Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

Like an old fashioned radio play with heroines and villains all about the Big Bang Theory, this will have you laughing from start to finish and would make a welcome episode of any of the podcasts out there in this glorious world.

What a lovely tale between a mother and daughter who are able to repair a life time of regrets and sorrows by just taking time to sit together and look back on the journey that brought them to this point in life. Anyone who has an aging parent will want to read this!

The old saying is that opposites are attracted to one another you can see the benefit of that and also the joy in this delightful play by Scott Sickles where perceptions have gone a long way in keeping certain people at bay from every being able to learn just what type of friend that they could be. Daphne has discovered something special about Zoey that the other girls have not seen or won't see and how grand is that discovery for young lgbtq kids to see this onstage as just another bit of the unordinary becoming ordinary.

A writer's dreams exist in a fragile state of mind to begin with, and if, like Emily, we are fortunate enough to have anything produced where there might be a review, I feel we would all need to hope that our super power is a tough skin when the reviews come out. They say A.I. will take over everything about our current lives and leave us all useless unwanted and that just may be, but until then, I hope that we have plays as funny and dare I say terrifying as "armchAIr critic" by Debra A. Cole to read

This play resonated with me a lot because like so many parents, my child loved collecting coins and reading about them and there is so much truth in that for us the magic came in sharing that time together and seeking, in our opinions, our favorite coins or one that meant the most to me. This play offers up that connection between a father and a son and the journey they take together into other times and places and all brought about by the that simple and round object.

Animals will provide some of the strongest friendships that we are ever lucky enough to have and this monologue will have you appreciate every single one of them and hope that they are as fulfilling as the one that is shared between Tonya and Peaches. Strong and powerful monologue!

Trigger had me from the title alone and in the capable hands of Paul Smith it is one of the funniest monologues I've read in quite some time. Writers will be amused by this as will Shakespeare fans, but it goes beyond that for sure as well at just how much we have to worry these days of what we've written will probably offend someone somewhere and we will be playing to empty houses near and far as more trigger warnings are added to the front page of each play we write.

Oh those objects that we love and attach meaning to be it out of sentiment or simply a need at the moment. Those that we sometimes think we would prize above others end up not making the cut and then those we may have hardly ever used or saw take on something more weighted and meaningful.

If only I could have read about this Eve from the very start of my childhood--this Eve who questions everything and dares to question the will of God--I could have shaved off so many of those years that I spent looking for the answers that Eve's laying out so clearly in this brilliant monologue.

Saw this performed so beautifully on Back Porch Theatre. What a wonderful monologue about one parent's love for their son and emotions that come from hearing about the son's first kiss.