Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Border Towns

    Beautiful work. A very strong dramatic set up. A play with distinct characters with distinct speech patterns. An impossible situation. No easy answers. And yet there is a moving ending. It is clear from this slice of life in an airport where so many people move from one place to another that here are two edges of two different worlds colliding for a few moments, and Johnson makes us care, and she makes something happen. Wonderful work!

    Beautiful work. A very strong dramatic set up. A play with distinct characters with distinct speech patterns. An impossible situation. No easy answers. And yet there is a moving ending. It is clear from this slice of life in an airport where so many people move from one place to another that here are two edges of two different worlds colliding for a few moments, and Johnson makes us care, and she makes something happen. Wonderful work!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: black kitchen sink

    What a brilliant kitchen sink drama where the female characters get to claim abuses suffered at the hands of the patriarch and drown the dead in the lake, to show the scars wrought and take that history as power for the future. I'm grateful for this drama and all its lyrical and bold dialogue that gets to the heart of familial familiar hierarchies and tries to turn them around.

    What a brilliant kitchen sink drama where the female characters get to claim abuses suffered at the hands of the patriarch and drown the dead in the lake, to show the scars wrought and take that history as power for the future. I'm grateful for this drama and all its lyrical and bold dialogue that gets to the heart of familial familiar hierarchies and tries to turn them around.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: To the Zoom and Back

    Adorable with many great lines to laugh at, this is a highly enjoyable short Zoom play that brings together two completely different characters for a first date. Making the best of what seems to be a terrible match the play turns around with the glimpse of a cardinal. I love that the view in the background has bearing on the play, and that Robin - another bird of a sort - is listening to every word from offstage. The ending only adds to the pleasure of this warm-hearted play for love in the time of Covid.

    Adorable with many great lines to laugh at, this is a highly enjoyable short Zoom play that brings together two completely different characters for a first date. Making the best of what seems to be a terrible match the play turns around with the glimpse of a cardinal. I love that the view in the background has bearing on the play, and that Robin - another bird of a sort - is listening to every word from offstage. The ending only adds to the pleasure of this warm-hearted play for love in the time of Covid.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: LITTLE WOMEN...NOW (90-minute cut available!)

    A marvelous re-imagining of this classic for today! Thank you Donna Hoke for remaking Little Women so that it is exactly the same and completely new! This will be a wonderful addition to any theatre's holiday family offering, and I am sure it will get done often!

    A marvelous re-imagining of this classic for today! Thank you Donna Hoke for remaking Little Women so that it is exactly the same and completely new! This will be a wonderful addition to any theatre's holiday family offering, and I am sure it will get done often!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: WHAT A MEMORY LOOKS LIKE

    It's sad and then it gets horrifying and then it's sad again - like maybe sad is the best it can be? I love this play because it is really angering and upsetting without having to lecture or tell us - we know. The realization, the moment of recognition is in us in the audience. And everything is broken. So beautifully written, will be great to see on its feet if we live that long!

    It's sad and then it gets horrifying and then it's sad again - like maybe sad is the best it can be? I love this play because it is really angering and upsetting without having to lecture or tell us - we know. The realization, the moment of recognition is in us in the audience. And everything is broken. So beautifully written, will be great to see on its feet if we live that long!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: What To Do About It (#AfterTheBans)

    Wow! What a marvelously political play, so relevant for today, and so chilling! This would be an awesome piece for any actor to explore - so much meat here to chew on! And there is humor and discomfort in it. Daly creates a whole new future world where all I want to do is move to New Hampshire! This is perfect for so many festivals!

    Wow! What a marvelously political play, so relevant for today, and so chilling! This would be an awesome piece for any actor to explore - so much meat here to chew on! And there is humor and discomfort in it. Daly creates a whole new future world where all I want to do is move to New Hampshire! This is perfect for so many festivals!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: BLUEPRINT MEDEA

    Stunning work of the highest order. This play is such a gorgeous re-imagining of Medea in contemporary London with the specificity of Kurdish and Iraqi communities - incredibly well done! The language, the stakes, everything here works so beautifully to create a very intense and boldly theatrical play that is at once universal and eye-opening! I love the scene with Medea and Glauke, Euripides would blush! Well done!

    Stunning work of the highest order. This play is such a gorgeous re-imagining of Medea in contemporary London with the specificity of Kurdish and Iraqi communities - incredibly well done! The language, the stakes, everything here works so beautifully to create a very intense and boldly theatrical play that is at once universal and eye-opening! I love the scene with Medea and Glauke, Euripides would blush! Well done!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: High Water Line

    Wonderfully funny and life-like apocalyptic comedy with a marvelous relationship at its heart. Plays like this used to seem absurd but nowadays they feel mimetic to me. A mother daughter play that manages to remind us to end our complacency in regards to climate change while entertaining us with hilarious behavior. The impossible stage directions add to the zaniness and will certainly be a challenge for enterprising theatre festivals to work on!

    Wonderfully funny and life-like apocalyptic comedy with a marvelous relationship at its heart. Plays like this used to seem absurd but nowadays they feel mimetic to me. A mother daughter play that manages to remind us to end our complacency in regards to climate change while entertaining us with hilarious behavior. The impossible stage directions add to the zaniness and will certainly be a challenge for enterprising theatre festivals to work on!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Fridge

    What a funny play! I really enjoyed the humor, and as a metaphor for how broken we are, this play works on so many levels. The evolution of the relationship between the repairmen was also surprising and fun.

    What a funny play! I really enjoyed the humor, and as a metaphor for how broken we are, this play works on so many levels. The evolution of the relationship between the repairmen was also surprising and fun.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: The Danger: A Homage to Strange Fruit

    A gorgeous polyvocal explosion of bold, theatrics! This play is a stunning exploration of race that floats off the stage in a transcendant flow and glow where the dynamics of our world are reflected back to us in fantastical moments of Truth. A must see! Should be produced all across this country.

    A gorgeous polyvocal explosion of bold, theatrics! This play is a stunning exploration of race that floats off the stage in a transcendant flow and glow where the dynamics of our world are reflected back to us in fantastical moments of Truth. A must see! Should be produced all across this country.