Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

This play had me laughing so hard and every character was spot on, and just like the golden girls where you identify with one of the characters, I so identified with Suzanne and her cheerful attitude toward everything. All of us have dreams that we feel we didn't ever get to fulfill, and Feriend takes us on a comedic ride with one such story where even though the performers and stage manager are in a children's theater in North Dakota, one can find a little happiness even if you feel you're trapped with a low-level demon in exile.

This play had me at Eve Arden! Actually I was already kicking back and enjoying this breezy and very funny play from the very first page. There's nothing better than campy parody of horror movies but when you make all the characters gay, it's even better. This would have been a blast to see onstage!

This is a beautiful play that reminds me of how much the LGBTQIA community has come and the fact that so many people actually survived and pushed the boundaries way before it was acceptable to do so. Even with all the scientific proof that has been done to help us gain a seat at the table, a lot of religious people still drag us back to the medieval days with what they say is right and wrong and people still get killed throughout the world because of this belief. Still a long road ahead but one I'm always ready for.

What would any of us do in this situation which is one of the most horrible any of us could possibly experience, the murder of a friend or family member. It would definitely re-set the rules most of us live by. It would also open up a door about who we would trust since most everyone we encountered could seem possible of those most horrible of crimes. Real people and real dialogue pepper this drama by Kaminski and we can all be grateful we just have to experience it on stage and not in real life.

A heartbreaking and so so beautiful play. This one hits so hard as a parent, as most of us fear something like this happening--our child being taken or kidnapped and you wouldn't know where they went or who they were with or dead. Joey's strength of creating a world that he can survive in is one of the most devastating plays I've read.

Most people love to eat. It's something that's engrained into us from both and our need for sustenance moves our love as we get older. As humans, we love to share our food with others. The mystery of this meal that Smith and Jones are having surrounds the reader like a cloak that they want to pull tight around themselves as a sort of protection to ward off the ending and what this meal means to both of the participants.

An unusual break-up story and very funny to boot and despite the freedoms that gay men seemed to have had back in the day when they could move in and out of relationships like they were a pez dispenser, we've gotten a lot more suzy home-maker about things and and shall I say Heterosexual about it all when it comes to relationship in general but despite this, they still hurt like hell when they end and thank goodness for plays like Strafford's when we need a laugh during those heartbreaking moments.

In this dream like play Corrigan offers us a purgatory that is at once familiar to us and also very comforting as we watch Mary and Walter confronting and hoping for what seems to be their own fate in this world, or maybe just an end of one day that will bleed into the next one on a forever time-loop.

Wouldn't it be nice if we all just could not have to worry about money in any way. That may be an Utopian ideal for society, but taking away money as a concept would be a great place to start in moving toward an equality, Harper plays with the value of money and how important it is to us when we are earning it and when we aren't like Michael which I like the fact that this character is named Michael which was an angel's name and just a reminder that perhaps a high power is always watching.

It's so hard to fight what the heart thinks it wants to love and even harder for those who sit by as a friend listening to those who cry in the friend's arms when that friend loves the person as hard as this best friend loves Elyssa, it's heart-wrenching and we are left wondering if she stays or leaves at this last moment when he opens his eyes and we are left at the very moment in time without any resolution except for what we hope might be, knowing it's a 50/50 chance either way when it comes to declarations.