Recommended by Adam Richter

[2026-02-06]

Routine helps process grief, but sometimes it keeps us trapped in a vicious cycle. Brent Alles' beautiful and touching monologue is a study in mourning. Lovely theatricality and emotionally powerful text. I loved this.

[2026-02-02]

I thoroughly enjoyed this piece and want to see more adventures from Black Cat and Tabby! Black Cat is a good friend who knows when to pick up the slack for Tabby, in desperate need of a break. This is a funny one-minute play with a surprising amount of heart at its core.

[2026-02-02]

I KNEW IT!

Cats are adorable, lovely, fluffy killing machines but they also like to mentally mess with humans. Debra Cole's play is 100% proof of that. I am not a cat owner but this short comedy perfectly encapsulates what they are like and what it means to live with them. I laughed out loud throughout this piece, and I'd love to see it on a stage.

[2026-02-02]

A slow burn of a thriller that rewards the audience with a shocking, and completely well-earned, ending. I'd love to see this on a stage. Masterful dialogue and pacing.

[2026-02-02]

Debra A. Cole delivers a devastating blow to he idea of what counts as a "funny family story" in this powerful short. Poppy has, one presumes, spent decades telling the same story for laughs, completely unaware that what he's telling is a tragedy, not a comedy. His complaint that "I guess you can't say anything anymore" echoes the grievance of spoiled white men everywhere who have yet to learn not to punch down.
This is a terrific and urgent play.

[2026-01-19]

Hard to rest in peace when the neighbors won't stop bickering. This delightful one-act shows that not only does love last beyond the grave, so does our capacity to annoy the hell out of one another. A quick-witted, funny and heartfelt play by the super-talented Rachel Luann Strayer. Get to a cemetery and produce this one.

[2026-01-17]

This is not only a great premise for a play — a rest area for an ultramarathon — but a terrific piece featuring real, grounded and very funny characters who convey so much depth in so few pages. "Aid Station" is a set designer's dream and would be a hoot for actors and audiences alike. I loved this piece by Rob and am hoping to see more of these characters (minus the short-shorts).

[2026-01-17]

A beautiful play about friendship and the hope that comes from pulling a loved one out of the pits of despair. A fantastic play; Bug gives Moth (and us) the light when we need it most.

[2026-01-16]

Sam Heyman's "Eleven Minutes After Midnight" flashes backwards and forward in time, showing the horrible choices Ed has had to make as he tries to save humanity, and the toll they take. This bold, emotional drama subverts the Hero's Journey by putting Ed in the Dark Place and leaving him there. Ed confronts the question: Why keep fighting when you've lost all the personal stakes you're fighting for?
I'd love to hear a production of this imaginative and deeply thoughtful tale.

[2025-01-08]

What begins as farce ends as — well, I'm not going to tell you how it ends. All I will say is that Scott Sickles' one-act play about adoption, motherhood and (of course) mistaken identity is a sharp, funny and thoughtful story of connecting with people who share DNA and little else. It's a story with well-earned plot twists and equally well-earned laugh-out-loud moments.