Recommended by Tom Moran

A fascinating and riveting slice of the absurd. Vovos grabs you with the first line and keeps you engaged with numerous twists and turns that manage to be simultaneously ludicrous and heartfelt. A great Zoom play for COVID times, but one that still stands up today.

A funny and surprisingly heartfelt short, built on well-realized character humor.

Lovecraft ain't in my wheelhouse, but you don't have to be a horror aficionado to appreciate the humor in an upscale ladies' pseudo book club taking on the Necronomicon. There are few things as fun as watching a group of everyday characters get confronted with the unreal and take it all in stride, and this piece is an exemplar of the concept. Fun, funny, engaging, and also deserves a star for its creative font usage.

A fun and funny spin on mythology with some hilarious moments ("You look like you lift") that sticks the landing.

A great play-about-a-play-about-a-play that goes meta but doesn't overdo it. Relatable protagonists and easy banter keep this piece clipping along nicely, even as it gets into some meatier musings about the philosophical underpinnings of theater.

Bizarre, hilarious, fascinating and inscrutable. Would love to see it staged, as indeed this is the sort of piece that would truly come to life in performance. Pity the person running the light board tho!

A silly, fun play filled with laugh lines that lives up to its title.

What an absorbing play. Using a claustrophobic locked-down Capitol hill office as a backdrop, Kissinger creates a piece that is part comedy, part thriller, and part reflection on American governance and the limits of youthful idealism. And sandwiched in between the many great punchlines, she even manages the difficult job of humanizing people who besiege their elected representatives with nonstop bitter commentary. I was sad to miss this relentlessly entertaining piece at the Valdez Theatre Conference and am glad it's here on NPX.

(seen at the 2024 Valdez Theatre Conference) A Rand Higbee play through and through: clever, engaging, and possessed of a certain winning earnestness that hearkens back to less cynical times. It's also quite funny, based on a novel conceit that builds on itself over the course of the piece and leads to a charming conclusion.

I saw this at the Valdez Theatre Conference (well, a recording of it anyway) and richly enjoyed its mix of humor, drama, and the macabre. Soucy deftly manipulates tone as a lighthearted piece about a community theatre production slowly degenerates into a descent into madness. It's maybe the closest thing to a Twilight Zone episode I've seen on stage, and I mean that as a compliment. Kudos also for writing a 3-act play in this day and age; read the play and it will be clear why a 3-act structure is both necessary and immensely rewarding.