Recommended by Doug DeVita

I love this play. Not having read Emily Hageman's work before, "Brian the Comet" was a wonderful introduction, a delightful, funny, sad, and yes, brilliant, rumination on love, life, death, and everything in between, told with an unusually engaging creativity and tenderness. And be sure to read the character descriptions, themselves a work of flippantly saucy art.

Feuding televison stars, especially when their simmering resentments spill over whilst on the air — live — are a natural subject for satirizing, but when treated as smartly as Miranda Jonte does in “The Shark Play,” their petty problems take on a deeper meaning and feeling. Darkly humorous, and with several moments of shocking savagery, “The Shark Play” reels us in with spot on characterizations and a sharply observed viewpoint.

A terrific example of story telling in monologue form, and a telling snapshot of a time and place not unlike what ours is once again becoming.

Tom Moran's WYWH is an enormously charming 10-minute time-traveling love story, at once heartbreaking for what can never be and delightfully giddy for what the relationship between the two main characters is. And the ending is perfect. Absolutely perfect.

What a lovely, ruminative dissemination of celebrity worship, wishful comparisons, and sibling support, handled with Weaver’s customary astute skill and gentle humor.

Delightful and touching, with roles actors can sink their claws into and have a great time.

Heartbreaking and beautifully rendered, this is a perfect ten.

A sharply incisive 10-minutes from the sharply incisive Cheryl Davis, CHILD OF THE MOVEMENT captures the rage and frustration of two people who want to do the right thing, but become stymied by the stigmas of their time and social class. A powerful work from the always astute Davis, one which lingers long after the last word has been read, or spoken.

I’ve always loved Snowmen; there’s something comforting about their presence on the winter landscape. Now I know why. Thank you, Bryan Stubbles — SMOWMAN OF VENGEANCE gets it, and we get a wonderfully bizarre Christmas gift.

Part One of Scott Sickles’ Second World Trilogy, MARIANAS TRENCH is huge, complex, terrifying, and gorgeous. A stunning work of art, it is intensely personal and quite possibly his best. Bravo, Scott!