Recommended by Greg Mandryk

This is a fantastic monologue about a small, seemingly harmless practical joke. Just when you feel you're in on the gag, the protagonist flips the script and exposes the self-perpetuating nature of this act of cruelty, albeit a minor one and takes a higher path. Extremely well done!

Is it truly better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all? Maximillian Gill's delightfully charming Future War answers this question with a dash of sci-fi whimsy.

For anyone in search of a two-hander for a pair of young actresses, I can't recommend Dreamboat by Daniel Emlyn-Jones highly enough! Hilarious!

This is sweet. Whether the play benefits from clowns being creepy and unsettling or succeeds in spite of, I can't honestly say. But someone should give this delightful short comedy a revival.

The things we do for money! Karen Saari's Joyland is a smart, fun little comedy about how fitting in with an employer's culture sometimes means checking your humanity at the door. I'm glad to see this one has a few productions under its belt. Well done!

I hope Help Me/Shoot Me starts to feel dated real soon. But for the moment, this is an unsettlingly relevant play. Danielle Wirsansky delivers a period piece that creeps up behind you and whispers "It's happening again."

You’ll see the big twist in this short play by Stuart Hoffman coming a mile away, but it’s the anticipation of its grisly conclusion that will keep you on edge so effectively. Ouch!

I once suggested the title, "Blood, Sweat, and Schmears" for a playwriting challenge where another playwright would have to create a play fitting whichever title they randomly received. The playwright who drew my suggestion was stymied and the end result was fairly unspectacular. Here, however, is the perfect, bagel-centric 10-minute play. Filled with humor, humanity, and a dash of joy, The Great Bagel Smuggle is an absolute delight! THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT, (playwright's name redacted)!!

Here's the WW2 Loch Ness Monster comedy you didn't know you needed in your life until just now when you found out there was a WW2 Loch Ness Monster comedy. Filled to the brim with charm, Operation Sea Ghost serves as a criticism for humanity's exploitative nature. Whether the challenge of bringing Nessie to life is a selling point or a dealbreaker depends on how creative your production designer is. I'd make the trek to a performance of this just to see how it was pulled off.

Absurdism at its finest. Calvin Mills concocts a ridiculous situation and infuses it with clever humor to create a short play that will have you drawing real-world parallels about the nature of romantic love. It's well worth the read.