Recommended by Peter Fenton

I really appreciate this play—Marj O’Neill-Butler taps into universal worries about death and aging as she writes very true-to-life dialogue in a short, gently comedic slice-of-life scene twinged with melancholy.

I saw the production of this play by the Bucks County Playhouse professional youth company last summer! This was an incredible story about accepting others and dealing with the heavy secrets we carry. It really was a great production from top to bottom and it's a show I hope to see regularly performed by schools and professional companies alike!

I love any comedic subversive take on the afterlife, so Plumridge's 10-minute play hit me in an especially great place! I love that this play just raises more and more questions as it goes on, about Marston's life, about "Steph" and "Lucy", about gay heaven vs straight heaven—and I think I admire most that the play doesn't leave the reader with an answer. Highly recommend... I'd love to see a little girl play God!

I never thought I needed the devilish inverse of It's a Wonderful Life, but I'm so glad I found it in this quick play! Even the demons need to remember their purpose every once in a while. John Mabey spins pointedly hilarious commentary on humanity in this play and keeps it all at a snappy pace that manages to say quite a bit in just a few pages. Well done!

I loved this play. What a powerful illustration of the idea of someone smart who has ears to hear growing and changing. I saw lots of parallels in Charity's arc with the real life story Megan Phelps-Roper and her relationship with Westboro and her mother, but played in such a way that's applicable to many, many people and relationships. And—that ending. What an excellent ending! I really want to see a production of this play.

A wonderfully fun little romp on a tree branch following a paranoid leaf, a spacey flower, and a growing organism who doesn't quite know what they are. An effective illustration of what happens when you run with incomplete information and a great entomology lesson!

This play is deep, clever, funny, and at the heart of it all—very human. I particularly loved the intertwining of storylines related to new life, grief, and love against the backdrop of gentrification and the evolution of this particular neighborhood. Thomas uses this imagery of gentrification as it intrudes into many aspects of life in the here and now to great effect. I wish I could have seen its run at the Arden!

What a fun bite-sized satire of the mundanity of office politics! I especially loved the escalating extended sequence about fundraiser pizza... such fun and pitch-perfect scaling of the bit further and further to its ultimate conclusion. All throughout the script, Thomas plays the sheer absurdity of the situation to great effect in this quick play, and I was genuinely not ready for that ending. Well done!

This play packed an unexpected punch! I didn't set out to read the full-length work in one sitting, but... here we are. Strayer has a delightfully cutting sense of humor throughout all her work and it shines bright through her realistic dialogue, especially between Halle, Avery, and Jaclyn. In this play, Strayer also communicates a powerful metaphor for writing as both an escape and truly a battle, as well as offering powerful reflection on the unique pain that comes from growing up to be different than your parents would have wanted. Highly recommend!

If you couldn't tell by the title of this play, Strayer has a wonderfully dark and zany sense of humor from start to finish in this bite-sized comedy! It's a bit less "cozy book club" and quite a bit more "single ladies murder." This play does a great job of thinking about Zoom(/Google Meet) theater as a medium and without spoiling anything, gets creative with what can be done to make the characters and screens feel more connected. I had the pleasure of acting in the world premiere of this play!