Recommended by Tom Moran

A play that lives up to a great title. A funny concept that keeps building on itself with some solid sight gags, unexpected guests, and killer one-liners. Breezy in the best way (and some great character descriptions to boot.)

A sweet, nuanced, slice-of-life that touches on a lot of topics, but all boils down to themes of white cis male awkwardness: about race, sexuality, and most of all simple homosociality. It does a lot with <10 minutes, showing us the foundations of, if not a friendship, at least the sort of connection from which friendships are formed.

This play had me at the title. A funny piece about an oft-debated subject, made memorable by some good physical comedy, the strongly drawn satire of its characterizations and its dark gotcha ending.

A wonderfully creepy halloween tale. Excellent pacing, with tension kept up through gradual revelation of detail about both characters. Also very well-constructed as an audio play, with all of the description we need right there in the script.

A concise, well-sculpted one-hander featuring believable, likable characters and some excellent naturalistic dialogue - nary a moment feels unnecessary or forced. Left me with a smile on my face, which is a great thing for a 10-minute piece to aspire to and to achieve.

Can a play be a coming-of-age piece when the protagonist is like 25? It appears the answer is yes, because this deeply silly play is all about Ray conquering his fears, growing up and moving on. Kudos to Vansant for constructing an aggressively weird milieu and running it through to an appropriate absurd and satisfying conclusion. Lots of fun.

A clever take on the athlete(s) dying young trope - what about the other team? What I love about the piece is how the students are being perfectly sensible and empathetic human beings about their whole impossible situation, but it's the coach who's hopelessly emotionally stunted. Which makes for a great contrast while simultaneously mining both black comedy and legit pathos. Well done.

A strangely charming piece about two Iowa farm kids whose worlds are blown apart by a visiting movie star - and who react in sweetly cornpone fashion to some most unwholesome goings-on. The piece defies expectation in a very inviting way, and the ending is pitch-perfect.

A witty epistolary take on dealing (or not dealing) with rejection that hits close to home. Seidel does a lot with one actor, who manages to encapsulate his deteriorating mental state through a combination of escalating demands and increasingly whacked language, despite us never hearing any other side of the story. It's a fun journey to take.

A darkly comic and finely tuned dissection of a failing marriage, told through a time loop structures kept fresh through the clever conceit of the characters not quite realizing that the sameness of all their days has become literal. The awkward sex scenes are laugh-out-loud funny on paper and I'm sure would be even better in performance. And the end is quietly devastating. Well done.