Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: memory

    Lovely, moving, poetic and surprising. Vinitski Mooney has a delicate touch and a wonderful ear. She works in concentric circles of rising action that I found incrementally moving.

    Lovely, moving, poetic and surprising. Vinitski Mooney has a delicate touch and a wonderful ear. She works in concentric circles of rising action that I found incrementally moving.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: The Braves One

    The mother's monologue in this play is priceless! I love her relationship to her son, and her son's relationship to her and how it causes so many hilarious things to happen. Funny romp of a play!

    The mother's monologue in this play is priceless! I love her relationship to her son, and her son's relationship to her and how it causes so many hilarious things to happen. Funny romp of a play!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: And Sometimes Y

    CRAZY AMAZING stuff from Matthew Weaver! What a great way to stretch one's chops - everyone should write an alphabet's worth of short plays using only that letter of the alphabet for dialogue, & aspire to be as inventive as Weaver! He invented this as a new form, and I will assign it to my writers as required! I particularly enjoyed Flamingos (and I know a perfect actor for it), and special attention must be paid to the 4 plays that begin with the letter Q. AWESOME, BOLD and full of KISSES! Kisses make it Weaveresque!

    CRAZY AMAZING stuff from Matthew Weaver! What a great way to stretch one's chops - everyone should write an alphabet's worth of short plays using only that letter of the alphabet for dialogue, & aspire to be as inventive as Weaver! He invented this as a new form, and I will assign it to my writers as required! I particularly enjoyed Flamingos (and I know a perfect actor for it), and special attention must be paid to the 4 plays that begin with the letter Q. AWESOME, BOLD and full of KISSES! Kisses make it Weaveresque!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Emily Dickinson Talks to God, Now (A Monologue)

    Wonderful work - Emily Dickinson Talks to God, Now - has such intriguing subtext, and there is so much to play with here, it is a rich, exciting piece of theatre!

    Wonderful work - Emily Dickinson Talks to God, Now - has such intriguing subtext, and there is so much to play with here, it is a rich, exciting piece of theatre!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: BARKING GIRL

    Thoroughly enjoyed this exploration of motherhood and the losses of self it insists upon, comic, surprising and poignant and an honest take on the ineffable difficulties women face when motherhood happens. Would love to see this up and barking!

    Thoroughly enjoyed this exploration of motherhood and the losses of self it insists upon, comic, surprising and poignant and an honest take on the ineffable difficulties women face when motherhood happens. Would love to see this up and barking!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Sing

    Beautiful work made all the more precious for its brevity!

    Beautiful work made all the more precious for its brevity!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: The Breakers

    Character is action, so says Aristotle, and you will enjoy all the characters and the action of this play in a diner by the sea. It is a bittersweet drama full of dreams and traumas haunting the lives of people who may be in the booth beside your own. Enlarging and filled with compassion.

    Character is action, so says Aristotle, and you will enjoy all the characters and the action of this play in a diner by the sea. It is a bittersweet drama full of dreams and traumas haunting the lives of people who may be in the booth beside your own. Enlarging and filled with compassion.

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Creep (aka Loveland)

    Great characters, lots of tension, and such important subject matter, I am happy to recommend this one! It is a thoroughly enjoyable play that needs production!

    Great characters, lots of tension, and such important subject matter, I am happy to recommend this one! It is a thoroughly enjoyable play that needs production!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Leftovers

    LOVED this play in Omaha, and, as a native Philly girl, I have to say Wilder has his Philly down! The characters are all so well-written, and there is so much humor and love in this play as it stranges with the weed in the yard. That strangeness makes for the beauty and resonance I walked away with - kudos to Wilder for his imaginative take on the family dramedy. Unforgettable!

    LOVED this play in Omaha, and, as a native Philly girl, I have to say Wilder has his Philly down! The characters are all so well-written, and there is so much humor and love in this play as it stranges with the weed in the yard. That strangeness makes for the beauty and resonance I walked away with - kudos to Wilder for his imaginative take on the family dramedy. Unforgettable!

  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: Heroes

    These two young brothers reflect the world we live in to tragic end, and we watch and only know what's coming a split second before it comes, and then too late, we are unable to change it. This is a powerful play that shows how war begets war, violence violence. I highly recommend it!

    These two young brothers reflect the world we live in to tragic end, and we watch and only know what's coming a split second before it comes, and then too late, we are unable to change it. This is a powerful play that shows how war begets war, violence violence. I highly recommend it!