Recommended by Melissa Milich

This play is an absolute experience. Through a husband and wife's relationship with their china dishes, we learn everything about them throughout their married life and that of their children. It's like the dishes take on a life of their own. And then that dinner bell rings. O'Neill-Butler's play reflects on life -- as told through the fine china they never want to use.

Oh my! Rachel Feeny-Williams masterfully lulls you into the story you think it is, only to pull the carpet from under your feet before the night is over. This is both comforting and chilling. A smart, engaging short play that will leave you wondering.

I loved this play on so many levels. As a veteran, I loved the inclusion of the fallen soldiers and the price they paid. I also loved the quirk of a possible actual angel on board to comfort the grieving daughter. This play goes straight for the jugular but lessons the tension with well-meaning Braden which is also a reflection on people's inability to know how to handle the pain of someone else losing a loved one. Joe Swenson packs so much into this ten minutes. I would like to see this performed to commemorate Memorial Day just for starters.

Too Funny! But it's funny because there is a more than just a smidgeon of truth in it. As an emerging playwright, I definitely feel the pain in this one. Kudos to Debra A. Cole for taking something so mundane in the life of a writer and making it absolutely hilarious.

I just read an article online about how older adults can make friends. Here we have a drill sergeant type who enters your civilian life and it's a good thing. A fun play that's deceptively inspiring and a little in your face and in the best way oossible.

En pointe SNAPPY dialogue in an existentialist world. How does Morey keep writing hit after hit? This one is pleasantly absurd AND at the same time also makes you wonder ... why DO we follow the crowd?

This is a time-machine play that play grabs you from the very beginning and doesn't let go through its twisty ending. It starts with a gun pointed at a head and ends with hair casually looped behind the ear, with the middle as an emotional ride that deviates through the agony of grief and remorse and parental guilt There are so many brilliant subtleties in this play with the nuanced roles of Stella and Elena, but all four actors are written with juicy parts. This will definitely be an audience favorite at any festival.

This is a brilliant play. Though it's been a very long time since I was in high school, I still remember it and this play encapsulates all the insecurities and sometimes absurdist, surrealistic moments that make us question our places in the world. Martineau takes the "odd duck out" to a new level with this one. This is a crossover play and though I think high school kids would truly respond to a production, I think adults long out of high school would find just as much to ponder in it if not more.

If only I had a smidgeon of John Busser's imagination and that particularly Busser-stylistic ability to write such zany characters. Officer Murphy is a hoot! Enjoyed this play for the farce, but there is always something more in Busser's plays as well. This one does make you think -- in between the laughter! I'd read ANYTHING John Busser would write.

This is FUNNY. Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn has written an absolutely lovely denouement to her earlier Stonehenge play, a nice bow on the package she already delivered. There's all kinds of characters that live in suburbia and these two plays compliment each other so well with the neighborhood antics the playwright handles so well.