Recommended by Steven G. Martin

A fun and twisty entertainment industry insider story. I hope "Stage Fights Screen" will have a long, varied production history.

Two women artists use power plays to game the system. Personalities clash, agendas are revealed, and boy I saw none of it coming. Rex McGregor has got a fine comedy here: strong plot, characters brimming with personality, and a nice visual style.

Informational and engaging, with a winning set of characters.

"You Otter Know" would be fun for young audiences, especially at a site-specific venue like a zoo or aquarium.

Traditional dating is difficult enough. Beckman makes speed dating seem horrific in this one-minute comedy.

Half-full or half-empty? Sometimes the cup makes the difference.

Jeff Smith's one-minute romantic comedy nicely pairs an optimist and pessimist. And Smith concludes with the best laugh line in the script, saving the best to last and leaving me wanting more.

Pinpoint satire.

In less than a moment, Nandita Shenoy aims -- and strikes -- at theatre producers, theatre artists, and theatre audiences.

Reading this play? Watching this play? You will empathize with a robot.

This full-length play is a perfect marriage of character and tone. Matthew Weaver's characters are entirely earnest, fully self-aware, and always learning. To make his characters robots is next-step thinking.

I greatly enjoyed an online reading of "Awkward Robot's Instruction Manual for Dating Other Awkward Robots" on the Baldwin Wallace BFA Showcase Facebook page in June 2020.

Eerie, unusual, theatrical, and a more than a little bit scary.

THE SEVERED FINGER IS A MACGUFFIN.

Yes, audiences will get pulled into the story of "Finger" by the grotesque, the macabre, and the very darkly funny (and sometimes juvenile) humor. But then DC Cathro downshifts and the story becomes an uneasy view about wanting to care for someone else and wanting to do right for them, even under impossible circumstances.

This isn't a play about a severed finger found by a high school girl. It's a play about compassion and being humane ... with the fun window dressing of gore and the grotesque.

Yes, "Las Rosas" is funny, but it also strikes a nerve. You can have pride and find strength in your identity, but when another person intentionally overlooks you ...

Thanks, Mark-Eugene Garcia, for this one-minute play.

This is the kind of connection I want more of: altruistic, generous, and open-hearted. Thank you, Nelson Diaz-Marcano, for shedding light on this type of interaction.