Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

Well this is adorable. How does one date over Zoom while quarantining? Can you really get to know someone that way? Can a meaningful relationship develop? Can you meet up without getting COVID? This play is sweet and surprising and a perfect encapsulation of trying to find love in 2020.

This short play is surprisingly sweet. The story of two gamers trying to find real-world connections, it strikes a chord after a year of quarantine, in which we've all been stuck making connections online instead of in-person. Brain Walker makes you really feel for these characters in only 10 pages.

Oh my GOSH. A man's fortune cookie tells him that the person he just ate dinner with will kill him tonight, and hilarity ensues. This short play deserves all the awards it has won and more. It's just terrific.

Too much fun!! That sneaky Satan. This short play is just delightful as it zips along with fast and razor sharp dialogue. I'm a sucker for plays with Biblical characters acting like 21st century people, and this play is one of my favorites.

Oh my gosh. This short play is, in one way, so simple, but in another way so complex. As we watch Terry slowly, methodically eat an entire package of cookies, they give a reason why they're eating all these cookies before they eat each one, and the wide variety of reasons given touch on so many reasons for eating disorders. It's rare to see a play that is so effortlessly powerful.

This short play about a writer struggling with writer's block is both funny and relatable. I love the banter between Joel and Liz as he struggles to come up with an idea for a ten minute play. Joel coming up with the plot of The Zoo Story in particulate made me giggle - haven't we all applauded our own brilliance for a moment, before realizing we just thought up a story that already exists? This play is delightful.

Well, consider me thoroughly charmed. Festus is playing Icarus in a performance at the Colosseum, but once he's told what the role entails, he's no longer interested. A hilarious premise, moved along by stellar dialogue, this short play is smart and too much fun.

This play about Anna Coleman Ladd, who made masks for disfigured WWI veterans, is beautiful. Her story is told so succinctly, yet so movingly as well. I love how Emily McClain weaves in music and poetry to tell the story, and I especially enjoyed how nobody felt like that 'bad guy' in the play. Anna's husband doesn't understand or appreciate her work, but just when I was starting to dislike him, along came a scene in which he was trying to write letters to the mothers of dead soldiers, which broke my heart for him. What a wonderful play.

Cary Simowitz has fit so much into only 11 pages in this wonderful short play. A powerful story about invisible people who do so much for others who never see them, as well as microaggressions faced by BIPOC folks daily, I loved every moment of this tight, well-constructed play. A perfect example of what a 10 minute play can (and should) be!

I was drawn to this one by the title, and OH MY it did not let me down! What happens to all those Canadian girlfriends created by closeted gay men after those men leave the closet? This short play is smart and funny, and doesn't just rest in the joke of there being a retirement home for these women - it moves on. What can a retired Canadian girlfriend do if she's not interested in spending her life in a retirement home? What if she doesn't like any of the options offered to her? This play is great.