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Jerry Polner

Recommended by Jerry Polner

  • CANOPY by Rachael Carnes
    25 Dec. 2020
    “ Four actors take turns playing an older couple in this funny and innovative love story about forbearance and patience. By making the casting of each scene into a game of chance, Rachael Carnes takes us into a new, off-balance world where we can’t predict what role we’ll be called on to play. A lovely piece of work all around. Produce this play! ”
  • Barbarians by Nick Robideau
    17 Dec. 2020
    “ In Nick Robideau's icy dark comedy, a toxic cloud of unknown origin doesn't completely cancel the funny, but it does scare the daylights out of us. Some part of the country has been wiped out, and the three principal characters retell and relive their mutual betrayals and the crime they can never come to terms with. Barbarians is a brilliant, frightening, devastating piece of work. ”
  • Man of the People by Dolores Díaz
    13 Dec. 2020
    “ Dolores Díaz tells a quintessentially American story about a fake doctor who offers fake remedies and becomes a real success. It's funny, it's sad, and it's full of the buoyancy of a still young country that needs to believe there's an easy solution to every problem. Man of the People is a great read! ”
  • THE DELAYS by Sara Jean Accuardi
    5 Dec. 2020
    “ In The Delays, it's always New Year's Eve and we're always left standing at the same sad airport gift shop. But a chain of characters take us backwards in time through missed opportunities and small victories. A poignant, funny, and beautifully written play. ”
  • Principal Principle by Joe Zarrow
    2 Dec. 2020
    “ Principal Principle beautifully dramatizes the tedium, the teacher burn-out, and the high-stakes testing built into our city high schools. Every inch is funny, truthful, and heartbreaking. A great read! ”
  • Stockholm Syndrome: A Ten-Minute Play by James McLindon
    11 Nov. 2020
    “ A fun, funny romp of a play about the Beast and his beauty and their relationship problems. A natural addition for every evening of 10-minute plays! ”
  • Forgivng John Lenoon (Dramatic Comedy) by William Missouri Downs
    9 Nov. 2020
    “ When a woman poet from Somalia stays over with a married pair of liberal arts professors, she brings a part of the world they weren't expecting. Forgiving John Lennon by William Missouri Downs is a funny and damning picture of academic politics, not so free speech, and our universal confusion about what's culture and what's just plain wrong. A tough comedy with a killer ending. ”
  • Man & Wife by Emma Goldman-Sherman
    5 Nov. 2020
    “ Somehow Emma Goldman-Sherman is able to write a play that is very much of our time and very much eternal. The title, which is also the list of characters, takes us through Ron and Missy's married life, from the top of their wedding cake through parenthood and into late middle-age. Like the best of Thornton Wilder, it is funny, explosive, and damning. ”
  • Witch Hunt or, a Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World by Liz Duffy Adams
    18 Jun. 2020
    “ It's 10 years after the Salem witch trials, and New England has still not learned its lesson. In this masterful dark comedy, Liz Duffy Adams reckons with the abuse of religion and the abuse of people, all in one blazing, action-packed story. ”
  • A Poison Squad of Whispering Women by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
    24 May. 2020
    “ In Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos's brilliant play, these women do a lot more than whisper. The Ku Klux Klan, political corruption, and the coming age of the flappers all collide in 1924 Indiana when organized women become a force to be reckoned with. An exciting, fast-moving story and a great read! ”

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