Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

A play that still resonates so strongly even as Covid goes away from day to day lives. The woman is so instantly relatable with her talk of iphone battery life and her worries of where to sit on the train. Days that seemed like they could never happen, but did, and this play is one of the most touching of covid monologues I’ve read due to the horror that we all face and could face again.

This monologued creeped me out. At first I was reading it thinking it was about that, but then went back to read a few times and suddenly felt Gary was a very creepy man and the situation one of horror. Great monologue that leaves so much to the imagination!

What’s a person gotta do to get their 15-minute break. Marchant’s funny and very realistic play has Amber trying to do just that in a breakroom which we find out doesn’t sell hourglasses or even ice cream but that little snafu finally gives her those free moments to finish out her 15 like she wanted to.

Funny take on the Groundhog Day premise with a married couple caught up in a time loop. What makes it so funny is knowing that so many our conversations with others are often repeated with phrases like "I may have told you this before, " or "I probably told you this already," that you start to feel just like Barbara and Bert on their cruise. We could all use a little interruption like George provides.

This would be so great to see at any one-minute festival. Clever and very well executed. Any audience member would be left in awe!

Black Jesus shows Christianity the way I wish I could have learned it. My Jesus was certainly white thanks to all the pictures of him in our church, but I am a gay man so for me, my Jesus was gay on top of that, but of course that was not liked by my church or their teachings. Decius presents a lot with this short comedy and does it so well, that it almost has me longing again for the wonders that the Son of God has to offer!

Brilliant monologue about a person who usually is heard a few times in their careers, but poor Malcolm is never allowed on stage once in all of his time as an understudy to Sir Giles. We are drawn into Malcolm's world of heartache and revenge and we the reader and audience are left breathless with his final word which is so defiant and brings about much closure for us the reader and I hope for man who never got his chance to dazzle the stage.

I always enjoy the humor in Diamond's plays. Even those ones which are more serious always have that spark that is hers. There's nothing like finding a common enemy to bring people together and Palak Paneer has this in the end but what holds this play together is the humor and how different people's perceptions are who are in the same space as you. Life is truly a joyous journey.

This is a great time capsule of how much of the 2020 went, especially those early months of lock-down and not being able to go anywhere. And everyone was affected by this lock-down in so many ways, but having co-workers who lived in New York City, their biggest complaint on some of those early calls was that feeling of being trapped in their small space without anywhere to go or air to breathe. Diamond captures those early days of the pandemic so perfectly with Zoom Caste!

What a great play that pulls you along from the very start and won't let your emotions go. Glad this was my play of the day today. Goldman-Sherman's writing is so full of energy that you are caught up in this assault without even realizing it and so glad that when it's over, Alyssa is still there and fighting for a new beginning just like she deserves.