Recommended by Marcia Eppich-Harris

What a fascinating two-hander. The older man's need for intimacy is something anyone who is older can understand, and the younger man's shunning of it is far more complicated than just the boundaries he sets in his work. The ending part surprised me and made me wonder about the older man's motives, but at the same time, his background makes it seem that he would intellectualize most things. Or is there something else going on? Eek! This is a deep dive into masculinity, intimacy, and human behavior. Very compelling!

I love works that riff on mythology, and here, we get a perspective that we haven't seen much before -- Medusa's. I found Nora Louise Syran's portrayal of the cursed gorgon to be very moving. How tiresome would it get having all these heroes out to get you? So tiring that you'd let it happen? I'm convinced! This is a really fascinating monologue and would be great for an actress who wants to show range. Loved it!

I loved this! It’s funny how we think we know someone and then they throw us a curve ball! Would you spend the rest of your life with someone who isn’t who you thought they were? The lovers in this play seem to find a way, and that means the relationship is strong. This would be fun to play and fun to see! Loved it!

I love Shakespeare's fools, and Christopher Soucy's play is jam packed with them. It's great to see Feste, Touchstone, Lear's Fool, and Trinculo all in one play, all with their own new plots. I laughed quite a bit reading this, and I can only imagine the hilarity that would result in a real staging. Somebody put this on! It's wonderful!

The tables are turned on the sophisticated college kids when mom takes the wheel. It's funny how kids think they can outsmart their parents, forgetting entirely that their parents are older and wiser. I laughed at the turn at the end of the play. It's all in good fun.

A couple watching a show that imitates their life is a nice meta-theatrical premise, but what I love about this piece is that the couple's deepest thoughts and fears are aired in a way that is both inescapable and almost undeniable. While both of them wait to see what the end is going to be, their anxieties are heightened by the writer's reputation for not revising his work. So is this THE end for the couple? The audience is left hoping they'll survive. Masterful work!

Oh rotary phones! How completely inconvenient, yet functional those phones were! Andrew Martineau takes us on a nostalgic journey to the past with a set of cousins WAY in the future. There are plenty of moments of hilarity for actors to play with and audiences older than 40 to laugh at, along with small details that hint at the capitalist extremes that may be to come this century. The end has a bit of a twist, too. This play would be great fun on stage!

What a beautiful play. Friends complete a bucket list for another friend, and you think that’s the end. But the real resolution is yet to come. It’s a gorgeous commentary on friendship, grief, and forgiveness. Wonderful.

Learning terrible things about a loved one after their death is extremely difficult, as the women in this play show. One of the hardest things to deal with is the questions that arise, and Tony Tambasco's play leaves his characters with lingering horrific doubts when faced with evidence of their father's child pornography addiction. Although the sisters come together over how they deal with the evidence, they clearly know that their memories of their father have now been tainted forever. A gripping drama that leaves you shaken, The Quintessence of Dust is a very effective piece. Well done!

A mother and son's relationship is definitely special, and we can see how much this mother loves her son -- so much that she'll accept him for who he is, or who she imagines he is, without question. It's funny to see how much times have changed, and this play shows us exactly that. With conventions turned on their head, we find that in the modern world we can pick and choose our traditions AND who we love. It's progress on display. This would be very funny on stage, and I'd love to see it!