Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

Letters are so initiate and bring about such different emotions while holding them in hand. This is no different then O'Grady's play Charlotte's Letters. I love O'Grady's taking off some of the mystery to Charlotte Bronte as we sit and watch Elizabeth Gaskell's and her daughter piece together the life of someone so shy, but who like so many of us lived out life fully, and if not as she wanted entirely, because who knows what would happen to Charlotte in today's world, but who lived her life with such an eye on the world around her.

An achingly beautiful ode to sadness, hurt and pain caused by the unjust and evil that men can do and still do. Duggins brings this play to life with poetry and with song and with tales as old as time itself and she weaves her voice into a rich tapestry that casts it spell over the reader. This is one of those plays that would be great to see live because of the staging, the music and the words of a gifted playwright.

First time I ever went to New York, everyone from my little home town in Pickens, South Carolina said, watch for muggers and thieves because everyone there is out to get you. My experience was a little like Pam's and I love Corley's walking play because you see a definite rebirth of character and an entire world opening up before her eyes and poor Steve may not be getting the same Pammy when they return because sometimes a vacation can be a life-altering experience.

A great take on the paranoia of a cheating partner. Cooper's Unlocked puts you in a frantic seek and hide mission with its character and you start to feel breathless from the movement. It's a fast-paced, action-packed audio play that tears your emotions a zillion ways before letting them go.

This is poetry in motion indeed. Brisbane paints a delicate picture of two friends walking and collecting. But there is touch of sadness at the end where you start to understand that these friends may not have that much time left to go on their walks and you have that sense of understanding where you know it is so important to seize each and every opportunity that you have to take these walks, to spend times with friends and appreciate the beauty that is just around your neck of the woods.

We have all been in these characters place during this past year of this pandemic. Frustrated with stay at home policies. Frustrated with non-mask wears and their BS that it's a freedom being taken away, but not having to buckle up in their car which a lot of them probably don't do. I found myself feeling the panic that is enveloping Darcy and thankful that during all of this upheaval we have friends that we can rely on and have come to our aid when we need it the most.

This play got me hook line and sinker right with its opening which is literarily a bang and down the rabbit hole I went with it, caught up in these ordinary men's thrill which turns into terror which turns into despair. Cal's last lines caught me by the heart and hung on because we've all been in that same spot feeling like just once we want to be proven right with our passion, our love, our joy. Carbajal turns you inside and out in the short space of ten minutes.

Sexy and sweet and funny. Who doesn't remember that first kiss or first time to have sex. Weaver spins a little magical spell over us, the reader, as we get caught up in Ian and Portia's make out session. It's a little more than that, however, just like this play is more than a just a thrill. It's a lot of them wrapped up in ribbons.

Humanizing Bigfoot in the best of ways. Pastor's play is funny as heck and also shines a light into our own battles at work.

Beautiful play by Hageman which covers so much in such a short time.. Believers/Non-Believers, grief and what it can do to a person and how each of us has to process that emotion in our own time-frame and way. I love that Frank is looking to nature and it's beauty to help with his and he and his son share a moment that they will remember forever as will anyone who sees or reads this play.