Recommended by Donald Loftus

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    "Drag Queens from Hell" is a gleefully outrageous comedy that combines camp, fashion, drag culture, and infernal bureaucracy into a wildly entertaining theatrical romp. Lee R. Lawing fills the play with sharp banter, colorful characters, and a delightfully absurd premise that never takes itself too seriously. Funny, fast-paced, and unapologetically over-the-top, it delivers exactly the kind of mischief its title promises.

    "Drag Queens from Hell" is a gleefully outrageous comedy that combines camp, fashion, drag culture, and infernal bureaucracy into a wildly entertaining theatrical romp. Lee R. Lawing fills the play with sharp banter, colorful characters, and a delightfully absurd premise that never takes itself too seriously. Funny, fast-paced, and unapologetically over-the-top, it delivers exactly the kind of mischief its title promises.

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    "Blue Crocs and Black Sand" is a charming and gently humorous play about vulnerability, self-acceptance, and the courage it takes to step outside one’s comfort zone. Lee R. Lawing crafts an endearing connection between two strangers, finding warmth, wit, and humanity in a simple shared moment of encouragement and discovery.

    "Blue Crocs and Black Sand" is a charming and gently humorous play about vulnerability, self-acceptance, and the courage it takes to step outside one’s comfort zone. Lee R. Lawing crafts an endearing connection between two strangers, finding warmth, wit, and humanity in a simple shared moment of encouragement and discovery.

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    A darkly funny, razor-sharp Irish family drama, "DRY ROT" brilliantly balances biting social satire with genuine emotional pain as a fractured family battles over a decaying Dublin house that has become both prison and inheritance. Don Creedon writes with extraordinary wit and authenticity, capturing the rhythms of working-class Dublin speech while exposing themes of addiction, housing anxiety, generational resentment, and emotional paralysis.

    A darkly funny, razor-sharp Irish family drama, "DRY ROT" brilliantly balances biting social satire with genuine emotional pain as a fractured family battles over a decaying Dublin house that has become both prison and inheritance. Don Creedon writes with extraordinary wit and authenticity, capturing the rhythms of working-class Dublin speech while exposing themes of addiction, housing anxiety, generational resentment, and emotional paralysis.

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    "One Last Photograph, One Last Breath" is a beautifully melancholic meditation on art, mortality, friendship, and queer identity, filled with elegant dialogue and aching humanity. Lee R. Lawing captures both the wit and fragility of George Platt Lynes in a moving final portrait that feels intimate, theatrical, and deeply compassionate.

    "One Last Photograph, One Last Breath" is a beautifully melancholic meditation on art, mortality, friendship, and queer identity, filled with elegant dialogue and aching humanity. Lee R. Lawing captures both the wit and fragility of George Platt Lynes in a moving final portrait that feels intimate, theatrical, and deeply compassionate.

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    "Oxbow Lake" is a haunting and emotionally resonant play that uses its liminal “bar outside of time” concept to explore grief, regret, depression, and self-forgiveness with striking theatrical imagination. Mando Gonzalvez balances sharp humor, raw emotional honesty, and deeply moving character work, creating a powerful meditation on heartbreak and the difficult choice to move forward.

    "Oxbow Lake" is a haunting and emotionally resonant play that uses its liminal “bar outside of time” concept to explore grief, regret, depression, and self-forgiveness with striking theatrical imagination. Mando Gonzalvez balances sharp humor, raw emotional honesty, and deeply moving character work, creating a powerful meditation on heartbreak and the difficult choice to move forward.

  • Donald Loftus: ALIEN FARMER'S WIFE by Charles Scott Jones
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    "Alien Farmer’s Wife" is an utterly delightful comedy that mixes old-fashioned romantic charm with wildly inventive sci-fi absurdity. Charles Scott Jones creates a sweet, eccentric world filled with clever language, offbeat humor, and surprisingly heartfelt warmth, making Wilbur and Peggy an irresistible pair from beginning to end.

    "Alien Farmer’s Wife" is an utterly delightful comedy that mixes old-fashioned romantic charm with wildly inventive sci-fi absurdity. Charles Scott Jones creates a sweet, eccentric world filled with clever language, offbeat humor, and surprisingly heartfelt warmth, making Wilbur and Peggy an irresistible pair from beginning to end.

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  • Donald Loftus: Samson by Ken Love
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    "Samson" is a fierce, funny, and unexpectedly poignant modern riff on the biblical story, packed into a razor-sharp one-minute monologue. Ken Love brilliantly blends humor, rage, humiliation, and mythic resonance, creating a character who is both tragically absurd and deeply human.

    "Samson" is a fierce, funny, and unexpectedly poignant modern riff on the biblical story, packed into a razor-sharp one-minute monologue. Ken Love brilliantly blends humor, rage, humiliation, and mythic resonance, creating a character who is both tragically absurd and deeply human.

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  • Donald Loftus: Madness (a monologue) by Lee R. Lawing
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    "Madness" gives Renfield a hauntingly human voice, transforming a familiar gothic figure into a tragic meditation on fear, isolation, and the fragile line between sanity and monstrosity. Lee R. Lawing’s language is emotionally charged creating a monologue that feels both classically theatrical and deeply contemporary in its exploration of how society defines “madness.”

    "Madness" gives Renfield a hauntingly human voice, transforming a familiar gothic figure into a tragic meditation on fear, isolation, and the fragile line between sanity and monstrosity. Lee R. Lawing’s language is emotionally charged creating a monologue that feels both classically theatrical and deeply contemporary in its exploration of how society defines “madness.”

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  • Donald Loftus: Deep Freeze by Noah Masterson
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    "Deep Freeze" is a wildly inventive dark comedy that hilariously blends absurdism, political satire, and relationship dysfunction into a sharp vision of the future. Noah Masterson delivers fast, fearless dialogue and biting social commentary beneath the outrageous humor, making the play both disturbingly funny and surprisingly smart.

    "Deep Freeze" is a wildly inventive dark comedy that hilariously blends absurdism, political satire, and relationship dysfunction into a sharp vision of the future. Noah Masterson delivers fast, fearless dialogue and biting social commentary beneath the outrageous humor, making the play both disturbingly funny and surprisingly smart.

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  • Donald Loftus: After It Stopped: A Monologue by Donald E. Baker
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    "After It Stopped" is a raw, heartbreaking monologue that captures the lifelong psychological aftermath of childhood sexual abuse with devastating honesty and emotional precision. Donald E. Baker gives Timothy an authentic, deeply human voice, building toward a final revelation that is both tragic and terrifying in its inevitability.

    "After It Stopped" is a raw, heartbreaking monologue that captures the lifelong psychological aftermath of childhood sexual abuse with devastating honesty and emotional precision. Donald E. Baker gives Timothy an authentic, deeply human voice, building toward a final revelation that is both tragic and terrifying in its inevitability.

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