Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: White Women

    A cry in the bright light of day! This woman's pain is palpable and would be a powerful piece for any festival of civic liberties, street theatre and beyond.

    A cry in the bright light of day! This woman's pain is palpable and would be a powerful piece for any festival of civic liberties, street theatre and beyond.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Out of Body/On a Train

    This is INTENSE! WOW - I love how Moughon tackles this head-on with theatre as the perfect medium and the perfect metaphor. Probably the most powerful ten minute play ever.

    This is INTENSE! WOW - I love how Moughon tackles this head-on with theatre as the perfect medium and the perfect metaphor. Probably the most powerful ten minute play ever.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Lost Sock Laundromat, Astoria, Queens

    I saw this play last night in the International Human Rights Art Festival, and I have to congratulate Faute for his work. This play deals with new immigrants coming to NYC and not understanding the culture or the language. How to manage in a laundromat filled with other people from other places? We learn to fit in. We accept or don't accept strangers. Its strength was in making us all identify with the newcomer in strange surroundings. A fascinating study that maintained its tension throughout. Well done!

    I saw this play last night in the International Human Rights Art Festival, and I have to congratulate Faute for his work. This play deals with new immigrants coming to NYC and not understanding the culture or the language. How to manage in a laundromat filled with other people from other places? We learn to fit in. We accept or don't accept strangers. Its strength was in making us all identify with the newcomer in strange surroundings. A fascinating study that maintained its tension throughout. Well done!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: PERMISSION

    I saw this last night at the International Human Rights Art Festival and it blew me away! The situation is right up there with the most pressing issues of our days. The monologue is tremendous! What a well written play! It was directed a very specific way, but I could see the writer has left a lot to interpretation which is enormously generous for directors to do what they will with it. I imagine it will have quite a life onstage!

    I saw this last night at the International Human Rights Art Festival and it blew me away! The situation is right up there with the most pressing issues of our days. The monologue is tremendous! What a well written play! It was directed a very specific way, but I could see the writer has left a lot to interpretation which is enormously generous for directors to do what they will with it. I imagine it will have quite a life onstage!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: VEILS OF JUSTICE

    Stunning! Anntares has written an incredibly intense, edge-of-your-seat courtroom drama that everyone should read and produce - based on a true story, but there is so much structure and tension that Anntares employs to shape it, Veils of Justice feels more like a thriller. Seduction! LGBTQIA! It has won every award there is to win! Why is this still unproduced?

    Stunning! Anntares has written an incredibly intense, edge-of-your-seat courtroom drama that everyone should read and produce - based on a true story, but there is so much structure and tension that Anntares employs to shape it, Veils of Justice feels more like a thriller. Seduction! LGBTQIA! It has won every award there is to win! Why is this still unproduced?

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Sirens

    Sirens is a funny satire on police procedurals and the objectification of females no matter what our profession! Wonderful work!

    Sirens is a funny satire on police procedurals and the objectification of females no matter what our profession! Wonderful work!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Inner Dialogue

    Proving the grass is always greener, this play puts the thoughts on top. I like the way it makes you want to know what is happening on the surface. It would be a blast to direct. I always like playwrights who do the unexpected, and Inner Dialogue is a fun way to play with the short form!

    Proving the grass is always greener, this play puts the thoughts on top. I like the way it makes you want to know what is happening on the surface. It would be a blast to direct. I always like playwrights who do the unexpected, and Inner Dialogue is a fun way to play with the short form!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: The Ferberizing of Coral

    Very imaginative as well as funny, but it's not just funny - a whole heap of assumptions comes into play - and the play really takes a look at a lot of societal ideas about parenting and development and it's dark, and it's also funny! Wonderfully written!

    Very imaginative as well as funny, but it's not just funny - a whole heap of assumptions comes into play - and the play really takes a look at a lot of societal ideas about parenting and development and it's dark, and it's also funny! Wonderfully written!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Marvin

    Vansant has written a wonderfully funny and imaginative play that deals with a very common childhood fear I won't give away, so MARVIN speaks to many of us (children and adults) on many levels. There is a deep heart to all the shenanigans! MARVIN will continue to be relevant for centuries. It would be super-fun and simple to produce. Read it, produce, repeat!

    Vansant has written a wonderfully funny and imaginative play that deals with a very common childhood fear I won't give away, so MARVIN speaks to many of us (children and adults) on many levels. There is a deep heart to all the shenanigans! MARVIN will continue to be relevant for centuries. It would be super-fun and simple to produce. Read it, produce, repeat!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: BO-NITA

    A good definition for The Seeing Place (theatron in Greek) begins here. BO-NITA is so incredibly moving and simultaneously hilarious I am beyond impressed with it and Heffron's ability to define character so clearly that one person can show us these fully dimensional complex people including a 300 lb dead man with a boner, a woman super-trashed, a child desperately seeking belonging - all in the blink of an eyelash! A rare and stunning work of art.

    A good definition for The Seeing Place (theatron in Greek) begins here. BO-NITA is so incredibly moving and simultaneously hilarious I am beyond impressed with it and Heffron's ability to define character so clearly that one person can show us these fully dimensional complex people including a 300 lb dead man with a boner, a woman super-trashed, a child desperately seeking belonging - all in the blink of an eyelash! A rare and stunning work of art.