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Brian James Polak

Recommended by Brian James Polak

  • Se Llama Cristina by Octavio Solis
    1 Jun. 2015
    “ I love this play. It's beautiful and poetic with humor that wonderfully surprising. It's a dark world the two main characters inhibit, but I love existing in the space with them, watching them try and put their lives together, literally and metaphorically. ”
  • The Gun Show by E. M. Lewis
    24 Mar. 2015
    “ Brave, imaginative, and yet beautifully simply. This deeply personal work about guns is no polemic. It's a story about the complicated relationships people have with guns, and exposes the audience to a point of view it has likely never experienced on the subject. It's a wonderful work that should be required reading for all Americans. ”
  • Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea by Nathan Alan Davis
    20 Mar. 2015
    “ "Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea" is simply a beautiful piece of work. Read this play, attend this play, produce this play... do whatever you can to get into the same room with it. Nathan has a beautiful knack for toggling between the natural and the poetic, and he uses that skill perfectly to tell the story of a young man on the verge of adulthood who is searching for a long lost ancestor. ”
  • Building The Perfect Chair by Lisa Kenner Grissom
    20 Mar. 2015
    “ Is there a more mundane object than a chair? (Maybe a stool) But in Lisa's play we learn there is nothing simple about such an object. It can be beautiful and complicated, like the relationships portrayed in this intriguing new play. "Building the Perfect Chair" shows us how both love and chairs can be fragile works of art. ”
  • Pluto by Steve Yockey
    19 Mar. 2015
    “ Steve uses his trademark theatricality to tell a rich emotional story with a gut-punch ending. Humor, surprises, and heart meld with the mythological and supernatural in this powerful work. ”
  • Rush by Callie Kimball
    16 Mar. 2015
    “ This play is certainly a period piece, but is in no way bogged down by historical exposition. It feels like a contemporary play while still feeling authentically 1800s. It's gorgeous and powerful and fantastically crafted, as all Callie's plays are. ”
  • Hooded or Being Black for Dummies by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm
    16 Mar. 2015
    “ A remarkable and vital play for our time. You feel it, in the rhythm of the scenes, in the rhythm of the dialogue, in the story Tearrance is telling. I couldn't be more excited about the potential of a play to take off and have a life in the American theater. This play will soar. ”
  • Nerve by Adam Szymkowicz
    16 Mar. 2015
    “ There's no surprise why Nerve has been produced all over the country. It's beautifully complex with a veneer of simplicity that will surprise you when it cracks open. Dear world: keep producing this play. ”
  • American Home by Stephanie Alison Walker
    16 Mar. 2015
    “ Stephanie's play American Home is a beautifully theatrical exploration of the complicated notion of "the American Dream." I love how she takes seemingly disparate people to explore the challenges of living in a consumerist society with the debt piling up, up up. This is certainly a play for our time. ”
  • Sovereign Body by Emilie Pascale Beck
    16 Mar. 2015
    “ In Sovereign Body Emilie Beck dramatizes a debilitating disease with great authenticity. This play takes you on a tumultuous ride as you watch the impact of this physically devastating situation on both the protagonist and her family. It's a powerful piece of writing. ”

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