Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

The premise of this play - that some hostages and their captors gather for a reunion in the cabin where it happened a year later - is so ripe for dark comedy, and there's lots of it here, but there's also serious topics woven in, like white supremacy, domestic terrorism, and who gets to belong. I enjoyed the Go Fish game in particular and watching alliances shift and flop over the course of the play.

Well this is delightful. Six short plays based on animals from the Bible, and they are all too much fun. It's hard to pick a favorite, but I think mine might be "The Great Fish & Jonah" - but the fly who thinks Baby Jesus's poop is the best thing he's ever tasted is pretty fantastic too, and the giraffes on the Ark are surprisingly heartbreaking, and the snake's monologue flips the Adam & Eve story on its head so well, and Noah's sons grumbling as they fill the Ark with animals... it's very hard to pick. Read them all.

This play captures so perfectly that in-between space between girlhood and adulthood where you're trying to grow up, thinking that you ARE pretty grown up, but then at the same time, you're not. I was hooked from the character descriptions (WINDY: never switched from pads to tampons) and loved watching this alternatingly funny and uncomfortable story play out.

This short is tons of fun. Two incompatible TV personalities are forced to host a live children's show together when the regular hosts can't make it, and all quickly descends into chaos in the best way. I loved their asides during the story hour and their rewrites to the story itself. What a fun piece!

Oh hey. Sofya Levitsky-Weitz wrote a play about my best friend from high school and me. There's so much universality within the specificity here of the things young women struggle with in their teens and 20s, and I love how the story toggles back and forth in time between Jean and Meril at 17 and 27. It's a wonderful study of two girls trying to make it to adulthood unscathed, the things that haunt them, and how easy it is to be casually cruel to the ones you love the most. So great!

This short is great. Judas gets one day off every thousand years, and he’s using this one to lawyer up and get out of the 9th circle of hell for good. I appreciated that there’s a little bit of ‘Who is this guy? Is this a joke?’ but the play doesn’t dwell there, instead moving on to the justice Judas seeks, why he thinks he deserves it, and how God tries to stop it. I’m a sucker for funny plays featuring folks from the Bible, and this is a delightful one.

This is a clever concept, hilariously executed. Roger - newly deceased - was able to choose 6 people to have with him in the afterlife. He chose quickly, not quite understanding what was going on, and his afterlife begins chaotically to say the least. I loved watching all the characters interact and learning who they all were in relation to each other. This is a funny, poignant play. It's sad at times, but also I found it comforting to know that in DC Cathro's universe, even after death we still have opportunities for self-improvement.

I thoroughly enjoyed this. John Busser never disappoints, and this short play is fabulous. Lots of funny, smart dialogue and enough wordplay to delight any/all middle-aged dads. A delightful 10 minute play about the horror story we're all trapped inside.

Oh my gosh. This short play takes place entirely in the dark, and the sounds are perfection. It gets creepier and creepier as it goes along. What a wild experience this would be to “see” live. A perfect, spooky, claustrophobic little play.

This is a delight. Every Christmas movie trope is squeezed into 10 minutes, and the writing is SO smart and funny. Like, really fantastic. It’s very hard to choose, but I think my favorite touch is how whenever the man gets a call from his boss, he barely pauses to listen before relaying a lengthy description of what the boss said to the woman. What a blast this play would be for a pair of actors - and for an audience.