Recommended by Liz Coley

  • Liz Coley: SONGS WITHOUT WORDS (Or, The Mendelssohn Play)

    In a word, brilliant. This is a gorgeous and moving piece of theatre for one versatile actor. The playwright herself has presented it to critical acclaim. As a side effect, I suddenly want to order sheet music and listen to the compositions mentioned and excerpted in the sound design. What is a successful life? What is genius? What is immortal?

    In a word, brilliant. This is a gorgeous and moving piece of theatre for one versatile actor. The playwright herself has presented it to critical acclaim. As a side effect, I suddenly want to order sheet music and listen to the compositions mentioned and excerpted in the sound design. What is a successful life? What is genius? What is immortal?

  • Liz Coley: Overtime

    The twist is so good, so unexpected, that you want to start over and hear it all again!

    The twist is so good, so unexpected, that you want to start over and hear it all again!

  • Liz Coley: How You Win

    Very touching as a stand-alone piece. It's about first steps, the persistence of love and memory, and the courage to face the closet.

    Very touching as a stand-alone piece. It's about first steps, the persistence of love and memory, and the courage to face the closet.

  • Liz Coley: KING NOW

    So much, so quickly. The report that "Uncle Dick" has been talking to himself a lot is guaranteed to make Richard III aficionados cringe and laugh at the same time. Well done. If one wanted to teach lit students about dramatic irony, this is a perfect vehicle.

    So much, so quickly. The report that "Uncle Dick" has been talking to himself a lot is guaranteed to make Richard III aficionados cringe and laugh at the same time. Well done. If one wanted to teach lit students about dramatic irony, this is a perfect vehicle.

  • Liz Coley: Mary's Monster

    Gothic in mood, fluent and literate on the page -- this biographical story is dark, gripping, elucidating, and historical. As a window into mental illness, generational pain, and the battle between an artist and her art, it is brilliant. As a vehicle for a woman actor, it offers so much scope. Read it and perform!

    Gothic in mood, fluent and literate on the page -- this biographical story is dark, gripping, elucidating, and historical. As a window into mental illness, generational pain, and the battle between an artist and her art, it is brilliant. As a vehicle for a woman actor, it offers so much scope. Read it and perform!

  • Liz Coley: Remains

    This funny, beautiful, bittersweet piece feels to this reader like peering through the window, overhearing a private conversation, playing voyeur to something most people haven't experienced...yet have in a universal kind of way. The dialogue (trialogue at times) flies delightfully with forward momentum until the point where everything has to change in one huge symbolic and literal act of casting away retained grief. The individual lines express so much humor, so much pain, so much wisdom. This will be a completely engaging staged work. Soon we hope!

    This funny, beautiful, bittersweet piece feels to this reader like peering through the window, overhearing a private conversation, playing voyeur to something most people haven't experienced...yet have in a universal kind of way. The dialogue (trialogue at times) flies delightfully with forward momentum until the point where everything has to change in one huge symbolic and literal act of casting away retained grief. The individual lines express so much humor, so much pain, so much wisdom. This will be a completely engaging staged work. Soon we hope!

  • Liz Coley: Cake Top This

    With mixed motives and miscommunications that can pierce the heart of any love relationship (whether hetero or same sex) this clever little piece sharply makes its points, both political and personal.

    With mixed motives and miscommunications that can pierce the heart of any love relationship (whether hetero or same sex) this clever little piece sharply makes its points, both political and personal.