Recommended by James McLindon

I saw a Tiny_Theatre reading of this play and was struck by its quiet power. What starts out as a small fight between a couple following a disagreement at a wedding suddenly becomes enormous and dangerous, not unlike how tugging at a loose thread can suddenly put a garment in danger of unraveling. Carefully crafted and compelling.

Karen Saari gets all the details right in a nuanced play about a misunderstanding that suddenly is about so much more. This play, full of meaning and insight is wonderfully crafted and has a big payoff.

What a charming, sneakily powerful play about gender and relationships and parenthood and even a little existentialism and more. It's raises so many questions and does so in such a funny way and with an unrelenting drive to the finish that makes you surprised that it's already over when it ends, and yet feels just right. I loved it, was left wanting more, and yet also very satisfied.

I should probably say first that sci fi is not at all my genre, but I loved this piece, first for avoiding a lot of the cliches of the genre and even more importantly putting us in a world with people who felt real and fully developed. The story was lovely and the ending rich with possibility, which I'll be thinking about for a while.

I also saw the Tiny Theatre reading of this play and it was wonderful, as the realization of just who one of the characters is dawns on us and his date at the same time. And such a satisfying twist to end the play! This one deserves a lot of productions.

An utterly delightful, surprisingly moving piece that tranforms from a fun piece of absurdism to something much deeper in just a few deft moves. Wonderfully crafted and realized.

This play manages to be masterful in just five pages. In that time, the author manages to provide one completely unforeseen twist, and then follows it, moments later, with another one, equally surprising. All that, and a play about an orange, that is about so much more than an orange. Read, enjoy, produce!

Writing a play about grief that doesn't shy away from the pain and yet is full of hope is no small feat, but John makes it look easy in True Skies. The play, about a fate rightly described by one character as violent, somehow is told with a gentle charm and optimism in the face of the worst personal disaster. We should all be so brave, and this play will make you believe it's possible.

I had a chance to see a reading of Blinded recently and was impressed. This play is equal parts insightful, informative and engrossing. A story that in other hands could have been rendered preachy, instead is a gentle, yet compelling, look at the need for, and practical difficulties of, accommodation in the college setting. And it couldn't be easier to produce on stage or Zoom. I recommend it.

Behind every great villain is a great back story and this play supplies all you need to know about the Grinch and his volume-challenged heart. Not only that, but we get to hear Ms. Grinch’s side of things, the woman (?) who knew (and wed) him when. A fun concept skillfully executed!