Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

This play inspires from the very start with Judy singing "Life is a Bowl Full of Cherries" and its love story which is born upon the shoulders of the Stonewall riots, you come away from Rebel Judy with your heart full of love and your fighting gloves on.

What a powerful and moving monologue that touched my heart so very much. I did not know who Robert Neal and Edgar Hellum were before reading this play and I realized how many untold stories I am so very unaware of-- brave individuals who came before and were able to push the boundaries ever so often and to great effect for all of us who are living now.

Such a powerful play, which reminds us all of that old adage there but for the grace of God go I. Panganiban does wonders with this short piece and it would be a deserving selection at any ten minute play festival.

This play had me from the very start and I could not stop reading it at all. I wish I could see the reading in at the end of the month and encourage anyone that is there to go see it. Sometimes you take a journey with a work of literature that is beyond words to say what it meant to you and that is what reading this play did for me--took me on a masterful journey that reminded me of the sacrifice of those who came before me and to appreciate them and always fight to honor them.

Music is the balm that heals the soul and certainly in this O'Grady gem, an adage that holds up under the poetry of this family drama of a daughter coming to terms with her parent's divorce and the realization that new beginnings are just around the corner for us all---along with a great song.

Houston's powerful play rips the band-aid off the topic of race and equality. Best line I've read in a long while is"their desire to hide in the illusion of harmony," and captures so well the thin line that separates us and brings us together. It would be a great play to stage at any festival of short plays. Well done.

Powerful and so well written. The one line that stood out to me is “Neither ask my opinion” and this old tale spun anew with such grace and poetry gives a voice to another mythological figure who seems to be nothing but a pawn for higher beings but is fleshed out whole with such style by Wilcox that I am in need again to read the old tale of Persephone and how SHE changed the world.

I cheered the ending of A Humble Path and then felt bad that there are people like this in the world, and yet Martin presents such a fascinating and conflicted character on stage that you are drawn into their madness and their world and feel sick for watching but cannot turn away. Theater offers us the chance to step out on limbs and test their stability and this is a play where I feel Martin has done just that and like all of his work, that limb holds up and supports this dramatic turn for this playwright I so admire.

I'm a sucker for love and romance! I love this short and sweet play and I love Eddie's breathless speech at the beginning. What a character who speaks from the heart and wears his love on his sleeve. Great role for an actor, and such a charming short play for any 10 minute festival out there, gay or straight! Take that all you Aunt Bettys!

This play is such a delight to read and so funny and Hageman inspires me with this play as she has done with so many of her work. Her humor is here without a doubt but more than that is that zing of human in her characters that make them instantly relatable even if they are Batman and Robin and The Joker on the world stage laundromat.