Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

Beautifully rendered characters, relationships portrayed with compassion and honesty. The language is evocative yet useful, and the place serves the play well as a real place and a metaphor that works to heighten our experience -- and there is a great intensity to the play that keeps us on the edge of our seats!

Highly recommend this moving play about two sisters reunited for a funeral in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in Brooklyn, a wonderfully specific rendering of characters, female relationships, what is lost and what can be saved as they fight all the forces of a past that would keep them separated into their personal traumas. The play has great moments of humor and comedy and light in the midst of darkness. Humanity and hope shines through!

Very funny conceptual comedy that works well on many levels. Giles provides crisp dialogue, a winning structure, characters to care for, and new ways to think about love. Well done!

Wonderfully mysterious and exciting! The characters are compelling, and I love the way the structure works to show us different versions of the past that could motivate the events.

Here is a beautiful piece of writing for a young man. A monologue full of specific sensory details, with a great sense of momentum. The character moves clearly from one sense of war and what he has lived through to another sense of things by the end of the piece, and we go with him. Well done!

Brilliant! The mothers are hilarious -- volunteering for everything even though they wish they could say no, starting a new religious order just to have a reason to get out, etc. -- and the girls are wonderful as they try to figure out how to be. The foreigner is my favorite though, because she gets to slaughter language in a new, fresh way and remind us all how strange our culture really is! On shopping/dressing/and being schooled to be a woman -- Adara hits every nerve I have, and then some.

A very big story in a very tight space -- a dive bar in Chicago -- where everyone has more layers than the impending wedding cakes referred to in the story. The characters are so intensely physically present, the alcohol barely begins to blunt them. Inge? Chekhov? Meet Lane. Her reveals are masterly. Her writing is vibrantly real. It is a pleasure to read and imagine onstage, a world that rings so true, it hurts.

Would you go to Mars if you had the chance? This is a quick, fun, wacky office play, but in this office, the boss holds the key to Grace's dreams and her destiny. I love the way the twists and turns take Grace by surprise (and the audience goes with her)!

Julia Pearlstein has converted the tragedy of 9/11 into a beautiful office-manners comedy! A la Magritte, there are tons of people falling through the sky on a beautiful blue day, and the office-culture is alive and kicking in this dream of people falling up! Sweet and imaginative!

Lyrical Southern historical family drama with a great story - the day of the Selma March - and characters bursting with the need to live their lives with more honesty and integrity than is usually allowed because of their own responses to this inspiring day in history. The metaphor of blooming works well for the two young female characters who are discovering their own vitality. Beautifully written.