Recommended by John Busser

Oh my God, I loved this piece! Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend has written a delightfully screwy 2 (or possibly 3) hander depending on which ending you prefer (another great idea, giving us the choice) about a marriage possibly on the rocks for infidelity but also possibly not. With great, sharp dialogue and laugh out loud funny lines, this would be a wonderful play to see staged!

Part travelogue, part history lesson, part buddy adventure, MARCUS AND SEXTUS TAKE A WALK AROUND LONDON is the most fun you'll have watching two dead guys on a scavenger hunt and contemplating their lives. Entertaining as all get out, the 2 characters created here by Dominica Plummer are real enough for ghosts that you'll want to hang out with them. Just terrific.

Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn had me at "I collect disability and the little woman manages the Kroger AND coaches cheerleading for the blind." Actually, she had me at the get go for this hilarious interactive play and the nightmare that is the class reunion. If they were more like this, no one would dread going. Like a slam door farce taking place in a gymnasium, all the characters have strangely funny and inappropriate connections and the addition of using audience members as former classmates is inspired. Don't wait till another reunion happens. This should be produced now.

I love Jeff Dunne's writing in that he can setup a somewhat absurd situation and then say something smart about it. Perhaps it's not the end result of Josey's art project that is important. Maybe, just maybe, it's what she discovers along the way. Although Evan is skeptical, Josey never loses faith that this egg is going to be exactly what she envisions. And is there really anything wrong with that?

Bruce Karp perfectly skewers the TV novelist-cum-detective genre with this fun little romp that deals with everything from a tiny village with the highest murder rate in the nation, to going out in a blaze of glory (or a hail of bullets). Jessica (Andrea) literally gets the last laugh in this play. Unless you count the ones from the audience.

Wow! That was an eye-opener in so many ways. I really enjoyed this two-hander from Michele Miller. One sister wants to open her siblings eyes as to the cheating nature of her groom-to-be behind her back, and does so in a wonderfully delicate way. We all either give or receive bad news differently, but let's face it, we all tiptoe through those particular minefields. Clark being called on his bullsh*t was as delicious as the wedding cake Annabelle was planning. And Beatrix's last little bombshell made me laugh out loud! Terrific stuff.

An absolutely brilliant monologue about having to watch your dreams play out from the sidelines, while another gets the glory. Paul Smith's wonderful dialogue is both heart-breaking and blisteringly funny. Although Malcolm, the understudy, never EVER gets the chance to act, the real, more interesting drama is happening with him directly on center stage. His final act of playing a role of significance is hilariously appropriate, and he just might, as he says, find a better class of people where he's going. I loved this piece!

As someone who could never leave an action figure in the package, I am a proud collector's item spoiler. I completely bought into this one minute play and would love to see it performed in front of a bunch of folks who live their lives in homes of plastic boxes and sealed packages, never knowing the joy of opening something for the good stuff within. That tearing sound you hear would be their brains.

Steve martin distills in 2 minutes exactly why the premise of this play should probably happen. That is both a compliment and a realization that we are doomed. Of course, it we go out with this bang on winner instead of a whimper, it will have been worth it. Someone produce this before it's too late. Literally.

What better way to realize that while we like to think we are all more than the sum of our parts, most of us are no more than a collection of weird little aspects jammed into a squishy bag holding it all in and walking around with a big stick jammed up our a**. And the sooner we realize that the great big deep fryer is where we're all heading, the better off we'll be. For someone else, that is. This is a fun delight.