Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

Wow, this took a couple turns I wasn't expecting! This play about a man confronting the man who abused him as a child is a quick, emotional read. Heavy but incredibly engaging, it deals not only with child abuse, but racism in America as well. With two characters and a single set, this would be easy to stage and prompt a lot of conversations on the way home. Very powerful.

A comedy in verse about the trials and tribulations of polyamory. What’s not to love? It’s amazing to me that this play manages to be so funny while also managing to rhyme - and in such clever ways! I can’t imagine how long this play took to write or how Jillian Blevins made the end result look so effortless. Amazing!

Vince Gatton always takes you on an unexpected emotional journey! This short about figuring out how to get that girl who doesn’t know you exist to notice and to love you is a wonderful study on boundaries, infatuation, and male entitlement. And also how often guys hear women but don’t listen to them (poor Mika basically repeats herself for ten minutes) - But with jokes and teenagers to keep it from being overly heavy, and to make the heavy moments hit harder. Such a great play!

I was on board with this from the moment I saw "A Note on Erections" underneath the character list and setting. Aly Kantor is so unbelievably great at adaptations which keep the original story but also feel relevant to today. This take on Lysistrata is smart and funny and uses donuts as a euphemism. What's not to love? The opportunities for physical comedy and visual jokes are ABUNDANT. For a good time at the theater, try this play.

Oh my gosh, what a beautiful play. It shows better than a lecture ever could how abortion is pro-life, how we wish we lived in a black and white world, but we exist in a series of grays and have to do what we can, where we are, with what we have to make things better. And every time the horrors of Gisella's situation become too much to bear, the Prophetesses come in and assure us that everything will be okay in the end. We could sure use them today. What a fabulous piece.

This short play is the rare and delightful issue play with jokes. An idealistic guy tries to course correct his life choices and hilarity ensues, even as the play points out the prevalence of greenwashing and the dangers inherent in the gift of the spin. I love it!

This short play asks how much one person can do to combat what humanity is doing to the planet- and how much one person SHOULD do. It’s incredibly layered and complex (especially for a ten minute play!) and will leave the audience thinking about and wrestling with hard, important, urgent questions. This is is the kind of theater that is necessary for our moment in time.

This short play does a wonderful job laying out the complexities of fracking in America in an easy to follow way, and why people agree to allow fracking on their land, even when they can see the harm it does. It’s engaging and frustrating and sad and alarming all at once. A great piece!

This has been in my reading list for a long time, and I'm so glad I finally got to it. A beautiful golem story (how's that for a description?!) about love and loss and permanence vs transience. I really enjoyed how it all tied together (and in three languages, too!). A lovely, powerful play with three great roles for actors - including a young actor.

This monologue is beautiful and gets into the humanity of the story of Abraham and Isaac in a way that the Bible sure doesn't. I'm a big fan of plays that are Bible story adaptations, and this is one of the best ones I've read.