Recommended by Adam Richter

Ryan takes the most common tropes of classic detective stories and turns them on their head in this clever, suspenseful detective drama. A fun read that would be great fun in front of a live audience.

What I love about this monologue are the pacing— Scott is such an expert at telling the audience slightly less than they need to know, then revealing more a little bit at a time, pulling them along on the journey — and the way that not one but two characters are fully realized by the last page. This is a vivid, compelling meditation on survival and love.

What a heartbreaker! All Granny Lola wants to do is hit the casino. This is a wonderful monologue about motherhood, guilt, duty and the job of helping our kids that never ever seems to end. Asher Wyndham brings us into Lola's world and in his lively, spirited way lets us see her, warts and all. Fantastic.

This is a fast-moving play with sharp dialogue and a well-crafted plot. I won't give away the ending, except to say that it is heartbreaking and at the same time somewhat hopeful. At the end of two acts I wanted more.

Asher Wyndham is a master of the monologue, and Zoey is further proof. This five-page monologue pokes at the double standard of dress codes, particularly in schools, while showing us how complicated it is for a teenager to hang on to their identity and simultaneously hew to seemingly arbitrary school rules. Wonderfully effective.

I laughed out loud throughout this workplace comedy of Batman well past his prime and now running things at Wayne Enterprises. Hageman has fun skewering the comic-book superhero mythos while making Batman both comical and pitiable.

A wonderful short play that reminds us that no two people see a relationship the same way. Scott, as he often does, mixes delightful comedic moments with serious heartbreak in this delightful story.

This was such a fun play to read and would be a fun play to produce. The characters are well developed and the story moves briskly with every line. And now Julie makes me worry that I'm not paranoid enough about coronavirus. Success on every level!

Who among us hasn't wished we could take drugs at work? This play is a fun satire on office life, modern medicine and relationships. It had multiple laugh-out-loud moments just from reading. Onstage, it would be even funnier. Well done.

The play starts out as a meditation on mortality and relationships, then quickly takes a shocking turn (which I won't describe here). The twist is masterful and David's ultimate objective, when finally revealed, made it a delight to read.