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Eric Pfeffinger

Recommended by Eric Pfeffinger

  • The Ultimate Christmas Question by Rachel Feeny-Williams
    17 Nov. 2022
    “ This is a play built to be electric onstage with its hilarious bouts of awkwardness, expert sense of build, mounting tension and frictive chemistry. There's even a fun meta-awareness buried subtly into its central debate: is this a Christmas play or not? ”
  • The Meek Shall Inherit by Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn
    11 Nov. 2022
    “ A master class in comic pacing and killer timing. ”
  • The Replacement by Morey Norkin
    11 Nov. 2022
    “ Edgy and regrettably timely, this play dismantles hateful rhetoric by pushing it to the absurd extremes of its logical conclusions. A politically engaged and necessary work. ”
  • Dog Park by Josie Gingrich
    11 Nov. 2022
    “ This is a COVID-era festival of funny, fraught, aching subtext, and a delicious opportunity for its two actors. ”
  • peerless (aka untitled high school macbeth, hsmb) by Jiehae Park
    2 Nov. 2022
    “ Instantly absorbing, ruthlessly smart, mordantly funny, brilliantly verbal, uncompromising in its refusal to moralize. A vibrant collision of Shakespeare and this morning's culture-war headlines. ”
  • Heart Stop or, The Obesity Play by Franky D. Gonzalez
    2 Nov. 2022
    “ It's easy to love this show for its heart and honesty and emotional resonance. But don't overlook what a smart and gifted craftsman Franky is. The story is ingeniously and unshakably structured. And while some one-person shows can threaten to slide into an inert wall of prose, this is indisputably and fundamentally theatrical; it's propulsively written for three dimensions in real time, building the audience's presence and reactions into its rhythms and dynamics. Plus, it's relentlessly hilarious when it isn't being heart-rending -- and sometimes even when it is. ”
  • Play By Play (a collection of tiny little plays) (1 hour) by Mark Harvey Levine
    25 Aug. 2022
    “ Between this collection's casual erudition, offbeat humor and ruthless sense of economy, the most obvious point of comparison is David Ives. But I think I may actually prefer Mark's execution of the short-form anthology: it's warmer, more ingenious, and it holds together with the kind of unified eclecticism that binds together the best short story collections. I'd love this play even more if I weren't so mad that I didn't write it. ”
  • Everything Indian by Nandita Shenoy
    24 Apr. 2022
    “ This play is a nonstop delight -- clever and wise and insightful and just really freaking funny, with inerrant comic rhythms and a barreling momentum that keeps the appalling behavior displayed by the producer characters digestibly hilarious. Warning: if you're a playwright, watching this storyline could cause ulcers. ”
  • Atlas, the Lonely Gibbon by Deborah Yarchun
    28 Apr. 2021
    “ It's a grounded relationship drama, except when it's brainy speculative sci-fi, except when it's deft verbal comedy, except when it's chilling technohorror. A smart and urgent play with tantalizing design possibilities and some visceral moments that really make me want to see it fully staged. ”
  • What Happens When You Research Practically Anything In This Country by Greg Lam
    18 Mar. 2021
    “ 400 years of American history powerfully delivered in one brief minute. ”

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