Recommended by John Busser

A wonderful adaptation of the Poe short story, Steve Martin's short play has a perfect sense of sickening inevitability as we, the audience know Fortunato's fate is coming even as he doesn't. Elegantly paced and atmospheric in it's language, this would be perfect for a night of spooky plays.

I had a chance to play Rod Serling in this and it was amazing fun in just a minute. Stuart catches every nuance of Serling-Speak and tops it off with a perfect ending. Great stuff.

A quick, down-and-dirty (without getting the dirty) play, this a a fun fast-paced 5 minute piece that does what any good romance novel should do. Get you a little worked up, waiting for the passionate kiss at the end, and maybe provide you with some light entertainment to get you through the night.

A fun little "Saw"-inspired scare show. With ups and downs and fast changing curves like a roller coaster there are thrills, chills, spills (bloody ones), and kills. Neil Radtke gets you thinking this will be a fun spoof, and then, like a killer jumping from the shadows, he thrusts the cold hard knife into your gut with a twist ending. Creepy and cool!

A wonderful little monologue about the things that make our everyday trials and troubles worth all the fuss.

Remembering an important part of your past and yet never being able to truly acknowledge it is central to this touching play about love, loss and moving on. Marcia Eppich-Harris has a deft touch with this piece, always remaining true to the confusing nature of unexpected loss and not knowing how to process it. I loved the resolution here and think this would be a special piece to stage. This was lovely.

As blistering as the fire that starts this play, There Is No Other Path is darkly funny and sadly truer than you'd think. The product names alone are worth the price of admission here. But there's a secondary element going on here as well. Watching the logical Jocelyn slowly succumb to Barrie's blitzkrieg of bullsh*t until she becomes one of the faithful is so on track considering our culture's willingness to believe in anything that makes us feel good is both funny and chilling at the same time. This is good stuff on multiple levels.

This piece from David Lipschutz is absurdly comical in plot and would be a blast to see onstage. While waiting for the titular event to take place, we get to see a courtship also take flight, so to speak. But the true genius of this is watching this scatological love story turn into a true learning moment as we get a PSA about the really important things in life. Better start wearing a hat.

There are all kinds of isolation. Some may seem, ironically enough, more glamorous than others but it doesn't belay the fact that isolation brings helplessness. Bruce Karp shows us this in a terrific short play that makes us feel both helpless at the situation and hopeful knowing that, although we can be separated by distance or circumstance, we really are all in this together.

As spook stories go, that was right up there with the best of them. First, subverting your expectations with the monster in the woods trope, then giving you a neck breaking twist on the last few pages. Not where I thought this was going AT ALL. As an added plus, making it an audio play just lets your mind go bonkers filling in the visual gaps between the audio cracks. Loads of fun.