Recommended by Nora Louise Syran

Hysterical! Oh, poor people-pleasing Festus! Will he get his role of Icarus and the timing of his one line right or should have have signed up to play Sisyphus!? A fun meta-theatrical short play with superb moments for the sound and costume/props designers. Fun!

Sister Eliesa tries to preserve an archive and a scandalous photo reappears... This sounds completely banal as an attempt of a synopsis as Charles Scott Jones's intriguing shifts in the chronology of this story keep us "cycling back to Nietzsche" in a most transfixingly visual, visceral and theatrical way --with "jungle-like echoes that move backward through time." This play is at times, absurd but then entirely logical. All at once. Quick paced and quotable and then another fantastic (as in remote from reality) notion takes hold. And we're off. Enter that stage horse again!

Loved this! Felt like a feminist Blithe Spirit meets Stage Door. Four loveable females, one stage magician (who is metaphorically putting his woman in a box and sawing her in half!) and simple staging -- but with plenty of fun details for lights and sound. Kantor conjures up an enlightening and entertaining evening at the theatre.

Growing up is difficult enough without dreading the reason why your friends are dreaming about Marilyn Monroe and you are not. A poignant prequel to Donald E. Baker's play Best Friends.

Who could make the prospect of a character speaking to the Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth exciting? Only Christopher Soucy. Bravo.

Sometimes it takes an external force to push us along, hopefully in the right direction. Loved the use of the OVERHEAD VOICE. Bravo.

An epistolary passage through history, through the exchanged notes, letters, phone calls and emails between Lina and Izzy. Technology and their communication with one another rushes us along with them toward the play's climax. Haas leaves us with such rich memories of two people we have come to know. intimately. Through allusions to history, religion, the Beatles, perms, Vietnam, theatre, music... their childhood hopes and dreams become ours. Lovely.

A lovely, moving piece painted with the delicate, deft hand of playwright John Mabey. "Glimmers of hope in the hogwash" captures this play beautifully--raw and real and yet lyrical. Understanding, compassionate. Mabey loves his characters: you will too.

I didn't think Kafka could get more disturbing. I was wrong. While there are wonderful moments of the lyrical --"If you stop asking, will I stop dreaming?"-- this is a wildly dark and modern take on the novella, the Metamorphosis. I appreciated the 'drug addled' jagged speech of the disturbed, abusive father and his complicated relationship with the bug/son who makes him feel more human. Corona takes the disgusting elements of the novella and heightens them- a sensory overload. Designers will have a ball. Not easy to clear one's mind after reading this one.

I want to write word for word what Deb Cole wrote in her recommendation. This worked perfectly as a radio play. Ah, revenge. I can imagine it tastes just like cheese. Yes.