What better place to spin a tale than over a cup of coffee? The Unpublished Short Stories of Women in the Sad Century, by Nancy Shayne, is a unique collection of one-act musical comedies all taking place in a New York City coffee shop. The characters in the individual vignettes stand on their own, but if you look carefully enough, you just might see them connected by interlocking pieces in a puzzle that stretches from now to then — and back again. Michael Patrick King directs.