“ So glad to have read RESPECT THE NOSE by Monica Cross for its wonderful articulation of what goes into clowning. Any artist who helps us understand what we once knew of the world as children and have since forgotten should be celebrated and - if you haven’t already - this monologue is a fine play to start! ”

“ Plays seldom do justice to the painterly life but IMPRESSIONS OF PARIS by Nora Louise Syran is an immersive wonder of art history, period song and dance, and lucid conversations between French Impressionists. I admire the positioning of the play’s very lovable and fabulous painter-hero Suzanne Valadon on the outskirts of relevance (beginning as a child drawing on the sidewalk) and her coming within the orbits of legends (Cassatt, Morisot, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec). And I'm in awe of NLS for everything that went into this sensually majestic theatrical composition and would thrill to behold it staged. ”

“ This is funny!! It's even funnier if you've plowed through Melville's tome waiting and waiting and waiting for the action but taking kind of a perverse pleasure in the endless whaling rants. I was laughing the whole minute of Adam Richter's LONG STORY SHORT. ”

“ What a magnificently prolonged scare. This slowly escalating and menacing doctor’s visit. (Un)Comfortably Numb to pun on Pink Floyd’s great doctor-visit song. HEARTBURN by Daniel Prillaman hammers away at the limitations of science - particularly the medical profession - for not wanting to handle anything that doesn’t come within tight preset parameters. My favorite aspect is Patient’s freaking-out while trying to keep it within the confines of patient-nurse-doctor etiquette. Wonderful insightful writing as always from a terrific playwright. ”