Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

Coming out stories have been with us for the beginning of time and coming to terms with one's own self and becoming comfortable with one's own sexuality can seem to take a lifetime. Sadly some of us never do discover the real "me" until too late or never. Gatton's sweet comedy/drama is a perfect example of one person's process. I hope Dimitri finds his Oktavist in life and they can share these precious moments on earth together.

This was the play of the day for me and I'm so glad I had the chance to read 1900s Women Bonding. Hysteria is such dark part of our history and how badly women were treated for their "issues" the way that men wanted them treated. Everyone should meet Marie and Cassandra!

Romance is hard enough in the day to day and McShane offers up gem of girl meets boy in this futuristic journey with his Matrimony Experiment. It seems that love doesn't have a place with Vera and Paul, but give them enough time to get past the contracts and money, this becomes such a charming first love story and rom-com from the heart once they read between the contract lines.

Levin's Tap.Tap.Tap had me holding my breath and truly unsure of what this unseen thing which is responsible for the tapping. A great 10 minute play that truly brings the horror and suspense very nicely until the very end.

Animals are always so fun to read about when they are allowed to speak on stage and Supersnout is no different. Cafarella offers us a bond between one woman and her dog Andre who as a sleuth greater then Inspector Gadget! Funny and touching and never a dull moment, Supersnout! lives up to his title!

Birthdays are a hard thing for a lot of people and there's always those "Just forget me on my day," and others that go all out with excitement. Deep down I think we a little pleased when we are remembered. It's become part of our upbringing and culture to have the one day that is all "ours." Gatton provides us just one such person and one such situation and it makes us remember how important it is to celebrate the little things and just let someone know you're thinking about them on their special day.

The Delay packs a lot into its short time-frame. Suicide is always hard to read about, but Gometz does it from the point of the trains themselves and we start to better understand the truth impact of what's happened as the M and E trains are forced to pause in their day to day rush to really grasp was has happened on the tracks ahead. Seize every day to just pause and reflect. This gem has made me do just that.

A play about sex and love and how the two can completely be separate from the other and in Alan's case all the better. Guidroz's play caught me by surprise and that's always a great feeling when reading or seeing a new play. This little ten minutes is worth more than any full length in what it presents and the outcome that is reached.

Great absurdist piece of theater and funny as hell. McLachlan pulls together so much in this play about reality vs. fantasy, making your own way or staying the path, and questioning everything or accepting of everything that life throws at you. And all of this around a landmine which was just brilliant.

So many emotions are touched on by the play. There were some funny laugh-out-lines in this beautifully written ode to one man's attempt to move past his abusive past and also try to ask that age-old question, why his father didn't love him, and again, this world of Toxic men needs to come to end and I feel that the character Ryan is like Detroit and able to change and move past the abuse and not carry it forward in the cycle.