Recommended by Emily Hageman

This is so wonderfully weird and great. It should be funny, right? The premise sounds silly, but this is a surprisingly poignant monologue. I can see audience chuckling at first, but then becoming more and more invested in this sweet, sad story. Lawing is a master at pulling out unexpected emotions, and his work is always so felt. This would be a great piece for an audition, and would be wonderful to show off the range of any actor.

This is such a weird, funny play. Worrall breaks every expectation you may have while playing directly into every expectation you have. It's play we've all seen many times, but it's nothing we've seen before. Equal parts strange and hilarious, I found myself leaning in as I read the play. It's a really interesting work--and one that just begs to be picked apart with a fine tooth comb. Great piece for a night of theatre that will leave the audience talking.

Bublitz never fails to knock it out of the park. Seriously, I think we are looking at our next great playwright here. She is so honest, and "The Garden" is no exception. Bublitz is a master at saying volumes without saying much at all. Her characters are nuanced and genuine and never in your face. Her plays feel so powerfully, deeply, and achingly REAL. There is humor, but there is also profound, deep, terrible sadness in this play--and I ended it mourning how we STILL cannot understand each other because we simply don't try. Wow.

Wyndham is the voice of the common and the not-so-common people. The reason I say that is because Don Ponzo, wonderful gentle ruined Don Ponzo, is both a remarkable man and a painfully ordinary one. He is wildly funny, but the incredible sadness in him--this unbelievable poignancy that comes flying out of nowhere like a barb directly to the heart--is the thing that makes him so ordinary, but so extraordinary. You want to stare, but you want to look away. This is a truly marvelous monologue. Wyndham, you are a master.

Wow. Wow, this play absolutely broke me in a short sixteen pages. This is such a blunt play, and it's incredibly powerful. Hernandez has accurately captured the voices of two very different young teenagers in this play and he doesn't beat around the bush--he goes right for the jugular. I am going to be thinking about this play for a long time. Wonderfully done. Please post the whole play, Hernandez, we need it.

This is the definition of pure delight. It's hilarious on the page, and while I can imagine it wonderfully in person, I am pretty sure I don't even have the slightest inkling of how funny this would be to actually see. The image of the janitor holding a plunger as a scepter is one that will live with audiences forever. Absolutely hilarious, one of the funniest short farces I've ever read.

What a wonderful play for teenagers. There is so much real, genuine dialogue between these twins--so much unspoken history, so much personality and humor, and so much love. The script is so intimate, I felt like I was invading on something. I would love to see this on stage. A great two-hander for competitions, and a wonderful addition to any night of ten-minute plays. No surprise why it was selected for OOB.

Just absolutely beautiful. Breathtaking, really. O'Grady is such a rare treasure. She writes with the utmost care and honesty and tenderness. "Pre-War" is an absolutely stunning ten minute play. Deeply felt, beautifully written, fleshed-out marvelously in only a few pages. I am so deeply moved by this beautiful play. If you have not been reading O'Grady, you are missing out on beautiful language, tender stories, and characters--no, people who make you ache.

This may be my favorite Weaver play of all time (I keep saying that, and I keep meaning it!) It's so pure and sincere and whimsical, but there is so much at the heart of it. It's great for young audiences, but adults would love it too. Weaver has some of the funniest one-liners I've ever seen in a script--for example, "My food just disagreed with me" had me actually laughing out loud. Weaver is clever, but he is so heartfelt and genuine--and that's what makes his plays so wonderful. Produce him. The world needs more of him.

Much, much darker than any Alzheimer's play I've ever read--and I'm grateful for that. So often this terrible disease is painted in lovely, rosy colors--but the reality of it is so much darker and more terrible. It's an ugly, hideous thing and this play was hard to read--I can only imagine how hard it would be to watch. But what was worst of all was that I understand why Joan did what she did--and I have to wonder if I'd be tempted to do the same thing. Bravo, Burdick, bravo.