"Small Town Lawyer" by 2014 award-winner Anthony Pignataro. It's 1941, and Dick is a small town lawyer rising quickly in his firm. But after a particularly stressful encounter with a client one afternoon, he falls into a funk. But as Tom, his mentor at the law firm, tries to pull Dick out of it, he starts to wonder if he should even try.

From San Francisco comes "Too Old To Be This Young" by Laura Hedli. "How do you grow up in a culture that fears growing old," asks Hedli who explores the question in her one-woman show chronicling a turbulent year as a young adult living in Manhattan with her boss, while secretly dating a coworker.