Recommended by Steven G. Martin

Structure, setting, and characters' history are at the forefront of this play filled with irony, hope, and disillusionment.

Sara Jean Accuardi has created characters who are all on the brink of starting new, not only a new year but also new opportunities. Their fear and excitement are palpable. Audiences, though, already know how some stories will turn out, and this dramatic irony only makes those characters' emotions more intense.

Pay attention to everything in "The Delays." There isn't a wasted action or line of dialogue.

I'm in tears.

Burbano writes with so much precision not only about the tragic facts of this loss, but how Andie feels when thinking about this loss. So many details in such a short amount of time on stage that an audience will be in tears about how life can become so unfair, devastating, and senseless so quickly. And how living through it may be impossible.

An intense, honest, unflinching drama that shows a nuanced, fully dimensional life reduced by bickering and potshots in fewer than 280 characters. Produce this play.

An audience will ache for 17-year-old Jamal, who starts idealized and ends disillusioned after being demonized, deified, dragged through the mud and put on a pedestal. All nuance of his life and his tragedy, left behind in the Great American Pastime of piling on via social media.

Comedic, chaotic, anarchic lunacy in a minute.

You are not prepared for Prillaman's "A Short Visual Aid ... 2020." Enjoy!

Intellectual and emotional explorations of pray and prayer, praying and preying, juxtaposed with one another. Filled with cleverness, intellect, and heartache in equal amounts.

Emily McClain has created something unique with her "Triptych on Praying" and other triptychs she has written. I have to imagine directors, designers, actors loving to explore production possibilities.

Speed thrills (and kills).

The central conflict and action in Daniel Prillaman's 1-minute play will make an audience scream and laugh because it transfers from cause to effect so suddenly. Prillaman's characters ramp up from 1 to 100 in mere seconds.

As with all of Prillaman's plays, enjoy the stage directions of this script, especially the super-dry, dark humor-tinged ones.

A highly visual, highly detailed minute of theatre that shows the fragility of life and how a moment changes everything.

Prillaman stretches his muscles as a visual storyteller with this dialogue-free play. Each moment is part of a natural progression, but those details can be so clear with an excellent actor and director.

Sweet & sexy, affectionate, a little playful -- this feels like a pitch perfect romance.

"Now That THAT'S Over..." understands that some people have little to no loving contact with others since the pandemic started. The breeziness of the dialogue and scenario between Hudson and Dexter is emotionally soothing and affirming.

The one-minute meet-cute romantic comedy is exactly what you need if chaos, blood, swashbuckling, and dark humor are your thing.

Scott Sickles' outstanding writing makes "Love and Gratitude" an absolute wild ride -- there's no time to breathe or orient yourself. It's action packed, it's immediate, and audiences will go with it because there are so many gasp-worthy moments.

This one-minute play is a lovely reminder about children's imagination, their skill at play, and how deep they will go to find friendships.

There are scary aspects to Sickles' "Arboreal Conquests," but they they'll release giddy excitement as the entire story and the sweet, give-and-take relationship between Child and Tree is shown. It's all wonderfully composed in a single minute.