Recommended by John Busser

11.26.25 - About time someone like Evan Baughfman set us all straight about this. I loved the little bits of real butterfly info we get along the way here too. Who says art can't teach? I was relieved when we got the suggestion about scented socks since butterflies taste with their feet. (At least we didn't have to hear anything about moth balls. They smell bad and no one wants to have the moths pull down their pants to see them anyway.) This was just a hoot.

11.26.25 - I'm actually mad at myself that I didn't read this sooner. This was freaking hysterical. So many great lines "Was there room at the hospital?" "I'm a real estate mogul." "But I have a number of follow up questions to that." In the play these are all LAUGH OUT LOUD funny! Lisa, this was wonderful! Mary and Joseph come across like actual new parents here and I laughed my ass off at it. Produce this total winner now!

11.26.25 - Morey Norkin has obviously mixed a bit too much nog with his egg here. Thank God for that. He knows when you've been sleeping, and he's gonna wake you the f*ck up with this hilariously silly ode to A Christmas Carol with a noir twist to it. It's meta madness keeps hitting you over the head like a dame you shouldn't turn your back on, and the jokes fly faster than the bullets. And Morey's right about one thing... John the Busser IS kind of cute. (In a beer goggles kind of way...)

11.26.25 - In matters of class, the biggest fallacy is that some belong and others do not, when really, we're all equal whether we admit it of not. Sam Heyman exposes this ridiculous notion of keeping the "riff raff" out. The keepers are in the same boat as the riff raff most times, they're just too blind to see it. Luckily Sam isn't. This is sharp satire with a point we can all get behind.

11.23.25 - THAT was a wondrously charming monologue that made me go back and reread 2 more times because I just loved all the imagery Miranda Jonte brings out. It's a loving tribute to Chris Soucy and his paranormal museum and you can see the sense of the whimsical she reveals about a world just on the other side of here and now and she makes me want to experience it. I've always had my foot in science's doorway, but damn, this makes me want to believe in something... well... else. Terrific.

11.23.25 - I can count on no fingers (or hooves) the number of previous public domain reindeer interrogation plays I've read, but I'm pretty sure if I had, none of them would be as absurdly funny as Paul Braverman's take. I loved the subtle and some not-so-subtle references to other public domain characters sprinkled throughout and I had a stupid grin on my face reading this thing. A terrific stocking stuffer. (Just don't look into it, I think the reindeer dropped some "raisins" into it.

11.23.25 - Why are family relationships the hardest minefields to navigate? And yet, they are the ones we are most likely to try crossing every time. Sam Heyman gets this, as he shows us 2 half-siblings and frenemies on opposite sides of their parents messy divorce who are making the attempt. And we are lucky they are. This entertaining look at family bonds and the bridges they can create when we put in the work is both funny and heart-breakingly bittersweet. The characters ring perfectly true.

11.21.25 - Okay, this was a little stocking stuffer I didn't know I needed until now. Marshall Logan Gibbs gives us a holiday horror that was actually pretty funny and cool even after it infected Rina with the spirit of... whatever. The horror came on pretty quickly with that last page though. They're watching Buddy? (shudder) Oh God...

11.20.25 - You know how when you're dreaming and the stream-of-consciousness makes sense to you in the dream no matter how many left turns and side quests you take but you try explaining said dream to your significant other or maybe a therapist and they give you that look that says "you been drinking the run off from the air conditioner again?" because you describe 2 people having 8 conversations like it's no big deal? Yeah, that's the level of crazy in PMW's play. And it's awesome.

11.19.25 - The hallmark (see what I did there, Christmas lovers) of great comedy is escalation. Chris Soucy's play here has it in spades. Writers will tell you that characters can sometimes write themselves. Here we get to see 4 background characters attempt to do just that in this comic farce that should be a battle cry for non-leads everywhere. They are just as important as the main characters, although one of them DOES have Lupus and should probably see a doctor character...