Recommended by Monica Cross

Magical. Sensual. Mesmerizing. ROAD THROUGH HEAVEN is a beautiful story of unconditional love and dark secrets. Ricky J. Martinez's writing a lyrical and everything about this piece is stunning. From the visceral moments of the opening scene to the bitersweet moments of the final scene, I found this piece utterly captivating.

I had the opportunity to watch the Silver Tongued Stages reading on YouTube, and it was incredibly intimate and uplifting. Watch this play, Read this play, Produce this play!

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS PLAY!

I found KEENE to be absolutely riveting! Anchuli Felicia King explodes the framework an academic Shakespeare conference, giving us an inside look at what it means to be an outsider in academia. The main characters are confronted with casual racism and intellectual elitism, as they try to navigate careers, relationships, and paper presentations.

I had the opportunity to see a virtual performance of KEENE presented in partnership between the American Shakespeare Center and Red Bull Theatre. The words and music of this play take you through a three day roller coaster of emotions in a tight two hours!

Some things are just more important than the end of the world! Sitting in a coffee shop talking too loudly about lip stick and sipping a yummy macchiato is apparently one of them. Though these utterly self-absorbed characters, Steven G. Martin gives us insight and amusement at the end of the world! #TheBestThingsInLife

HOST DUTIES highlights an often overlooked hierarchy in the church. This Monologue gets at the idiosyncrasies of being a lay person involved with the mass. Irreverent and Goofy, this monologue takes a very simple thing, and shows us how for this person this is a very BIG WANT. A fun Monologue!

Sometimes the simplest things are the things that we miss the most! VANILLA, in the words of Scott Sicles, is not a play about ice cream. It is a play about human connection, during a pandemic.

I'm so glad this play exists! Thank you, Scott, for the humor and the longing and the sadness of this piece!

USE YOUR NOODLES is absolutely adorable! Steven Strafford gives us two awkward college students negotiating studying and dating. Superb! It would make for a wonderful scene for students in an acting class and would be a delightful addition to a short play festival.

BECAUSE I'M NOT IN LOVE WITH YOU is a gorgeous monologue exploring what makes someone "your type." Matthew Weaver give a wonderfully complex relationship between two friends made more complicated because the speaker always goes for "cute guy." A lovely pieces. Well done, Matthew Weaver!

I have the opportunity to watch Almost Adults Productions (Santa Fe, NM) virtual reading of THE LAST GREAT ACT OF MANKIND. Scott Sickles once again creates a beautiful glimpse of love at the end of all life on Earth!

This play is about the the types of love we have for one another beyond sexual/romantic love. Lars and Benno want different things in the last moments of humanity, but even if they don't get what they want, they still have each other.

It is touching and funny (delightfully so) and so full of hope, even as the world ends.

OMG!

THIS PLAY! Read it! Read it now!

DC Cathro totally takes this play is so many utterly unexpected places! MASSAGE ENVY is a play you never knew you needed about two guys in a massage parlor.

I CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS PLAY ENOUGH!

Read it! Recommend it! Share it with your friends! And if you can/when you can, produce it!

SO GOOD!

Stunning! This 1-page play is beautifully poetic and would make for a wonderful devised performance. Each line is a metaphor that is touching and unique. WELL DONE!