Recommended by Scott Sickles

So many emotions so gracefully navigated all at once. One of our ghosts is disconnected from life in more than just a physical capacity. There are questions of happiness that loom, without bitterness but dangerously nonetheless. Lawing uses reminiscence actively to buy time so both parties are prepared for the truth, telling it and hearing it. In many ways, these two have a model relationship -- and being dead is part of what gives their couplehood life! A gentle play that deals with huge matters of love and (after)life together.

A love a mid-life romance! The hope and trepidation, the weight of history each person brings to the table, the ways in which they’re set… It all makes for a series of fun moments that built in resonance and anticipation with each short scene. The characters are all well drawn, not just the couple but the members of their support systems as well, and we’re not sure how the date is gonna go until we get there. And I was just as nervous about it as they were!

I love this bear. I’ve previously only known him as a plush toy vampire, but as with any creature of the night, there was once a day – a finite existence before immortality.

I was not expecting any of this.

Plumridge composes an elegant orgin story, steeped in history, atmosphere, and a thrilling urgency! Enemies and allies abound. The bear experiences the bonds of family and shared survival.

These monologues are a gift for actors, especially with classical backgrounds, as their delivery requires breadth and precision. Beginnings is a fitting opener to a grand saga!

It’s (almost) every little kid's dream to be an astronaut and fly to the moon. WE WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU WHEN YOU LAND, JOE!!!

AND WE’RE TELLING BETHANY!!!

Feriend crates a thrillingly enviable situation, then proceeds to take all the fun out of it in the most sublimely hilarious ways. It’s the perfect not-sketch-comedy for sketch comic actors. There’s personality and just enough depth to send this sci-fi relationship satire into orbit and all the way to the lunar surface. While you’re up, you can leave Joe there! Poor Bethany...

There are a number of ways to interpret what is happening here, which is why the character description is so important. Do not skip it.

It reads: "ANNA: A brave woman. A good human. A best friend."

Taken out of context, VAST could be about delusions of grandeur, narcissism, ego. It could be scathing. (And excellently so.)

Taken IN context, it is grandeur itself. (Without grandiosity.) There is a miracle taking place and Anna and Vovos are our guides. The language is exquisite, but the journey: taken by someone brave, good, best friendly...

You will transcend with her.

There’s a fine line between optimism and cynicism, between trepidation and trust. When family is involved, reconciliation is as risky a mine field as estrangement.

There’s an abundance of good fortune and understanding here leading Jade and the audience toward certain expectations, while deftly avoiding cliches.

A wonderful challenge to directors and designers, to realistically or impressionistically create this trip around a store. (I’m coming up with ideas right now!) There’s plenty of history, emotion, and strategy, so when they finally get to the cashier, there’s definitely a payoff!...

A stealthy social commentary that starts out like a one-man stoner comedy and gets deeper as our protagonist gets higher.

In giving us a behind the scenes/beneath the lifts tour of the inner workings of a posh ski resort, Wyndham fashions an outpouring of mirth that’s part social reform manifesto, part epic poem about the inherent injustices of class, money, celebrity, labor, family, and Life.

I wonder was this guy is like when he’s sober! But high on a slope in cannabis-fueled flight, he’s a beautifully specific Everyman grounded in the reality he’s momentarily escaping.

Frank in its honesty about the physical, emotional, and social complexities of girls and puberty AND in its caustic interactions between mothers, this play pulls no punches. The language is vivid, the dialogue brisk, and the characters are well defined. O’Neill-Butler doesn’t hesitate to show that presumptions and judgments exist on all sides. Even when you’re right about the kids you can be cattily condemning of others. DEVELOPING teaches us while showing what we have to learn.

This is why I rarely watch the news. I just get so f***ing angry. And the senior senator from Maine is one of the people who makes me angriest.

This play hit me hard! The reminders of Blasey-Ford’s courage in coming forward are magnified by the dramatization of a nurse administering a rape kit. “Rape kit” makes it sounds so one and done, but there’s a whole process that everyone should know about. Everyone should know all of this: what it’s like and what it’s not.

Carnes has given us an important play.

It’s like THE WAY WE WERE for vampires!!!
Only better!

Three true acts on one page provide a century’s worth of drama, passion, and hilarity between our two bloodsuckers. It’s a great romance and a marvelous staging challenge: can you do this play justice in 2-3 minutes? POST PHOTOS!!!

Perfect for any Halloween or Valentine’s Day festival!