Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: DINOSAUR(s)

    This play can break your heart. A brother and sister on a road trip cross enormous distances to find proximity. What arises is, of course, their history. Dinosaur(s) has a lot to teach us about playwriting, character, and what it takes to move an audience. A road trip play with a lot of craft to move us. I highly recommend it.

    This play can break your heart. A brother and sister on a road trip cross enormous distances to find proximity. What arises is, of course, their history. Dinosaur(s) has a lot to teach us about playwriting, character, and what it takes to move an audience. A road trip play with a lot of craft to move us. I highly recommend it.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE MOTHERS

    The perfect period piece for today's trans-rights fight (& the continuing ERA fight, body autonomy, & other issues), a play about the fight for gay rights set in the early 70s before there were any protections for us, so that we can experience the past and the fight that is still happening! A groovy take that is wonderfully theatrical and honors mothers in a way I have never seen before in a gay play. Kudos to Still!

    The perfect period piece for today's trans-rights fight (& the continuing ERA fight, body autonomy, & other issues), a play about the fight for gay rights set in the early 70s before there were any protections for us, so that we can experience the past and the fight that is still happening! A groovy take that is wonderfully theatrical and honors mothers in a way I have never seen before in a gay play. Kudos to Still!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: BLACK BEAUTY

    This script is a master class in playwriting. Still offers us a delicious invitation into the world of Black Beauty and the poetry of the world that he creates unfolds beat by beat into one of the most lush and sensory-filled experiences that would satisfy anyone's story-lust. Painful at times, full of heart, this classic story is adapted for all audiences and will leave indelible marks.

    This script is a master class in playwriting. Still offers us a delicious invitation into the world of Black Beauty and the poetry of the world that he creates unfolds beat by beat into one of the most lush and sensory-filled experiences that would satisfy anyone's story-lust. Painful at times, full of heart, this classic story is adapted for all audiences and will leave indelible marks.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Worldly Attachments

    Superfun short play about a witch and a unicorn. It's funny. It's full of great business for the actors. It's wonderfully real and true and moving, all the things you want in a play for a festival, and it has a lot to say about how we relate to each other while being surprising and unsentimental. Brava!

    Superfun short play about a witch and a unicorn. It's funny. It's full of great business for the actors. It's wonderfully real and true and moving, all the things you want in a play for a festival, and it has a lot to say about how we relate to each other while being surprising and unsentimental. Brava!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: AMERIKIN

    Love this play! What an intense production by Primary Stages! The script itself is a brilliant way to study eventful writing. I will be teaching it! Hutchinson does not shy away from the gritty, harsh details that make this one of the harder mirrors to look at, but it's (sadly, scarily) even more relevant now than it was when she wrote it.

    Love this play! What an intense production by Primary Stages! The script itself is a brilliant way to study eventful writing. I will be teaching it! Hutchinson does not shy away from the gritty, harsh details that make this one of the harder mirrors to look at, but it's (sadly, scarily) even more relevant now than it was when she wrote it.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Train of Thought

    A really cool site-specific short play for the L train (NYC subway). I love what Stevens does to externalize the internal dramas of the characters. Mimetic - and will be awesome on the actual train - and it's also moving in a poignant way. How we miss each other.

    A really cool site-specific short play for the L train (NYC subway). I love what Stevens does to externalize the internal dramas of the characters. Mimetic - and will be awesome on the actual train - and it's also moving in a poignant way. How we miss each other.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: The Caldera

    3 really clear and specific characters with a lot of gorgeous dialogue in a play that really takes off into another dimension and yet is grounded in a dark reality. Beautiful work. Relevant and necessary for right now.

    3 really clear and specific characters with a lot of gorgeous dialogue in a play that really takes off into another dimension and yet is grounded in a dark reality. Beautiful work. Relevant and necessary for right now.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: poison tree

    Beautiful and intense. I love this play for its candid approach to therapy, especially EMDR and parts work, and how it creates a real experience in such a theatrical way. Absolutely thrilling!

    Beautiful and intense. I love this play for its candid approach to therapy, especially EMDR and parts work, and how it creates a real experience in such a theatrical way. Absolutely thrilling!

  • 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.