Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Intimate Surveillance

    Bold, brilliant, a true nail-biter. Directors will love directing this 2hander of a thriller with its cleanly sculpted beats and moment to moment character work. Intimate and chilling. Wonderful work that asks us to rethink technology, privacy and men. And maybe men might begin to rethink themselves.

    Bold, brilliant, a true nail-biter. Directors will love directing this 2hander of a thriller with its cleanly sculpted beats and moment to moment character work. Intimate and chilling. Wonderful work that asks us to rethink technology, privacy and men. And maybe men might begin to rethink themselves.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: People of the Book

    I highly recommend this beautifully languaged play for its theatricality, its relevance and its stunning ability to take global problems including colonialism and put them in our downtown public and private spaces. This home-coming of a play is sharp and lush, full of imagery that makes the political intimate. El Guindi gives us a very close look at what it means to be a dominant power and the ugliness of war and capitalist greed. I could not turn away.

    I highly recommend this beautifully languaged play for its theatricality, its relevance and its stunning ability to take global problems including colonialism and put them in our downtown public and private spaces. This home-coming of a play is sharp and lush, full of imagery that makes the political intimate. El Guindi gives us a very close look at what it means to be a dominant power and the ugliness of war and capitalist greed. I could not turn away.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Demeter's Fracked Heart (And the Emerald Ash Borer)

    Amazing! Gorgeous work. Bleeds all over the place. Love the apple at the end - will not spoil it. Must be read. Must be produced. Haden must be stopped. Stephanie, come home! Love this play and all it longs for!

    Amazing! Gorgeous work. Bleeds all over the place. Love the apple at the end - will not spoil it. Must be read. Must be produced. Haden must be stopped. Stephanie, come home! Love this play and all it longs for!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Helen at the Gym (Again!) A 10 MINUTE PLAY

    Fabulous, gorgeously languaged, theatrical, stunning work that does so much to respond to the constant misogyny and gun violence in our world, so relevant and real and ancient and meta too. Love the wink to the playwright and the actors. I look forward to more from Martin's heart/pen. WOW!

    Fabulous, gorgeously languaged, theatrical, stunning work that does so much to respond to the constant misogyny and gun violence in our world, so relevant and real and ancient and meta too. Love the wink to the playwright and the actors. I look forward to more from Martin's heart/pen. WOW!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: BLOOD OF THE LAMB

    This taut thriller is so spot-on brilliant in its conception (pun intended) and its accomplishment of the difficult task of getting into the hottest topic of the moment (abortion) without any didacticism, pedantry or preaching. Blood of the Lamb is a great treat for actors to grapple with the intensity of the action, the clarity of the roles are so well written, and the play is a great pleasure to watch!

    This taut thriller is so spot-on brilliant in its conception (pun intended) and its accomplishment of the difficult task of getting into the hottest topic of the moment (abortion) without any didacticism, pedantry or preaching. Blood of the Lamb is a great treat for actors to grapple with the intensity of the action, the clarity of the roles are so well written, and the play is a great pleasure to watch!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: SNOW WHITE PADDED ROOM

    Snow White Padded Room is a taut thriller perfectly conceived for the stage. It would be amazing to see produced, and not particularly difficult to produce either. Great roles for actors to sink their teeth into. A horrific situation that feels like a metaphor. An intense and heartbreaking play!

    Snow White Padded Room is a taut thriller perfectly conceived for the stage. It would be amazing to see produced, and not particularly difficult to produce either. Great roles for actors to sink their teeth into. A horrific situation that feels like a metaphor. An intense and heartbreaking play!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Shoptalk

    A masterful one-act, truly one of the best out there in the world today. Moving, with inter-generational awareness, and the idea of legacy, how to live with a state of grief in a country of cruelty. Could not ask for a better piece of work on this, and what a gift it is for its audiences and the actors who get to embody these parts. A blessing.

    A masterful one-act, truly one of the best out there in the world today. Moving, with inter-generational awareness, and the idea of legacy, how to live with a state of grief in a country of cruelty. Could not ask for a better piece of work on this, and what a gift it is for its audiences and the actors who get to embody these parts. A blessing.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Bad Horses

    I just Kant recommend this enough. Hilarity ensues. A great piece of work! Absurdity at its finest. And cowboys too! Bad Horses puts the play back in play. We should all be having this much fun.

    I just Kant recommend this enough. Hilarity ensues. A great piece of work! Absurdity at its finest. And cowboys too! Bad Horses puts the play back in play. We should all be having this much fun.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Southies

    Wonderfully crafted twisted ghost story! I won't give it away, but it thrills with relevance and fun! I appreciated the way Sean and Austin have dialogue that matches throughout which gives some clues in retrospect about the history of this moment. Super ending!

    Wonderfully crafted twisted ghost story! I won't give it away, but it thrills with relevance and fun! I appreciated the way Sean and Austin have dialogue that matches throughout which gives some clues in retrospect about the history of this moment. Super ending!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: sundays in the park with clay & cher

    I love how we discover these characters, and then I love how they give us a very new view of the world from their specific pov while still chasing their own objectives. There are some super surprises. This play is chock full of fantastic choices that had me rooting for clay & cher til the end!

    I love how we discover these characters, and then I love how they give us a very new view of the world from their specific pov while still chasing their own objectives. There are some super surprises. This play is chock full of fantastic choices that had me rooting for clay & cher til the end!