Recommended by Nora Louise Syran

Marine Veteran Joe Swenson has a unique voice. It's tough and tender. While this short play is brimming with tension, it's also packed with humanity, love which outranks rank. Well done.

Love the Tessa character: her acidity, her strength, convictions, humor and warmth. Great pacing to this piece which, scene after scene, juxtaposes the human and animal worlds, allowing us a fascinating glimpse of what it means to be "a good human". Enjoyed this very much.

A lovely short play highlighting the mental anguish a playwright goes through while writing. Shutting out those voices in one's head is not an easy task. Glenn Alterman captures it perfectly with the physically trapped playwright surrounded by caviling critics and the drastic shift in staging representing the writer's mind. Bravo!

Such fun! Three male actors will have a good time with this one. The norse references are perfect. Humorously touching. Bravo.

I listened to Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 32 before reading this play--the piece Lucy Honeychurch plays in A Room With a View. Sickles carries the same themes throughout this play: hidden passion, tenderness, pain, beauty and loss (lightened by moments of wonderful wit). The scenes and years just forge ahead. I adore the humanity of this play. I adore the works by EM Forster and thoroughly enjoyed spending time with him. "You've got to think about what you're passionate about, and feel passionately about what you think about."

Wow, Daniel Prillaman had me hooked from the title; this short tale of horror does not disappoint. How can something be so completely creepy and so tender at the same time? Excellent work!

An honest, natural and crisp monologue which recounts a family road trip south. I love how the style captures both the voice of a young boy and an old man looking back and allows Baker to narrow in on some fine poetic moments which will stay with this reader. Well done.

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.