Recommended by David Hansen

Schatz tells an expansive story with great economy, utilizing a small number of interesting characters who debate and kvetch with wit and passion to build a dream for the future. The tragedy as they see it is the predetermined ephemera of architecture. As the playwright points out, "architecture might be the only art form where the art is destroyed as a means of progress." We are sadly aware of the flaws in the logic of their design, and how the techniques employed to make the thing possible are also elements which will contribute to its eventual destruction. Highly recommended.

"You know you're a rapist but you don't even know what rape means." To what extent should we understand the assailant, the rapist? What do you do with a perpetrator who demands his own punishment, when doing so is merely another form of control, dominance, and presence?

This is a strong two-hander, currently in development, one that poses difficult questions, with violence and humor, but openly searching for a true and honest path to justice and redemption.

A Dystopian parable, set in a near-future where all African-American men are legal bound to make a very specific sacrifice to maintain their own survival. In days past, those enslaved told of people who could fly (and escape their captors) and that story is wound up in this, a moving and lyric tale of the men who are complicit in the system and the women who sacrifice everything to save their children from it. Highly recommend.

Relentlessly funny, delightfully grotesque, and an extremely timely allegory for 21st century America, this fast-paced disaster play pits one quintessentially fatuous modern family against the forces of entropy which currently envelop our society. And there's cake!

Halliday's protagonists wait everywhere -- in the emergency room, at the amusement park, at the BMV -- highlighting modern issues and anxieties in this hilarious, absurdist deconstruction of Beckett's classic text. The original is merely a template for the playwright's spare and insightful examination of every contemporary indignity. Very, very funny, and "100% Bechdel Test Approved!"

A brilliant existentialist thriller which leaves the reader on-edge and uncertain until the last moment ... and beyond. A compact company of diverse ages makes this an eminently producible play; strongly recommended!

The Ultimate Millennial Road Trip Play! Exciting, youthful, shrewd and challenging, this is an inspiring, forward-leaning work. We must believe the Rains and Zoes are going to save the world.

An absurd and hilarious rumination on the existential anxiety of life in the theater, faithful to its inspirational source but uniquely original. I am not recommending my own work, I am spelled differently.

A fitting parable for our times, reflecting upon that greatest of American traditions, believing in a loser. Each of four characters believe in the underdog, and each for their own reasons, and how they deal with disappointment and disillusionment make up the powerful and devastating thrust of the narrative. It's a great read, and will make an excellent period piece with a contemporary message.

Packed with humor, honesty, and a surprising number of dicks, this is a hilarious and extremely relatable tale about coping with illness and ageing parents. Strongly recommended.