Recommended by Cindi Sansone-Braff

Buyer beware for sure! Madame Claire, a firm believer that a sucker is born every minute, is destined to capitalize on that truism! This play is smartly written and really funny. Well-paced and well-crafted this play will have you laughing out loud at the foibles of human behavior.

This one-woman show is a great vehicle for a versatile actress to showcase her talents. Funny, sad, ironic, and relatable this monologue reads well, but it is truly theatrical in nature and meant to be seen and experienced. I could see it being performed on a video platform as well. Great for auditions and to use in acting classes! Bravo!

This short, monologue play proves: Karma is a bitch. We can sympathize with Angie, and her distain for her dying dad. Decades of bearing witness to her father’s unrelenting drunkenness, violence, and anger enacted upon her and her mother, have finally come to a close. Perfectly set at Christmastime, with her father in a coma and her mother in a better place, Angie can finally find some peace. Joy to the world!

A moving, short memory play about love, loss, longing, and death. Beautifully written, passionate, funny at times, and then painfully tender the next moment. Anyone who has done “the-love-lost-and-found-and-lost-again saga” can relate to this heart-wrenching play, which proves: Death ends a life, but not a relationship. Philip, thanks for writing this.

A brilliant concept: Seven short plays, scanning decades, which can be enjoyed separately, or they can all be produced together creating a sense that you are watching seven scenes from a one-act play. A father and two sons, who try, but don’t always succeed to understand each other, struggle with their own issues as they try to navigate their way through life. The dialogue is funny, biting, and well-paced. I would love to see this staged! Bravo!

A touching monologue, spoken by a worried-sick mom, wondering if her son will be the next casualty in the Vietnam war. I would love to see an evening of anti war monologues, perhaps Zoomed out- right now- across the world to remind us that war kills. How about we all give peace a chance?

Prophecy-is it a gift or a curse? This short, well-crafted play poses some difficult questions concerning suicide, personal responsibility, and family dysfunction. Sometimes in life we find ourselves in a damned if you do and damned if you don’t dilemma. For Harriet, a kind woman with a psychic gift, the only solution is to choose the lesser of two evils. Easy to stage, this play would be an asset in any theatre festival.

What I loved most about this play was the way the writing, mood, dialogue, physical comedy, and characters mirrored the screwball comedies we all know and love, and yet, there is so much depth, truth, and pathos underscoring this piece about Hollywood legends and the great pains they took to avoid scandal. Hilarious at times and deeply moving at other moments, there are so many memorable lines in this play that will remain with the audience long after they leave the theatre. I loved it so much I had to read it a second time. Bravo!

Set on Long Island in an affluent North Shore suburban community, this epic dramedy takes us from the 1970s right into the new millennium. A great vehicle for actors, since this is a multigenerational play, and the characters are real, gritty, troubled, and often funny. There is so much truth, tenderness, and angst in this riveting play, I can see why it has garnered so much praise! I would love to see it fully staged.

I’d love to see a Zoom play of this. What a great vehicle for actors of any age, gender, race, or ethnicity. Funny and sad at the same moment, we have to feel great compassion for Person Four stuck in lockdown with mice, bad wiring, and a gas leak.