Recommended by Steven G. Martin

A feel-good, warm-hearted, gently comic short play about Chinese fathers and sons communicating (and sometimes not communicating) about their lives.

From the setting to the characters and dialogue, Lucy Wang skillfully leads the audience and characters into a play about understanding and appreciating tradition, yet not shying away from new opportunities. The role of Charlie would be a gift to an older comic actor, and the bantering dialogue would please any audience. "Tao of Fruit" would make for a delightful production.

"Until Sunrise, or, When Blue Hours Turn Golden" is more in-depth than a mantra, more intelligent than a pep talk or rally cry, more sincere and open and soothing than most monologues.

These are the words that your loved one writes on a hidden note placed secretly in your pocket. These are the words that the wisest in your community expresses to the whole. Intimate & broad. Franky Gonzalez's words soothe and secure, especially amidst difficult times.

May this short play have a rich, varied production history so the words, the emotions reach many, many people.

This is a perfect 10-minute play about New Year's Eve, about possibilities and uncertainties.

It's almost too much to consider what the future may hold, especially on December 31. It's exhilarating that Rachel Lynett dramatizes multiple possibilities for Massiel's life -- and not all of them pleasant -- in this 10-minute play through wonderful visuals and plot structure.

Nandita Shenoy absolutely captures how to tell a story using Zoom or other screen-based virtual communication. But what especially shines in this 10-minute play is the story, the characters, and their relationship that she dramatizes.

"To the Stars with Love" showcases wistful, emotional characters who cannot be together. To make things even more emotional for the audience, Shenoy shows that they would be good for one another when she allows them to reminisce fondly on their shared past.

World building, characterization, dialogue and subtext, platform -- Shenoy has written a must-read, must-watch, must-produce play.

Playwrights on assignment are like an exotic plant in a mundane lawn -- wildly out-of-place, difficult not to stare at, and creating more than a bit of drama. Also: fascinating.

Bennett's short comedy "Assigned Blessing" is a loving portrait of two new, blinkered playwrights on assignment and the chaos that ensues -- mostly for their subject. It's a warm-hearted comedy that deserves the production and award history it has garnered so far.

I love the big, sprawling, a little messy, a little chaotic, somewhat patchwork but completely unified epic nature of this genius collection!

The individual plays are about Matthew Weaver. The sum is about storytelling and the tools we use to tell stories, it is about how different perspectives can still tell the truth, it is about community coalescing, it is about playfulness and seriousness and romance and comedy and drama.

Unique & unified, but also individualistic. It's so many things.

Structure, setting, and characters' history are at the forefront of this play filled with irony, hope, and disillusionment.

Sara Jean Accuardi has created characters who are all on the brink of starting new, not only a new year but also new opportunities. Their fear and excitement are palpable. Audiences, though, already know how some stories will turn out, and this dramatic irony only makes those characters' emotions more intense.

Pay attention to everything in "The Delays." There isn't a wasted action or line of dialogue.

I'm in tears.

Burbano writes with so much precision not only about the tragic facts of this loss, but how Andie feels when thinking about this loss. So many details in such a short amount of time on stage that an audience will be in tears about how life can become so unfair, devastating, and senseless so quickly. And how living through it may be impossible.

Comedic, chaotic, anarchic lunacy in a minute.

You are not prepared for Prillaman's "A Short Visual Aid ... 2020." Enjoy!

Intellectual and emotional explorations of pray and prayer, praying and preying, juxtaposed with one another. Filled with cleverness, intellect, and heartache in equal amounts.

Emily McClain has created something unique with her "Triptych on Praying" and other triptychs she has written. I have to imagine directors, designers, actors loving to explore production possibilities.