Recommended by Doug DeVita

Sex always alters the dynamics of a friendship, even if the actual act doesn't take place, and the delicate, but brutal dance between two teen-age friends forms the crux of Robin Rice's delicate, but brutal Proustian short play. Excellent characterizations, excellent roles for two younger actors, and an excellent – as usual – script by Rice make this a piece which should be produced often.

Complex, often painful, and ultimately heartbreakingly beautiful, "Something For Sondra" explores the often confusing relationships between a mother and her daughter, and said mother with daughter's best friend. There are different perspectives to be mined, different experiences each person has with the other, and Osmundsen negotiates his way through the rocky terrain with skill; he never resorts to cliché, but finds the honesty at the core of each relationship and presents each with a clear-eyed, but not cold, cohesion that builds with each scene, making this play a rich and satisfying roller-coaster of well-earned emotional truths.

Rossi has – seemingly effortlessly – recreated the horrifying world of Nazi Germany and layered it with sharp overtones of what's happening today, and he's done it with a dazzling mix of words, music, and incredibly vivid characters. When staged, I can only imagine how much electricity the swing dancing will add to this already exciting, joyful, frightening, wonderful, and necessary script. Bravo, Tyler.

Good God, this is good! Lockhart perfectly captures the mood, the tone, the emotions between two older stars as they record the commentary for the film that put them on the map; at first everything is jocular, chatty, a fun stroll down memory lane, and then – almost imperceptibly, he ratchets up the tension and then twists the knife for a horrifying conclusion. An excellent ten-minute play, and two terrific roles for older actors. Highly recommended.

In one chilling, breathtaking minute, Franky Gonzalez exposes everything that has “made America great again.”

Primal urges in the era of “social distancing” get the Sickles treatment, ie: a concise, chilling, heartbreaking minute of exceptional theatricality and poignant depth.

The twists start coming early on, and continue with dizzying regularity throughout this dark, frequently funny and always engaging piece. Cavanaugh tackles racism, me too, trust issues, and father/son dynamics, among other themes, and keeps all the balls in the air with balls to the wall energy and elan. Great roles for a diverse cast.

This is just wonderful! I love everything about it: revisiting beloved characters and meeting them in a new light, the sublimely theatrical possibilities for staging, and most of all, the love that Lockhart has for his characters, his subject matter, and the source material – a love that shines through with every word. As Chelsea Frandsen noted in her recommendation: this should be a Holiday staple. Perhaps produced in rep with the Dickens' original?

Ever since it sank in 1912, the term "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic" has been used as a metaphor for any and all kinds of clusterfuck in the face of impending disaster, and this short play is a brilliant physicalization of the same. We watch this witty, elegant, and intensely horrifying play helplessly as these obtuse people resolutely ignore what's unfolding right in front of them, just as we have for the past 108 years (and mostly likely since time began) and will continue to do so for the next 108 – if we last that long.

Sweet and sad, this short romcom packs a lot of feeling into its 15 pages, not the least of which are despair, and hope, and a bittersweet longing for things to be the way they were, before... whatever changed. A lovely, reflective work.