Recommended by Kenneth N. Kurtz

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    I'll grant you that the title sounds like a racy sex romp, but Cabana Boy is a beautifully done gay coming of age tale. The first scene ends with a line forecasting untoward machinations. The last scene provides a warm closure of contentment. And I, as a lighting designer, would love to do this play with the amber haze of seaside sunsets off left doing battle with the hotel's harsh mercury lights from off right. Thanks Philip Middleton Williams for yet another fine play.

    I'll grant you that the title sounds like a racy sex romp, but Cabana Boy is a beautifully done gay coming of age tale. The first scene ends with a line forecasting untoward machinations. The last scene provides a warm closure of contentment. And I, as a lighting designer, would love to do this play with the amber haze of seaside sunsets off left doing battle with the hotel's harsh mercury lights from off right. Thanks Philip Middleton Williams for yet another fine play.

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    James Odin Wade entwines the story of Alexander the Great's famous horse with the vaudeville tradition of the two-man horse costume,,,but they're both the buts! All wafted on mounds of lovely and funny word play. Bravo Bucephalus!

    James Odin Wade entwines the story of Alexander the Great's famous horse with the vaudeville tradition of the two-man horse costume,,,but they're both the buts! All wafted on mounds of lovely and funny word play. Bravo Bucephalus!

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    Every Creeping Thing is such good fun with beautifully layered (or should I say stratified?) humor. Ten minutes of pre-disaster delight. Thank you Mr, Beardsley

    Every Creeping Thing is such good fun with beautifully layered (or should I say stratified?) humor. Ten minutes of pre-disaster delight. Thank you Mr, Beardsley

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    This wonderful short play is like a three-way tennis game. the words are balls being endlessly lobbed between the three players. We are the net watching the flights of delightful non-sequiturs. The final score is: love-plus?

    This wonderful short play is like a three-way tennis game. the words are balls being endlessly lobbed between the three players. We are the net watching the flights of delightful non-sequiturs. The final score is: love-plus?

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    Mr. Bonafede has wonderfully and wittily skewered Beckett. now I' like to see him do the same favor for Pinter. Waitering For Godot is a classic ten-minute satire.

    Mr. Bonafede has wonderfully and wittily skewered Beckett. now I' like to see him do the same favor for Pinter. Waitering For Godot is a classic ten-minute satire.

  • Kenneth N. Kurtz: The Unjust Sound of Unseen Waves by Scott Sickles
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    Thankyou Scott Sickles for creating the sense of wonder that is what theatre should be about. If I have to read another NPX play about ordinary people inhabiting maudlin scenes. I will vomit. Besides imagining extraordinary creatures, you have offered sound designers an ultimate test. Bravo!

    Thankyou Scott Sickles for creating the sense of wonder that is what theatre should be about. If I have to read another NPX play about ordinary people inhabiting maudlin scenes. I will vomit. Besides imagining extraordinary creatures, you have offered sound designers an ultimate test. Bravo!

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  • Kenneth N. Kurtz: MAY DIVORCE BE WITH YOU (a 10 minute play) by Marj O'Neill-Butler
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    This delightful riff of Noel Coward's Private Lives lacks only one thing...an equivalent of Coward's best line: "Don't quibble Sybil." May I suggest "Let's go bedward Edward. Ten pages of good gay fun.

    This delightful riff of Noel Coward's Private Lives lacks only one thing...an equivalent of Coward's best line: "Don't quibble Sybil." May I suggest "Let's go bedward Edward. Ten pages of good gay fun.

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  • Kenneth N. Kurtz: The Damage by Jacob Devine
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    The Damage is done...and done very well. Jacob Devine has smoothly blended lifetimes of deceit and revenge into ten minutes of knife-edged celluloid cynicism.

    The Damage is done...and done very well. Jacob Devine has smoothly blended lifetimes of deceit and revenge into ten minutes of knife-edged celluloid cynicism.

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  • Kenneth N. Kurtz: murmurs by Scott Sickles
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    Murmurs is a lovely gentle play about two boys discovering truths. I read it with both quiet joy and a tear or two. You will too. And "murmurs" has so many meanings.

    Murmurs is a lovely gentle play about two boys discovering truths. I read it with both quiet joy and a tear or two. You will too. And "murmurs" has so many meanings.

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  • Kenneth N. Kurtz: Stop Laughing Without Me by Philip Middleton Williams
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    I love it when playwrights know how walk the tightrope of writing down the middle, and Philip Middleton Williams brilliantly lives up to his second name. Both playwright and producer are both wrong and right in this clash of wills...but in the final analysis I'll side with the one who can laugh.

    I love it when playwrights know how walk the tightrope of writing down the middle, and Philip Middleton Williams brilliantly lives up to his second name. Both playwright and producer are both wrong and right in this clash of wills...but in the final analysis I'll side with the one who can laugh.

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