Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

Ha! Any playwright will appreciate this short play about the three Wise Men trying to get their play into a festival. It's clever and anachronistic, and I hope Jamie gets his comeuppance one day. What a fun concept delightfully executed.

I love this short play about Christmas culture shock as a couple - one French, one American - prepare to celebrate Christmas together and are perplexed by each other's strange customs. It's sweet, funny, and I even learned some things about how the French do Christmas and New Year! Merveilleux!

Who would have thunk that a short play about a store in the shopping district of an otherworldly place called The Darkness, full of dark creatures, would be so sweet? I love the world that's been created and the message that is given. I would love a series of plays set in this store, to watch Flurk and Ramiform help a whole slew of lost souls find their way out of The Darkness.

What a fabulous monologue! Krampus has a job he loves, a job he is great at - but no one needs or wants him to do his job anymore. A funny, surprisingly sweet monologue about the good old days. I love how Krampus is portrayed and the joy he takes in talking about the work he was born to do. I also love that he's not quite the monster we've all been told he is. This would be a breath of fresh air in an evening of holiday - or any - shorts.

This play. So many little treasures of lines that are SO funny as poor Veruth tries to explain her (very valid!) reasons for not liking the Midsummer Solstice Harvest. Or any holiday, really. If I were watching a collection of shorts - holiday themed or otherwise - I would be utterly charmed and delighted when this one began. What a unique and wonderful take on the holiday play.

I have NEVER liked the idea of the Elf on the Shelf, and I'm so delighted to see that monster get its due in this short! I also adore the way this is structured to exist as an interruption to a short play festival. The concept is clever, the message against the Elf on the Shelf is the Lord's work, and the bit about the sign the narwhal made was my favorite joke of the play. A heartwarming tale of worker solidarity for the holidays!

YES. This short play just keeps getting sillier and sillier as it makes its case for the importance of the Oxford comma - which, also yes. You're always in good hands with a Scott Sickles play, and this one in particular I wish would be made into an episodic show, because I want desperately to follow the exploits of this new royal family. You'll laugh, you'll gasp, you'll remember the importance of punctuation.

There is so much here! I love watching Casey and Mark (and also Jesus and John the Baptist) wrestle with thoughts and feelings and about life, God, and each other. This play deals with escaping from a toxic religious upbringing, but it also deals with relationships formed when you're in the process of becoming who you'll be, and how hard they are to shake, even when they don't - and never will - give you what you need.

This monologue is lovely. I'd never thought about the crucifix-eye view of the church before, but Matthew Weaver has covered it thoroughly, not just touching on what the crucifix sees, but how people interact (or don't interact) with it. The monologue is short but poignant, managing to take you on a journey and leave you thinking. It packs a lot into a little span of time, which is no small feat.

What a clever short! I thoroughly enjoyed this piece, especially getting to hear both Evelyn and Tricia's versions of what happened the night before, shifting my allegiance and making things darker. What a wonderful idea for a play, and how much fun this would be to see. A perfect reveal and a delightfully silly ending!