Recommended by Steven G. Martin

A play literally of the moment, of this moment -- this very day -- when a lot of people are feeling great relief and joy. And that joy is palpable for the audience, Skylar, and Tommy.

Weaver wisely notes, though, that the joy lasts only a moment, and that more must come. Four years coming up ...

I'm in awe. Devon Wade Granmo has pulled no punches.

"The Harriad" is a glorious, messy, cheeky, expansive, literate, adventurous, theatrical cacophony of an epic play. It's hot stuff that may be difficult as hell to produce, but it'd also be unforgettable theatre for audiences.

"The Harriad" bends mythology so far -- including the mythology of the Greatness of America -- that it breaks. And those broken pieces have a destiny of their own in Granmo's creation.

Just, wow.

Thank god hamsters don't have opposable thumbs in order to open their cage door. Those are angry, hungry little rodents capable of justifying all types of carnage!

(At least they are in Mark Harvey Levine's jaw-droppingly funny radio dark comedy.)

Cheers for finding pesto sauce!

Steven Strafford's "Use Your Noodles" is absolutely beguiling, especially when stratagems are abandoned and the nervous, heart-palpitatingly truth comes out. There is enough gentle humor and romance here to enchant your audience in less than 10 minutes.

Bultrowicz's "Karen Paints Koi" is unusual and existentially upsetting.

It would be thrilling to produce this play: the stunning visuals for designers, the vibrant highs and lows of Karen's crisis that a comic actress would love to play, the sheer theatricality of having a talking koi as a character, the structure and repetition of the dialogue.

This short play is a beautiful nod to "Beauty and the Beast," but instead of love, it's admiration and appreciation of a person's skill, ability, and artistry at the center.

It's also the story of the unappreciated and the neglected receiving a modicum of the thanks they deserve.

Another Bultrowicz winner.

Goofy, nostalgic, funny, endearing, and theatrically presented. "Eating Crayons" is 10-minute pageant to adults remembering why they ate crayons.

I'd love to see this fully produced -- staged with all the flourishes that Bultrowicz provides in the script.

Bultrowicz has distilled 82 percent of everything horrible about humanity -- perhaps about men, to be more specific -- in nine pages. (Thank God for the tenth page to offer a sliver of hope. Mild hope, but still ...)

Funny, with references both literary and pop cultural.

Everything about Monica Cross's horror genre play "... in Refrigerators" is chilling: the opening image, the dialogue, the persona of the never-seen antagonist. Audiences will be shaken.

"Daddy is having a bad dream."

Dominica Plummer's 10-minute Halloween drama is framed perfectly in the first few moments. And from that, the tiny details - knocking, whispering, a stack of bedclothes, and more - take on gruesome undertones, and the tension couldn't be higher.