Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

Oh my gosh, this is great. A short musical about two women in their 60s, with one helping the other remember how to enjoy life and not let the world make her feel invisible. There are so few good roles for women in their 60s. What a gift this play is. The songs are fun, and there's not a single conversation in the whole play about anybody's grandchildren. It's all about them. Lovely!

Oh my gosh, this is great. A short musical about two women in their 60s, with one helping the other remember how to enjoy life and not let the world make her feel invisible. There are so few good roles for women in their 60s. What a gift this play is. The songs are fun, and there's not a single conversation in the whole play about anybody's grandchildren. It's all about them. Lovely!

Wow. This play uses what's possible in live theater to the fullest. It takes the story of Marie Antoinette and weaves in other moments in history - mostly American, but also Haitian and French - to tell a highly theatrical story about activism and complacency. What a wonderful play.

I want to see this so badly. I want to see how the mastodon is created, and I want to hear the sound effects (a sound designer would have a field day with this play!) All of a sudden, everyone becomes what they wanted to be when they grew up, and the play does a fantastic job capturing child-like wonder and improbabilities among a group of adults (who are all now spies, ballerinas, astronauts, etc.) Jess wanted to be a mastodon when she grew up, and the play explores the feeling of not quite belonging, among so much more.

A couple finds their sex life has gotten stale and is trying to figure out what to do about it. Also, their home is haunted. I loved seeing these two things juxtaposed, and then watching them merge. Not only is this short fun, but it’s a good example of healthy communication.

I love this short. It takes a ridiculous, antisemitic conspiracy theory and turns it into a play that is funny, philosophical, and dramatic all at once. It’s so rich for only ten minutes, and the ending is perfect. This is one I’ll be thinking about for a while.

I love the banter in this one act. Maude and Alfred have decided they've lived long enough and it's time to die, so they made an appointment with Death, and today is the day. The dialogue is funny and biting, and it sounds exactly like two people who have been together forever. I enjoyed watching things escalate, particularly James's repeated insistence (falling on deaf ears) that the person who has shown up isn't Death.

What a great vehicle for a cast of young women! There's comedy, there's drama, there's physical feats and physical distress - this play is a fabulous gift for five young women with acting chops to show off! There's a ribbon of sadness running through the whole play as well, as these girls start falling to a mystery illness and find themselves both shunned and branded as hysterics. The play does a great job of capturing how hard it is to be a young woman in the process of becoming - and how much worse their mystery illness makes things.

I like the way this short plays with light and sound for maximum creepiness. Nothing truly horrific is happening, but it still makes your skin crawl - the mark of great storytelling.

This short about theatrical gate keepers is funny, depressing, and very true to life. I enjoyed the juxtaposition of Rudy, who doesn’t think any new work he reads or sees is worth a shot, and Carla, who hasn’t been jaded by reading subpar plays in a subterranean space yet. Rudy’s confident superiority at 22 years old reminded me of more than a few people from my college days, and I found myself nodding as I read the playwright’s monologue.