Recommended by Lee R. Lawing

It's always a delight to read Carnes no matter the story or genre and this tale is no different. Every play shows why she's one of the best out there!

How heartbreaking is this play. It tears at one's soul with such ferocity. Why can't we just live in our imaginations and let the world pass us by. This Almost Joy does such a great job of playing against the real and not real and Professor Hart-Meadows is a character to remember and this is one play that should be seen by everyone. At least read. Your heart will mend in time after reading this small poetic masterpiece.

There's poetry in Danley's "Kings of the World" that has such a hypnotic effect while reading it that I'm sure would translate to the stage with the same quiet force. Plus, it's so funny which doesn't hurt at all. I love that music can move the world as much as Danley's words have moved me.

Funny and engaging and so urgent in its action! Great one minute play.

What a charming and funny play. And it takes on so much more meaning now in the new normal of confinement and self-quarantine with Cat and Fish making their own rules of the game as they watch the world around them. I can see why this won the Audience Favorite at the festival. It's become one of mine.

Ah, hummingbirds and our secret obsession with them, even as I sit and watch the ones starting to feed at the feeder just outside my kitchen window. I feel so much for Paul's desire to attract them to his feeder and mix. And that speaks volumes about most things in our day to day lives be you artist, musician, businessperson or . . . . writer. The desire for success wells inside and the desire to do some small good wells inside and we all hope that the hummers will find a little nectar from our every changing mix.

There is that saying that a person dies twice. Once when they physically die and then that second time when the last person says or speaks their name. Grief is such a powerful demon that it can sweep in and take over, but sometimes, it can wake you up in a way that is good and all powerful. Rose's monologue strikes a balance between Frankie's loss and the hope that Dennis will never be forgotten and with this powerful monologue he will not be.

Gut-wrenching and so very honest in every way. Deray provides us with an Every gay man monologue about love lost and all the questioning that comes from it and unfortunately there is always so much of it. But his GUY figures out with such strength and wisdom that the next gay man to ask this GUY out would be one lucky sonofagun.

Another masterful play by Burdick who takes such a simple set up and works such beautiful magic. Funny and touching, this small journey of friendship will give anyone who reads it such hope that there is more to the world than we can imagine. To always be on the lookout for those possible angels who may enter our space to offer comfort and a moment of interlude from our every day paths.

One of the things I love most about the plays by Stubbles is that you never know what you're going to get in the very best of ways. His work surprises me and it also delights me and this one is no different. Revenge is a dish is best served cold, and in this tale, it's about frozen Stubbles has a lot of fun with this vengeance tale and we, the audience and reader, do too.