Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

A bittersweet tale of two children finding their gifts before the holiday. Hansen writes about a rite of passage that is very familiar if you grew up in a Christian household, about that bridge between childhood and teenhood when you start to realize that the magic may not be as real as you'd hoped it once was.

What would any of us do to live another day if we were wanted by the mob? Tonay takes it the furthest anyone could, but it's funny listening to her story and her plans for a brighter tomorrow after everyone that could possibly know her is dead and buried. Then the sun can shine again and she can visualize a tomorrow where she's smarter and a lot more of everything that she feels like she wasn't as the last woman she was.

There are so many historic people that have provided such marvelous discoveries and new ideas and knowledge of understanding to our world that I do not know about. Diamond provides a masterful tale in her play about one such woman. What I love best is that this courageous woman did all of this during the Second World War and under the thumb of the German and Italian dictators who would have had her killed if known that she was Jewish and doing her work. Courage comes in all ways and shapes and Lady of the Cells provides another such tale.

This nightmare is manic and funny as hell. Betrayal can be a funny thing and in the hands of Davila, it surely is that! Well done!

Every cat owner should read this play. I love cats and dogs and they each have their own sets of rules. This cat is also funny.

We all have these dreams we dream for our children and there are those dreams and events that we think of being a part in someway and that there will always be more time for those times to arrive and come. Sadly that's not always the case. This beautiful play touches on a mother and daughter sharing a big day together and sharing a vision of what may be right now.

Saw this great play on Back Porch Theater acted by Mirada Jonte and Vince Gatton and it was so well done there and a beautiful play overall. Dating is hard enough in it of itself, but online dating brings it to another level of difficulty if not level of hell especially with the Q&A session that Helen and Jeremy participate in.

It's never too late to start again on anything. Anne learns this valuable lesson while looking for bras. She and her friend also get a little more woke in the process and that lesson is something every one of us should study for at various points throughout our entire lives Yesterday was great, tomorrow a whole lot better we hope, but today is where we all need to rest for a little bit and if you stop long enough you might discover grand things that you never knew before about yourself, the world and the drink of your choice.

Another punny and down-right funny play by Busser that goes down smoothly like most philosophical schools of thought. Seems that dates (the kind with other people) have always been a hard thing to figure out for the youth of their generation. You'll be glad you took a few moments to spend some time at Maxie's store to find out how Doria and HOrace do on theirs.

So much hope in this play. So much unsaid longings and dreams all coming out of Jamie as they reflect on the last day of high school and very soon it will all change in a different state and around all new people and their thoughts about Jack and what Jack means to them You can sense just how much Jamie loves this guy and how much he has meant to them the past few years. I can now try to breathe as I found myself not during Jamie's speech and then when Jack appears. Love can win! I hope.