John Rothman – MRQE

“Birdland”

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“Painkiller”

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The causes and consequences of America’s opioid epidemic unfold in this drama following its perpetrators, victims and an investigator seeking the truth.

My Art

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A 65-year-old single artist living in New York City has a good life: a stable teaching job, successful friends, and a loyal, aging dog named Bing. As her dream of a respectable place in the art world becomes more elusive, her frustration with her lack of recognition feels alarmingly urgent.

Her Composition

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A college music student turns to prostitution to make a little cash and look for inspiration, as she has blocked on a major musical composition that she must create in order to graduate.

Nocturne (2020/II)

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Inside the halls of an elite arts academy, a timid music student begins to outshine her more accomplished and outgoing twin sister when she discovers a mysterious notebook belonging to a recently deceased classmate.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

President Lincoln’s mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.

Arranged

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common – not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages.

The Door in the Floor

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Set in the privileged beach community of East Hampton, New York and chronicles one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children’s book author Ted Cole and his wife Marion. Their once-great marriage has been strained by tragedy. Her resulting despondency and his subsequent infidelities have prevented the couple from confronting a much-needed change in their relationship. Eddie O’Hare, the young man Ted hires to work as his summer assistant, is the couple’s unwitting yet willing pawn – and, ultimately, the catalyst in the transformation of their lives.

Day Zero

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The military draft is back. Three best friends are drafted and given 30 days to report for duty. In that time they’re forced to confront everything they believe about courage, duty, love, friendship and honor. If called to serve, what would you do?

Say It Isn’t So

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Boy meets girl; boy falls in love (and had wild, non-stop sex) with girl; boy loses girl… when they discover they are brother and sister! But when he learns that he’s the victim of the ultimate case of mistaken identity, the lovesick young man — whom everyone still thinks is after some taboo thrills — must race across the country to stop her from marrying another man.