Smith & Kraus published a Trilogy of
The Common Air, Unequalibrium and Desperelics

Covering the best of Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and experimental theatre since 2000, One on One challenges actors to explore the inner self, develop skill and artistry for auditions, and deliver a knockout onstage performance. These monologues – sometimes comic, sometimes serious, and often both – tackle issues ranging from race, class, gender, relationships and romance to coming of age, mortality, 9/11, and the Iraq war.

This book contains an eclectic mix of new writing for the stage. Most of these plays have had major success on a tiny island on the northeast coast of the United States (you know the island). Yet some of the most interesting plays come from elsewhere, and may or may not ever have a significant production on this aforementioned island, for one reason or another. – D.L. Lepidus

Two of my favorite monologues were published in this years ‘Best’ series from Smith & Kraus:

“Pushing Paper” from Desperelics and “Remember Everything” from Unequalibrium.

World renowned teacher and author, Larry Silverberg, and his team at True Acting Institute have put together three new books with the best monologues and ten minute plays of the year.