Recommended by Adam Richter

This is a darkly funny comedy of two people who occupy the same space but entirely different realities. In a few short pages Marcia Eppich-Harris gives us a vivid universe that shows not only why this marriage is doomed to fail, but what life was like for women as recently as the 1970s (spoiler alert: not great). This is a great short piece that audiences would really enjoy.

The state of "normal" is the epitome of mundane, until it becomes a goal that we hope to reach. In this wonderful 1-minute play, Martin shows us a normal office encounter as the platonic ideal and gives us so much depth to these characters we want the play to go on well beyond its one-minute running time. Another brilliantly written short play by Steven Martin. Bravo!

A fantastic exploration of myth set in that most mundane of places: a checkout line at a discount store. I loved the spare, almost poetic economy of language that Charles Scott Jones employs. And when the action evolves from the familiar to the insane, the audience will likely realize that all it takes is the tiniest of nudges to make what should be orderly into utter chaos.
This is an outstanding 10-minute comedy that would be a delight to see on stage.

The brutal honesty! The heartbreak! The corn dog!
This two-hander by Scott Sickles is a terrific commentary on why relationships fail, when it's important to speak your mind and when it's important to STFU and enjoy a margarita — or let someone enjoy a corn dog.
The dialogue is a riot and the characters are wonderfully relatable. Bravo!

Not only is this a sweet and funny 10-minute play that audiences would eat up like a bear devouring honey, but "Bearly Coping" makes great use of public-domain literature in a surprising and original — and, I must add, genius — way.
Bravo!

A razor-sharp satire that has one of the characters asking all the cringy questions you have either wanted to ask or worse, been in a position to answer. Why can't we just allow people to live their lives, even when they're ghosts?

This is a masterfully crafted play about the long tail of grief and how the sting of a loved one's death never fully subsides, even after decades. A live performance would be a great experience for actors and audiences alike.

"Intentions Matter" is a tender and heartbreaking play about an intensely complicated stepfather-daughter relationship. What I loved about this play is how Jack Levine doesn't show any of the traumatic events but instead gives us the character's responses after the fact. (Yeah, yeah, I know: "Show, don't tell." Nuts to that.)

The result is we get to experience the emotional aftermath, and the experience is all the richer for it.

Well done, Jack!

There's so much to unpack in this seemingly straightforward monologue about a cheating husband (with terrible taste in Valentine's Day gifts, IMHO). Performers and audiences alike would be well-served by this compact but layered (and brilliantly funny) monologue. Great work!

If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself. Unfortunately, Gerta's job requires two people, and Doolittle is clearly not the right man for the job. I loved the righteous anger, impatience and thirst that explodes from Gerta's short and laugh-out-loud funny (though not to Doolittle) speech.

And you know — KNOW — that he's going to come back with the wrong soda. But that's giving away too much.

Bravo, Scott!