Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

What a delight and what a treasure to read this play which reminds us that even thought we all come from different backgrounds and believe different things, there is always a way for us to come together to celebrate new life regardless the circumstance. Funny and poignant in equal measures and with a delightful comeuppance in the end, this play has everything it takes for any holiday show.

There are always those heroes that have helped us see the world through a better and more fine-tuned lens than the rest of the time. Sondheim was one of those mythical people to me and you can feel how much he meant to Medlin's narrator. Music has a way to heal, soothe and make us leap for joy and Sondheim wasn't any different in all the masterful music he shared with this weary world we find ourselves in.

It's not living unless you question your reason for being and reason for living in a world that doesn't always seem like one that has any rhyme or reason unless it's written that way. Hook in Hell explores so much in it's short time, life and death, controlling your own destiny or being at the hands of another power. What starts out as a simple idea, blooms into an infinitely deeper message about charting your own path even if you don't think you can. To never give up and all of it done with great humor.

There is so much to this play and it unravels before you like a shiny object. That second chapter of any fairy tale will be one that's full of discovery about the characters but also about ourselves. Red's life hasn't been that easy since her escape from the wolf and her new life of crime brings her full circle to grandmother's house once again for a completely different result and a little bit of growing up to realize fairy tales may not end with happily ever after, but the second acts can sometimes lead to a tarnished pot of gold.

How lucky was I that this play was my featured play of the day. Weaver doing what Weaver does best, making the world laugh and think and just being able to enjoy ourselves as an audience member or reader. I especially love the last thing as it makes you feel the love between the players and audience in a very special way.

This is such an amazing journey of one man's love affair with his partner Jose who was Tony so eloquently puts it, his eye as well as his love and there is nothing so crushing as to hear Tony say goodbye to this lover. The language is so simplistic in feel and it is that simplicity that tears at your heart long after you finish reading and have time to think back on just one man's journey through love and goodbyes and of course grief.

Always be careful of what's in the contract. A dark and twisted tale of one such soul who didn't do their research before signing the dotted line.

Wow. This play packs so much emotion in its few pages about loss and family.

Such a nightmare as a parent I would suppose and as a parent wouldn’t you try to be there for your son or daughter even after all that he’s or she’s done. humans are always so quick to judge and point fingers. All of us so eager to jump onto any bandwagon that makes it easier to just look away and say villain and pray that it makes the world not look at you and your family too closely or turn a lamp on onto your secrets and skeletons that are just waiting to be uncovered.

Spiders are one of the most common ick things in our planet and I was a lot like Tom when I lived in the South, and it wasn't till I moved to the PNW that I really got to understand and care for spiders by letting them live inside the house and trying to help them out if they did get in. Tom is facing his fears in honor of his brother and sometimes that sort of love can make you do the most miraculous and bravest things.