Recommended by Arianna Rose

  • Arianna Rose: Matinee

    A very funny play about the generation gap and the things we bury in a bucket of popcorn rather than talk about. I can’t wait to see this one performed.

    A very funny play about the generation gap and the things we bury in a bucket of popcorn rather than talk about. I can’t wait to see this one performed.

  • Arianna Rose: COASTER

    I wish I had come up with this idea - the highest praise I can give! What a fabulous 'ride'. Playwright Mullen expertisely combines comedy with pathos, terror with tenderness, to get at the truth of a relationship. I can see why it gets so many productions! A tour de force for actors and directors and so perfectly and simply staged. Coaster will get you going...and going...and going...

    I wish I had come up with this idea - the highest praise I can give! What a fabulous 'ride'. Playwright Mullen expertisely combines comedy with pathos, terror with tenderness, to get at the truth of a relationship. I can see why it gets so many productions! A tour de force for actors and directors and so perfectly and simply staged. Coaster will get you going...and going...and going...

  • Arianna Rose: DRESS BLUES

    I love plays that seem to be about one thing, but are really about something else. DRESS BLUES - clever word play in the title, by the way - does just that, brilliantly. A ten-minute comedy with a deeper message about self-acceptance and self-worth. Donald Loftus has once again gifted us with a comedy that's about something, with some killer lines and great characterizations. Read it and produce it!

    I love plays that seem to be about one thing, but are really about something else. DRESS BLUES - clever word play in the title, by the way - does just that, brilliantly. A ten-minute comedy with a deeper message about self-acceptance and self-worth. Donald Loftus has once again gifted us with a comedy that's about something, with some killer lines and great characterizations. Read it and produce it!

  • Arianna Rose: THE INVENTION OF PICKLE BALL

    Hysterically funny and oh so truthful. Fantastic roles for older actors, and did I say funny? Funny as hell. Can I please be Rachael Carnes when I grow up? Read it, produce it!

    Hysterically funny and oh so truthful. Fantastic roles for older actors, and did I say funny? Funny as hell. Can I please be Rachael Carnes when I grow up? Read it, produce it!

  • Arianna Rose: Never Closer Than Three Feet

    I'm a sucker for old Hollywood stories, and NEVER CLOSER THAN THREE FEET does not disappoint. Playwright Lee R. Lawing creates a clever, original and believable premise during a photo shoot for Norma Shearer, who married studio head Irving Thalberg. A wonderful play that examines WORLDS in just ten minutes. Power dynamics, Hollywood rivalries, and the price women paid to rise to the top are presented in a fresh and highly theatrical way. Read it and produce it!

    I'm a sucker for old Hollywood stories, and NEVER CLOSER THAN THREE FEET does not disappoint. Playwright Lee R. Lawing creates a clever, original and believable premise during a photo shoot for Norma Shearer, who married studio head Irving Thalberg. A wonderful play that examines WORLDS in just ten minutes. Power dynamics, Hollywood rivalries, and the price women paid to rise to the top are presented in a fresh and highly theatrical way. Read it and produce it!

  • Arianna Rose: Textbook Messages

    A very funny and all-too-real premise about the demands life places upon us and how we deal with them. As a college professor, I thoroughly enjoyed the interchange about "not" using college resources. Dramatist Ross Tedford Kendall skillfully ramps up the predicaments facing Vanessa as she juggles unreasonable texts. Great climax and last line. Would love to see this performed - a perfect play for the Zoom age.

    A very funny and all-too-real premise about the demands life places upon us and how we deal with them. As a college professor, I thoroughly enjoyed the interchange about "not" using college resources. Dramatist Ross Tedford Kendall skillfully ramps up the predicaments facing Vanessa as she juggles unreasonable texts. Great climax and last line. Would love to see this performed - a perfect play for the Zoom age.

  • Arianna Rose: Persephone

    An absolute stunner of a play about love, loss, and the everlife. What Jennifer O'Grady accomplishes in ten minutes is remarkable. I didn't want the play to end. PERSEPHONE has had several productions and been published and I can see why! While Persephone may never have wanted to be named after a goddess, her actions are nothing short of god-like, no small feat for a professed atheist. Read it, weep, laugh, you'll be a changed human being and the better for having read this jewel of a play.

    An absolute stunner of a play about love, loss, and the everlife. What Jennifer O'Grady accomplishes in ten minutes is remarkable. I didn't want the play to end. PERSEPHONE has had several productions and been published and I can see why! While Persephone may never have wanted to be named after a goddess, her actions are nothing short of god-like, no small feat for a professed atheist. Read it, weep, laugh, you'll be a changed human being and the better for having read this jewel of a play.

  • Arianna Rose: Commencement (a 10 minute play)

    Such a lovely, honest, warm depiction of friends on the cusp of the new adventure of college - but first they have to leave their high school friends and family life behind. I instantly related to both characters and the storyline. Dramatist Jackie Martin writes with empathy and wit about this rite of passage. I loved these characters, and so will you. Read it, produce it!

    Such a lovely, honest, warm depiction of friends on the cusp of the new adventure of college - but first they have to leave their high school friends and family life behind. I instantly related to both characters and the storyline. Dramatist Jackie Martin writes with empathy and wit about this rite of passage. I loved these characters, and so will you. Read it, produce it!

  • Arianna Rose: Choices: A Ten-Minute Play

    a brilliant, imaginative play about making deals with the devil. As someone with a crushing student loan debt from grad school, this play resonated with me on so many levels. Clever, smart, and a terrific ending - James McLindon has hit it out of the park with CHOICES. It's getting produced and with great reason!

    a brilliant, imaginative play about making deals with the devil. As someone with a crushing student loan debt from grad school, this play resonated with me on so many levels. Clever, smart, and a terrific ending - James McLindon has hit it out of the park with CHOICES. It's getting produced and with great reason!

  • Arianna Rose: Every Seven Minutes (Online Version)

    I had the extreme pleasure of watching an online production of this smart, funny, philosophical treatise on playing God and its ramifications. Playwright Ken Preuss writes with comic precision and always sticks the landing! To say more would be to give too much away - suffice it to say, read it and produce it!

    I had the extreme pleasure of watching an online production of this smart, funny, philosophical treatise on playing God and its ramifications. Playwright Ken Preuss writes with comic precision and always sticks the landing! To say more would be to give too much away - suffice it to say, read it and produce it!