Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Occupied

    Wow! What a great concept really beautifully executed. A moving play about millenial relationships to safety from 9/11 forward with characters that I truly care for and root for! I also found a great deal of agency in these two characters. And the prescient comments about arming teachers? Love how our movement through time is so well crafted. Not just wow, great work!

    Wow! What a great concept really beautifully executed. A moving play about millenial relationships to safety from 9/11 forward with characters that I truly care for and root for! I also found a great deal of agency in these two characters. And the prescient comments about arming teachers? Love how our movement through time is so well crafted. Not just wow, great work!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Hidden

    Impressive historical drama that captures two different eras and unites them in a drama that includes wonderfully written 3-dimensional characters with great stakes. The play addresses big questions of good and evil, and the personal stories kept me engaged throughout. Well done!

    Impressive historical drama that captures two different eras and unites them in a drama that includes wonderfully written 3-dimensional characters with great stakes. The play addresses big questions of good and evil, and the personal stories kept me engaged throughout. Well done!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Neighbor Jane

    What an unstoppable engine Esper has built here with Neighbor Jane. This play kept me on the edge of my seat! The characters are so well written, and the play keeps spinning and deepening as we move forward to its inevitable end. Strange, intense, hilarious, and marvelous work! What a great night out this would be!

    What an unstoppable engine Esper has built here with Neighbor Jane. This play kept me on the edge of my seat! The characters are so well written, and the play keeps spinning and deepening as we move forward to its inevitable end. Strange, intense, hilarious, and marvelous work! What a great night out this would be!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: There Are No Closets in My Classroom

    A wonderful monologue for this moment! I hope it will be irrelevant soon, but unfortunately it is needed. And beautifully written! We need more like this! I love the way Syran references literature here so that even school boards can understand (or maybe not school boards), but audiences are brought into the piece and the mind of the teacher - a great role - clearly. It shows so well how literature matters!

    A wonderful monologue for this moment! I hope it will be irrelevant soon, but unfortunately it is needed. And beautifully written! We need more like this! I love the way Syran references literature here so that even school boards can understand (or maybe not school boards), but audiences are brought into the piece and the mind of the teacher - a great role - clearly. It shows so well how literature matters!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Restoration Parts

    I love how this play unfolds! I love how it feels like a fable, and yet it is so real and moving and true and honest. The language is so clear. I love what happens and what is said, and there is a clean structure that just thrills me. Beautifully done! Wonderfully imagined! This play works so perfectly, like a clock! With great roles for all four characters to play.

    I love how this play unfolds! I love how it feels like a fable, and yet it is so real and moving and true and honest. The language is so clear. I love what happens and what is said, and there is a clean structure that just thrills me. Beautifully done! Wonderfully imagined! This play works so perfectly, like a clock! With great roles for all four characters to play.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: And Other Dreams We Had

    What a beautiful play! Love the language first and foremost, how we are led into the situation and the characters never have to explain anything. If you are hung up on exposition, here is your master class!

    What a beautiful play! Love the language first and foremost, how we are led into the situation and the characters never have to explain anything. If you are hung up on exposition, here is your master class!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: The Rotary Phone

    Super funny play about the near future meeting the past. Patience being one of the things to go, it takes a lot of time to dial a rotary phone. Even 20 years ago my grandmother had one, and I couldn't manage to deal with it. This will delight old and young with its comic dialogue and the vision of Ruthie in curlers!

    Super funny play about the near future meeting the past. Patience being one of the things to go, it takes a lot of time to dial a rotary phone. Even 20 years ago my grandmother had one, and I couldn't manage to deal with it. This will delight old and young with its comic dialogue and the vision of Ruthie in curlers!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Jack and Jill Beyond the Pail

    Super title, love the pun, and the concept is hilarious and works! Jack probably has a traumatic brain injury by now anyway.

    Super title, love the pun, and the concept is hilarious and works! Jack probably has a traumatic brain injury by now anyway.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Water and Blood

    Such a fascinating story, like driving past a wreck I had to slow down and take it all in. Beautifully written and incredibly dramatic.

    Such a fascinating story, like driving past a wreck I had to slow down and take it all in. Beautifully written and incredibly dramatic.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: 10 Minutes

    A wonderfully bizarre comic look at a terrible situation that would be fascinating to see staged, to work on as an actor, or to direct. Hodges explores such a tough subject that might be the start of a full-length but also works as a stand alone ten minute play. And there are rhymes! The relationship between the mother and the daughter will fascinate audiences.

    A wonderfully bizarre comic look at a terrible situation that would be fascinating to see staged, to work on as an actor, or to direct. Hodges explores such a tough subject that might be the start of a full-length but also works as a stand alone ten minute play. And there are rhymes! The relationship between the mother and the daughter will fascinate audiences.