Recommended by Steven G. Martin

A true screwball comedy with heightened language and ridiculous twists and turns that'll give an audience gleeful whiplash. This script would be fun for actors, too.

Poor Gerald, the protagonist of "6,745." Neil Radtke's darkly comic monologue proves that timing is everything. It's also a bittersweet reminder that the chaos in the world never really lets up.

I enjoyed Radtke himself perform this monologue during the "Natural Distancing" event produced by Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette in October 2020.

Produced together, Justin Guidroz's "Room 219" series of short plays would create an enjoyable, varied evening of theatre.

"Spice It Up" is a very comic depiction of a married couple ready to experiment. Except they're not ready, at least to some of the extreme scenarios that Siobhan has considered.

Produced together, Justin Guidroz's "Room 219" series of short plays would create an enjoyable, varied evening of theatre.

"I Remember the Night" knowingly addresses some of the realities LGBTQIA+ people face when it comes to love and romance – and those realities span from psychological to sociological and familial. Wise.

Produced together, Justin Guidroz's "Room 219" series of short plays would create an enjoyable, varied evening of theatre.

Yes, the title. "First Come …" is the funniest of the Room 219 plays, and provides so much material for the lucky comic actor cast in the role of James. Despite the bravado and crassness, it feels James is more of an uncertain doofus that he's willing to let on. Horny, too, and perhaps slightly desperate, James is a great role.

Produced together, Justin Guidroz's "Room 219" series of short plays would create an enjoyable, varied evening of theatre.

"Casual Encounter" is almost a painful dramatization of two people uncertain about nearly everything about themselves. The audiences will root for these characters to believe in themselves.

Produced together, Justin Guidroz's "Room 219" series of short plays would create an enjoyable, varied evening of theatre.

"But What About ..." showcases a relationship that some might consider taboo, but Guidroz great care and humanity for this would-be sexual couple that has an unusual common denominator.

Grief is painful. Growth is painful. Malone connects the two in this one-act monologue in which a man recounts being a monster. A rare perspective, it feels to me.

Wonderfully written and emotionally wrought. I feared for these men on so many levels, and at the end, I wished good fortune for both of them. I cared about them.

It's the level of detail in Toby Malone's 10-minute drama "Clasp" that showcases Joe's and Rob's characters and their desperate needs. The setting -- location as well as time -- and dialogue, costume, and action lead an audience to understand just difficult and scary it is for these men to get what they need.

It's clear Jacquelyn Floyd-Priskorn loves community theatre actors. She knows they're daffy, over-the-top, (more than) a bit self-centered and self-aggrandizing, as well as passionate.

"Veterans of Community Theatre" is 99 percent love letter, 1 percent poison pen letter to those of us with theatre in our hearts.