Recommended by Toby Malone

A delight of a piece for young audiences (you know, the ones dealing with pu-ber-ty) who question in their ninth grade classrooms as to why someone didn't just tell Romeo to pause for a few minutes. The heroic teen Kylie takes on the task, staying Romeo's hand and... stealing his heart? How's he's going to explain THAT to the recently awakened Juliet? Plenty of fun.

This one's a real gem: a piece that starts out as a domestic comedy ("I'm cleaning the bathroom! No you can't pee in here") and then takes a many-layered turn when we realize just WHY Charlize is scrubbing so frantically. A human, heartbreaking piece that explores the aftermath of impulsive decisions.

A beautiful, compact moment in time that sensitively explores assumptions and fears around labels and identity, with an evocative setting and plenty of physicality for directors and actors to play with. 'Stiletto Envy' challenges preconceptions and offers a touching moment of understanding when laying out the many different nuances in the LGBTQIA+ rainbow.

What an incredible, beautiful, audacious thing Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend has achieved! Not only to tell the story of Jesus Christ from the perspective of his younger brother James, but to do it with such wit, skill, and compassion that it becomes an incredibly poignant, immediate, wonderful narrative, heartbreaking and real. This really knocked me for a loop. What bravery and talent. It's too bad the subject matter might scare off producers afraid of the blowback that an edgy Jesus story might bring, but it's absolutely their loss. I'm going to recommend this to everyone.

It's always a joy when a playwright can give you exactly what's advertised in the title but also completely surprise you. It's two ducks hanging out at a pond, until one of them is spotted by a goose. WIth dance numbers. Regardless of what kind of duck Diane is, she's got plenty going for her!

What a ride! This is a dynamic love letter to music, as DD tries to unravel whether or not the Buggles were correct: if video indeed killed the radio star, why does he love the music on the radio still? Wonderfully reminiscent, energetic, and contemplative, the energy of actors-as-radios blasting the greatest hits of the last fifty years is a joy to behold. This would be plenty of fun staged.

A zippy short that leaves more questions than answers, which is often sometimes exactly what you need, that also works in the context of the claustrophobia of being cooped up in a confined space as the universe zips by. The urge to burst out to greet it is sometimes irresistible.

A typically chilling, human tale of suspense from Daniel Prillaman where you'll never look at a goose in the same way again. I always love the fact that Daniel follows his instincts so clearly, and when the story demands a hard left-turn, he takes it, no matter what path you thought you were on before. That's a real blessing.

An efficient, highly compact adaptation of Mary Shelley's gothic classic which impressively manages to hit the major beats of the novel with only three actors, in a workable, interesting company structure and deft touches in phrasing. A great achievement.

A witty, whip-smart 10 minute retelling of the encounter between Perseus and the apparently hideous gorgon Medusa, which turns all of our assumptions on their head and questions just who the monster really is. Empowering, smart, and knowing, this is a retelling that asks us to look at history from the other side and consider that even a demigod can be hapless when you consider the ridiculousness of their ask. Nice work.