Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

As we all know, you can't truly know a person unless we walk in their shoes. Double that for Plumridge's bear who has a very unusually story to tell and needs help from someone to save him from his crib entrapment. As he even says in the play, he's not the usual bear and for this we are all grateful! I definitely want to hear his origin story!

This is pure poetry and shows really that there is not a Christian person anymore that isn't after their own personal gain at the expense of all others who don't have those same evil plans. Omar speaks for all immigrants in this country who have faced such hatred at the hands of these "Christians," Actually, if there is still a faction of that religion that is living up to the true teaching of Christ, they should change their name. I love that Omar knows every child on his bus and has included something just for that child. Let Omar Decorate!

Lost loves that were truly special are always ones we circle back to at some point for a fond memory or even a little regret that it's ended or is over. Roadkill gives us such a couple in Bud and Charlie. Dreams are a funny thing we all have them, but some people have them much more vividly and remember them in such detail. For Bud that's a good thing, because even if he feels his dream will eventually come true, for one night it won't just because this once lost love might just be awakening once again.

Very gut-wrenching monologue from one of the many heroes who fight these wildfires which have just increased in numbers every year for the past several years. Wyndham's firefighter hit upon the intimacy of what is at stake with these destructive forces and that is the people and the homes and the communities that we all have built over decades all gone just like Paradise and with that somber thought, it is a feeling each and every one of us should take to heart to help change the direction that we are currently on.

This will be familiar to a lot us who grew up in our own Goonsville and wanted to leave as soon as an out showed itself. Most it was college. For me it was a boyfriend. I like the surprise twist at the end which I honestly didn't see coming which puts a little sparkle on any play.

Everyone laughed when Trump was elected. Maybe laugh is the wrong word. Those who felt empathy for others were horrified. And then all the values we placed so highly under Obama were just one by one stripped away until you had some crying This is just like Germany and for those who were horrified it seemed like it and we were all scared. This play is a must see for everyone who fights for democracy. After Jan 6, we might still end up fighting again. Hopefully this time we will push the clowns far outside the city limits.

I love Goldman-Sherman's writing so much. It's full of honest frankness that is a beacon of light in this shadowy world we live in. Religion has messed up so many people with being able to just be honest with themselves and then the norms that a religious society has boxed us all into. Margret's monologue is full of funny bits, full of heartache and full of that internal struggle so many of us have had to make about who we really love and can love, and that moment that have caused people's their own life. Margret deserves a better world.

This is a heartbreaker of a play and one that reminds me of all the rules and regulations around parenting that were so ingrained into us a a child of the "Bad boy" or "Bad girl" syndrome and what road they will lead you down. Could Have Been shows us such a scene and this only points to so many lost loves that could have occurred if people could have seen another person for the beauty inside and not just the color of the skin.

This is such a beautiful play about friendship and what friends can do for each other in times of need. The entire atmosphere is one of doom and gloom, but in amidst all of that atmosphere comes a friendship that blossoms from the tiniest of acorns and how these two characters help lift the burden off the other so that they are both freer to welcome a new beginning.

What is the saying, one man's junk is another man's treasure. This play had me laughing because for myself, I always want to write comedies, but they end up not being funny enough to classify as them. I feel for Claude so much because in the end, an artist must be true to himself regardless the paycheck.