Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

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.

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.