Recommended by Jennifer O'Grady

  • Familiar
    29 Dec. 2023
    A lovely and heartbreaking short play about having a parent with dementia. LeBlanc's characters and their situation are so vivid and realistic that I feel like I know these two characters as people, as opposed to characters on page. No surprise that this play has had so many productions. Powerful and so well very done.
  • What Baggage
    27 Dec. 2023
    Ruyle's charming play shines a wonderful and needed light on the complexities of romantic relationships between older people who already have other responsibilities, passions, offspring and pets firmly in place. With two great roles for older actors, this would make a terrific addition to a ten-minute play festival.
  • You Need Nutmeg in Fishkill
    23 Dec. 2023
    It's 1960 in Fishkill, NY, and what appears to be the perfect nuclear family is actually anything but, as Martin shows us in his hilarious and continually surprising comedy-horror mashup. So much fun!
  • I Don't DO Holidays
    23 Dec. 2023
    Very funny dark comedy that uniquely skewers the "joys" of the holiday season. How I would love to hear Prillaman's Piotr and Veruth!
  • The Mrs. Claus Experiment (4)
    23 Dec. 2023
    Charming and uplifting holiday play about Santa and a wonderfully accepting elf who just wants Santa to be happy in whatever way that means to Santa. Great for all ages.
  • THE SEVERED HEAD ATOP THE TREE HAS A FEW THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THE HOLIDAY
    23 Dec. 2023
    Funny and absolutely delightful holiday play that wonderfully combining the loneliness of a broken tree ornament, a destructive pet cat, and two humans who don't quite get what the holidays should be about. Super-fun for all ages!
  • Sometimes, When It’s Night, I Run Through the Neighborhood Naked and No One’s Caught Me Yet
    18 Dec. 2023
    A beautiful and unusual holiday two-hander that's moving and full of surprises. Just wonderful.
  • Satan At Walmart (A Ten-Minute Play)
    18 Dec. 2023
    The absolutely wonderful title drew me in, but the play itself kept me reading and laughing. McLindon's Satan has a fabulously dry sense of humor (and fantastic lines) and the two young human characters enmeshed in their own very funny rom-com are also delightful. No doubt this short play would be a gigantic hit with audiences everywhere. I'd love to see it!
  • An Angel Comes to Brooklyn
    18 Dec. 2023
    A tarot reading draws two women closer together in a way that feels both surprising and wonderfully inevitable. A lovely and unique play for the holidays!
  • White Cotton, Black Light
    18 Dec. 2023
    Poignant and truthful play exploring vulnerability and the fear of not being good enough, as two very different men meeting for a casual hook-up find themselves emotionally drawn together in a way they hadn't quite expected. Lovely.

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