Recommended by Susan Middaugh

Two lonely people find one another late at night at a motel and begin to dance. He's got legs and she does too. Thanks, Emma.

Loved the lines: "I didn't take it. I borrowed it (Mom's eyeliner). Rachael does a great job of showing the tension between a mother and her 11-year-old daughter, trying to establish a balance between independence and preteenism. The last line summed it up: "Mom, what's for dinner?"

Loved the title, the opening line: "I became a mother at 60,", the premise, the honesty and the outcome of this short monologue. Thank you Selma for sharing it and for what you did for your nephew.

Andrew has the ability to condense in one page a woman's memory of her father that is poetic as well as evocative. She compares his laugh to a hurricane. Real storms gave him and his daughter an opportunity to be Robin Hood-like pirates whose booty is fruit. This memory is a comfort to her when a hurricane named Maria claims him. Wonderfully well done.

Loved these lines: "It was love at first sight from the moment your carts bumped into each other at the Walmart pharmacy... We met over heartburn." Also liked the physical humor associated with watching two women in their 70s try to slip a wedding garter on their 70 year old friend; they lose their balance. This play displays fear about the wedding night and the trio's response: run!

To think that two women who are very different can bond in the waiting room of a fertility clinic is heartening. That they can find humor in their individual situations and each other's ability to make the other laugh is even better, especially since Katherine is ordinarily shy. I loved the line: "Is there a nursing home for aged-out ovaries?" Women will like this play. Congratulations, Alli.

Congratulations, Lia. I attended a reading of your play last week in Durango, CO. Moving and well done. I liked the fact that the man in this play was reluctant to pursue a one night stand. Usually, in my opinion, it's the woman. Also liked the idea that two people of very different backgrounds, age, and race can connect; what brings them together is their loneliness and his persistence.

Full of scripted twists and turns, this short play raises the following question: who is the better actress? Ryan has the gift of suspense. Well done!

Despite having a heart attack that prompted him to want to bring rhythm to his life and ultimately take guitar lessons, "Daddy" is still puffed up about the successful commercial he brought about and which brought him lots of money. But to his great dismay he learns belatedly about the impact his commercial had on his guitar instructor and friend.

This monologue offers great insight on what it's like to have a physical disability and the conflict between a brain and a hand that can't do what the mind wants it to do. Anger, not pity; lack of awareness within the same body. The need to repress sexual urges. Thank you, Rachel.