(Best American Short Plays). 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 , 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.