Recommended by Nora Louise Syran

Need a giggle? Stop and read this quick sexual innuendo filled comedy straight from ze nutty mind of John Busser. Extra bonus: if you've ever heard John read in one of his many accents, you'll enjoy it even more!

Marvelous Victorian world-building, fun characters and a séance. What more do you need? Oh, and a mystery and a ghost story and... Danley will take an audience on quite a ride. Brava!

"You May Have 6" is about a man facing the consequences of his actions -or lack of them- in his lifetime, in his afterlife. He is trapped in a half-life of his own choosing with 6 lives who "don’t revolve around HIM." It's a little like Dickens' Scrooge for this century. There's a sense of epiphany... but it's open ended enough to leave an audience with plenty to talk about. Bravo. A Divine Comedy.

A vision of future AI therapy sessions "for reminiscing. Or for laughing. Or for screaming...." which is beautifully human and cathartic. A lovely moment of connection.

When joy and meaning in life is found in finding connections between abstract ideas, ideas as vast as the space between the stars, what happens to us when our most important connection is broken? How do books and academia prepare us for the destructive power of a mind desperate to find meaning, make sense of the world? Find love and warmth in the cold depths of our own inner universe? A moving piece of theatre.

Gill gives us "something to get us to the next push"; he explores humanity's need for hope in the face of dismal facts. Set in a blindingly bleak white landscape of snow and ice, Gill mounts the tension of the play through naturalistic pathetic fallacy: a storm outside and storms between the characters. Some great science-based monologues. I loved the allusions to astronomy, scientific history and earth science. The science-nerd-wanna-be in me had a great time reading this. Thank you!

An original tale and authorial voice that twists together threads of a past full of mystery and intrigue which will draw in an audience and keep them riveted until the play's beautifully cyclical conclusion: the emptying of secrets like a "sack of dead cats." I adore stories that span the passage of time and focus on the female. The playwright's theatrical use of imagery, sound effects, motifs ("You told me"), foreshadowing, breaking of a fourth wall of madness are stunning. I'd love to see this on the stage.

This short comedy - Gayedy? - will have you cringing and howling with laughter all at once. The situational comedy is hysterical: think Sex Education condensed into ten minutes. The devil is in those details and that binder and snackle box. Can't unsee/ unlearn this one! (I had the immense honor of reading this aloud sight unseen recently and my "I Love You Honey" / keep a straight face muscles were certainly put to the test!)

Soltero draws you into this darkly comic two hander set late at night in the office of a female politician, a "safe space"--or is it? Starting medias res in a film noir-like setting, he plays expertly with our expectations of the situation and our sympathies with the characters as they spar rhetorically with one another, their "sexual politricks" and manipulations mounting the tension. By the end, we're not sure who to like or dislike more as the play comes to its inevitable thudding conclusion.

Starts innocuously enough and then knocks the breath out of you! A super, short two hander horror piece that's easy to produce but thrilling to act. All you need are two male actors and a fishbowl.