Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

We have all had those moments where the floor drops from beneath, leaving us free-falling into anxiety and stress and that suddenly was what 2019 did for us all. Tilden gives us a brief moment of two people and what is amazing about this piece is there is so much that's said with just one minute. Friendship and the need for friends can't ever change whether we see them with masks or without.

Siblings will always provide great fodder for drama. Saw this very funny and touching play performed by the author and Mirande Jonte on Back Porch Theater! Well done all around, the performances and the script!

This one minute gem by Hovanesian breathes new life into this word and leaves us with that feeling that maybe it's possible for the world to change and we move it into a new direction where we actually care as human beings

Relationships are hard regardless the gender. There is a lingering sadness with Cefaly's play and that's the way it should be considering that that Garrison and Nate are at a crossroads with their relationship which may end up all right, but maybe not and that's just one of the facts of life where two people are trying to fulfill their individual needs and desires which sometimes puts the couple itself in jeopardy of not crossing the finish line with or without a ring on it.

Oh, the high price we can pay for our art. Padrick's arresting play gives us two people on a bridge and one is a performance artist asking for the biggest ask they could be asking for, but the ask is coming from some real pain deep inside them and that pain is something that most every artist on some level deals with at some point and we always need a character B in our lives to talk it through and not make the wrong decisions.

The title grabbed me, but the content kept me reading and what a monologue it is. It rips apart social media and the "crafted lives" we live for it without ever giving any thought to why we need to post and post again. Without ugliness there can be no beauty, or so the saying goes. Fontano shows us just one person who faces her own demons during one evening of Instgraming and at the end of it makes us all realize why might be better off forgetting the social side of things especially when we are drinking.

What starts off as a comedic telling of two lovers reuniting after not having seen each for a few years, turns into a dive into the harsh realities of what it means to be in a certain job role in this country and how dealing with that day to day would be very hard for some of us to face and come to terns with. Bean presents two very real people with some of the best written dialogue that I've read in a short play that grabs the reader and/or viewer by their heart strings.

We all want happy endings with our love stories. But mythology wasn't the kindest when it came to happily-ever-afters and Kantor's retelling of the myth is one of tragic, yet oh so beautiful proportions. There is always a voice deep inside that's telling us we're not good enough or smart enough or pretty enough, this is a gentle reminder of when we should break the mirrors and stop paying attention to the voices inside ourselves and seek the light before it's too late.

An entertaining tiny play that is very funny and sensual and makes me more aware of the fact that more of us should really take a vow like this for a day or two just to check ourselves out of the constant onslaught of having the feeling that we have to say something. Anything. When nothing is really enough.

Oh the promises we make during our lifetimes which sometimes do come back to haunt us and keep us tethered longer in a relationship that we really should be. Love is never as simple as it should be and we are often assigned roles in our relationship, rightly or wrongly. Aunt Tess is one such person that was of her time and generation- that if in a different time, would show her love a different way, but the thing about love is that it reflects back on you what you want to see and sometimes that helps free us.