Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: The Good Adoptee

    This is a beautiful moving account of an origin search for belonging and identity, and Bachner does it with flair. I couldn't stop reading!

    This is a beautiful moving account of an origin search for belonging and identity, and Bachner does it with flair. I couldn't stop reading!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: The Even More Lamentable Tragedy of Lavinia

    This is a hilarious adaptation of Titus Andronicus made even more wonderful by the way Zlatos constantly brings us into this minute and all of our ridiculous materialist self-obsessed fantasies! Centering Lavinia is pure genius!

    This is a hilarious adaptation of Titus Andronicus made even more wonderful by the way Zlatos constantly brings us into this minute and all of our ridiculous materialist self-obsessed fantasies! Centering Lavinia is pure genius!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: THIS HAPPENED ONCE AT THE ROMANCE DEPOT OFF THE 1-87 IN WESTCHESTER

    Beautiful work yet again by the incomparable Gina Femia revealing the intimate truths of life one lonely heart at a time. Here is a play about connection that accrues slowly in small details until I realized I was completely invested. BRAVA!

    Beautiful work yet again by the incomparable Gina Femia revealing the intimate truths of life one lonely heart at a time. Here is a play about connection that accrues slowly in small details until I realized I was completely invested. BRAVA!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Jump

    An incredibly theatrical play that does what only plays can do! This is a play about sisters and loss and family and grief and how we manage what we have to manage. There is a driving poetics at work here that thrills me on every page.

    An incredibly theatrical play that does what only plays can do! This is a play about sisters and loss and family and grief and how we manage what we have to manage. There is a driving poetics at work here that thrills me on every page.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Round the Mountain

    This strangely wild bit of mischief-making is so much fun! Whether it reminds me of War of the Worlds or a new Beckett farce, any way you slice them up, these characters are fascinating and worth watching. I never knew which way the piece was headed, and usually I can tell, so kudos to Houg for switching it all up all over the place. There is a beautiful monologue about the existential nature of our existence. I look forward to more words from Houg.

    This strangely wild bit of mischief-making is so much fun! Whether it reminds me of War of the Worlds or a new Beckett farce, any way you slice them up, these characters are fascinating and worth watching. I never knew which way the piece was headed, and usually I can tell, so kudos to Houg for switching it all up all over the place. There is a beautiful monologue about the existential nature of our existence. I look forward to more words from Houg.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: MITZI'S ABORTION: A Saint's Guide to Late-Term Politics and Medicine in America

    I know two women who were forced to go through very similar situations, and I am so glad this play exists so that the women who have had to endure this can see themselves in it because they so deserve this beautiful and big-hearted play! Thank you Elizabeth Heffron for writing this play with its wonderful characters today and from history. I love them all. Also the monologue is stunning, just stunning...

    I know two women who were forced to go through very similar situations, and I am so glad this play exists so that the women who have had to endure this can see themselves in it because they so deserve this beautiful and big-hearted play! Thank you Elizabeth Heffron for writing this play with its wonderful characters today and from history. I love them all. Also the monologue is stunning, just stunning...

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: To Fall in Love

    There are very few plays that make me tear up, and this one did. Not just once, but several times! I remember when the 36 Questions came out, and I thought someone should write a play using these, but this goes beyond what I imagined for it. Such a brilliant play. Goes deeper than I expected. May it live a long well produced and published life!

    There are very few plays that make me tear up, and this one did. Not just once, but several times! I remember when the 36 Questions came out, and I thought someone should write a play using these, but this goes beyond what I imagined for it. Such a brilliant play. Goes deeper than I expected. May it live a long well produced and published life!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Object

    Wonderfully conceived and well executed metaphor that works really well as a play and makes me think first of how we can be too quick to offer ourselves to people and then about how fickle we can be and then how things change as we age... OBJECT would be a great part of any short play festival!

    Wonderfully conceived and well executed metaphor that works really well as a play and makes me think first of how we can be too quick to offer ourselves to people and then about how fickle we can be and then how things change as we age... OBJECT would be a great part of any short play festival!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Two Lights

    I had the opportunity to work as a dramaturg on this play at Great Plains Theatre Conference, and it was a pleasure to get to know Brett and his work! Two Lights is a wonderful play with four well-rendered characters each so very different and fascinating, great for actors to sink their claws into! Two Lights raises some juicy questions about the nature of life and art and the role of women in particular as wives, caregivers, muses and artists. I highly recommend this play!

    I had the opportunity to work as a dramaturg on this play at Great Plains Theatre Conference, and it was a pleasure to get to know Brett and his work! Two Lights is a wonderful play with four well-rendered characters each so very different and fascinating, great for actors to sink their claws into! Two Lights raises some juicy questions about the nature of life and art and the role of women in particular as wives, caregivers, muses and artists. I highly recommend this play!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: NATIVE SON

    Nambi E. Kelley's Native Son is an intensely moving, daring, theatrical adaptation! I am stunned by the dramaturgy, the spareness of the language and how it evokes a wholly relatable experience of trauma through oppression. She gives us an experience of Bigger as he twists and turns trying to find a way out of the maze that is the systemic whiteness of our world. Speaks as much to today as it ever did. This is necessary theatre, and I'm grateful for it! MUST BE READ AND PRODUCED!

    Nambi E. Kelley's Native Son is an intensely moving, daring, theatrical adaptation! I am stunned by the dramaturgy, the spareness of the language and how it evokes a wholly relatable experience of trauma through oppression. She gives us an experience of Bigger as he twists and turns trying to find a way out of the maze that is the systemic whiteness of our world. Speaks as much to today as it ever did. This is necessary theatre, and I'm grateful for it! MUST BE READ AND PRODUCED!