Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

No doubt we have all felt a little like Mary around the holiday season. Everywhere you look, there are organizations collecting for the greater good or so you think so like the grinch your heart grows just a little each year and like Mary, you feel you can make just a tad bit of difference. Great play for this time of the year but really the message is one that would fit the whole year long.

Relationships are hard and how much harder can it be if a gang leader is a relationship with a police officer. This was the featured play of the day for me and so happy that it was. What I liked best about this piece is that the dialogue was so matter of fact you could have been listening to any relationship that is figuring itself out and all of the pitfalls and mountains that two people will maneuver to find that bit of heaven.

All of us have that young person's spirit in us--that spirit that used to fight and be on the side of all that was right for the world and change for the people in the world who were in the wrong and all of us have that moment where we realize that the fight is gone or died (literarily and figuratively) a little and we've given into that Kool aide that and realize it's we're done to the last few of us still holding tight to the fight. I agree with Rubio's assessment about weddings. They do blow ass.

Wow! The lyrical nature of this play is so strong beautiful and the events that unfold so very real to so many people who are going through this with aging parents and those who are suffering from Alzheimer's and who are lost in the future but still finding bits of the past that all but overwhelm those are caring for somebody that's no longer the same or ever will be again. So glad this was my featured play of the day.

I agree with John that this would be an excellent play to stage with some great possibilities for the person who plays Leslie. The entire play is a comic gem from the mind of Plumridge as nothing says family gathering like a little Buzz does. So many dinners with the family feel like you're just being nice and showing up and that's what makes this play so great, is that buzz and sensation that Kathy is experiencing all to herself while the all of those around her just continue on with their discussions.

Dark and twisted and oh so funny. An actor's worse nightmare or slice of heaven. You decide.

Funny play about tradition vs. change and all those things that we have grown up surrounding Christmas could have been so much different if only the likes of elves like Mo would have had their way. Great addition to any holiday line-up of plays.

This one hit a little close to home. Two of our good friends have moved back to Palm Springs and so that feeling of not being together and that feeling of knowing friends and family are spread out across the globe can make for some emotional days during the holidays. Thank goodness that we live in the days where connection is just a FaceTime call away. It won't ever replace the closeness of actually being in the same room, but it can definitely lift some of the blue of out of Christmas holiday.

There are those people in the world who become accustomed to the daily routine and ins and outs of living and what would any of us do if presented with such news as Jordan is presented with. The world itself makes it hard to believe in a higher power but what joy it would be if the miracle of one child could move us all to become better people to do good not for our own gain, but just because it’s the right thing to do. This play is devilishly funny as hell and that’s the gospel truth.

I love history and love discovering things I’ve never known and certainly would have not been taught. Grant’s general order #11 is one such bit I’ve never heard of, but just as our nation seems to be on the brink of another civil war, reading or seeing this play should make us al realize what a slippery slope that comes from the generalizations of anyone and the those who make them into laws without any hesitation for their own benefit.