Recommended by Kyle Smith

  • Kyle Smith: The In-Between by Alexander Perez
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    Beautiful character work and inventive scenes populate this meditation on relationships. Perez manages to weave complex ideas and deep humanity into a play that makes you laugh as much as it makes you think.

    Beautiful character work and inventive scenes populate this meditation on relationships. Perez manages to weave complex ideas and deep humanity into a play that makes you laugh as much as it makes you think.

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  • Kyle Smith: The Bag Under the Bed by DC Cathro
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    Funny and human, a play on spicing up sex, quickly becomes a treatise for trying new things, held together by the shared humanity of Verne and Elle.

    Funny and human, a play on spicing up sex, quickly becomes a treatise for trying new things, held together by the shared humanity of Verne and Elle.

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  • Kyle Smith: 38 Cookies, 39 Reasons [a monologue] by Steven G. Martin
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    Martin plays with structure by giving us a play where the throughline is the eating of a pack of Oreos. We know how it's going to start, and we know how it's going to end, but the journey there brilliantly packs as much emotion into Terry and their journey, as Nabisco can pack into a Mega-Stuf Oreo.

    Martin plays with structure by giving us a play where the throughline is the eating of a pack of Oreos. We know how it's going to start, and we know how it's going to end, but the journey there brilliantly packs as much emotion into Terry and their journey, as Nabisco can pack into a Mega-Stuf Oreo.

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  • Kyle Smith: Even if it Gets Us Nowhere by Alexander Perez
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    This play is smartly funny, with enough wit bubbling in every sentence to drive you to the satisfying conclusion. The dialogue pops like firecrackers and the characters talk themselves in circles, in true absurdist fashion. Do yourself a favor, read this play.

    This play is smartly funny, with enough wit bubbling in every sentence to drive you to the satisfying conclusion. The dialogue pops like firecrackers and the characters talk themselves in circles, in true absurdist fashion. Do yourself a favor, read this play.

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  • Kyle Smith: Uncovering by Erin Mallon
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    Mallon's play poses difficult questions, forcing the audience to watch and seriously consider what's behind the different viewpoints at work here. We may feel like this world is alien and ugly, but the people who populate it are steadfast in their beliefs.

    Mallon's play poses difficult questions, forcing the audience to watch and seriously consider what's behind the different viewpoints at work here. We may feel like this world is alien and ugly, but the people who populate it are steadfast in their beliefs.

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  • Kyle Smith: Masking Our Blackness by Vincent Terrell Durham
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    Harrowing. A funny and disturbing reflection of what America is and has always been. This play dares you to watch without turning away.

    Harrowing. A funny and disturbing reflection of what America is and has always been. This play dares you to watch without turning away.

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  • Kyle Smith: cara has a hole in her head by Elise Wien
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    Wien's play vascilates between hysterically funny and horribly depressing with wonderful precision. I found myself not knowing if I should laugh or cry; somehow, I think the answer is both.

    Wien's play vascilates between hysterically funny and horribly depressing with wonderful precision. I found myself not knowing if I should laugh or cry; somehow, I think the answer is both.

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  • Kyle Smith: Randy's Dandy Coaster Castle by Alexander Perez
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    In turns humorous and horrifying, gleeful and depressing, Perez crafts a play of Chekhovian style tragicomedy that takes you on a roller coaster ride culminating in an ending you may not want, but need to see.

    In turns humorous and horrifying, gleeful and depressing, Perez crafts a play of Chekhovian style tragicomedy that takes you on a roller coaster ride culminating in an ending you may not want, but need to see.

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  • Kyle Smith: Booked and Blessed...OR BUST! by Alexander Perez
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    Perez manages to make a play that is both funny on the page and funny on stage. The world his characters inhabit is both strange, and oh so familiar to those in the business. Something, Somewhere, Somehow, manages to be dark but inspiring, dejected but hopeful and always, always, funny.

    Perez manages to make a play that is both funny on the page and funny on stage. The world his characters inhabit is both strange, and oh so familiar to those in the business. Something, Somewhere, Somehow, manages to be dark but inspiring, dejected but hopeful and always, always, funny.

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  • Kyle Smith: Peabrain by Jacob Marx Rice
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    In turns wickedly funny and heart crushingly sad, Peabrain takes you on a journey of sex and death that's as full of heart as it is of laughs. And of course, pigeons.

    In turns wickedly funny and heart crushingly sad, Peabrain takes you on a journey of sex and death that's as full of heart as it is of laughs. And of course, pigeons.

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