Recommended by Kenneth N. Kurtz

The best satire in this cunning web of illogical thinking is naming the two characters "Red"and "Blue."

A little, sweetly funny, gem.

Nonsense And Beauty is the finest play that I have thus far read from the files of NPX, my admiration lubricated by tears in the later scenes. Mr.Sickles rendition of the everyday diction of E.M. Foster's world is superb, and his resurrection of theatrical asides as elegantly efficient Brechtian scene change notifiers is lovely. The play offers directors and lighting designers a thrilling challenge worthy of its dedicatee--Michael Montel, who is far and away the favorite director that I have designed for. Thank you Scott Sickles.

Pure theatrical delight with a devilish bite. Thank you Mr. Lesh.

This little comedy is great fun, a light hearted set of Hitchcockian hand springs, with a required twist to boot.

It's a strange feeling when one of your best friends, who you've known for fifty years, is a playwright, for you keep finding bits of your life in their plays. The Sugar Ridge Rag is Philip Middleton Williams's latest opus and I just finished reading it with not a few tears. I think It's his best work thus far...finding the poetry in mid-west voices and mining the strong feelings engendered by both sides of the Vietnam years. Just like my two younger brothers, one of whom served and the other almost left for Canada.

Scott Sickles writes truly glittering dialogue that sings with all of the wit that must be part of any fine comedy. His play, Intellectuals, is a twenty first century comedy of manners that would delight Congreve or Sheridan, or later, Oscar Wilde. It is very cinematic with short scenes whizzing by, thus keeping directors on their toes and delighting lighting designers. I loved reading this play!

Bob Stewart has written a wondrous tale of twenty-first century whimsy, where in two lost souls swim in the urban shadow of the Neverland, while a chorus of three cats makes the forth wall a deliciously porous portal between the present and the hereafter. And oh boy would I like to design the set for this show!

I love dialect plays, and JuCoby Johnson has written one of the very best...an exquisite poem on the nature of all of the loves that can surround a boy growing up. This play is a favorite among all of those that I have read on NPX. Thanks, Mr' Johnson.

Nell Dash is a Victorian hoot, a wonderfully witty mash-up of Sweeny Todd, the Beggar's Opera, and the full panoply of Dickensian characters. The scene titles are The best of all. In fact I think this play would best be done as a radio piece, and I'd love to run the sound effects table. Bravo Mr DeVita. I've spent the past few days reading your work and having so much fun.