Recommended by Christopher Soucy

At the heart of this adaptation is an absolutely brilliant double casting (even more brilliant explaining it as single casting). Like truly inspired. Monica Cross has provided a Shakespeare fanatic such as myself a wonderful new lease on a favorite play. My delight in the new nuances to be explored cannot be fully expressed. Huzzah!

This play is both hard to read and impossible to put down. Vince Gatton beautifully navigates the chaos and trauma of an all too familiar tragedy. Haunting and revelatory, YOU HAVE EARNED BONUS STARS is a tour de force of theatricality. I strongly recommend reading it and even more strongly advocate producing it.

So many of our fairy tales, parables, myths involve eating. Hansel and Gretel, Goldilocks, Persephone. Here is an amazing break down of recovery from eating disorders set against a back drop of the stories we consume. Aly Kantor serves up a a stellar two hander that would be amazing for any performer to present and any company to produce.

This play checks all the boxes! Funny, dramatic, scary, steeped in mysticism and mystery! Jewish vampire demon for the win! A great chilling piece of radio drama!

Never forget the reason for the season is high sales volume. This quirky holiday treat is a pitch perfect look at the commercialization of the holidays. Philip Middleton Williams captures what it must be like to plot and plan the ad campaigns that inundated the air waves the moment there is a hint of cool in the air.

A powerful metaphor or an actual cage that holds a heart? This beautiful gem of a play explores the fantasies that consume us when we are in pain. The very notion of “keeping it together” or keeping a broken heart whole through copious amounts of pressure just add to the familiar tragedy that this play exposes so well. Cross is a masterful playwright with an incredible talent for endearing you to her characters and their plights quickly and totally.

It’s not everyday you read something and question whether it is a tragedy or not. There is certainly a tragedy at work, but ultimately there is a warmth in this piece that leaves you with a hopeful note within a funeral dirge. I am a bonafide Sickles fan, a sicklesfant if you will, and I can say that this play continues my streak of loving his work.

Santa embroiled in a court room drama? Well, A very funny court room drama. Christopher Plumridge brings his usual expert touch to a fantastic premise. Enjoyable through and through, a true Christmastime treat!

I could watch the adventures of Cleo forever. A fun romp through the bedroom of a “working girl” as she meets with three very different clients. The dialogue is sharp and revelatory. I think it would be a great show to showcase an actress’s range.

How many kids have we seen burdened with all the hardships just get crushed? This lovely play shines a light on one such kid. A testimony to what it’s like to teach, to care, and to want to help. A feel good show about a tough situation.