Recommended by Greg Mandryk

Dan West again serves up the kind of crisp, lively dialogue actors salivate over. This time in a play that is so meta, it may just tear a black hole in the fabric of space and time. Perform at your own risk!

An absolutely endearing horror-flavored comedy! Poor Hector! Remember kids: animal cruelty never pays.

Dan Perry's The Gatekeepers is a pitch-perfect (and as my wife is currently binging the latest season of Bridgerton, a much-appreciated) spoof of British period dramas. I would love to see this one brought to life on stage.

If you want to use up all that fake blood and gore your theatre has left over from your production of Evil Dead: the Musical, while serving up a short play that examines the perils of religious zealotry, Daniel Prillaman is here for you. With an ending that would make the folks at Troma proud, Saints is theatrical experience audiences won't be forgetting anytime soon!

The script for John Busser's Tender Chickens is essentially a permission slip for three actors to go way over-the-top. The audience at Cleveland Public Theatre's Dark Room ate it up, no barbecue sauce needed!

Ooh! A nice creepy one! Poor Heather finds herself in a situation that feels... off, but human decency overrides her instincts, leading her to her fate. Meanwhile, the audience, knowing they're watching a horror story, can only watch helplessly. I have no idea how a staged production would handle some of the effects, but I'd love to see someone take a crack at it.

I stand with Dave!

Neil Radtke takes aim at theatre companies that pride themselves on providing audiences with utterly joyless experiences disguised as art and the results are hilarious! I don't know if the world is ready for Hot Dog: the Musical, but I'd buy tickets for Slap & Tickle in a heartbeat!

High school never ends, apparently. Paul Donnelly's play about a septuagenarian goading her friend into having a bit of raunchy fun is delightfully endearing and for anyone looking for a short play with roles for older women, it's an absolute godsend!

Much of the action in You Bloody Man exists somewhere between memory and imagination. Using projections and clever staging, Julie Grixlen's play could weave a compelling, dreamlike spell in the hands of a skilled technical director.

OPEN is a thoughtful contemplation of the subject of identity as Annie struggles with the sacrifice of her sexually adventurous youth at the altar of motherhood. I'd love to see Veronica Voll develop this play further!