Recommended by Tom Moran

A solid tight two-hander murder mystery. I certainly thought I knew where it was going, and was pleasantly surprised when it threw in an additional twist that turned it on its ear. Great (and dark) final moments too.

A solid, funny, tight piece that works on a literal level but is clearly about so much more. Seldom has a kitchen appliance been invested with so much meaning.

(Not to toot my own horn, but) I once wrote a play where all the characters were library books as well, and I didn't engineer half as many laughs or half as much pathos as Hageman does here. The characters are well-drawn, the dialogue is appropriately styles and uproarious, and she does an admirable job creating a compelling character arc out of a bunch of inanimate objects. And delivering some genuine LOL lines along the way.

It's hard to go wrong with a title like that, and Busser doesn't. Great laugh lines throughout this wonderfully deadpan treatment of a ridiculous premise. The conclusion is both inevitable and richly satisfying.

What a ridiculously silly and entertaining play. Busser takes an absurd premise and runs with it to great effect; I laughed out loud at least four of five times reading it, so I can only imagine the hilarity of this being staged. And it's a well-structured piece to boot, with two parallel scenes followed by a reversal, and an appropriately goofy coda. Well done.

A well-crafted, tight piece with not a throwaway moment in it, and a ringing endorsement of the power of the pep talk.

A well-crafted little mystery with solid and unexpected twists. Despite the contemporary setting, it has a very noir feel to it: it's basically femme fatale versus femme fatale, which is a nice spin on the usual format, plus means two strong roles for women. Overall an absorbing piece with a worthwhile payoff(s).

A charmingly intimate two-hander about the fate of the universe. Cern creates a surreal world and populates it with real characters, and structures it around a deeply personal question with cosmic multiversal consequences. Fun to read, and engaging right up through the highly appropriate denouement.

A charming, funny slice-of-senior-citizen life. Believable, far-ranging, naturalistic dialogue spoken by well-thought-out characters helps this play really stand out.

It's hard to live up to a title like that, but McLindon pulls it off. Putting the Prince of Darkness in the middle of a low-rent love triangle is a great idea and McLindon wrings it for every laugh you can imagine, and then some. Great fun to read and it would be equally fun to see on stage.