Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

Such a perfectly crafted monologue about giving optimism a chance. We are all, I'm sure, a little self-proclaimed pessimists at some point in our lives, but there do seem to be so many who just have swallowed the pill for a life-time membership! Lermond takes us down the path of just maybe giving into a bit of hope now and then can change our lives for a better tomorrow.

What a dark and funny comedy about such a heavy topic. I love so many of the lines here, but one of the best was "Keep your biracial fantasies out of my uterus." Asante gives us two good friends at Planned Parenthood and their conversation about the baby that one of them has come here to possibly abort. This conversation is so very real and there's not a false note among these pages to be found.

A powerhouse monologue that should give us all pause on how we treat others who are going through health issues or major life altering moments in their lives. Jenny is angry and funny and says so much about herself living life as a person with cancer and we should all take her words to heart.

It's one of those discussion that can end friendships and cause family members to split apart. This play puts you on edge with Rachel and Alisa' conversation about to vaccinate or not to vaccinate their children for school and coming from someone who trusts science after most everything else, I would have the same reaction as Rachel does at the end.

A world without music would definitely be a hard one to live in and Weeks sets up such a futuristic world with his short play and Garbage City Heroes One can only hope that Pandemonium and Lex can fine tune their act enough to bring that sweet sound back.

A funny play about Covid Burnout and a great therapy that you do to relieve some of the stress that has been building up in all of us. Sexton presents a great set-up and delivers on it all the way through. If only dogs didn't cower when they heard that word, I would definitely try this therapy.

Love has never sounded sexier or more magical than this play where Joe and Isabel find out that maybe they are the perfect match for the end game. The Pablo Neruda poem is perfect and makes this play poetic, but the action of it all is definitely rooted in realism where two people are trying to find a connection in one of the most common of earth's rituals , the game of love.

Who would have thought underwear shopping could be so poetic and so damn funny. Marchant's play is both and so well constructed with action, poetry and character that you are OK with diving in and letting this play take you wherever it wants to. And if you're a fan of underwear in any way shape or form, it's double the pleasure!

This was the play selection of the day for me and what a treat it was to find it there and to read it. I love the sweet love story beneath the wonderful hijinks that will have everyone laughing and even more so since we are watching animals throughout and love these plays that show us that sometimes you can be wild and still show the best of all human traits.

Oh the memories that came flooding back with this one. I was always a Mrs. Pack-Man fan more than Pac, but the thing that I I did love about it was the simplicity of an infinite loop that the game was and you felt some comfort there in the boundaries and also within the confines of the game where you could actually use your own imagination a little more than you can with the games today. This was a nostalgic piece and also just a little this side of perfect.