Recommended by Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

This short play is great! It's a comedy, a drama, and a thriller all rolled into one. A long-married husband and wife tell each other a secret that might be true, and these maybe-truths are DOOZIES. What an interesting premise, and what a dangerous game to play with your spouse. Once you plant the seed, does it really matter how true it is? This play had me hooked!

In this engaging and powerful monologue, Sylvia Rivera recounts her experience in the Stonewall Riot and reminds us how far we still have to go with regards to trans rights. This monologue is wonderful and should be performed everywhere!

Wooow. This collection of short plays about a young man who leads gay boys to their death and the one who got away is so, so good. Each play can more than stand on its own, but taken together they're very powerful as you watch Luke and Basyl's stories unfold. What a well-crafted, disturbing play.

This short play is precious!! I don't want to give anything away, but it is so sweet - bittersweet, really - and the conclusion isn't at all what I was expecting, but it was absolutely perfect. What a lovely short play for two middle aged actors!

What Gypsy Rose Lee's sister, June, thought about how she's portrayed in the famous musical about her sister is something I never thought about before, but Doug DeVita clearly has - and this play is about so much more than that. It explores the vast gray area between truth and fiction, and who gets to decide what will be settled on as truth. Should you fight to be remembered truthfully, or should you just be glad that you're being remembered at all? What an engaging, theatrical play!

Oh wow. This short solo piece about a father talking to his baby who miscarried at thirteen weeks about the grief that he feels, doesn't feel, and should feel is wonderful. I'm not a father, but the feelings expressed in this play about fatherhood are things that my husband and male friends have verbalized many times, and the tendency of the man in this play to beat himself up over not feeling enough or over doing the wrong things feels very universal to me. We all blame ourselves for things beyond our control, and this play nails that completely.

"Hey, Dad" is a beautiful eulogy of a monologue. It's told in such plain, simple language, and affects you all the more because of it. The bit about the books on his shelf and what they represented got me in particular. This is a very touching piece about a heartbreaking moment in a son's life, made even harder by the separation COVID necessitates.

In this engaging, quick-moving full length, Abraham, a Jewish New Yorker who recently moved to Tel Aviv after the death of his wife, learns that he is also the patriarch of a family of Palestinian Muslims. With a cast of just five (four of them great roles for women!), "Abraham's Daughters" tackles the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as the discrepancy between how one sees oneself and how one is seen by the world.

Unfortunately, this ten minute play, told so sparsely and so well, will never not be topical. What a beautiful distillation of America's policing problems. This should be produced everywhere.

Poking fun at the entertainment business, "Everything They've Told You" begins with Johnny Ciro being fired from his job playing a millionaire property and wind farm developer on an environmental charity soap (which - can we please have a spin-off play of that soap opera? Because that sounds hilarious.) Then Johnny disappears. Is he dead? Or is he a marketing genius? With lots of silly details and a central character you never see, this is a very clever short play!