Recommended by Claudia Haas

Wow! You thinking your entering spooky-romance-comedy-territory and then Williams turns the table on everyone: the characters and the audience. The ending will send a chill. A taut, unique short play that packs a wallop in just a few minutes.

This monologue may be the most charming yet. I love the heroics and Shakespeare would approve of all the improvements Bear made to his lines. In London, the rain may raineth every day but Bear is the sun.

If you decide to marry and you both celebrate Christmas, beware the blending of families during Christmas season. Hoke has given you one of the biggest challenges - present expectations. Oh sure, you’ll laugh while reading this. You’ll actually have the best time watching this. But somewhere deep down you may wonder, “Is this in my future?” Merry merry.

Jessica walks a minefield in trying to understand her friend’s heartbreak while also filling her in on a few truths about that relationship. It’s explosive, funny, and poignant. Klass shines a mirror on relationships where a woman loses her own identity to conform to what her significant other needs. Untethered is a beautiful nod to friendship as well as a reminder to preserve your own identity. Love yourself.

My knowledge of comedy begins with the Borscht Belt and ends with today’s newcomers. The world spins and sometimes we feel left behind - out of orbit. Norkin bridges the “before” and “after” of this unique world with constant comic relief, regret, wishes, and humanity. Yes, you’ll laugh a lot. You will also feel “all the feels.” It’s what theatre does best.

Just a delicious installment with the most delectable ending. It's hard to hug Bear through a computer but I am telling you now - it can be done. To set this magical installment in a palace just makes everything magical.

A true tale of terror beyond the deep. What do you think of when you are faced with a monster in the depths of an ocean? Partain keeps you hoping and thinking, “what if.”Deeply humanizing as you go into survival mode.

“I thought it would take longer to get old.” Me too, Bob. Me, too. I love the shortcuts these friends can take in speaking to each other, the memory jumps, the search for acceptance in where they are today. Paul Simon’s “Old Friends” played in the background as I read this. But then I tuned it out because these men are not dusty but vibrant. O’Neill-Butler deftly give us a past, a future and the in-between in a scant ten minutes. Best of all, it sings of life.

So Bear has Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island, too. As a former New Yorker, I would have loved to watch Bear take over the broadcasting system in NYC. Silly old Bear. Where were you when I needed you? Plumridge offers a clever romp through NYC and you wish it would never end.

George Burns and Gracie Allen could not have done this better (but wouldn’t you love to see them do this). This is all those candy message hearts come to life in a marriage proposal that means well but may have trouble with Cupid’s love arrow. McLindon shows us that the path of true love never does run smooth. But read it (produce it!) to see if All’s Well that Ends Well or is it all Love’s Labour Lost. All you need is love, right?