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At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.

What do you do when "The Almighty" drops in for a casual breakfast? When Harry and Beatrice Katzman are faced with this, the commonplace and the totally unexpected come together in a flurry of humour and excitement. This intriguing and entertaining theatrical experience is guaranteed to leave your audience feeling exhilarated.

Set in largely empty diner, it's employees include restless cook Stephen (nicknamed Red Ryder), mousy waitress Angel, and their no-nonsense boss Clark. The boring routine of the daily grind is disrupted with the arrival of two couples, Complications arise when illegal drugs and guns enter the picture and everyone is held hostage.

Two couples meet. The drinks flow and suddenly inhibitions melt.

Ken Harrison, a successful sculptor, is paralysed in a car accident and kept alive by support systems in a hospital. As the play begins, he is coming to the decision that if he can't live as a man, he does not want to exist as a medical achievement. His physician, however, is utterly determined to preserve Ken's life, regardless of its quality. Finally, despite the pleas of the doctor and his involved nurse, Ken invokes the law of habeas corpus and a judge joins the battle to determine his fate.

Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned scholar and professor of English who has spent years and years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne has been aggressively probing and intensely rational. But during the course of her illness - and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital - Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience.

The play revolves around the lives of three women who are living in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

The plot centers around a man, Edward Carr, coming to terms with the death of his wife, and the dark secret that brought them together.

Bradley Yamashita is one of the new breed of Asian-American actors newly arrived in Hollywood where he meets Vincent Chang

At first the Sycamore family seems mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is really verklempt.