Recommended by R. D. Murphy

A sharp, brisk indictment of venture capitalists with a chaser of medieval misery, as if Jonathan Swift wrote a 10-minute GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS. This simply staged, lunatic sales pitch imagines marketing a sin-eater to today's wellness market, balancing gleeful greed with eternal torment. But it's a job, right?

I just saw THE HOMBRES in a solid production with a superb cast. What an engaging, surprising story that grows as the evening progresses. Rich acting opportunities for an ensemble of Latinx male characters. Highly recommended.

As if a hands-on boiled lobster dinner isn't messy enough, Michael Towers deftly mixes in a complicated father-daughter relationship. The dialogue, emotions, and metaphors flow as smoothly as melted butter. A lovely and touching combination of laughs and feels.

Beautifully constructed, funny, emotionally packed father-daughter relationship that rides the lobster metaphor to the final blackout. Michael Towers is a master of crisp, touching theatricality.

Funny, thoughtful, and beautifully paced. An age-old theme ripped from the headlines and propelled to the space age. Will prompt much post-show discussion.

OK, I'm a sucker for modern mores examined in classic styles and POLYCULE delivers a setup Moliere would find irresistible. Fern from Dubuque joins her boyfriend and his wife for dinner as a potential trois to their menage. Only to find that the interview process includes the other four members of their poly-paradise. Fern learns that free love entails more rules than the tax code and just as many schemes to subvert those those rules. As one character points out it's a farce without doors. Doors would only slow down this freewheeling comedy in verse. C'est extraordinare.

Does what a 10 minute play does best: distills a specific time and place (and food!) and a specific family (all three generations!) in one urgent situation. Ten minutes later, you feel that you saw much more than the resolution of standoff and wonder how you got to know so much about these sons, bothers, grandsons, mothers, daughters, sisters, and a silent grandmother. Playable, funny, touching. Thornton Wilder meets BERT AND I.

Always seemed to me that comedians are the hardest characters to write: not just their routines but the frenetic, anxious, relentless personality behind the performer. THE GOOD DELI captures that performer in its central character JULIA, aka JULES, whose arm's-length life is squeezed up-close-and- personal with a family crisis and a family quest. Beautifully written with a wide range of emotion and a rich family tree of characters, while equally adept creating complex relationships and sharp, funny dialogue. An engaging and entertaining evening of theatre.

Very funny, playable comedy that morphs into a romance before your very eyes. Or in the time it takes the Silver Line bus to reach Logan Airport. Two strangers unleash an arsenal of topics during a commute in the wee hours of the morning: cures for the hiccups; methods for discouraging seatmates on a trip; a percussion of D words; all of which are an actor's feast. I've enjoyed this play in performance. In addition to laughing often, I realized that by the time the travelers arrive, I'd watched two very different people connect.

I had the pleasure of reading this play in development and seeing it on stage. It plays beautifully, infusing the everyday and ordinary with deep feeling. There are two rich roles for actors who both converse casually and plumb the depths of the quiet moments, the resonant beats between the stories and anecdotes.