Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

I've been sitting here trying to put into words what I want to say about this play for a while now, and I'm not sure what I can say to do it justice. I love that all the characters are flawed and it doesn't feel preachy. I love that the play will make Black theater goers feel seen and force white theater goers to self-reflect. I especially love the confrontation between Jasmine and Cal being played three different times, in three different tones. This play has been in my reading list for a WHILE, and it was worth the wait.

I feel this monologue in my soul. With universality in her specificity, Gina Femia nails both the unmooring so many of us felt when a pussygrabber ascended to the highest office in the land, as well as the thoughts and feelings of a young woman trapped by her own personal pussygrabber. The toggling between the two is genius and the writing is fantastic.

What I love so much about Demon Eyes is it's an epic story about good and evil, but it's also a simple story about a young woman trying to fit in. Julessa is a demon who was abandoned and raised by a fallen angel and her husband, alongside their half-angelic daughter, Cassie. The play is a wonderful study on nature versus nurture, family dynamics, and self-discovery told through a lens that raises all the stakes beyond most family dramas. Plus the two sisters anchoring the show are rich roles different from what's typically available for women in their teens/20s.

I love this. At first you think it’s a monologue about a young woman helping the guy she loves, but for whom she’s ‘not even the girlfriend,’ and then it pivots and becomes a commentary on the theater world and what roles are available to women. I was thoroughly wrapped up in the monologue, and then after the shift, I kept muttering “Yes... YES. EXACTLY.” This is wonderful. What a gift for a young actor.

This short in which two broken people become almost-friends is sad and sweet. I especially enjoyed the effect of it seeming to mirror the beginning as it nears the conclusion, but then morphing into something different, with less loneliness.

This play feels like a time capsule in so many ways. Taking place at the end of the Nixon administration/beginning of the Ford administration, full of music from the era, and with a heavy dose of magic realism, this is an engaging story about coming of age and coming to terms.

This short is so sweet! Two 2nd graders play house at recess. One has a great home life and a clear vision of what that entails. The other doesn’t and struggles to yes-and her as they play. I enjoyed the enthusiasm they had for the weirdest things, and the flash-forward moments added poignancy. Very clever!

Ooooh SPOOKY. This one act about a mysterious bridge in a small southern town at the center of several unexplained disappearances gets creepier and creepier as it goes along. I love all the instances of uncertainty over what is real versus what seems to be real, James's creepy, cryptic warning, and the twist ending. Also, this play would be a sound designer's dream. I'm glad I read it during the day. Hope I'm not too scared to walk down the hall to the bathroom tonight.

This play is an amazing combination of angry and funny, and so, so theatrical - one of the characters is a rape joke and we keep sliding between some otherworldly comedy club and Lily's dressing room. From the stage direction "And then the Rape Joke strolls in the door" to the end, I didn't know where it was going, but I thoroughly enjoyed the ride and all the surprising twists and turns. What a creative, timely piece.

Well this is delightful. A pair of actors with good comedic timing would absolutely crush this informercial in which a pair of lawyers pitch their services to help obviously guilty criminals become “less fucked.” What a fun, all-American short.