Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Dialogue & Subtext for Breakfast

    Very funny and accurately describes all the dialogue and subtext lessons you'll ever need while they are happening - a show-don't-tell extravaganza - that should be up and on its feet immediately. It would be great fun to play the wife who sounds like a real truck driver while the un-plugged husband points out her faults. I'm so glad she burned his eggs!

    Very funny and accurately describes all the dialogue and subtext lessons you'll ever need while they are happening - a show-don't-tell extravaganza - that should be up and on its feet immediately. It would be great fun to play the wife who sounds like a real truck driver while the un-plugged husband points out her faults. I'm so glad she burned his eggs!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: DON'T DO THIS TO US!

    What a hilarious piece of writing! Swirsky does a marvelous job with this very funny concept that I seriously wish could work in reality! If only! I love the characters! I love the language! I love the tension created as I wait for the breaking of Jared Kushner's penis!

    What a hilarious piece of writing! Swirsky does a marvelous job with this very funny concept that I seriously wish could work in reality! If only! I love the characters! I love the language! I love the tension created as I wait for the breaking of Jared Kushner's penis!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: A Paper Forest - Part of the "The United Plays of America" Anthology (Minnesota)

    Lucy (like the Lorax) speaks for the trees, and I love her for this! Haas has given her characters some tangible serious stakes and hopes and tasks and set them up in a beautiful spot with easy to produce instructions for us to enjoy a magical theatrical play that helps us through what feels like an imminent crisis that could be enormously overwhelming. Grateful for this! Read it and produce it everywhere!

    Lucy (like the Lorax) speaks for the trees, and I love her for this! Haas has given her characters some tangible serious stakes and hopes and tasks and set them up in a beautiful spot with easy to produce instructions for us to enjoy a magical theatrical play that helps us through what feels like an imminent crisis that could be enormously overwhelming. Grateful for this! Read it and produce it everywhere!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: THE GOLDENS

    What a deliciously fabulous piece of theatre! I LOVE IT!!!!!!! Why hasn't it been produced a thousand times? This is a very dark play that made me laugh out loud for joy at the great revenge Mary takes! And the tiny details involved. Great work!

    What a deliciously fabulous piece of theatre! I LOVE IT!!!!!!! Why hasn't it been produced a thousand times? This is a very dark play that made me laugh out loud for joy at the great revenge Mary takes! And the tiny details involved. Great work!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Married Bliss

    MARRIED BLISS is a can of worms opening - or perhaps spilling out onto a luge track - and then,,, ? It could go really dark! It could be directed many ways! Marriage is filled with unknown possibilities, and here we have Koppen's very funny and easily staged morning in bed to enjoy! I do!

    MARRIED BLISS is a can of worms opening - or perhaps spilling out onto a luge track - and then,,, ? It could go really dark! It could be directed many ways! Marriage is filled with unknown possibilities, and here we have Koppen's very funny and easily staged morning in bed to enjoy! I do!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Two Cats Explain the Monstrous Moth Group

    Weird morsel of a play that Thal cooks up for us. I love the way he plays with his characters and the levels of reality from the television to the human to the animal and what takes precedence when. Thal seems to want us to see ourselves from other angles. Our humanity is a marvel on display here. Much to consider! And funny! And it would be really fun to watch!

    Weird morsel of a play that Thal cooks up for us. I love the way he plays with his characters and the levels of reality from the television to the human to the animal and what takes precedence when. Thal seems to want us to see ourselves from other angles. Our humanity is a marvel on display here. Much to consider! And funny! And it would be really fun to watch!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Bulletproof Love

    This play is so big and so filled with such passion and such heart, the kinda love you wanna die for, the kinda river you hafta cry for - it's just too amazing not to love! LANGUAGE people - LANGUAGE is the heart of theatre - and if this doesn't prove that once and for all, you're all a buncha knuckleheads, said with love. READ PRODUCE REPEAT!

    This play is so big and so filled with such passion and such heart, the kinda love you wanna die for, the kinda river you hafta cry for - it's just too amazing not to love! LANGUAGE people - LANGUAGE is the heart of theatre - and if this doesn't prove that once and for all, you're all a buncha knuckleheads, said with love. READ PRODUCE REPEAT!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Just Desserts

    Just Desserts is an award-winning play for all the best reasons! It has great dialogue, wonderful characters who make great discoveries together, a super setting (easy to produce)! It moves ferociously toward an unexpected ending that is so thrilling and inevitable in retrospect, you should read it right now! And I hope it gets produced a lot! Ten Minute Plays are SO DELICIOUS, and this one is worth enjoying!

    Just Desserts is an award-winning play for all the best reasons! It has great dialogue, wonderful characters who make great discoveries together, a super setting (easy to produce)! It moves ferociously toward an unexpected ending that is so thrilling and inevitable in retrospect, you should read it right now! And I hope it gets produced a lot! Ten Minute Plays are SO DELICIOUS, and this one is worth enjoying!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Late-Walking Through the Realm

    A beautiful dream of a play with language that is as sumptuous and agile as these two men who, though they've known each other for a long time, finally get down to the truth of their relationship. Tillotson is a true romantic at heart and a linguist who can spar with the best of them. Highly theatrical!

    A beautiful dream of a play with language that is as sumptuous and agile as these two men who, though they've known each other for a long time, finally get down to the truth of their relationship. Tillotson is a true romantic at heart and a linguist who can spar with the best of them. Highly theatrical!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: He Misses

    Vermillion covers so much ground in this, and while yes, most of it is covered in pee, it's wonderful! Always nice to find other playwrights whose aesthetic is so similar to my own! This play addresses a slew of canonical pissing plays that truly need revision. I am happy to recommend HE MISSES as a hilarious comic romp to fuel discussion and awareness and potentially change! Please read and produce often!

    Vermillion covers so much ground in this, and while yes, most of it is covered in pee, it's wonderful! Always nice to find other playwrights whose aesthetic is so similar to my own! This play addresses a slew of canonical pissing plays that truly need revision. I am happy to recommend HE MISSES as a hilarious comic romp to fuel discussion and awareness and potentially change! Please read and produce often!