Claire Gray is fifty and single, one of Broadway's most respected directors. On a year's retreat from her career, she returns to her alma mater as a visiting professor, determined to write a "significant" play. Enter George McBeth, a gay local actor ten years her junior, who dreams of making it big. Each seduces and openly uses the other as a means to private ends, setting the stage for rude awakenings. Laced with an abundance of wit, sensuality, and suspense, "Rehearsing" will have lasting appeal to thoughtful readers, gay or straight.