Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

Oh my goodness, this play is beautiful. Virginia gets hit in the head with a beer can in the 1970s while marching for women's equality, hits her head on the curb, and spends 40 years in a coma. During those 40 years, we see the places she travels and the experiences she has in her mind, while we see life marching on for her sister, her caretaker, and her husband who refuses to give up on her. When she comes out of the coma, nothing is the same - inside and out. This play is bittersweet and wonderful.

This short play is terrific! A retelling of the Adam and Eve story, it wrestles with the role women are to play on Earth - as just being man's 'companion' isn't fulfilling. A new look at an old story, I was entertained and giggling the whole way through. This one is lots of fun!

Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I am DELIGHTED. I am delighted! This short play about a dad trying to bribe a college admissions counselor for an expensive, prestigious university into rejecting his daughter's application is GOLD. So smart and funny and relatable. I loved it! I would love to see it staged, and now I have to go read all of Tom Moran's work.

Oh my gosh, YES. I expected this one-minute play to go one way, but it went another, and it was perfect. This one made me smile.

In “The Artist Formerly Known as T,” a rapper named T-Rump learns that he needs to change his name if he doesn’t want his career to tank. T-Rump was his name long before someone with a similar name became President, and he wrestles with whether or not he can or should make the change. A very engaging short play about identity with well defined characters. I loved it!

This short play is fantastic. The dialogue is smart and fast and I was giggling along as I read, but the comedy kept getting darker and darker and darker, and eventually I stopped laughing. When pundits talk about theater's unique ability to teach and reach people, "Masking Our Blackness" is the kind of play they're talking about it. This one stays with you.

Ha! I think Adam Richter wrote a one-minute play about my cousin, if my cousin owned a record store. In just a page, the world and the stakes are established and a satisfying laugh-out-loud ending is delivered. (My cousin would probably cringe instead of laugh, but he's not on NPX to dispute me. Though I'm sure he would agree that the play is great.)

This felt like an appropriate one to read today, and it's a great monologue. Punxsutawney Phil goes on an angry tirade about his powers and how we're ruining things. It's very funny, and there are some lessons in there as well that we would all do well to remember.

What a creative take on Hell this is! (I love that one of the reasons these people are being tormented for all eternity is because they refused to wear masks during the pandemic.) This short would be a very entertaining addition to any evening of 10 minute plays! Both actors are given a lot of fun stuff to do, and it's endlessly entertaining watching these two garbage humans on stage.

"Four Horses" is a very entertaining play! It's about the four horsemen (or women) of the apocalypse and their scramble to find a new Death after Death is accidentally killed, creating obvious problems for humanity. The dialogue is engaging and moves at a clip, and the characters are a lot of fun. Plus, most of these characters can be played by anyone of any gender or ethnicity, which is great. It was a fun, quick read. I'd love to see it staged!