Recommended by Conor McShane

A warm, empathic, subtly magical portrait of a family with mixed cultures and beliefs. I'd love to watch a whole full-length with these characters!

A sparse, chilling piece that touches on forced assimilation and cultural erasure in just a few short pages. Unsettling and remarkable.

A piece that touches on colonization, assimilation, appropriation, oppression, and who gets to write history, all in the span of a few pages. A powerful and necessary reclamation of history, images, culture, and power.

I love the way this piece creates a sense of community, of communion, bringing the audience in to share the space and take a hard look at our past and our present. It must've been an incredible thing to experience in person!

A vision of our very near-future that's both inspiring and upsetting, Rodney Hicks writes with warmth and compassion for his characters and their struggles. It doesn't shy away from harsh realities, but suggests that human connection and empathy will always prevail.

Cathro takes what could've just been a lurid story and turns it into something surprisingly tender, funny, and at times even moving. A play about what happens when we entrust a part of ourselves to someone else--in this case literally!

A raw, painful, beautiful rumination on the messy journey of healing. I love how we're pulled along through the story by the fluid transitions between scenes, giving the play an almost dreamlike feel in contrast with the complex realities of its characters. Just stunning.

I love how we're given just enough information to pull us into this world and keep us interested to see where it goes. An eerily prescient story for the current moment, but told with a light touch that gives it the feel of a classic fantasy adventure yarn.

I'm always fascinated by forgotten or overlooked stories from history, and Mr. Muhammad illuminates the life of Stephen Bishop beautifully in this play. Stephen's struggle, the fact that he is celebrated and revered below ground in a way he would never be in the regular world, is extremely compelling.

I missed an opportunity to see this in Chicago, and I regret it to this day, because this play couldn't be more up my alley. Queer Afrofuturist sci-fi dance musical with a message of self-acceptance and forging your own path? Doesn't get much cooler than that.