Recommended by Monica Cross

THE POET, THE SPY, AND THE DARK LADY beautifully imagines a relationship between William Shakespeare, Kit Marlowe, and Emilia Bassano. Emily McClain evokes passion and intrigue as these three get embroiled in courtly espionage. Heartbreaking and breathtaking, this is a play to watch out for!

I got to attend an early reading of the script and it is already an amazing piece. I look forward to seeing the further development of this piece. Highly Recommended!

THE BEARER is a beautiful short play about bad news, about grief, and about memory. DC Cathro delivers a devastating retrospective: a father and grown son talking about the past. Haunting and packed with so much emotion! BRAVO, DC! Highly Recommended!

I just saw FORGIVE ME COSMO, FOR I HAVE SINNED performed as part of Talking Horse Productions' Original Monologue Contest, and immediately had to come recommend it! What a brilliantly constructed monologue! A fantastic monologue for women! Highly Recommended!

WIN AND TIM AND THE UNLIKELIHOOD OF LIVING FOREVER is a wonderful example of a Steven G. Martin play! In one minute, Steve shares with us a lifetime of love, a world of anxiety, and moment of peace. This is a snapshot that won't last, but has been immortalized forever in this play. Absolutely perfect for any one-minute play festival! Bravo!

I had the opportunity to see an online reading of SPERM DONOR WANTED, and what a play! Four people, one complicated relationship. Through out this entire play I was routing for them all to find their way, and I was so wonderfully surprised by the ending. TJ Young presents a beautiful, complex, and ever evolving situation, and creates four very well rounded characters to struggle through it. AMAZING!

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Perhaps the darkest Matthew Weaver play yet. MATTHEW WEAVER WRITES ONE MILLION PLAYS had me in stitches with laughter throughout! Rachel Luann Strayer creates a wonderful world that just absolutely needs more Matthew Weavers in it. With sprinkled references to Matthew Weavers work and delightful fantastical elements, this is a wonderful play and a wonderful Matthew Weaver tribute! Well done!

HOW TO TALK TO YOUR CHILD ABOUT SATAN is a hilarious intergenerational play for 4 women. If you've ever been a part of a community that shares your beliefs, but not all of your beliefs, this is a piece of satire you need in your life!

This is a quintessential Daniel Prillaman play! Delightful and shocking all at the same time! BRAVO! Highly Recommended!

What a beautiful play! 153 is such a wonderful experience I don't want to tell you anything about it. Just go read it! Steven G. Martin is (as always) capable of eliciting the exact response he sets out to. Read it. Or if you can, watch it. Or better yet produce it! This play would be great for zoom! Highly Recommended!

A delightful monologue from the point of view of the servant sent to warn Lady Macduff. These poor minor characters! Not epic heroes, just ordinary people mistakenly caught up in Shakespeare's plots. David Hansen gives them voices. In this blank verse monologue, we get to experience the confusion of a character who expected other characters to react like an normal person, not a tragic heroine, and the remorse of realizing too late that these characters never react the way you would expect. Poor guy! Well done, David!

I had the opportunity to see this performed (twice) by Miranda Jonte as a part of her Back Porch Theater.

40 QUESTIONS is a monologue about wanting. Wanting love, wanting recognition, wanting answers. As Miranda Jonte points out in her performances, this can be a piece of slow deliberate contemplation or a rapid fire confusion of thoughts, but it is always a high stakes, emotional pull.

Matthew Weaver's devastating vulnerability pulls you in and makes you want to give this character a great big hug!

This solo piece is great for performances on Zoom/Facebook/etc! Highly recommended...