Recommended by Daniel Prillaman

I recently had the opportunity to watch a performance of this short play during Bump in the Night Theatre’s “Jump Scares: Vol. 1.” I applaud Dzubak & all involved, because if you had told me this was originally an audio play, I would bury you alive myself for telling lies (*not actually*). The isolation & terror of Foster's predicament translate to the stage magnificently. Lighting, sound, and the lack of them become everything, placing us right in the coffin as well. Incredible short horror.

I recently had the opportunity to watch a performance of this short play during Bump in the Night Theatre’s “Jump Scares: Vol. 1.” Floyd-Priskorn’s dialogue flies off the page, but it sings in the space. A good-natured game slowly becomes something much, well...less good-natured. The tension ratchets up and up until a terrifying ending, one you'll most certainly take home with you. Brilliant.

To quote an unofficial goddess of love by the name of Gwen Stefani, "this shit is bananas." I love me a bonkers play, I love me a bonkers play that sticks to its own absurd logic, but I become obsessed with a bonkers play filled with such stage and design challenges as this. There is a tremendous playground here for producing teams willing to get a little dirty (or bloody, rather), and audiences will simply devour this. Feast your eyes upon this script now. Even if you're not hungry.

I don’t think it’s wrong to say morale is low in society at the moment. We’re dealing with so much that the airplane malfunction in Williams’ play feels almost quaint. The characters certainly accept it without much fuss and roll with the punches. In doing so, we encounter a scene that thoughtfully muses on family, connection, and what the most important things in our little, old universe actually are. It’s a gorgeous piece of work, one where the simplicity & matter-of-factness moves mountains.

Beautifully zen, giving “Waiting for Godot” but moderately more hopeful and happier (a huge feat in its own right), I absolutely love this. Weaver’s banter is on point, nimbly bouncing between comedic and thoughtful, often both. This is a friendship that actors and audiences alike will delight in and devour, and I could personally watch them for forever. Heavenly.

I’ll say this much, I would have gotten much better grades if Santa had brought ME deceased authors to assist with book reports on their work. Heyman’s short play is a delightful and wholesome tip of the hat (with so much flavor for the nerds) to not just Bradbury, but the importance of stories. All kinds of them. Come for the hilarious premise, but stay till the final chapter, because it’s great.

Well, Floyd-Priskorn gets all the points with one of the most hilarious one-two punches of comedy and consequences I’ve encountered in a while. I didn’t see this coming. And when it came, I had to stop quite a bit in order to be able to breathe again. This play will leave you cackling. And when that’s gone, what remains is a worthy moral to act on. Eat the rich. They probably taste better than baked Alaska.

I laughed until I cried and then I laughed once again. This…might as well happen. This could totally happen any day now. O’Grady captures the nuance and absurdity and terror of the current climate with piercing sharp satire. I suppose I should be thankful I look just as good in green as in red. Terrific monologue.

A refreshing, commanding play for contemporary who-dun-it-ery. Fenton deftly draws and spins a web of mystery and pure fun in this thriller, b/c I cannot overstate how great of a cast of characters this is, each with potential motives, each maudlinly aware of the genre they're in. This is a script abundant with wit, jokes, and danger. The actors will have so much fun. And the audience might even have more in theorizing all the twists and turns. Christie is certainly grinning from the beyond.

Absolutely ruthless. Cassidy’s premise wreaks havoc with our preconceived notions of zombies and judgment days, centering a tale around a family with sufficient interpersonal issues even without the mysterious supernatural phenomenon. Brilliant horror mixed with sharp comedy. I also pulled some delightful commentary on how societies treat their atypicals. Are these formerly dead a stand-in for our disabled? Our elderly? There’s a lot to pull from multiple visits here. Hell of a play.