Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

Deciding what to wear each day used to be a challenge in pre-Covid days. I can't imagine being forced to make the decision that Max and Tom are asked to make by some unseen force. Creepy and funny, this was a delight to read and really gets one into the mood for that most wonderful of all holidays.

What's the saying? Don't believe anything you read and just half of what you see. Poor Carl should have read the full contract before signing up to re-do his life. In A World. . . is so damn funny and says so much about the hype of advertisement and not always getting what you thought were getting or getting something that is malfunctioned from the get-go and leaves you like Carl, a further broken mess and not anywhere near the hero status he had hoped for.

Having secrets is always a delicious plot turn, but it seems all the more seasoned when its family and their secrets. Sisters meet for a cup of coffee and there is so much that happens with their good morning breakfast. I especially I like how one simple dress plays into a deeper vein of how these recent immigrants have made it in this new country and are achieving the American dream but that is soon to be dealt a blow amidst a national crisis, but as it has been in the past, family will help buoy you up and out

I am so glad McKnight was the writer of the day and I'm extremely glad that I found this play in his list. Parts ghost story, part pantomime and part bewildering which fits this piece perfectly. It's as if you fell asleep and dreamed this magical little vignette and have just woke up from that dream wanting more.

Comedy as only Busser can do. You get the fast and furious with him and I'm never disappointed with any play I ready by him. I love the diet time-machine idea and this is one funny play. You find yourself leaving facts behind and letting the fantasy and humor take you over!

Kaplan presents just a small moment in the lives of two women who have such a long future in front of them, except that we are left with that hollow feeling that that is not always a possibility when crazy people take the power of "god" into their own hands. These CODERED plays are sadly needed to present to as many people that we can get them in front of because everyone who wakes up each morning should not have to face the kind of monster that ends up with a gun in his hand taking on 'god's work.

It's a shame that from the start of religion, women and men weren't created equal by god, but "HE" didn't do that and so we've been playing catch-up with equality since the very start and it's been one long road. Bublitz offers up a funny play about a switch in what it might be like if men were not in charge at all, and quite frankly, even being one, I'd be glad with that outcome!

If some people in this country had their say and way, we'd be experiencing this story in real time and sooner than we all can imagine. January 6 2021 gave us a little light of that tunnel all too realistically. The women on the bus are all just resigned into what they are told to think, believe and experience and once again it smacks me in the face of just how a small minority could push for this type of world again. Alise gives us that time in this chilling play and it's very well done.

Being a Dog and Cat dad, this play pleases me so much. I love the intimacy of the couple and their struggle to get past one set-back on the possibility of having children as if that might help their relationship, but in this quiet scene, we learn that there is a stronger bond than the dog or the possibility of children, there is their bond that they re-discover is as strong as the first night they fell in love and talked about future plans which probably included, dogs, children, a house , dreams and world all their own.

The pits of depression can be overwhelming. And we all seem to be so afraid to talk about it or discuss it as if it might be a drag on the conversation. And yet when we do seek help and seek a solution to end it, it should be the point that’s first and foremost. I speak from experience and know that my pits are still there, but thankfully not as dark as the once were. Priskorn offers a meditation on thee subject in her delightful and very though-provoking play which is dessert enough for us all.