Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

Goldman-Sherman has provided us with one of the most intriguing ones monologues I've read. We all face the day to day of life and everything that life throws at us and we are always questioning and worrying and all of that stress ends up in the gut and here is this woman who has been driven to find solace and relief in the one room of the house that again so many of us can find solace and protection and a little time to be alone with out thoughts and to keep ourselves regulated.

How I could resist reading this play when I saw one of my favorite writers listed. James Baldwin sets the stage for this beautiful poem by Lamedman. A poem of heartache and struggle and an overwhelming feeling of coming to terms with those things we do not have answers for or don't think we have the courage to face those answers when they come. This play speaks for us all and that is a monumental task that the writer has achieved with such grace and subtlety.

They say don't read between the lines, but here we have a play that presents just an average couple in an every day situation that turns a child-hood game up on its head with such devastation effect with a message that is purely for grown-ups and the relationship games they end up playing time after time.

I'm always transported into a place by Wyndham where I am getting to meet people I would never meet in my day to day existence. This play left me with so much joy, the action of the game, but also just the delight in meeting for a game without masks among others who have done the right thing for the benefit of all. Even with the darkness that anti-vaxxers and those misinformed slugs bring to the table, the joy of a simple game of volleyball can still bring a smile to everyone's mask-less face.

This feels to me so much like a silent movie would be like to watch in a darkened theater with no words and yet a lovely bit of music playing to set the mood and tone. Words are not the only way to get across a well of emotions and Martin proves once again masterful at his craft.

Weaver spins a magical journey for us all about the lessons of the world should be if all us just did our part and followed some of the basic guidelines! How different this pandemic could have looked if the world had followed suit.

A breezy delight from Wyndham. I'm guilty of being a rule follower I admit from standing in line for the next go on a swing or making sure I do not exit through a non-exit door. I was always afraid the alarm would go off. Wyndham's L is what I feel like I would have become if I did not go along with the basics of rules. Password sharing is not the greatest of crimes, of course, but L's entitlement that it should be makes them fall into that hopeless pit of losers that's already spilling over.

Talk about sucker punch to the guts and then a few to your entire body. This plays pack such raw emotion and you hope against hope for one ending but are handed one that is completely different and also one that makes you lose your breath. In today's world, we have so ways to communicate but most of them are from a safe distance of an app. Martin gives us a reason for why maybe honest human communication is still the best way to share our feelings!

The old saying is don't judge a book by its cover and certainly don't judge someone by their Facebook posts or snafus. Dating is hard enough but social media makes it even easier to pre-judge and form opinions about other people without every having met them. This is a charming love story.

Saw this creepy and funny play read on Tiny Theatre as part of the Tiny-Frights Nights. Sometimes the child is the one teaching the frightening lessons of life , or death.