Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

What better way to celebrate Christmas than breaking parts of it all down in this funny and touching new holiday play by Hageman. I love the set-up of Rudy doing time in prison and Nick coming to visit him. As we all know, the holidays are a mixed blessing on any good day, but when you have a silver and gold nugget like this one to help sooth the Christmas blues, then that just might be the miracle of Christmas after all that's said and done.

What a powerful play and full of the brilliance that I have come to recognize with all of Wyndham's writing. A recent horrible and dark episode of our history dragged into the light by this playwright's mighty sword. Once again I am left in awe of the passion behind the writing.

What a delight! Irreverently funny and just a hoot to read on the page. I love the setup of the nursery rhyme sliding into the gutter that would make Richard Pryor proud. This would make a great addition to any short play festival. I was laughing throughout but have to say my favorite line was "I’ve never been so offended, and I’ve worked with John Mayer!" Can't wait to read more August!

I had the privilege and honor of seeing this performed at the Funhouse on Saturday and it was one of my favorite pieces of the night. The play is a nearly perfect short play and the actors and direction and everything about the production were just spot on. What a treat! I can't wait to read other works by Baron.

There is such poetic power to this monologue and Diamond brings such realism to Pria Kaul's words that they take on such a calm ferocity that the reader is left with a rage that such evil can exist. I am in awe of what Diamond does with the onion and what it conjures up in the reader's mind as the monologue continues. You can smell is so powerfully, that burning of it as it spreads across your soul and Kaul's last words are hung with such truth that you take that on as your own.

Another winner by Stubbles and one full of laughs and pleasing turn of events. Such a great concept of a bunch of Jack-O-Lanterns wanting to live beyond their October duties and would be such a great play to see on stage, a great one for the set designers and actors to take on. What impresses me most is that by the end, I'm all down with this group of pumpkins trying to stay alive in a world of crazy humans and cannibal pumpkins. I'll never be able to carve one again without a twinge of sorrow for their sacrifice.

Saw this last night at the Funhouse! What an emotional journey filled with such raw pain and imagery throughout. Such a great play to see on stage and so glad it was part of the night's line-up!

Parody done as only Martin can! With lots of humor and great jokes. And all in five pages!!!! Well played.

I haven't had this much fun at the dentist well since probably never! Stubbles infuses this play with great one liners and comedic timing and I found myself laughing aloud as I read it in the early morning hour. Would make a great addition to any play festival for sure!

Powerful and gut-wrenching. Carnes infuses this ten minute play with such feroicity and pain that I want to stand up and change the world right now and rid it of all the stupid jerk men who are alive and breathing. Another winner from one of the master storytellers