The Best American Short Plays 2007-2008

Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 60 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. Our editor Barbara Parisi has selected the following 14 plays: "A Roz by Any Other Name" and "Weird", by B.T. Ryback; "Bricklayers Poet", by Joe Maruzzo; "Laundry and Lies", by Adam Kraar; "Light", by Jeni Mahoney; "House of the Holy Moment", by Cary Pepper; "The Disruptive, Discursive Delusions of Donald", by Michael Roderick; "The Perfect Relationship", by Jill Elaine Hughes; "The Hysterical Misogynist", by Murray Schisgal; "The Perfect Medium", by Eileen Fischer; "Outsourced", by Laura Shaine Cunningham; "Elvis of Nazareth", by Jay Huling; "Dead Trees", by Rick Pulos; "Five Story Walkup", by Daniel Gallant, including his own play and others by John Guare, Neil LaBute, Quincy Long, Laura Shaine Cunningham, Clay McLeod Chapman, and Daniel Frederick Levin; and "G.C.", by Theodore Mann.