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A searing, confident, and timely exploration of how time does and does not change us. Williams' boundless imagination is matched by his clarity and focus -- The Odyssey of Tyrell James carries the weight of hundreds of years of oppressive history with style and aplomb. A dose of magical realism that is extremely Real, and a must-produce.

A kaleidoscopic vision of interiority, femininity, and solitude blown up to the size of a solar system. Chloe Xtina's imagination has the power and intensity of the sun. At the edge of the world, at the end of perhaps everything, how do we define ourselves, and how can we ever be truly our own in such a crowded-yet-still-lonely world? This is a play asking huge questions and throwing huge answers at the wall, and it should be staged as far and wide as a country-enveloping desert.

Achingly tender and bold in its sincerity, this script is another example of the keen humanism that makes Mahrer such a dynamic playwright. In ten minutes we see a fraught and traumatic topic unfold with no cheap shocks, no finger-pointing or shouting, and all the attention exactly where it should be.

This play is a true vision -- a singular piece of art in its own world with its own rules of physics and gravity that will make you reel with profound understanding. Xtina's characters are so deep and bone-achingly human in every respect. This is a masterful exploration of childhood, ambition, gender, sexuality, and control in the face of the ever-alien world around us. This play, when put in front of audiences will change minds and alter lives. See this play. Do this play.

Last Waltz captures the poetic longing of a dream, with painfully clear humanity and a beautiful sense of time and space. Mahrer is like an impressionist painter, letting character movements and solitary moments fill the space in vibrant night colors. This play is so beautiful and so gentle with its heartbreaking quality. It will stay in your mind.

A vicious, incisive, and timely farce about the dissolution of hope in the face of raised voices. Imagine if South Park had any kind of moral fortitude while still holding onto a razor-sharp sense of humor. McCloskey dresses down the perceived integrity of the American town in just under an hour, and his wit and urge to say what needs to be said bleeds through the page. A vibrant runaway train that encapsulates the worth of short, to-the-point, theatre.

Walden succeeds in high-concept speculative fiction and as an intimate look at living in a time of crisis. With an unshakeable emotional core and three crystal-clear, fully realized characters, Berryman plumbs the depths of emotional exploration in family and in a culture hurtling towards ruin. Produce this play while there's still time and world to produce it in!

A human, aching, intimate look at a mind in a moment of crisis. Mahrer has such a gentle insight that this play's true depth sneaks up on you, coaxing you into Sarah's point of view like a glove slipping onto your hand. This is a story about art and artists that doesn't preach or pat itself on the back, but takes a hard look at what it means to be in charge of one's own happiness.

An extremely smart, genre-savvy radio play! This inventive noir tale takes the historical backdrop of its genre and heightens it, making escapist fantasy into something timely, nuanced, and extremely entertaining. I'd listen to a whole series of this story with so much style and atmosphere.

This is the kind of play that sticks in your head for days and makes you furious you didn't find it sooner. A magical look at the forces in our world that might themselves be yearning for more, and the fundamental way that empathy and emotion can change the world, wyrd is a romantic, heartbreaking, and overall thrilling theatrical achievement that dares to make the abject nature of reality and the mortifying ordeal of being known into one of the most layered scripts in recent memory.