Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

Centered around the real-life investigation into the death of theater star Evelyn Hoey, "Above the Fold" delves into how sensationalism sells newspapers, how the narrative is controlled by those with money, and how much harder women have to work to be taken half as seriously as men. I loved the fast-paced dialogue, and the ending was perfect.

Oh, Florida Man. Why are you the way you are? And why can we not get enough of you? This one minute play is a fun send up to Florida Men everywhere (well, everywhere in Florida), and manages to make a big comment about American society in a tiny span of time.

I read this one for the title, and I'm so glad I did. Everything is going wrong on the set of a horror movie, and it makes for a very entertaining play. I love the tropes and stereotypes that the actors bristle at and the fact that the real, live worm they brought in to replace the malfunctioning puppet MAY have eaten somebody, but it's doing such a great job that it should be overlooked. It's a fun mix of cynicism and hope. I'd love to see this live, to see how all the special effects happen. Lots of fun!

Costumers are trying to hold the show together as their passion play approaches the dress rehearsal. I like that this play is about the theater, but also about losing and finding faith, and how theater can help make you whole again after tragedy. The dialogue is quick and funny, and I especially loved all the actors being referred to by only their characters' names.

The teenage angst!! This monologue takes me back to those days of over-analyzing, spiraling out, and worrying yourself into an absolute state over what your boyfriend's radio silence means. It's exhausting - but Jackie is adorable. What a fun monologue for a teenage performer.

Oh my gosh, I would read a hundred of these. Just pop them like candy. A night of ghost stories, please. Christopher Soucy knows how to tell a story.

I'm a sucker for a good ghost story (in the daytime). This one draws you in and holds your attention as more and more gets revealed about the ghost - and Dorothy. The use of a narrator makes it feel like you're being told a ghost story around a fire or at a sleepover or some other place where ghost stories are shared. Satisfyingly spooky!

I love this one-minute play. In just a minute, it conveys all the messiness and complications of an affair, why people engage in them, and why they can be so hard to end. It's hard to create flawed characters who are also sympathetic in just a little over one page, but Arianna Rose pulls it off.

This play is a lot of fun. It's a good old-fashioned farce with fast, clever dialogue, misunderstandings, and lots of laughs. This would be a crowd-pleaser for sure.

This play about a legitimate scientist getting pulled into the world of climate change denialism is scary because it's plausible. I really enjoyed watching Jillian get more and more tangled in the web, and I loved that science and its agenda-less pursuit were the heroes of the story. One character's line, "Nothing is as important as the truth, because everything else rests upon it," is a sentiment we need shouted from the rooftops today, as truth seems up for grabs even though, as Neil deGrasse Tyson said, science is true whether or not you believe in it. So timely.