Recommended by Tom Moran

A fantastic concept strongly delivered. The titular theatergoer manages to both grate on everyone with their obnoxia but also serve as a reminder of what's great about theater, both in terms of what they actually say (especially the great final paragraph) and in their very existence. This works on two levels: as entertainment in itself, and as an inspiring lead-in for the content of the rest of the evening. It also helps break down the barrier between audience and performers and remind the crowd that theater is about everyone, including them. Well done.

A thoroughly enjoyable meta-romp through a half-formed play. Great fun to watch the actors/characters struggle through before seizing control of their own destinies. If only all characters were so proactive.

I didn't expect this piece could live up to the great title, but it does. Crackling dialogue throughout, likeable and relatable characters, a great cameo and some great turns of phrase make this a breezy and fun read.

A tight, compelling piece that neatly straddles the line between sci-fi and horror. Bohannon does a great job building a mystery and never quite giving us the answer, leading to tension that escalates throughout. The central question of the piece - do we really want to be able to see into the future? - is not a new one, but putting that ability in the form of a mysterious 'Ask Jeeves'-style app makes for a absorbing contemporary twist.

Bureaucracy and romance are strange bedfellows, no more so than in this fractured look at love in an age of heavy regulations. A fun concept and an engaging read; especially noteworthy is the overly formal phrasing employed throughout, which gives the impression these characters haven't just bought into the system but have been fundamentally changed by it over the last 3/4 century.

An entertaining look at how much a little white lie can backfire. "To the Moon!" takes the audience along for a ridiculous ride. Feriend mixes in just enough believability to sell the absurd premise, and does an excellent job bouncing the characters of the rocksteady astronauts with that of her spectacularly nervy hero. Good fun.

Sometimes our smaller decisions are proxies for our larger ones, and nowhere is this more in evidence than this nuanced depiction of a relationship in trouble. A very relatable piece that somehow has an air of finality about it even while not offering a pat resolution.

I heard this on the "Stories Found" podcast and greatly enjoyed it. It takes a fun, thought-provoking idea and plays it out to a logical and quite funny conclusion, building to an ending that is both counterintuitive and entirely appropriate. A great way to spend ten minutes.

Two ambassadors tasked with nuclear disarmament quibble about anything but. I can't decide whether this piece is silly or deeply nuanced, but ultimately it's a grab bag of both: a deeply funny interaction between two ridiculous and petty men, and a microcosm of all the stupid things that get in the way of actual progress. Either way it's great fun, full of absurd moments and wonderful turns of phrase.

What an utterly bizarre, engrossing, hysterical piece. Surprising, mystifying, beguiling, this is one of the best Christmas plays I've ever read, mostly because it (seemingly?) doesn't have very much to do with Christmas. Jumps right off the page, though seems like it would be a bit of a challenge to actually stage.