Recommended by Donna Hoke

  • WHORTICULTURE
    26 Apr. 2021
    I finally got a chance to see this play and it was worth waiting for, but it was busting from the small screen, demanding to be given all the theatricality intended. I can't imagine the impact it would have fully alive on stage! The play covers so much ground, which only makes it painfully apparent how much ground there is to cover and how little progress we've really made in doing that. It's still available to watch; do it!
  • The Profession (Full-length play)
    24 Apr. 2021
    A wonderfully wrought play about the decline of the humanities (sad face) and humanity, a brew of hypocrisy, dubious morality, and patriarchal double standards that plays out in the perfect location: a struggling academic institution. Eppich-Harris clearly knows the world she's writing about, and Valerie's turmoil is heartbreakingly real.
  • What Doesn't Kill Us
    1 Mar. 2021
    This play is delightful especially in the way it deals with the most deepest questions with the lightest hand. Such a fun read but not without substance. Bravo!
  • Ricky and Ready
    13 Feb. 2021
    OMG this play. So beautiful, smart, moving, and real. Highly recommend!
  • Branwell (and the other Brontes): an autobiography edited by Charlotte Bronte
    28 Nov. 2020
    This play has everything going for it: great female roles, familiar people, relentlessly astounding theatricality, great story, humor, playfulness, and poignancy. Once this gets on the school/college and community theater circuit, it may never leave!
  • Beatrix Potter Must Die!
    7 Nov. 2020
    Had the privilege of hearing some college students perform this one and now I understand why it's gotten so much attention! It's a great premise with lots of laughs that will no doubt continue to have long life because it's so classic. And how many plays can you tag with "Victorian Comedy"?
  • LADY CAPULET
    21 Sep. 2020
    Full disclosure: I am not a Shakespeare fan but I was RIVETED by a reading of this play (and another full disclosure: I was ten minutes late to it and worried I wouldn't be able to get into it), but it was so amazing, I got sucked right in. Okay, that was my reaction! But the writing is incredible, a brilliant prequel to Romeo and Juliet that has contemporary resonance, a kickass female lead, and that adds layers to the story we all know so well. Out of words but !!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
  • The Parking Lot
    21 Aug. 2020
    This parking lot pandemic pivot is just the kind of play I'd want to see right now, when I'm sequestered with people I love who might also be driving me a little crazy. It's beautiful and simple and reminds of some truths that deserve consideration right now. The deceptive simplicity of it is what would make it work so well outside, but I hope if we return to theaters, The Parking Lot comes along.
  • Aces Are Feverish
    26 Jul. 2020
    Omigosh, what great fun!! Weaver pays homage to a beloved genre with cleverness, wit, and all the required hard-to-guess twists and turns. The large flexible cast makes this a play for schools and community theaters--one their audiences will love!
  • OMG, VBEG
    23 Jul. 2020
    Day and night need each other, joy and melancholy need each other, and the Devil and God need each other. I was surprisingly moved by the last line of this play until I realized that what Weaver has done is show us difficult it is to reconcile hard-core differences with those we love and how we sometimes try to get closer by pushing apart.

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