Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

The title caught my eye immediately as I saw it come through the NPX homepage. We have all been anxious for the holidays to come each year and yet, there is that golden timeline that we all seem to follow to keep the holiday order of things. Plumridge's play is funny and so entertaining and would be a great addition at any festival of shorts celebrating the reason for the season.

How many times have we all wished we would have been born into another family or just felt that somehow, someway we were adopted into the family we are in. This play is laugh-out loud funny and you can only imagine the outcome, but even having that feeling of what may happen, you're still laughing so hard when it all comes to a head.

The play is breezy and fun just like a noir-themed play should be and you can't help get caught up all the song lyrics as they spill out of the characters mouths like a ballet of bullets. Underneath is a tight and funny script that delivers the jokes and puns fast and loose and brings to mind any classic of the genre much like Young Frankenstein brought to life all the monster movies it was based on.

Saw this funny and touching play read on Tiny Theatre. Decisions are hard enough on most given days. The complexity of them on a blind date are heightened by hundred-fold. Sometimes it's the most basic of basics that bring us together in the end and sadly or not, keep us together.

We all want to feel that we are leaving some sort of mark in the world, be it small or large and in Last Laugh we have one comic wishing to pass something along to his daughter who also is an upcoming comic and a daughter he never knew as such since he left her mother when he found out she was with child. Norkin touches upon the frailty of life and that desire to achieve at something in the life we are given, be it big or small, funny or not, before the spotlight is turned off.

Anyone with a pet will instantly tear up reading this and completely understand the pain and love that emanates from these words.

The title grabbed me. The dialogue between the characters is funny and says so much about a lot of the issues that have plagued our American world since the beginning. I wonder what Ana would think of the remake of the movie that just came out?

Brilliant and tense one minute play that works on so many levels of complexity. Bravo.

You are drawn into this piece immediately. You're laughing with the sisters and you feel that it's going to a comfortable journey as you listen to them about what might be bad art or they think it is, and then the author steers you down an unforgettable road of two sisters who are are fighting for their very lives and existence in a world that can be a very difficult place to be in from a creative standpoint.

Fascinating set of monologues that take you back in time and also take you back to your own past where you were trying to discover what worked and what didn't work about life and more importantly yourself, realizing that I'd never really be Ally Sheedy was something that was a let down for me, but like she states in the monologue, there is no John Hughes steering the course of your life ship, only yourself.