Recommended by Brian James Polak

  • Brian James Polak: ANTON CHEKHOV IS A TASTY SNACK

    I love this play. It is so funny and a rollercoaster ride, with surprising twists and turns. Who knew a playwright could make Chekhov move so briskly? I am a huge fan of Chekhov and any adaptation or deconstruction of his work. This is one of the best I've read. Wonderful work!

    I love this play. It is so funny and a rollercoaster ride, with surprising twists and turns. Who knew a playwright could make Chekhov move so briskly? I am a huge fan of Chekhov and any adaptation or deconstruction of his work. This is one of the best I've read. Wonderful work!

  • Brian James Polak: Let Me Know If I Hurt You

    I loved watching Dave perform this play. It's an engrossing and entertaining story.

    I loved watching Dave perform this play. It's an engrossing and entertaining story.

  • Brian James Polak: Here Comes The Night

    This play is intense and powerful and moving.

    This play is intense and powerful and moving.

  • Brian James Polak: Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin

    This play is fast and funny and smart. It's a small play with a big scope. I love it.

    This play is fast and funny and smart. It's a small play with a big scope. I love it.

  • Brian James Polak: The Ancestry Dot Com Play

    So many laugh out loud moments in this great play! I love how the handles questions of identity as well as the varying ways in which people seek to identify themselves and how that intersects with the relationships in their lives. This play is funny and complex and I love it.

    So many laugh out loud moments in this great play! I love how the handles questions of identity as well as the varying ways in which people seek to identify themselves and how that intersects with the relationships in their lives. This play is funny and complex and I love it.

  • Brian James Polak: The Question Game

    This great play has me thinking quite a bit about catharsis because it brilliantly withholds any obvious variation of such thing. The Question Game is a fantastic take on a parent/child reconciliation and satisfies on many emotional levels. Such confrontations don't unfold and wrap up perfectly in life and this play avoids simplistic and predictable plot points yet left me filled up in the end.

    This great play has me thinking quite a bit about catharsis because it brilliantly withholds any obvious variation of such thing. The Question Game is a fantastic take on a parent/child reconciliation and satisfies on many emotional levels. Such confrontations don't unfold and wrap up perfectly in life and this play avoids simplistic and predictable plot points yet left me filled up in the end.

  • Brian James Polak: bloody noses

    I recently had the great pleasure of reading and watching a production of "bloody noses." Matilda's writing is absolutely riveting. This play is vital punch to the face and a work I hope the theater community pays attention to.

    I recently had the great pleasure of reading and watching a production of "bloody noses." Matilda's writing is absolutely riveting. This play is vital punch to the face and a work I hope the theater community pays attention to.

  • Brian James Polak: Comedy Plus Time

    Comedy Plus Time is hilariously funny and infused with heart and humanity. I love Matt Schatz's writing because it never fails to both move me and make me laugh. This play, like all of his plays, is clever, entertaining, and glass-explodingly surprising.

    Comedy Plus Time is hilariously funny and infused with heart and humanity. I love Matt Schatz's writing because it never fails to both move me and make me laugh. This play, like all of his plays, is clever, entertaining, and glass-explodingly surprising.

  • Brian James Polak: Apples in Winter

    I love everything about this play. I admire the structure, layering of metaphor, and the complex struggle of the character. Such a fantastic piece of theater.

    I love everything about this play. I admire the structure, layering of metaphor, and the complex struggle of the character. Such a fantastic piece of theater.

  • Brian James Polak: God Will Do The Rest

    This is an excellent multi-generational play about family and all it's wonderful complications and contradictions. I loved every single page of it.

    This is an excellent multi-generational play about family and all it's wonderful complications and contradictions. I loved every single page of it.