Recommended by Rachael Carnes

Haha! Delightful! I love a play that takes me to new places, where the world it creates is real and fun, even if it makes precious little sense at all! Plummer has a grand time winding up this adorable set-up (that a trio of actors would have a field day with exploring) and then just lets everybody go. It's quick and sharp — And would be a crowd pleaser for any comedic 10-minute play festival.

Wow. In just eight lines, Diaz-Marcano encapsulates so much present and so much history. A vital, and funny piece, one of the finest micro-plays I've come across. Just, wow.

Wow, Frandsen packs a punch in this short piece that examines the uncertainty and pain that overwhelms people in the throes of catastrophic events. There's something about the writing that's so real and moving -- we're dropping in on decisions with irreversible consequences.

In this breathtaking piece we find all the goods that make Wyndham’s monologues and shorts so complete and so compelling: As a writer, he’s willing to challenge the audience with people who reveal who they are not simply in what they say, but in what they withhold, and the hurts and stings that stay with them. What makes this play so powerful is Wyndham’s tremendous gift for comedy, and these arresting moments of total vulnerability. This vital play taps into current conversations across the country, and in its brilliance, offers no easy answers.

Wow - this is a deeply nuanced piece, with dialogue that has rich emotional layers, without seeming the least bit contrived or overwrought. There’s a classic storytelling in Turnage’s creative voice here, a timely and a timeless quality, where the shared space between the characters is so thick, so tense, it almost makes the play a trio. This piece impresses with its mastery of language and its rhythmic drive. It just keeps ratcheting us up on every single page, in every way.

This feverish play careens in and out of reality with such breakneck speed - it's a perfect metaphor for these weird-ass times. I love these nutty characters, and how Lawing winds them up and just lets them go, as they spill allover each other and the wild world they inhabit. This play would be so much fun to see onstage! It's a terrific parody, with perhaps the best title in history.

YES! This is the universe that I want to spend time in! Thal's goofy characters and engaging setting drop us into the most delightfully weird world. This play needs to be read and enjoyed for Parvati alone! Viva Parvati. Such fun. It's just refreshing to read something that can only be theater - hilarious!

Written almost like a lyrical chorus, this painfully evocative play grips the reader and won't let go. Kelly delves into our opioids crisis with unflinching emotion, and a tense relationship between these two characters. Seen live, I'm sure no one would breathe from start to finish.

In this monologue, Bublitz builds incredible layers of tension, between past and present, between real and memory -- and between deep, unshakable knowledge and the niceties and complex conventions, the artificial excuses, that can so easily be perpetuated in a society that doesn't believe women. I'm truly grateful that this play's been written, as it so eloquently and powerfully expresses where we've been, and where we're going.

What a cracking play! Dialogue that sparkles, two dynamic characters and a specific, yet universally accessible, story line. Love this duo, right from the start. Now I wanna see them every decade of their lives forever. A brilliant piece of writing.