Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: always nothing else

    This is a beautifully written play for this moment! I really enjoyed the progression of the relationship in a world that is really well-drawn for our socially distant moment. Kudos!

    This is a beautifully written play for this moment! I really enjoyed the progression of the relationship in a world that is really well-drawn for our socially distant moment. Kudos!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: GUSHER!

    As the 1st female to recommend this play, it's refreshingly fabulous! GUSHER! delves so graphically into menstruation (love the casual handing of a bloody tampon to another person)! Stakes plus the ongoing discussion of cramps in a deluge while the universe is bleeding. IF ONLY! Love the premise, love the characters, love the (mimetic) language, the screaming and the caustic way Rosenberg has of laying it all out there in all its beauty: the female condition! Makes me want to chant in my kitchen: we're here, we're queer, we're bleeding, get used to it! (I will never miss my period.)

    As the 1st female to recommend this play, it's refreshingly fabulous! GUSHER! delves so graphically into menstruation (love the casual handing of a bloody tampon to another person)! Stakes plus the ongoing discussion of cramps in a deluge while the universe is bleeding. IF ONLY! Love the premise, love the characters, love the (mimetic) language, the screaming and the caustic way Rosenberg has of laying it all out there in all its beauty: the female condition! Makes me want to chant in my kitchen: we're here, we're queer, we're bleeding, get used to it! (I will never miss my period.)

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: ALICE IN THERAPY (from the TAPAS COLLECTION)

    Isn't this the way it goes? The doctor misunderstands the patient, in this case the darling Alice of Wonderland! Lermond subjects our darling Alice to the sexual innuendos of Dr. Freud! This will make any festival audience laugh as our favorite tale looks very different from a Freudian point of view!

    Isn't this the way it goes? The doctor misunderstands the patient, in this case the darling Alice of Wonderland! Lermond subjects our darling Alice to the sexual innuendos of Dr. Freud! This will make any festival audience laugh as our favorite tale looks very different from a Freudian point of view!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: I Love You

    Heartbreaking! And so real. And really wonderfully written. With brevity and just enough elaboration that we understand the enormity of the brick that gets dropped on the son, and his resistance. A triumph!

    Heartbreaking! And so real. And really wonderfully written. With brevity and just enough elaboration that we understand the enormity of the brick that gets dropped on the son, and his resistance. A triumph!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Hunger: A Ten-Minute Play

    It is a beautiful thing how the theatre can show us so much and let us understand how we are all connected. McLindon has 2 actors double as Irish people during the famine and as a contemporary Middle Easterners desperate to survive today so that we might empathize with ourselves (some might say "others"). It is beautiful how actors can embody us all and remind us so easily with the shifting of a piece of cloth, the magic of the theatre, the miracles of humanity.

    It is a beautiful thing how the theatre can show us so much and let us understand how we are all connected. McLindon has 2 actors double as Irish people during the famine and as a contemporary Middle Easterners desperate to survive today so that we might empathize with ourselves (some might say "others"). It is beautiful how actors can embody us all and remind us so easily with the shifting of a piece of cloth, the magic of the theatre, the miracles of humanity.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Squirrelly: A Ten-Minute Play

    Fascinating existential play that really takes us on a journey beyond what I expected. With twists and turns, humor and depth, these squirrels get me to contemplate the meaning of life while enjoying two great roles for actors that would be a blast in any play festival. A visual feast!

    Fascinating existential play that really takes us on a journey beyond what I expected. With twists and turns, humor and depth, these squirrels get me to contemplate the meaning of life while enjoying two great roles for actors that would be a blast in any play festival. A visual feast!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Adapt or Die (10 min.)

    I think this is one of my favorites of Robin Rice's oeuvre! It includes a lot of zany antics, a huge dose of the visual created via language, and there are lots and lots of colors! This would be a blast in any short play festival!

    I think this is one of my favorites of Robin Rice's oeuvre! It includes a lot of zany antics, a huge dose of the visual created via language, and there are lots and lots of colors! This would be a blast in any short play festival!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: THE BUTCHER

    An incredibly moving play about our divided world, how we misunderstand each other and fail to listen to each other, how separate we are in our beliefs, and how hard it is to find common ground. The Butcher brings five richly-drawn characters together to provoke us theatrically through storytelling; we are all better off for the experience. Read it! Produce it! Discuss!

    An incredibly moving play about our divided world, how we misunderstand each other and fail to listen to each other, how separate we are in our beliefs, and how hard it is to find common ground. The Butcher brings five richly-drawn characters together to provoke us theatrically through storytelling; we are all better off for the experience. Read it! Produce it! Discuss!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Rocks Algae Water Stars

    Wow! So two rovers on Mars can help reflect to us our own mortality, our own fallibility and inconsistencies and fragilities. This play makes me love theatre so much again! Thank you, O'Neill!

    Wow! So two rovers on Mars can help reflect to us our own mortality, our own fallibility and inconsistencies and fragilities. This play makes me love theatre so much again! Thank you, O'Neill!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Artifact

    A Staten Island ferry play that brings up some deep questions like what do we owe each other, and what can one culture do for another, or how two wrongs can be made right. Weibezahl manages to skillfully compel strangers to share deeply with each other and the dramatic tension held me to the very end. Kudos!

    A Staten Island ferry play that brings up some deep questions like what do we owe each other, and what can one culture do for another, or how two wrongs can be made right. Weibezahl manages to skillfully compel strangers to share deeply with each other and the dramatic tension held me to the very end. Kudos!