Recommended by Adam Richter

[2024-10-12]

What's crazy about this play is that Julie Zaffarano captures with such precision what every single parent goes through when selecting a guardian for their children.

OK, maybe not, but the difficult conversation would be much more fun if it had the singing, dancing and unfettered, delightful chaos that "Guardian To Be" contains. This is a fun and heartwarming play perfect for any short-play festival.

[2024-10-11]
Morey Norkin captures the complexity and absurdity of the cat psyche with perfection in this short, fun piece. I would love to see a performance of an actor doing mental and emotional battle with a cardboard box on stage. Brilliant!

[2024-10-11]
As someone who dances like EVERYONE'S watching, I appreciate this tight, tiny celebration of joy and being who you are. Ginny brings a smile to the reader and will bring audiences to their feet. Bravo, Steve!

[2024-10-06]

Everyone has different standards for what constitutes a good day. What Jessica is eager to get rid of, Emily is desperate to get back. Steven Martin tells a compelling and highly theatrical tale of grief, loss and how we pick up the pieces and continue on.

[2024-10-05]

Oh, what a tangled web Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos weaves when she puts the works of Shakespeare into a blender. The result is a hilarious spoof not only of The Bard but of show business in general and community theater in particular. Audiences and actors alike will have a ball with this funny, highly theatrical piece. Bravo!

[2024-10-01]

A pitch-perfect and viscerally unnerving satire of academia and race in modern America. Though Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos takes aim at the world of education (and hits her mark perfectly), anyone who's dealt with institutions of any kind will recognize the characters, the situation and the absurd way they handle it.
This is what great satire strives to be: funny and uncomfortable.

[09/20/2024]

Intense, gripping and harrowing drama unfolds before our eyes in under 1 minute. Marco Di Stefano's use of tension (and time) in this thriller is impeccable.

[9/18/2024]

When the end of all known existence is a mere minutes away, is there ever any hope? Scott Sickles offers an answer to that question (which I won't spoil here) with "Outpost," a taut, suspenseful and romantic science fiction thriller. This is a fantastic opportunity for two actors and a set/lighting designer to have a field day.
This is an exquisite play.

(Posted 9/16/2024)

For adult children of aging parents, dementia is a horror story. In Philip Middleton Williams' excellent short play, father and son share some tender memories but the sense of dread that dementia creates is just under the surface — until it isn't. "A Moment of Clarity" is a beautiful and haunting short piece that's a gem for two actors, particularly two older actors.

This one will stay with you. It's an excellent short piece.

This is a beautiful play about friends, gay-straight crushes and the ways people change between high school and adulthood. I particularly loved the nuanced ways that relationships with the supporting characters bring out new revelations about Lee and Shawn, in ways both surprising and completely natural.
"The Lover and the Fighter" is yet another play in Sam Heyman's portfolio that demonstrates what a master he is at crafting lovely relationship-driven dramas. Bravo!