Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

I read this one for the title - it felt like improv gone wrong - and it WAS. What a delightful short, watching an improv team fall apart in real time. There are some great opportunities for audience interaction, and the super peppy teammate working overtime to hold the group together for this one last show felt very true to the energy of improvisors I have had to sit through in the past. Spot on and loads of fun!

This short is sad and sweet and funny all at once. A dad is teaching his daughter how to jump start a dead car battery, but it's so much more than that. So simple and beautiful, and it perfectly captures that parental desire to teach your kids as much as you can to keep them safe - as well as that preteen belief that these lessons are ridiculous. Lovely!

Well, this is delightful. The story of the nativity from the POV of the folks who nabbed the last room at the inn, this short has cameos by familiar Biblical names and tons of smart dialogue. This would be an amazing play in an evening of shorts at Christmastime or any time!

It was cathartic to hear this Tennessee English teacher tell off his superiors over the list of short stories they want him to teach - a very homogeneous list. This is such an important piece for the times and the current battle over what should be taught in American schools. I hope the powers that be listen to folks like the teacher in this monologue - even if he is another fucking white dude. Lovely work!

Perfection!! A dramatization of a real-life unsolved mystery, the murdered woman guides the audience through all the theories as to who she was and why she died, broken up by scenes with a forensic pathologist and his assistant examining her remains (my favorite bits - the dialogue is fantastic). Smart, funny, and engaging, this is a terrific play about what is expected of women and how women must fight to be seen.

This beautiful play follows five sisters backwards and forwards in time from their mother's death. It is a wonderful combination of poignant and hilarious. Each sister is so different, wrestling with her own demons, and yet they are all one unit as well, thanks to the glue that was their mother. This is a lovely look at growth, dreams, aging, and family. Just a wonderful, wonderful play.

This play keeps you guessing all the way through. Eddie shows up at his sister's house in the middle of the night, running from the law and swearing that he's innocent. A detective with Javert levels of obsession thinks otherwise, and Eddie's sister must decide who to believe. Fast paced and engaging, you will love to watch the mystery unravel!

Oh wow, the first 53 pages of this play will suck you in! I wish the rest were available to read - or even better, I wish I could see a production! This play deals with trauma and how it doesn't go away when the traumatic moment has past. The story is told non-linearly, to great effect. What a powerful piece!

Wow! This play chronicles the (eventual) downfall of real life serial killer, Dorothea Puente, with Dorothea narrating and putting her spin on events. It's incredibly engaging and theatrical, and it does a wonderful job showing how everything happened and how Dorothea was able to get away with it for so long. One scene that stuck out for me was the split stage between Dorothea talking to her parole office on Monday and talking to social workers of a prospective tenant on Tuesday. There were so many elements like that which made this story uniquely suited for the stage. Great work!

Ooooh this play! It deals with trauma and healing and touch and family and water - which can be both comforting and destructive. I love how each character is complex and sympathetic in their own way, and watching the dynamics as they interact. Just fantastic.