Recommended by Matthew Weaver

Well! Now we know Busser was taking NOTES!!!!
Busser's delightful rambunctious play is a celebration of what happens when playwrights come together, particularly out of a love for chaos, creativity, knowledge and effusive profanity.
You don't necessarily need to know all of the players (but it's even richer when you do-- COME JOIN THE FUN), you can read the transcript and enjoy wordplay that would fit right in in any screwball comedy.
***off to write a play about the 20th reason to date me***

Literally ripped from the headlines, Williams places his characters at a moment of reckoning, and allows one character more capacity for introspection and thoughtfulness than I suspect the real-life counterpart is capable of/deserves, but that is what art is for - catharsis for the world-weary audience!!
Devoted fans of Williams will find his signature charm and wit contained within.

A good play for those of us who like to eavesdrop on the early morning coffee crew, and a strong, special play for beloved veteran performers in any theater troupe. Our sympathies shift and flow as we (and the characters) get more and more information throughout.
We remain hopeful that these three shall gather again tomorrow.

A lovely and haunting interpretation of "Erstwhile," equally full of hope and heartache. Just like life!
Who among us hasn't wished they could bump into their younger selves in a grocery store ... or that our older versions might appear mysteriously to offer us kindness and grace for the long road ahead?

Soucy unsettles mightily with a dreamscape that becomes more and more unhinged the further into the darkness the audience goes. Nightmare material, to be sure.

Cat version?!? Cat version???!!!!! Are we supposed to be writing cat versions now?!?!
As much of a romp as Alles' human version of ERSTWHILE is, ERSTWHILE (CAT VERSION) turns the dial up to 11 ... or 11,000. The result is a feline delight. Utter chaos, in the best possible form. May this one play spark hundreds of cat versions of other plays on NPX.

Only Alles would take THE LITERAL DICTIONARY EXAMPLE OF "ERSTWHILE" IN A SENTENCE and turn it into this mostly biographically accurate (probably) romp. And what a romp it is. (Don't even get me started on the cat version.)
This will be a tour de force for some of the favorite mainstay performers in your troupe. And everyone will go home having learned something, and utterly tickled pink. (Don't even get me started on the cat version.)

Olson always presents such interesting and unusual scenarios in his plays! Here he definitely zags when you expect him to zig, and vice versa. We the audience don't know it, but we're never quite on solid ground. A comfortably uncomfortable feeling (like your favorite itchy sweater). A grand offering from an incredibly gifted writer.

Cathro is a writer of humanity, a contemporary O. Henry, and his words seem to particularly shine when handed the odd title in a Secret Santa gift title exchange. (Aspire.) Here we the audience can place ourselves in both characters' shoes, and relate and empathize - the one who wants to move forward, the one who simply cannot. Stark and bleak and yet hopeful all in one single breath.

Hilder boldly dares to write a horror play. No, a terror play is more like it. He makes quick work of giving us a heroine we can relate to and admire, a kind person, a helper, and then puts her in one of the more unsettling nightmare scenarios one will no doubt remember on our own 2 a.m. walks to the ice dispenser while staying at a motel ... trying to ignore the raised hairs on the backs of our necks. Thanks a lot, David (sarcastic)! Thank you very much, David (sincere).