Recommended by Steven G. Martin

Produced together, Justin Guidroz's "Room 219" series of short plays would create an enjoyable, varied evening of theatre.

"Casual Encounter" is almost a painful dramatization of two people uncertain about nearly everything about themselves. The audiences will root for these characters to believe in themselves.

Produced together, Justin Guidroz's "Room 219" series of short plays would create an enjoyable, varied evening of theatre.

"But What About ..." showcases a relationship that some might consider taboo, but Guidroz great care and humanity for this would-be sexual couple that has an unusual common denominator.

Grief is painful. Growth is painful. Malone connects the two in this one-act monologue in which a man recounts being a monster. A rare perspective, it feels to me.

Wonderfully written and emotionally wrought. I feared for these men on so many levels, and at the end, I wished good fortune for both of them. I cared about them.

It's the level of detail in Toby Malone's 10-minute drama "Clasp" that showcases Joe's and Rob's characters and their desperate needs. The setting -- location as well as time -- and dialogue, costume, and action lead an audience to understand just difficult and scary it is for these men to get what they need.

It's clear Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn loves community theatre actors. She knows they're daffy, over-the-top, (more than) a bit self-centered and self-aggrandizing, as well as passionate.

"Veterans of Community Theatre" is 99 percent love letter, 1 percent poison pen letter to those of us with theatre in our hearts.

A glorious ice cream sundae of a one-act play, offering many flavors of emotions in a compact space: cheery in its imagination, heartbreaking in its emotion, ultimately kind-hearted and humane (all Vovos plays are humane).

The world sucks, but being able to hold someone close to you who understands how you feel and doesn't run away in terror ... that's ultimately good. "Dino" is about discovering the ultimate good.

Bohannon fills the stage with heartbreak. It fills the characters in this short play as well as audiences who are unable to help the characters cope with the grief, confusion, and rage they feel.

The anticipation! The anticipation! Cathro builds the tension of this short comedy beautifully, as audiences wait for the payoff. Quite funny, and visually wonderful.

I love how soothing this monologue is.

People's memories can be trigged by a sound, a smell, a taste. John Weagly's "A Touch of Grass" is one of the first I can think of that uses the sense of touch to evoke memories. Being in nature brings nostalgic, joyful memories to Kaylee. And why shouldn't it? The softness of grass, the firmness of soil. There's a wonderful use of imagery in this short play.

Perfect, succinct satire. I cringed, cringed, cringed as Alex just would not shut up. This is a fine character piece actors will enjoy performing.