←Recommendations of Community

Meta-theater at its finest. This is a ruthlessly funny and entertaining play that uses a well-known classic to explore ideas like race, fame, and what it means to be an artist. The writing is very clever, and each character feels like an appropriate cliche yet has their nuances.

A look at ourselves through the process of putting on a show that triggers key questions of what stories can be told and through whom. Well done.

When I first read COMMUNITY, I was intrigued from the opening moments. I wanted to work on it ASAP! Stephen Kaplan takes his audience for a ride down the rabbit hole in this smart, hilarious, and important play. COMMUNITY is strong on a micro level of the story(ies) it tells, and a macro one as it grapples with the idea of who is allowed to tell what stories - a timely exploration that asks its audience to go along for the ride, and to check their preconceptions in the lobby. I can't wait to see a full production

This play is a symphony of some of the cleverest moments of misunderstanding, microaggression, and metatheatre I've encountered. How funny (and sad) that the play wound up being so accidentally prescient and intuitive, given its plot. Wouldn't it be nice to plug this into a season when the Albee estate yanks the rights to "Who's Afraid"?

This is an incredibly clever and timely play. Like a lot of the best theater, it sucks the audience in to laughing at the foibles of its characters, and then turns the magnifying glass around and forces us to recognize those same foibles in ourselves. I've seen a couple of readings that were very well-received, and would love to see this in production!

A wickedly twisted love letter to the theatre in all its shameless quirkiness and artifice. If you've ever been in a play, you'll recognize all four of these personalities immediately. Albee himself might well have grinned at the cleverness of this story... Kaplan pays deep homage, and raises significant social questions worth discussing.

Clever, well-paced piece about microaggressions in the rehearsal room. Of course, these aggressions build dramatically as the play unwinds into a comic mayhem train wreck! Plays referenced certainly make good digs at the culture of community theatre, what gets chosen to be performed, and what doesn't.