Recommended by Jerry Polner

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    Abort: The Mission is a very funny, wonderfully cringe-inducing play that artfully shows us the next shoe to drop in the abortion debate. A great premise, very well executed. Produce this play!

    Abort: The Mission is a very funny, wonderfully cringe-inducing play that artfully shows us the next shoe to drop in the abortion debate. A great premise, very well executed. Produce this play!

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    A powerfully funny, hard-edged treatment of reality television, U.K. style. End of the Day, Ep 1 is a brilliant comedy about how love, trust, and meaning can be scrubbed away by just a few TV cameras. Produce this play!

    A powerfully funny, hard-edged treatment of reality television, U.K. style. End of the Day, Ep 1 is a brilliant comedy about how love, trust, and meaning can be scrubbed away by just a few TV cameras. Produce this play!

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    Full of stunning loneliness and heartbreaking moral choices, Vulpecula will surely become one of the great stories of the American West. Jennifer Rumberger’s play paints an appropriately violent and desperate picture of a frontier town where justice is not about the law but about who will stand up to whom. Harper is a great main character, fiercely determined to do what she has to do. Produce this play!

    Full of stunning loneliness and heartbreaking moral choices, Vulpecula will surely become one of the great stories of the American West. Jennifer Rumberger’s play paints an appropriately violent and desperate picture of a frontier town where justice is not about the law but about who will stand up to whom. Harper is a great main character, fiercely determined to do what she has to do. Produce this play!

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    In this funny, imaginative, sweeping play, Samantha Marchant has created the only music promoter in America who can produce the last song of a brilliant, dead artist, just as long as it doesn't get in the way of the Adamite religious order (which is NOT, repeat, NOT a cult) he has sworn to uphold. A great read!

    In this funny, imaginative, sweeping play, Samantha Marchant has created the only music promoter in America who can produce the last song of a brilliant, dead artist, just as long as it doesn't get in the way of the Adamite religious order (which is NOT, repeat, NOT a cult) he has sworn to uphold. A great read!

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    A great example of a taut, fast-moving interrogation drama, Covenant makes plain a world where people will believe almost anything to avoid having to make a decision. Sharp as a tack and without a single word out of place.

    A great example of a taut, fast-moving interrogation drama, Covenant makes plain a world where people will believe almost anything to avoid having to make a decision. Sharp as a tack and without a single word out of place.

  • Jerry Polner: Thrive, Or What You Will [an epic] by L M Feldman
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    L M Feldman's Thrive, or What You Will is indeed an epic, a worldly, sweeping story about the 18th century French herb woman Jeanne Baret, who pretends to be a man in order to board an exploratory ship bound for the "Great Southern Continent." This is a brilliantly told, steel-edged tale about what the worst of men can do and what the rest of us fail to do about it.

    L M Feldman's Thrive, or What You Will is indeed an epic, a worldly, sweeping story about the 18th century French herb woman Jeanne Baret, who pretends to be a man in order to board an exploratory ship bound for the "Great Southern Continent." This is a brilliantly told, steel-edged tale about what the worst of men can do and what the rest of us fail to do about it.

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  • Jerry Polner: Stained Glass by Ingrid De Sanctis
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    Our main character Jewels has returned home for the funeral of her father, a Pentecostal minister with a troubled past. When Jewels takes it upon herself to confront the women her father had victimized, she gets some help from her old friends Cinderella, Tinker Bell, and the Little Mermaid. But unlike the Disney versions, these characters have their own troubles that cut them just as deeply as Jewels’s do. This is a big, big story, full of the mysteries of faith and loss and wrongs that can't be righted. A sad, wondrous, brilliantly told tale. Read this play!

    Our main character Jewels has returned home for the funeral of her father, a Pentecostal minister with a troubled past. When Jewels takes it upon herself to confront the women her father had victimized, she gets some help from her old friends Cinderella, Tinker Bell, and the Little Mermaid. But unlike the Disney versions, these characters have their own troubles that cut them just as deeply as Jewels’s do. This is a big, big story, full of the mysteries of faith and loss and wrongs that can't be righted. A sad, wondrous, brilliantly told tale. Read this play!

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  • Jerry Polner: Cold Dead Heart by Maximillian Gill
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    Forget all those other vampire love stories. This is the only one you need. And you do need it. I will never again take for granted the sound of immortality knocking at my window. Maximillian Gill's play is very, very funny. Read it now!

    Forget all those other vampire love stories. This is the only one you need. And you do need it. I will never again take for granted the sound of immortality knocking at my window. Maximillian Gill's play is very, very funny. Read it now!

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  • Jerry Polner: you know, that Bakery out in Bensonhurst by Gina Femia
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    Gina Femia brings us to that other Brooklyn where you’re 16 years old and you’re still working the counter at your family’s bakery without getting paid anything and talking with your sister about the mysterious deaths of rock stars and the mysterious lives of boyfriends while you’re serving customers. Until one day you just can’t anymore. Especially funny and especially heartbreaking. Produce this play!

    Gina Femia brings us to that other Brooklyn where you’re 16 years old and you’re still working the counter at your family’s bakery without getting paid anything and talking with your sister about the mysterious deaths of rock stars and the mysterious lives of boyfriends while you’re serving customers. Until one day you just can’t anymore. Especially funny and especially heartbreaking. Produce this play!

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  • Jerry Polner: DOG AND WOLF by Catherine Filloux
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    A survivor of the Bosnian war, Yasmina is physically threatened by war criminals still at large and can barely decide on a safe place to smoke her cigarettes. Haunted by the destruction of her family, she struggles with her vain and officious attorney to build a case for her asylum in the United States. A hard-edged, beautifully written drama about the people who fall between the cracks.

    A survivor of the Bosnian war, Yasmina is physically threatened by war criminals still at large and can barely decide on a safe place to smoke her cigarettes. Haunted by the destruction of her family, she struggles with her vain and officious attorney to build a case for her asylum in the United States. A hard-edged, beautifully written drama about the people who fall between the cracks.

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