Recommended by Donna Hoke

Having just spent a year researching Viv and Larry, I was eager to read this play and wasn't disappointed. I loved the immersion into old Hollywood and particularly the themes of what emerges as truth years after the fact. Most enjoyable!

Sometimes you read a piece where the structure is so perfectly the play and vice versa that you understand what all the talks about structure are all about. Riveting and stunning.

A lovely play about the difficulties of overcoming the barriers to generosity and goodness for generosity and goodness's sake. And boy did I feel for Tino when he corrected the teacher; my daughter had the exact same experience lol. Chisa's work has such a grace to it and this one is in her best wheelhouse.

Sweet and funny, this play moves quickly like a good road trip comedy should--and arrives at a happy ending.

Warm, moving, excellently paced and structured. I'm usually not a fan of unlikely friendship stories but this one really hit me in the feels. What really impressed me is that I almost didn't even realize it was a two-hander because it was that compelling and rich. So well done.

Oh I loved this! Reminded me of radio dramas I listed to as a kid, edge-of-your-seat stuff with lots of humor, too. Great job!

There's so much to love about a Tammy Ryan play, the theatricality, the sharp injections of humor, the use of physicality, surprise, sight, and sound. But what I love most of all is the way they sneak up on you: you're just listening to casual conversation, but there's an edge to it, but you're sucked in, lulled, and then all hell breaks loose. The Wake excels at all of this.

Church groups--who are constantly on the lookout for faith-based plays to present--would do well to look at this series of shorts that can be performed separately or as a complete evening. Presenting plenty of opportunity for discussion, these plays are built from many layers of faith, poetry and, most of all, humanity. Lovely and moving.

There's a lot to unpack here in a very short read, and I could probably spend an hour or two doing so! But my biggest takeaway is of course they're friends, or Fish would be dead. Even that is a heavy concept.

I love a saga and I love the way this one builds a careful foundation for the characters' futures with everything they do and say in their pasts. Better still, PHILLIE'S TRILOGY leads to a clever and satisfying meta theme of writing what you know. I particularly loved the depiction of growing up in the seventies, and its sharp contrast of parenting styles.