Recommended by Susan Middaugh

Very sweet play about two elderly folks, a man and woman, who share a bus shelter during some rain. They are strangers. She's standoffish at first while he's gregarious. He promises her flowers but instead. I love this line from her: "It's a weed." Time is short at their age. He asks her for a kiss and she gives it to him behind the umbrella. They each value privacy.

During a very stressful life or death situation, two friends learn their assumptions about each other are unwarranted -- to theirs and the audience's delight.

Grace, who has a reputation for being a good girl, breaks out of that stereotype by climbing on her cousin's roof with vodka in tow for herself and cousin Margaret. Grace insists on crashing an after-prom party that Margaret has been invited to, but Margaret refuses to go with her. Finally Grace is persuasive, but her daredevil tactics backfire at the last minute, a nice twist. Loved the line: "don't name your kid after a virtue because she'll do nothing but disappoint."

Bridgette captures a mother's grief and the anger she feels toward Mother Nature that caused her young daughter's drowning. Very poetic and a release of feeling that enables the mother to choose life and to reconnect with her lost daughter through her journal. Powerful.

Herbert, a long married man who's a bit of a stick in the mud, restores his wife's affection by confronting a know it all who looks down on her. Then Herbert surprises her by suggesting they do something new.

Using spare language Christopher creates a tense and creepy situation -- the kind of encounter that would make any patient or psychologist/psychiatrist run for the door. Well done!

Loved the pc cow and all of the play on words, especially Mootzart, and lyrics. "Why do you build me up Buttercup, just to let me down." Christopher is very clever in having the audience see this fairy tale in a new light. He's imagined cows arguing over their names or the lack of them, being jealous of one another, and inserting theme music from the Rocky movie as Cow 2 tries to jump over the moon. But the funniest part is when the Cows see the farmer coming and do what we humans expect of them -- they moo.

Does art imitate life? George Sapio makes a persuasive case that when a couple of actors sign a contract to participate in a marriage scene that they will in fact be married. Sleeping together offstage is one thing but the thought of being married to one another in real life is a nightmare to them, but a source of revenge for the director of the play. Very clever and thought provoking. I loved the reference to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

A very funny adaptation and insight into the Cinderella story from an older woman who has her "fair share of bunions and blisters." Emma questions the "happily ever after" premise so fundamental to fairy tales and Cinderella in particular. Loved the line: "Just because a shoe fits doesn't mean I want to wear it." Practical and down to earth point of view and realization that Prince Charming is not gonna change, but he might want to cough up some capital for her yoga studio, a modern Cinderella. Thank you.

It's up to the audience to figure out what B did or said to A in a room full of other people. A and B know. We don't. But we can guess. Can B resolve the problem on his/her own? Maybe, maybe not. Clever, George.