York City, but he struggles to move past the life he left behind, with conservative parents who wanted to send him to conversion therapy.

Kellie, one of the girls at the Stardust stunt-riding stables, is working as a stunt double on a movie--but when the actress comes down with food poisoning she is called upon to step into the leading role.

Camila tries out for a play and is disappointed not to get the leading role. However, she works hard with the cast and learns that she can still be a star.

One summer during the Financial Crisis, fourteen-year-old Karthik Raghavan makes deliveries for his father's ailing Indian grocery, but he is secretly cast in a play about the young Leonard Bernstein. Includes author's note.