Recommended by Jennifer O'Grady

Wonderfully surprising and ultimately painful (as it should be) ten-minute play with an urgent message about our planet and a character who cares. Sapio is such a skilled playwright--so much including unexpected twists, grief and even hope are packed into a few pages. A play this timely should be widely produced.

Urgent, timely, powerful and harrowing one-minute two-hander about gun violence. We NEED this play today.

A very sweet one-minute play showing us a teen who unexpectedly discovers a whole new and wonderful direction for their life. Lovely!

So much unfolds in just sixty-seconds, in this moving one-minute play about a mother and son. Lovely.

Wonderfully funny one-minute play all theater folks--and everyone--will love.

A surprising and very funny one-minute play by a master of the form. Loved it!

McLindon's fantastic ten-minute play explores, beautifully and with wonderful heart and humor, the often-hidden pain of loneliness in college as two young students find each other in a marvelously unexpected way. Loved it!

Fantastic short play I was fortunate to see performed, which centers the wife of Edward Hopper (who, ironically and famously, created portraits of loneliness). Kantor puts Jo Hopper together with a young woman in an automat--or rather, THE automat, as in Jo's husband's famous painting--in a theatrical and inventive play that has much to say about art, the art world and women's lives. So well done!

A beautiful and moving short play set in WWII Amsterdam, which I was fortunate to see performed recently. It tells a powerful story in its taut ten minutes and explores different types of silence including enforced silence and ultimately, refusal to be silent. Mabey's dialogue is so rich and these characters so vivid that we feel as if we are right there in the prison with them. Powerful and resonant with themes that still matter deeply today.

I love Arianna Rose's plays and was lucky to see this one performed recently. It's a fantastic two-hander for two women that imagines the friendship between Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt with wonderful theatricality and surprises along the way. The play involves flying and somehow Rose manages to make us feel as if we are flying too, merely by the sheer skill of her writing. JOY RIDE is truly a joy.