I adore this play! Pontius Pilate has to scare a woman having a near death experience into reforming her life, Judas Iscariot is given a task that just might finally get him into Heaven, and St. Peter writes sci-fi novels while sitting at his post outside Heaven's gate. This play is packed with humor and so, so smart. I was enjoying myself so much that I couldn't believe I'd already reached the end. Each of these 5 characters is an actor's dream, and the play raises some very profound questions among all the laughs. Terrific!

They say “Man plans, God laughs.” Well… in Brendan Bourque-Sheil’s “The Book of Maggie,” God plans and we all laugh. And laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and not just at the way Bourque-Sheil brilliantly flips the script on well-worn religious tropes, but also with the sheer glee that comes with reading something so smart, so witty, and yes, so funny. Wildly theatrical, I can only imagine how much fun this would be to see staged. Just to watch and listen to the actors having a field day with this text would be worth twice the price of admission.