Recommended by Scott Sickles

This made me angry in all the right ways. I could go on for quite some time covering what this excellent one-minute Hollywood satire has to say about representation, sterotyping, and erasure, but Kahng's play says it better - and FASTER - than I ever could!

A rapid fire series of thwarted expectations and reasons to smile, this is one mirthful minute with a surprising yet deeply felt resonance. I can tell it's going to stay with me.

Ah, the circle of life!

We all have our favorites. Cups, mugs, hats... the lucky t-shirt and the"pretty spoon." We don't need a reason to love them; we just do.

On this one page, Williams gives us an entire life story, a love story, and a multigenerational family drama about the relationship we have with our objects and the conflicts and concurrences they have with those in our orbits. It's epic in scope, intimately specific, and a joy to read.

I hope to hear it live and in person someday.

Lovely. Just lovely.

Williams’s tribute to his late father is filled with just enough detail to tell us what we need to know about their relationship – that love and mirth are what matter, and that the overcoming of obstacles is far more important than the obstacles themselves.

He’s also given the piece a beautiful, autumnal setting creating images, on screen and in our heads, of oranges and browns with a hint of green. Harvest and hope.

Deeply resonate, filled with emotion and truth, this is a gem to perform onstage or online.

Lovely.

Keyes has composed a beautiful, contemplative reminiscence filled with yearnings that have grown over the years, as fears and anxieties evolve, subside, and replace each other.

There’s an immediacy to the speech and the circumstances surrounding it - why Robbie, the speaker, is in this chair on this night saying these words NOW. It’s made even more effective by how Keyes and Robbie create the world surrounding him. The imagery is vivid; you can practically smell the pond. We know this life and this world because it’s ours and we feel Robbie’s yearning and fear.

I don’t know how she did it, but Julie Zafarano has somehow managed to put all of my dating dreams and anxieties and nightmares and hopes into one ten-minute sex comedy maelstrom! The way the sexy talk evolves is brilliant and hysterical. The various obstacles they face (with varying degrees of success) create a marvelous push pull dynamic for their crazy hot chemistry. It’s everything you want your hook up to be a lots of things you don’t!

Great characters in a terrific, easy-to-produce, crowd pleaser.

A laugh out loud (and I mean a hearty laugh out loud) snapshot of what it’s like to be your dog’s gatekeeper human.

Current dog owners will identify and former ones will feel a twinge of nostalgia at the frustration and the joy.

Lois Lane. Always so together, so mature, even though she's torn between a mortal good-guy and a superhero who bear more than a passing resemblance to each other, but everyone has a type, right?

Well...

Minigan gives us a more realistic Lois because when your boyfriend has a secret identity that he lies to you about while allowing you to form attachments to both, IT MESSES YOU UP!!! And when you try to explain it... even to your therapist... how's that gonna sound???

EXACTLY LIKE THIS! That's how!

A brilliant examination of codependency, gaslighting, secrets, and relationships. Heroic!

Levine takes a tried-and-true time-travel premise (coming back from the future and warning yourself about the path you'll inevitably regret) and imbues it with romance, wit, and the transcendent aroma of bacon.

Howard's journey(s) and his attempts to head himself off at the past (as it were) are perfectly executed. One really gets the sense that in these alternate timelines TIME HAS PASSED AND CANNOT PASS THIS WAY AGAIN!

Ultimately, HOWARD is a treatise on finding one's place in the world, how that place might surprise you, and how love clarifies all. In time.

Funny thing about time, you can't rewind it. It's a one-way trip, even for Father Time. And when you have three seconds to fulfill the New Year's resolution you've been putting off for 364 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 57 seconds... desperate times... (see what I did there?)

Mabey's determined mortal negotiator and surprisingly bouncy fanciful being are delightful together. Mythological narratives rely on their characters' humanity. Maybe has imbued his with quotidian complexity and deeply relatable personas, goals and desires. They make the most of these three seconds and you'll enjoy all ten minutes of them!