Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

This memory play is terrific! College-age Linda introduces us to her Irish Catholic family and together - with lots of asides, comedic interruptions, and requests for monologues - they tell the story of one week in 1973 that almost destroyed Linda's reputation forever. The characters are all so distinct, and I loved watching them interact with each other. I would love to see this one live!

Oh my gosh. This is the sweetest play. Just SO delightful. A messenger angel announces to Jordan that she is going to bear a child, and then you watch and laugh and cry with this incredible cast of characters as they come to terms with this news - and as the angel comes to learn what it means to be human, with all our wonderful and horrible complexities. I loved this. The dialogue is perfect, and the twists are unexpected and wonderful. I would love to see this staged and I'm sure a lighting director would love it, too.

Ooooh. I didn’t realize a one minute play could be spooky, but here we are. Hats off to Elijah Vazquez! This play is great.

Yes! This one minute play made me laugh out loud. So good!

Well, there goes Scott Sickles, disproving my belief that the sequel is never as good as the original. I love this trilogy, and I love this play! I loved watching the boys reconnect at 38 after thinking they lost each other forever at 11. I love how the climate emergency is woven into the play so completely, giving us a (scary! urgent! important!) preview of the kind of world we might be living in - and struggling to get off of - in 2046. I love so much about this. I'm sad I've only got one more play to go.

Oh MY! The blood, the warfare, the fantastical stranger, the heightened language - this feels like the kind of thing Shakespeare would write if he were still around, churning out plays. And I know comparing something to Shakespeare feels very over the top, but it was all I kept thinking as I read. This violent fantasy play grabs you from the start and doesn't let go until the stage is covered in blood. What a crazy trip! I loved it.

This two minute play is fabulous. Prince Richard and Prince Edward are locked in the Tower, but everything will be okay - Edward is king now, so if he says it will be okay, it must be. A sweet conversation between two brothers made darker when you know the history of what 's going to happen to them. Two minutes well spent!

Oooh I like this play! Enough with men discovering a dead woman in a refrigerator to launch their hero journey - why can't a woman find a dead man and launch hers? (Of course, the man tied up in the refrigerator might not be super on board, but he's a bad writer, so don't worry about what he thinks.) I love the dialogue and the revenge on behalf of womenkind. This play is creepy fun!

I love Emily McClain's plays, and this one is no exception! Two female astronauts have been chosen to have the first pregnancies in space, only to find out once they're orbiting Jupiter that there's only one vial of sperm. What to do? This play is an engaging and humorous look at bureaucratic nonsense and times when a little rule breaking is in order.

Oh my gosh, this play is beautiful. Three manifestations of one man (at ages 18, 45, and 90) talk, argue, and learn to accept each other. It's such a beautiful allegory for our journey through life, and so powerfully told in only ten pages! I'm going to be thinking about this one for a while.