The Best American Short Plays 2005-2006

"Applause" is proud to continue the series that for over sixty years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. Our new editor Barbara Parisi has selected the following 15 plays: "The Other Woman", by David Ives; "The Hunchback of Central Park West", by Murray Schisgal; "Props", by Michael Roderick; "It's a...Baby", by Cara Restaino; "Kong" by Pamela Sneed; "Love on the B-Line", by Adam Kraar; "The Mysteries of the Castle of the Monk of Falconara", by James Armstrong; "Crab Cakes", by Joan Lipkin; "Small Things", by Cary Pepper; "Come Rain or Come Shine", by Jeni Mahoney; "The Courier", by Carol Mack; "The Highwayman", by Julia Jarcho; "Beautiful American Soldier", by Dano Madden; "The Rapture of Mammon", by Jules Tasca; and "Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue", by Quiara Alegria Hudes.