Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

A fantastic play for teens with so many specifically drawn and spot on characters to give great roles to everyone involved. Strayer has crafted a story that is relevant and exciting, funny and relatable and perfect for this moment and beyond. Her use of language really gives them something to sink their teeth into, and her theatricality will be enormously fun to stage and watch. I hope it has a long life on the high school stages!

In the time of No Theatre, when all our hearts/souls are aching for the Being in the Room time, I am glad I've come across this gem by Rachael Carnes! Of course it's hilarious in All the Times too and will be a hit with any gathering or festival including all the new forms, but the stage, the memories of the stage and how we get there... I'm dreaming of a Black Box Theatre, just like the ones I used to know... Thank you Rachael Carnes once again for your wit and your wisdom and the best lines!!!!!!!!

Beautiful in the way that fables are beautiful, Five Syllables works. There is an internal logic. There is a mythic quality, something like how we become real, and such desire and wanting and honesty. I thoroughly enjoyed this short play that would work beautifully in any short play festival, and Frandsen's voice is clear and truthful. Wonderfully imagined!

BRILLIANT wonderful hilarious most fabulously ABSURDIST play that will be wonderful to see onstage! What a gem this is! Perfectly titled, wonderful roles for both Dr. Fraued and Celia, so playable, so much fun to be had! NOT ME is a breath of fresh air!

A rare treat! This play gives us Billie Holiday and Artie Shaw in the flesh on stage before our eyes! Richter does a marvelous job creating this moment that changed history, and it's a dramatic edge of your seat play that really moves. The stakes are high. The dialogue sizzles. A moment in time captured for today in all its relevance and necessity. Well done!

Sherry Kramer probably still says that every play takes us closer to death, and surely that's true for Gratitude 4, a play on the word and a number. Prillaman offers us gratitude for life itself in 1 minute. Just thinking of the sound cues that this will inspire gives me joy!

Sherry Kramer probably still says that every play takes us closer to death, and surely that's true for Gratitude 4, a play on the word and a number. Prillaman offers us gratitude for life itself in 1 minute. Just thinking of the sound cues that this will inspire gives me joy!

Ah, I remember it well! Smoking! This play takes me back to the 23 years of my life I lived as a smoker and the pleasure of every first drag. The sensory elements make this such an enjoyable experience that would be super for acting classes to use as well as for audiences in general. I highly recommend this brief look at something to be grateful for, the kindness of strangers.

It has been a pleasure to work as a dramaturg on this script that takes a deep look at the United States during the McCarthy era from the pov of several generations of an East Coast Jewish family to make us all aware of the tenuous state of our democracy. There are also some wonderful roles for women! I find the play to be increasingly relevant and chilling, and I hope it will be produced soon on many stages.

Dark and fabulous, from the fables of the bog, 2 teen boys dare each other toward bravery in a dangerous world surrounded by the open sexuality of their hetero-adults and the desperate ideas of what is or isn't safe, this play pulls us deeper and closer into the bog to show us how terribly hard it can be to connect with a person in a forbidden way even in spite of strong desire, the world (here the bog and its demons) must be addressed first. Beautiful work!