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Jack Levine

Recommended by Jack Levine

  • Brothers on a Hotel Bed (15 minute play) by Elisabeth Giffin Speckman
    22 Oct. 2020
    “ ELISABETH GIFFIN SPECKMAN’s play, “Brothers On A Hotel Bed”, is a sweet but dramatic tale. The play provides a wonderful opportunity for two young actors to captivate the audience with well-written dialogue. I was struck by how much we found out in such a short play about the boys, their family dynamics, and the pain and joy from such relationships. ”
  • Not Really (Little Star) by Toby Malone
    21 Oct. 2020
    “ TOBY MALONE’s play, “Not Really (Little Star)”, was one of the most moving monologues I have read. For ten plus minutes, we hear the cries of pain, tears of regret, and sadness of a life ended too soon . And yet, a new life of a sister is born, not to replace the eleven-week unborn son but to give a family a reason to live. In a little star, a father feels the connection of a life he knew - not really - but which he feels - really. An absolutely brilliant monologue! ”
  • Voices by Emma Wood
    21 Oct. 2020
    “ EMMA WOOD has written a play of a Zoom counseling session in which a single mother seeks help in coping. Parenting is never easy, but there are so many more challenges when one parent has to deal with it alone. Add-in the pressures of a pandemic and it is no wonder help may be needed. “Voices” is a look at what might take place in an online therapy session in 2020 in which the counselor may have some issues of their own. This play is a witty look at the serious topic of stress. ”
  • No Rest for a Soul by Cindi Sansone-Braff
    21 Oct. 2020
    “ CINDI SANSONE-BRAFF takes a musician, who recently committed suicide, to the place on the Other Side where he gets ready for meeting our maker. He has squandered his talents and many years of his life by making wrong decisions. He has committed suicide believing he can rest up and have another chance. But choices have consequences. Good deeds are rewarded, but there is a price to pay for mistakes. “No Rest For A Soul” is a well-written play with a moral. ”
  • Oh, No! I Flew Too Close to the Sun! by Rand Higbee
    21 Oct. 2020
    “ RAND HIGBEE has written a witty play of an ‘actor’ at first worried about potential stage fright, then wondering if the role may be a bit too much, and then realizing it’s not the number of lines an actor gets to say, but what the actor needs to do to perform. Ouch! Oh, that wasn’t in the script. This is a laugh out loud play with a great title, “Oh, No! I Few Too Close To The Sun! ”
  • Any Second Now by Philip Middleton Williams
    21 Oct. 2020
    “ PHILIP MIDDLETON WILLIAMS’s short play, “Any Second Now”, is a look at the challenges of actors. The fun of the play is the absurdity of their expectations, beliefs, and desires of wanting a better role for themselves without truly understanding the process: playwrights create characters for the story they are telling and not to satisfy a particular actor. The ending is perfect. When the opportunity to be cast presents itself, well, let’s just use the expression “timing is everything”. It’s a fun play to read. I hope to watch it performed. ”
  • What we need at the end of the day… by Brian James Polak
    20 Oct. 2020
    “ BRIAN JAMES POLAK’s play is about a brother and sister, who have hatred towards their dying father. They need to decide if they will talk to him, and if so, what they or their dad might say. In his dramatic short play, “What We Need At The End Of The Day”, we can feel the emotions of the brother and sister as they consider what they will do. ”
  • A Hit and Miss Christmas by Emma Wood
    19 Oct. 2020
    “ EMMA WOOD uses her talents to create a heartwarming holiday play. A group of actors are challenged to do something different than the Charles Dickens classic. A new Director has a vision ‘out-of-the-box’ while the theater’s President believes the classic play is what their audience wants. A white man’s prejudice towards gays and females is tested. “A Hit And Miss Christmas” is a wonderful play and a must-see for all of us who value the real meaning of Christmas. ”
  • Happy Holidays (or Bust) (10 minute play) by Elisabeth Giffin Speckman
    18 Oct. 2020
    “ ELISABETH GIFFIN SPECKMAN takes the hectic pace of the holiday season and ratchets up tenfold. It begins with a Christmas card with a picture of mom, daughter and...whoops. An unplanned pregnancy, a misguided engagement, a somewhat unusual name, a revealing card to the baby’s mother’s ex-almost in-laws, and... So, what could go wrong? Buckle your seatbelt, be ready to laugh out loud, and then read this delightful play. ”
  • All the Way Down by Lindsay Partain
    18 Oct. 2020
    “ LINDSAY PARTAIN’s “All the Way Down” is a gem of a short play. We, as humans, want to explore, discover and learn. We often overlook, or at least downplay, the possible harmful outcomes. But, in many cases, we succeed and find out something fantastic. We need to move-forward, or ‘go up’, to try to find that ‘thing’ we never knew, but we might end up ‘falling’ or failing. It’s something we do - and our civilization has benefited more times than not. ”

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