Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

  • LOVE YOURSELF!!!!
    29 Dec. 2022
    I LOVE THIS PLAY! What a fun, physical, fabulous play! This would be an amazing and energizing addition to any short pay festival with great roles for women. A kick-ass monologue! And a super ending. Totally relatable. Great work!
  • AFIKOMAN
    27 Dec. 2022
    Ah, we all can get so stuck while hiding! This is a beautiful new one-act that delves deeply into family trauma in a loving and theatrical way. This is also a healing journey that will be quite effective and moving onstage. Beautiful work!
  • WORDS TO THAT EFFECT
    27 Dec. 2022
    A beautiful play about how a young man becomes a drag queen. With super roles for both characters. Lush language, Lavinia quotes famous men throughout to great effect that might be quite comic, as she tags it all with the possibility that she's getting it all wrong. But whether or not she got it right, her son adores her. This is an homage full of love to triumph over the hardships they both suffered.
  • A Christmas Pickle
    27 Dec. 2022
    Goosebumps! This is a wonderfully touching play that works its backstory to great advantage. It's hard to have a play based on what to do about something that we never see happen, but Incrocci handles it really well, using everything that happened last night to great effect in the current scene. I love the ending!
  • The Vault
    27 Dec. 2022
    Wonderful work! I love the ideas and the relationship and how the exposition is there but without any strings - we know so much about them without being told. Super characters well-delineated and great reasons that their love might survive the icy year...
  • Ashes in the Allegheny
    27 Dec. 2022
    I love a play about grief, and this is so much more. The characters are wonderfully fleshed out, and the sense of place informs all the actions. The stakes are high. It's a ghost story, a haunting, a thriller of a story. Great work!
  • BLANKS
    20 Dec. 2022
    A brilliant, stunning and beautifully conceived play with theatricality, rhythm, lush language and truth from beginning to end. I love the way Herron-Coward blends the internal experience with the external events and brings in so many iconic "Aunties" as parts of Reese to show us her internal struggles. Dynamic and exciting work!
  • Voyage To Nowhere
    18 Dec. 2022
    Mackling does a great job keeping the mystery of this play mysterious. The reveal feels fresh and raw. I appreciate the spare dialogue and Tate's refusal to let Siena in for good reasons. It feels urgent and exciting and would be great for two actors to work on.
  • Bagged
    17 Dec. 2022
    A perfect comic gem in 60 seconds! Wonderful work! As a dog parent and poop-picker-upper, there are big philosophical truths in here along with the fun, scatalogical ending!
  • My Perfectly Valid Objections
    17 Dec. 2022
    Wow - watching Terri and Doug get off to a rocky start will be hilarious! Terri puts Doug through the rollercoaster of her fears while Doug has to hold on without a seatbelt. This is a very funny first date's first ten minutes thanks to Gillette's great dialogue and the way she creates Terri's character. I look forward to reading more of her work.

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