Recommended by Doug DeVita

The sense of claustrophobia and longing that permeates this play gives it an urgency that keeps one intrigued and invested in these characters' wants and needs. Lovely, ruminative, and magical, while retaining an edge that keeps it grounded and contemporary, it's a must read – and when possible, a must produce.

What took Wagner 1,200 minutes and Anna Russell 20 minutes, Larry Rinkel has done in less than 2 minutes, and he has done it astutely and hilariously. I'm not sure Wagner would approve – or even Anna Russell, for that matter – but who cares? Read it and weep with laughter.

Old-fashioned in the best sense, Eliot Byerrum's FATHER JEREMY'S CHRISTMAS JUBILEE plays like an homage to those wonderfully spiritual holiday movies from the 1940s, but has enough of an edge to make it relevant for a contemporary audience's sensibilities. Funny, thought-provoking, and touching, this play may fill a need for something we may not even realize we've been missing. And I dare anyone reading it not to think of Henry Travers or Edmund Gwen as Father Jeremy. And if you don't know who they are... well you need to, and you probably didn't even know it.

Norton's nifty two-hander plays both sides of the sham vs. genuine game – who's conning who? – and while a certain amount of cynical skepticism pervades the play, the twist at the end is genuine, believable, and earned. A wonderful work.

So John Busser does noir too? Of course he does, and he does it with his usual twisted, seriously silly, and hilariously polished panache. If the quips, zingers, and double entendres fly faster and more often than the bullets, well... that's just all part of the fun! Now we need more noir from Busser, preferably with his hard drinking P.I. Cliff Hammond at the center.

How do you do an appointment with a gynecologist on ZOOM? Not this way. BUT this is a wonderfully funny way to do a knockabout farce on the digital platform; everything that can go wrong pretty much does, hilariously. I'd really love to see this done, and soon. We all need the laughs.

Well this is a fun little revenge thriller. Kaminski builds suspense naturally, including some sure-fire laughs to break the tension before going in for the kill. Add two great roles for women, and this is a natural for short plays festivals, especially around Halloween.

WOW! This frightening and funny piece makes a thought-provoking argument for why things are the way they are, and Dunne pulls no punches with his rather dark, but cogent world-view. Scathing, hopeless, and brilliant, with a tour de force role for the title character.

Two axioms come to the fore in this sharply satiric, fun piece from Williams: Never assume, and don’t judge a book by its cover. But definitely get the meatloaf; word on the street is it’s better than Spago.

Using lyrics from songs made popular by The Monkees, Sean McCord creates and sustains a wonderfully sweet tension between two people who haven't seen each other in nearly 30 years. McCord's use of the lyrics as dialogue is so skillfully wrought one does not even notice it as a device, nor is it necessary to even know the songs he's quoting. Nonetheless, it works beautifully to advance the story of these two might have been, might be again lovers meeting over the proverbial coffee. Lovely.