Stories by @jamessbarb

White Lotus Season 3 – Cabo San Lucas

An eccentric cast of characters attend the White Lotus resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Tongue Tied

The story of a group of six recent college graduates road tripping across Florida’s Gulf Coast during their final week together, set to a collection of alternative music of the 2010’s.

The View from Paradise

The mundane lifestyle of two families living on a cul-de-sac in Paradise Valley, Arizona are rattled, and ultimately threatened, by the arrival of a new, young couple into the neighborhood who are hiding a devastating secret.

Social Distancing

A West Coast vacation is cut short following the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak as a neurotic mother, her diabetic older brother, and her going-on eighteen daughter must begin quarantine, along with an out-of-her-element Polish foreign exchange student.

Undateable

Now living by herself, Frances Halladay meets her new neighbor, Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson, and two discover they have much in common, including their Sacramento upbringing as well as former romantic partners.

The Reckoning

In 1593 the brilliant but controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house. The circumstances were shady, the official account—a violent quarrel over the bill, or "reckoning"—has been long regarded as dubious.

Icarus

Icarus chronicles Bryan Fogel's exploration of the option of doping to win an amateur cycling race and happening upon a major international doping scandal when he asks for the help of Grigory Rodchenkov, the head of the Russian anti-doping laboratory.

Dear Evan Hansen

Dear Evan Hansen tells the story of a young man with social anxiety disorder who so yearns to make a connection with his peers that he fabricates a relationship with a deceased student to become closer to the boy’s family.

The Sirens of Titan

The Sirens of Titan involves issues of free will, omniscience, and the overall purpose of human history. Much of the story revolves around a Martian invasion of Earth.

Company

Company revolves around Robert (a single man unable to commit fully to a steady relationship, let alone marriage), the five married couples who are his best friends, and his three girlfriends.

Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness

An exploration of big cat breeding and its bizarre underworld, populated by eccentric characters.