Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

No apologies necessary here. Rachel Lynett has written a play about the monolith that is Blackness that isn't a monolith that is so brilliant because she lets us question all we think we know and then some. Thank you Lynett for your willingness to write a truth that stands for everyone and no one at the same time for the contradictions that rub up against story and structure so that the way the play is built is the story of the play. I can't wait to see this theatrical, head-smackingly fabulous play.

Hilariously cringey play that would be great for any late night festival with fabulous costumes and props!

I like this play a lot. It feels honest and deep. I think it would be a great play for any short play festival because you don't often get to see two men talk so frankly with each other about things that really matter. The pain is palpable. Well done.

What a wonderful way to address the loneliness of our world and its technology, how tech that should bring us together is tearing us apart, and how it plays out in this moving and very funny play! Thank you Deborah Yarchun for this deep exploration of how we connect and disconnect with each other. Truly captures the anxiety of our time.

The Active Oval does a beautifully moving job of providing us all with the humor of grief. I love the idea of the active oval itself as a kind of infinity track similar to an infinity pool where you swim against a current forever. Sometimes we go round in circles until someone or something interrupts. Lex interrupts that infinite loop. It's motivated and works well to create a relatable piece that helps us all. And the visual domino moment is fabulous!

A thrilling thriller mystery comedy spoof on Hamlet! This play should go far. It has everything to like and could be done from high schools on up and should be! Not merely entertaining, NOIR HAMLET has heart. But mostly I enjoy its theatricality and its humor. Skillfully plotted, it's a page-turner that will keep us all glued to our seats, something to take the edge off this damn virus - produce it now!

Brilliant play about the nature of our existence that plays with an audience member - I always love that! There is such a facility with dialogue, and humor, and the form follows the function. A wonderful exercise that makes me feel better about being human and ignorant and alone.

Here is a beautiful and healing play! Love these two sisters dealing with the deaths of their parents in the only ways they know how! So specific so that we get the entire history of their pasts without a moment of exposition - the dialogue is rendered for humor and forward motion, the stakes rising constantly as we learn all that is going to happen if they don't get their s*&^t together. Schlomann is able to give us large Truths through ordinary people struggling with massive life lemons. Kudos!

This is one of those impossible to perform pieces that I wish I could see onstage - it has so much humor and heart, and it would be a huge hit, but it also demands a costly prop and breakage, so while I think we can all appreciate it's absurdities and capital T Truths, I fear its concept keeps it relegated to readings. But it has created such a warm feeling in me toward Schlomann, I will read more of her, and I suggest you do too!

Laugh out loud fabulous! Oh, the way it ends! I will not give it away, but this is so much fun, and would be so much fun to play! If only I were a teenage boy! If always! This should be done a lot. I hope this will be done a lot. Heartbreaking and true and real and awkward and all the things.