Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

Pitch Perfect with fucking attitude! Well done!

Hamlet is always a a great play to come back to during your life. It is the most well-known of course, but there is so much that people can recite by heart or even just a word or two can evoke great memoires of the play or having read or seen it. I've never read "Bad Quarto" of 1603 and Malone has given me a reason to do this. It is one full of surprises and I'm so glad that I discovered something new and also loved it as much I did. Add it to your library to read.

Wow. This is such a powerful play that it feels like you've gone through an entire full length and the emotion so honesty earned. This past year has been so hard on everyone, but so much so on those who can't even be with their loved ones at the time of death. This happened for my aunt and uncle and it breaks my heart, this beautiful play that sums up those actions so very well.

We take so much from those early days with us through life. This is a funny take on just such a thing and the pain of being "It" if you can't ever pass that on. Funny, smart and just right.

Now I know how long it takes to become a pillar and I'm glad I won't become one either. Public Comment says so much in such little time and another Karen is set loose in our world to delight us this time instead of irritating the crap out of us as most of them do.

What a great romantic comedy with two senior adults which is also funny. Sansone-Braff carves out a little slice of Covid life for the reader and what a delight this first date was for us and them.

"Elephant, thou haveth a new name and that is Butt-Plug" Second relationships can be just as hard to navigate as first ones, but sometimes you feel that you can leave your past and previous life behind just a little. In Endowed, that past comes in a FedEx Delivery one afternoon and Erica and her second husband Mike are confronting her past up front and in their faces. Though farcical gold, Malone uses his characters not as props but as true characters with real needs and desires and even though you're laughing you care for each and every one of them.

This play is filled with such intensity that you're almost ready to jump and help both of the children stay quiet before their parents wake up. You can see the love between DeeDee and Amelia so clearly and that love defines their world that they are in. We are all trapped in our own lives, and some of us are all right with this, but there are other people who need to take ownership of a situation and in this quiet play, Bray finds two of these heroes from the same family coming together to save the world.

Nothing brings a couple together than a walk to trace a serial killer’s last two victims on Christmas Eve in the late 1800s. But Anderson makes this so much more than sensationalism as the two girlfriends discover a little more about each other and just how strong their relationship is coming. Love grows in these quieter moments more so than the big ones.

Great ten-minute excerpt which makes me want to read the full length! These characters are so well drawn and so believable. The entire exchange leaves you breathless and there is so much said in these 10 pages that it stands alone on its own and brings Gabby and Taj's world alive for us for which we are forever grateful.