Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

Big "Alien" vibes! Like, if "Alien" was funny. What a great role for a comedic actress and ... a puppeteer? A costume designer? How would the veggies come to life? I must know. Someone stage this.

So many Catholic jokes! Everything that can go wrong does go wrong in the Festival of the Saints, and watching how everyone reacts to each fresh hell is delight. A show falling apart has never been so fun. I especially loved the raccoon. What a fun piece!

Ahh so beautiful! Aly Kantor has such an amazing way with words and is able to craft a flawless story with only two characters which manages to be heartbreaking and deep and funny and profound each in turn. This take on the characters of Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood is inspired, and I loved the recurring story about the frog and the scorpion. I will follow Aly Kantor’s stories anywhere.

What a gift for a bunch of comedic older women this play is! A beauty pageant for the over 50 crowd takes a turn for the murderous, and the ladies try to figure out who the killer is while waiting for the cops to show up. Chock full of jokes and even an offstage character who interacts through lighting (I love it!), this play is a hilarious good time!

This coming of age story set against the moon landing in 1969 captures what it is to be young so well - and the setting is perfection, juxtaposing the US’s ability to figure out how to get to the moon with other topics (gay couples not having to hide their relationship, Black families moving into the ritzy lake area) which characters insist people aren’t ready for. Some advances come in giant leaps for mankind, but most come from a series of small, brave steps, honored here perfectly.

Wow. This is a theatrical Cassandra, warning about where we’re heading: Where the people doing the harm speak and act civilly, consider themselves the good guys, and wrap themselves in God’s love as their hate tears lives apart. What a devastating play. I love how all five of these characters fit together without a wasted moment in the entire show. Vince Gatton is a force of nature.

Wow wow wow, this drama is great. It’s told in a nonlinear way, which puts you just off kilter enough to make you feel solidarity with Matt’s feelings of being unmoored. The dialogue is so natural and some of the stage directions are so fantastical that I want to see this staged just to see how they pull it off! What a sweet, sad play about mental illness and its ripple effects.

Ahahaha this is the wackiest PI John Pie tale yet! This short is bonkers. You don't know what's reality and what's a dream, everyone is narrating, and almost every line is a joke. I am so delighted. No one investigates a noir "moider" like John Pie - probably because he does it in a very silly way.

Hahaha oh my gosh. This short play calls out all the unrealistic weirdness of The Brady Bunch in the most hilarious way. The bits about Alice the housekeeper were my favorites. I am the weirdo who was raised under a rock and only knows as much about The Brady Bunch as one can learn through osmosis, and I still find this hysterical. What a fun short play with widespread appeal!

I love the wacky back and forth of this short and watching it descend into calculated insanity! What a silly piece.