Recommended by Samantha Oty

The play-within-a-play reminds me of my own melodramas that I wrote when I was young playwright of sixteen. This is a super fun, super funny 10-minute play that any theatre will have a blast producing.

This play had me hooked the moment I read the title. So many moments when I laughed out loud. Perez has a natural gift for writing comedy, and I can already envision how I would stage it. What a great way to memorialize our fallen hero.

Oh, my heart hurts for Ruth. To love someone and watch them love someone else. Obolensky's play explores that moment in girlhood when we so desperately want to be seen by the person we like. While Martha's romantic fantasies are at the fore front of the action, this play comes to life while watching Ruth play along, so she can be close to the girl she likes. The scenario is realistic, and the characters are so authentic.

Wow. I don't know how Cabajal can pack so many emotions into such a compact play. In seven pages, we get to know these characters and see the most intimate moments of their lives, trying to piece together where it all went wrong.

Was it fate or a coincidence that led Rudolph to The Green Door? That's up to the audience to decide once they reach the end of this brief yet action-packed play adapted from O. Henry. This will surely be a fun play to watch on stage and even more fun for the theatre to bring to life.

Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven' Goes Wrong. At first the audience is gifted with a faithful adaptation Poe's most famous work. However, Perry finds a way to bring humor to the poem that is sure to keep modern audiences engaged with the source material.

“Her Love, Endures” follows our main characters Joe and Sandy as they connect, disconnect, and re-connect over the course of fifty-some years. Cern perfectly captures the idea of “right person, wrong time” as these two never seem to find each other when the timing is "right".

A brief, poetic piece that captures so much emotion and nostalgia within a single page.

Blevins tapped into the real fear of postpartum psychosis to take her audience on a horrifying journey. An astounding piece of short horror!

A super fun, super meta trip back to the mid-90s. With the snappy dialogue and asides from various characters, it really felt like I was watching one of those obscure 90s comedies we all grew up watching on our parents VCR. Bray has written a quirky and memorable evening of theatre that'll stick in your head.