Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.

With her mom's job and theater on the line, Zadie is determined to help make their show Spinderella the hit of the season--that is unless she accidentally turns it into a disaster.

When Mattie is cast as Romeo in an eighth-grade play, she is confused to find herself increasingly attracted to Gemma, a new classmate who is playing Juliet.

Kyle, the world's most reluctant reader, is transported to the events of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, and must defeat the evil Uncle Claudius and make it to the end of the story.

When their boy, Stewart, gets involved in a school play and begins to act in an evil manner, Sassy and Waldo fear he will remain evil forever.

When her best friend's jealousy leaves seventh grader Mango Delight Fuller friendless and kicked off the track team, she reluctantly auditions for the school play, which comes with new friends, new rules, new expectations, and new problems.

Becca and her stepbrother Sam are transported to the events of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and must help Romeo and Juliet, teens from two rival pizza-making families, find true love.

Fed up with their sports-obsessed school, seventh-grade playwright Olive and her best friend Reynaldo decide to kidnap the school's capybara mascot in an attempt to get more benefits and respect for non-athletes.

When Jory transfers to St. Genesius Prep, he joins the stage crew and discovers the magic that happens backstage but when some cast members play with a Spirit board, the ghost light goes out and strange things begin to happen.

When E.T.: The Musical closes, Nate reluctantly returns home to begin high school and, with his best friend, Libby, makes a project of turning Dickens' Great Expectations into a musical.