Recommended by Robert Weibezahl

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    This short play tackles a number of the everyday dilemmas many face in our fractured, changing age with a surprisingly light and effective touch. Its message of love grows organically out of the sharp humor and delightful characterizations, winning us over through its sheer humanity.

    This short play tackles a number of the everyday dilemmas many face in our fractured, changing age with a surprisingly light and effective touch. Its message of love grows organically out of the sharp humor and delightful characterizations, winning us over through its sheer humanity.

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    A charming and touching “meet cute.” No playwright is better at imbuing quirky objects with deep significance than Arianna Rose, and ALL THE PEZ is no exception.

    A charming and touching “meet cute.” No playwright is better at imbuing quirky objects with deep significance than Arianna Rose, and ALL THE PEZ is no exception.

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    A beautifully rendered monologue, filled with twists, that builds with palpable tension. O’Neill-Butler wonderfully captures the boundless innocence and lurking menace of youth through this evocative recollection.

    A beautifully rendered monologue, filled with twists, that builds with palpable tension. O’Neill-Butler wonderfully captures the boundless innocence and lurking menace of youth through this evocative recollection.

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    A zombie’s diet is not, er ... well-balanced. Why do they only eat brains? You’ll have to read Baughfman’s hilarious one-minute play to find out.

    A zombie’s diet is not, er ... well-balanced. Why do they only eat brains? You’ll have to read Baughfman’s hilarious one-minute play to find out.

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    This fast and furious ten-minute play uses the tropes of classic sex comedies to drop the hammer on the rampant hypocrisy in Washington, particularly among the moralizing right. As a congressional vote to overturn same-sex marriage plays out in the boudoir of a Lady G-esque Southern senator, the sharp satire sometimes reads – unfortunately for our nation! – as cinema verité. Frenetic and funny, BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL gives new meaning to “gag order.”

    This fast and furious ten-minute play uses the tropes of classic sex comedies to drop the hammer on the rampant hypocrisy in Washington, particularly among the moralizing right. As a congressional vote to overturn same-sex marriage plays out in the boudoir of a Lady G-esque Southern senator, the sharp satire sometimes reads – unfortunately for our nation! – as cinema verité. Frenetic and funny, BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL gives new meaning to “gag order.”

  • Robert Weibezahl: UNEVEN SIDES OF A TRIANGLE (a full-length play) by Marj O'Neill-Butler
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    A tender and fierce three-hander that explores the cost of creating "families" out of our fundamental need to connect. The well-developed characters are unvarnished and nuanced, imperfect and unforgettable.

    A tender and fierce three-hander that explores the cost of creating "families" out of our fundamental need to connect. The well-developed characters are unvarnished and nuanced, imperfect and unforgettable.

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  • Robert Weibezahl: KEEPING SCORE (A 10-minute play) by Marj O'Neill-Butler
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    Another surefire crowd-pleaser from O'Neill-Butler, the uncontested queen of comic senior shorts. The ironically-named Grace is a part older female actors will be clamoring to play - a crusty anti-guardian angel, fed up with pathetic Chuck's antics and determined to protect the unsuspecting Molly from his arrested romantic fantasies. This one is going to "grace" a lot of 10-minute festivals.

    Another surefire crowd-pleaser from O'Neill-Butler, the uncontested queen of comic senior shorts. The ironically-named Grace is a part older female actors will be clamoring to play - a crusty anti-guardian angel, fed up with pathetic Chuck's antics and determined to protect the unsuspecting Molly from his arrested romantic fantasies. This one is going to "grace" a lot of 10-minute festivals.

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  • Robert Weibezahl: Not Your Usual Princess by M. K. Wessel
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    This clever and hilarious fractured fairy tale leans into the many tropes of the genre with refreshing originally. Heard in an excellent audio production by Theatrical Shenanigans, it came to life with one laugh-out-loud moment after another.

    This clever and hilarious fractured fairy tale leans into the many tropes of the genre with refreshing originally. Heard in an excellent audio production by Theatrical Shenanigans, it came to life with one laugh-out-loud moment after another.

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  • Robert Weibezahl: Cute Girl in the Third Row (10 Minute Play) by Pamela Morgan
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    A sharp and smart comic dissection of the reality that female actors face at auditions -- pigeonholed by their appearance and pitted against one another on the "cuteness" scale ... often enduring this humiliation for a one-line part. The possibility of a friendship between the battle-weary Alice and Lisa provides a flash of hope as these two young women struggle to make sense of it all.

    A sharp and smart comic dissection of the reality that female actors face at auditions -- pigeonholed by their appearance and pitted against one another on the "cuteness" scale ... often enduring this humiliation for a one-line part. The possibility of a friendship between the battle-weary Alice and Lisa provides a flash of hope as these two young women struggle to make sense of it all.

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  • Robert Weibezahl: ME AND MY KNEE, a three-minute monologue by Arianna Rose
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    Halfway through this monologue about living with a chronic, debilitating health issue, a truly surprising turn recalibrates Jackie’s – and the audience’s – perspective. An intriguing confluence of the physical and the spiritual, and of the present and the past – all sprinkled with Rose’s customary clever use of language – ME AND MY KNEE will leave you thinking in new ways about the pain you carry.

    Halfway through this monologue about living with a chronic, debilitating health issue, a truly surprising turn recalibrates Jackie’s – and the audience’s – perspective. An intriguing confluence of the physical and the spiritual, and of the present and the past – all sprinkled with Rose’s customary clever use of language – ME AND MY KNEE will leave you thinking in new ways about the pain you carry.

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