Recommended by Nora Louise Syran

A funny, gentle, and easy to stage short play which like the song at the end (one of my top favorites!) leaves you wanting-- like the well-developed characters--to seize the day and make up for lost time and chances. Bravo Morey Norkin.

A darkly funny and intense short play. Cole starts out light and carefree as would be a fairytale land of diapered babies delivered by benevolent storks and then quickly shifts and holds the audience accountable. Every single one of us. Bravo and kudos for tackling such a sensitive topic head on, and not letting go.

I love the concept of this piece. A lonely person talks to a ghost of the theatre kept away by the Ghost Light burning on stage as the curtain rises. A lonely actor, a walk-on Ghost Number 2 in a "stupid school play no one cares about," needs to talk, even in the dark, during their darkest hour. A hopeful yet solitary piece. Bravo.

A super short play for two actors. Hilarious and meta-theatrically/magically realistically creepy. Caught a super reading by Tiny_Theatre. Bravo!

Layers of lessons in this short piece. "Real playwrights can change the thinking of the world" but it's the actor's search for the truth in their performance of the text that brings it to life. This monologue captures Stella Adler's voice splendidly. Lovely. Caught a super reading by Tiny_Theatre. Bravo D. Lee Miller and Rachel!

Many layers to this well-written short piece by Kim E. Ruyle: genuine warmth to the muse, humor to the eccentric B&B owners and a potential burgeoning imposter syndrome for our "main" character. Four well-conceived characters and simple staging. Bravo!

I avoided reading this play with its hard edged title knowing how tough, how "dark" a read it would be. Now I sit seconds after in the flood of feelings raised in reading it without regret and proud of Goldman-Sherman bringing this story "on stage..spotlighting women." The things we ignore, avoid and/or try to forget --as Goldman-Sherman depicts visually, psychologically and musically in this beautifully and hauntingly crafted play-- never truly resolve themselves until they are faced. Strong staging and lighting possibilities. Produce this play.

Powerful! "Nitty gritty... in the face of horrors that surrounds us" for sure. Bravo John Minigan for a spectacular script and a super workshop/reading on Back Porch Theater with Miranda Jonte, Stephanie Cearley and Mercedes Marcial. Minigan has created two beautifully "flawed humans" and a generational flipflop in this family of faith faced with drastic shifts in the world today and no other recourse but love. Wonderful.

Oh poor Tiresias, as if being cursed with prophecies no one will believe isn't enough, he has lived life for seven years as a woman, has had to (my favorite line) "constantly suppress [ his ] urge to snap back at the pompous stupidities uttered by [ his ] lord and master" and now he'll live on for years to come in a man's body contemplating the justice of the gods and the memory of those snakes. Rinkel's Tiresias is all at once coarse and yet enlightened and wonderfully matter-of-fact. Great work.

A lovely short play. I felt myself rooting for each of them at different points throughout the piece; that's always a good sign. Easy to stage, fun costumes. A perfectly human and humorous play for Halloween, or any time. Well done.