Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

We are all raised with those things that are acceptable and those which are not and most times it favors the males in the world. This script turns everything upside down and you will smile at how justice is served in just sixty seconds.

Gut wrenching in every way. There were so many of us brought up in the church that promised so many miraculous things until you realize that you for whatever reason don't fit into any of the boxes that you can check to get into Heaven. I'll never forgot that day I was able to abandon just as much as I do when I was baptized.

If you suffer those winter blues, this is the play for you. Nothing gets you more in the mood for spring in winter than those warm days that come out of nowhere and remind you of what's yet to come. Until Next Winter gives us two cardinals and says so much about coupledom in it's short sweet minute than most do in 90. Cole always delights and this one is no different.

This play will stay with you long after you finish it. It is a traumatic tale of woman’s fight against what she knows is evil and she no longer stands up to it, she gets all of the other women to fight and take a stand against the evil. This play is something that is even more timely as the world moves in more far right mentality. We all thought we’d never see it in America, but the past few months has proven that it evil can happen anywhere and the past sadly erased.

I had to great fortune of hearing this play performed by the Depot. Like other works by J. Lois Diamond, I was taken along on this path of discovery that had me in awe of this woman who despite such obvious health setbacks wanted nothing more but to do what she loved to do which was dance and dance she did. Flawed, yes, but those flaws are presented with such masterful skill by the playwright that you will stand up and cheer for this person who succeeded in this world despite the struggles and pain.

From the very start of this hilarious monologue, you know instantly that you are going to like Boone. His earnestness alone in retelling what he saw amid the tornado debris of the rural strip mall where he does maintenance will have you laughing from the very start of his tale. Busser never fails to delight and in Boone he's created one of his best characters yet. An every-day man who just happens to witness the incredible and lives to tell about it.

Paul creates such a tense and quite terrifying atmosphere with this bench play that you will find yourself holding your breath waiting for the ending to occur. The back and forth dialogue between the two men is funny, but is also clouded with mystery. The title also led me to think that this play might end in something quite devastating, but revel in the slight of hand that only a master wordsmith can produce.

There's a lot that is revealed in this holiday mystery and not just with how did the body on the stage meant his or her demise (which is truly funny.) The real power of this play is the relationship between Bill and Pats which is ever-evolving between what they used to have to where they are today and the power of how two people can continue to act towards the other even after such a relationship dynamic has shifted and morphed which in the end is real holiday magic.

Friendship is one of the corner stones or our world and finding those friends is sometimes an exhausting endeavor but when you find them, they are there for you through the ups and downs of life. This beautiful play is such an ode to friendship it will stay without long after you've finished it or Debbie her cheese danish it's always those simple moments that will stick with you that you will remember long after that last bite is done.

We all have those moments were we pause and think about what we're doing with our life or if what we're doing is really what we should be doing and this play really hits home for anyone questioning their life decisions at any time because sometimes we just need that pause in life either by force or choice that makes us reflect upon things with a little more clarity as if a spotlight suddenly is shining bright and center stage for you to step into.