Recommended by Greg Mandryk

  • Heist!
    27 Feb. 2024
    This is just beautiful. Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend is a heavyweight landing joke after joke on her audience. In the hands of a pair of skilled comic actors, Heist! would be criminally hilarious.
  • This Cow and That Trombone
    25 Feb. 2024
    Okay, first of all, points awarded for the eye-catching title.

    It’s hard to dislike a play that’s this wholesome and charming. If you have a good costumer and an actress with some solid percussion skills, this play would be an absolute showstopper.

  • Merry Birthday of July
    24 Feb. 2024
    The family that faces extinction via a giant, incoming meteor, stays together. Cam Eikmeyer’s apocalyptic family drama serves as a sweet reminder that our time is too short for bitterness to come between us and those close to us.
  • Quips
    23 Feb. 2024
    Despite what the Bond films may have taught us, the compulsion to spout off a dad joke after ending someone’s life is a sure sign that you’re mentally unwell. Christopher Soucy sends up this trope hilariously with Quips.
  • Autumn's Fall
    23 Feb. 2024
    As someone who will trip and yell “I’m fine!” before I’ve even hit the ground, I find Autumn highly relatable. This is a perfectly charming monologue that would give a not-yet-old actress a chance to shine.
  • When in Rome
    23 Feb. 2024
    It’s wacky, it’s fun, and hey, you get an excuse to wear togas! Who wouldn’t want to produce this clever confection by Morey Norkin?
  • Double Helix
    22 Feb. 2024
    Whether you're drawn in by the lasers and killer robots, or the mind-boggling hypotheticals, good science fiction always has, at its core, a very human story. Vince Gatton's Double Helix tells a very touching tale of two estranged siblings desperately yearning to reconnect, but unwilling to surrender their own personal truths to do so. In this increasingly polarized world, there is something eerily relatable to having a former confidante turn into something alien and unrecognizable, all the while insisting they're the same person they've always been. I'm interested to see where Mr. Gatton takes this work in progress.
  • blowhole.
    20 Feb. 2024
    Sometimes you find a script that makes you a little sad you’re only reading it on NPX on a whim and not because a nearby theatre is gearing up to produce it. Such is Blowhole.

    Aly Kantor’s effortless wit sparkles in this adaptation of Lysistrata. Kantor keeps the heart of the classic intact while infusing each scene with intelligent, delightful, double entendre-rich dialogue.
  • Socks
    17 Feb. 2024
    Socks by Kate Danley is more than charming, it's flat out dizzying.
  • Splitting the Check (Ten Minute)
    17 Feb. 2024
    It’s a long form joke with a delightful plot twist punchline. Love is sweet, but free grub is sweeter.

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