Recommended by Doug DeVita

A delightful throwback to the golden years of screwball comedy routines, one can easily imagine George Burns and Gracie Allen having a field day playing these roles. Or any other comic duo lucky enough to sink their teeth into this delicious little charmer.

In less than ten pages, Franky Gonzales chronicles the history of fatherhood, and he does it with gut-wrenchingly brutal honesty. At times funny, at times upsetting, and always moving, this is a beautiful ten minutes, and a tour de force for any actor lucky enough to be the husband.

Teen-age angst and a mid-life crisis clash on a school bus in Monmouth County, New Jersey, and the relationship between a father and his son faces its inevitable change. I don't think I've ever read as tender and honest a father-son story as Hilton has created here, and this slice-of-life, coming-of-age drama charms, yet cuts deeply by continuously peeling away layers and layers of feeling and meaning until one is gutted by the sheer sensitivity, beauty and truth invested in both the storytelling and characters. An absolutely lovely work.

A fable, a folk tale, a morality play, a revenge tragedy, a romantic drama... call it what you will, "The Most Beautiful Story" is indeed beautiful. Intensely theatrical, intensely horrifying, intensely sad, and intensely... beautiful.

Oh. My. God. This play is savage. Riveting, horrifying, and savage. Because, truthfully, children ARE savage, and Hansen has painted a chilling portrait of children at their most utterly savage. I'm glad I read it in the morning, and not right before I went to sleep.

Profoundly disturbing, and written in a matter-of-fact way that underlines how chilling this world is, despite the roaring fire at the center of the play. For that fire exists to burn books, which is to burn both knowledge and cherished memories. A truly heartbreaking, harrowing, and unfortunately necessary work, one of Osmundsen’s bleakest, and best.

Breakups suck. When they happen via text, they’re even worse. Deray captures those awful feelings with one long scream of pain which will be instantly recognizable for any one who’s gone through it, and will be a wonderful piece for any young actor to perform.

This is one of the wittiest, funniest, and most elegant plays about love I’ve read in quite a while. That its two lovers are a mortal and a vampire, each longing for what the other one has — ie: life vs. immortality — adds an underlying sense of pathos to the comedy which lets the script come alive with dazzling, bubbly force. Highly recommended.

Highly theatrical, enormously charming, and just plain fun, this play is a densely packed ten minutes that seems longer — and in this case that’s a compliment — and yet one doesn’t want it to end. Absolutely wonderful.

A delightful family/generational comedy drama, "Pork Roll, Egg & Cheese" piles on the issues facing a not-so-politically correct 20th Century man as he tries to negotiate his way through an Uber-sensitive 21st century world. Cavanaugh skillfully maneuvers through the various troubles and traumas his multi-plot script generates, and the laughs are genuine (if sometimes decidedly NOT politically correct) and the feels are real. Oh, and if you're not familiar with Pork Roll, a number of us know it better as Taylor Ham. Whatever it's called, it's delicious. Like this play.