While chatting over the latest read in their book club, Claire reveals her crumbling marriage to Susan. Even as she counsels Claire to believe that she will heal, Susan, reluctant to reengage after her own divorce keeps her neighbor Joe at arm’s length.

As a textile factory closes down operations to relocate to India, tempers flare.

A woman talks to her deceased husband as she struggles with planning a future without him.

Hold the Mustard is a fast-paced, full-length comedy about a woman who juggles a fast-track career while raising three sons. When events push her to reexamine her life, she discovers that commitment can mean difficult choices. Credits: Hold the Mustard was selected by the 4th International Women’s Playwrighting Conference for a reading of excerpts at the 1997 conference in Galway, Ireland. It was also a finalist in the 1997 Jewel Box Theatre Playwrighting Competition in Oklahoma City and has had two staged readings: one at the Brick Playhouse and a second at Walnut Street Theatre both in Philadelphia during 1996.

In the wee hours of the night, a mother vacillates between hope and despair as she studies a note from her despondent teenage daughter.

A patron of an exotic dancer tries to convince her to run away with him to start life anew, but she has other plans.

As a family sits down at the table for dinner, the grandmother sits her husband’s seat at the head. Hilarity ensues.

1999 Mildred & Albert Panowski Playwriting Award Julie Eble, semi-finalist Amidst the turmoil of the sixteenth century's religious intolerance, Queen Catherine de Medici of France vies for the love of King Henry II against his older mistress, Diane de Poitiers. When Henry dies in a jousting tournament, a battle for power erupts in the French court.