Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: A SHELL OF WHO SHE ONCE WAS

    What a masterful piece! Burdick is able to provide us all with not only a strong active survivor of the random violence we are all at risk of becoming, but he is also able to show us a human cop who tries to operate inside the bounds of her assignment until she cannot. This would be a gem in any festival - produce it!

    What a masterful piece! Burdick is able to provide us all with not only a strong active survivor of the random violence we are all at risk of becoming, but he is also able to show us a human cop who tries to operate inside the bounds of her assignment until she cannot. This would be a gem in any festival - produce it!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Listening

    Here is such a poignant piece that O'Grady creates with great skill. Her light touch lets us experience the frustration, confusion and rejection this young woman is forced to manage and provides - through music and the act of listening - a way for Hailey to move forward. Beautiful!

    Here is such a poignant piece that O'Grady creates with great skill. Her light touch lets us experience the frustration, confusion and rejection this young woman is forced to manage and provides - through music and the act of listening - a way for Hailey to move forward. Beautiful!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: The Last Great Act of Mankind

    Relevant play for all its absurdity but also beautifully written and sweet! I really enjoy the high stakes of the situation and the real questioning of what could we do with our last moments on earth. Definitely a great piece for any festival!

    Relevant play for all its absurdity but also beautifully written and sweet! I really enjoy the high stakes of the situation and the real questioning of what could we do with our last moments on earth. Definitely a great piece for any festival!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Talk to Me About Home (a ten minute play)

    I highly recommend this beautifully written and heartfelt script. 29th Street did a staged reading of it, and it was a highlight that night. It would be a wonderful addition to any short play festival!

    I highly recommend this beautifully written and heartfelt script. 29th Street did a staged reading of it, and it was a highlight that night. It would be a wonderful addition to any short play festival!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Well That Just Happened

    Hilarious play about co-workers and their absurd reactions to the death of a colleague that is funnier the longer it goes on and has a great ending! I highly recommend it - read it! Produce it!

    Hilarious play about co-workers and their absurd reactions to the death of a colleague that is funnier the longer it goes on and has a great ending! I highly recommend it - read it! Produce it!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Faith

    First, I'm a big fan of biblical adaptation, so right away I was totally down for this. Second the title is perfect. As a Jew I am aware that I can be a good Jew and still question G-d. (That's my superstitious way of not writing out the word...) And people don't always know this. People think that faith is blind, but it doesn't have to be. Faith is the strength to question, the words of this monologue, the argument itself. May it live on many stages!

    First, I'm a big fan of biblical adaptation, so right away I was totally down for this. Second the title is perfect. As a Jew I am aware that I can be a good Jew and still question G-d. (That's my superstitious way of not writing out the word...) And people don't always know this. People think that faith is blind, but it doesn't have to be. Faith is the strength to question, the words of this monologue, the argument itself. May it live on many stages!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Three Cheerleaders Cheering for the Worst Team in the History of High School Sports

    This is one of those short plays that stays with you forever. I love the send up of the neo-liberals, and I love the high school posturing -- my son's in high school right now, and this is pitch perfect! But mostly I have to feel for Peter who breaks my heart with his beautiful monologue.

    This is one of those short plays that stays with you forever. I love the send up of the neo-liberals, and I love the high school posturing -- my son's in high school right now, and this is pitch perfect! But mostly I have to feel for Peter who breaks my heart with his beautiful monologue.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: ACCORDING TO THE CHORUS

    This is a wonderful ensemble play that is a theatre-lovers dream project! Filled with backstage drama, dreams of chorus girls, frustrations of the aging, unappreciated dressers, and a young woman on the edge of becoming a writer. Hutton is a true romantic. Whether it's a 2hander or a large cast like this one, she gives the characters palpable hearts that beat and ache, and audiences can't help but ache with them.

    This is a wonderful ensemble play that is a theatre-lovers dream project! Filled with backstage drama, dreams of chorus girls, frustrations of the aging, unappreciated dressers, and a young woman on the edge of becoming a writer. Hutton is a true romantic. Whether it's a 2hander or a large cast like this one, she gives the characters palpable hearts that beat and ache, and audiences can't help but ache with them.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC

    I loved this play when I first saw it years ago, and I still love this play because the characters are so wonderfully idiosyncratic; because the play unspools in its own way with such an honest moment to moment truthfulness; because it's the kind of play that doesn't need bells or whistles to ring true.

    I loved this play when I first saw it years ago, and I still love this play because the characters are so wonderfully idiosyncratic; because the play unspools in its own way with such an honest moment to moment truthfulness; because it's the kind of play that doesn't need bells or whistles to ring true.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: THE TIME IS OUT OF JOINT

    Hilarious and strange and absurdist and wonderful, and I love that there are Femme Scientists!

    Hilarious and strange and absurdist and wonderful, and I love that there are Femme Scientists!