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.