Recommended by Adam Richter

So THAT's how it happened!
Scholars have wondered for centuries how the Roman gods displaced their Greek counterparts, but Monical Cross solves the whole mystery in one hilarious minute.

Plus, she makes Hephaestus the most relatable god in the history of the universe. Well done!

This monologue speaks to our age. It resonates not just in the words but in the source material. Ruben Carbajal created a brilliant and heartbreaking monologue out of Google search queries. This piece is fantastic.

Correct spelling is important, kids — although without it we get brilliant comedic gems like this outstanding play by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos. The comedy in this short piece builds at a great tempo from bizarre miscommunication to full-on absurdity, featuring the devil, a cop and a Jesus who's WAY too much into saving our hero, Pam.
Clever writing and great physicality make this a perfect play for a night of shorts. Bravo!

A brilliant satire and a perfect play for our times. Steve Martin accomplishes so much in so few pages, and the result is a disturbingly funny comedy. Bravo!

"Naturalized" is a brilliant satire on identity and immigration, as well as a warning to be careful what you wish for. all of the roles are terrific, but the back and forth between Alex and his sister Taylor are comedic gold.
Bravo!

Christopher Soucy puts us right in the middle — no, not the middle — in the end of the classic horror movie, when almost everything that could go wrong has gone wrong and there is still an eternity before the characters have any hope of survival. This five-minute play throws audiences right into the thick of the crucial climax, giving us a terror-filled spectacle that spares us any exposition. We don't know why we should care for these characters, only that we do and we want them to live. Will they? Find out for yourself.

The language and movement in this gem of a short play are so much fun to read. They'd be an even bigger joy on the stage. Charles Scott Jones' short play is a wonderfully comic piece about the struggle to move on after a breakup, especially when the person responsible for the breakup won't leave the room. Fantastic!

You can have all the best plans for world domination you want, but if you don't have a good staff, then you simply won't get far. John Busser's hilarious take on a hapless supervillain and his even-more-hapless underlings is a riot to read, and it will be even better on a stage. Someone needs to include this in a night of short works right away. Absolutely brilliant!

A lovely meditation on loss, recovery and promise — and not necessarily in that order. As poetry, "Discarded" is a work of beauty. As a performance piece I suspect it will grip audiences from the start, none of them breathing until the runner finally releases their own breath toward the end. A fantastic monologue.

Prince Charming is done playing these games. And Cinderella stopped long ago. Emma Goldman-Sherman has rewritten these characters with a world-weariness that is perfectly relatable for our age and completely appropriate in theirs. This is a fun retelling of the classic fairy tale where both major characters Are. Just. Done. With. It. This is the ending the two characters needed, even if they thought they wanted glass slippers and endless parties. Well done!