Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

The title is brilliant and works beautifully for a play about what is unfair and hidden, what we are told and what we can't see, longing and loneliness and of course time. Sickles brings all this to a one-act that spans the ages with two characters - one whose mother considered him a monster and locked him away, the other whose name stands for a garment that covers everything. That Izar can reveal the minotaur to himself is a beautiful piece of dramaturgy allowing him to then act on his own behalf for justice. Fascinating!

Wonderful work! Waking up is hard to do, but this owl does it. Just like meditation, I get like a moment, and then ... this is so relatable. With a killer ending! (pun intended)

Wow - Barrett writes some great lines in this short play. I love the metaphors that seem to fly out of her keyboard. The smoking PI, his attention to strangers and lack of attention to his own family, getting caught when you're trying to do the catching, the apps covering the photo - this is packed full of great work! And the lighting ideas... very cool script!

I love fairy tales, and I love them debunked and shown for the (potentially damaging) nonsense that they really are! After Happily Ever After is an adorable comedy that debunks the Happily Ever After idea with verve and sass. I love the costume change, and the great one-liners! These are well-written roles and the whole world (including the woodsman!) feels rich and well-conceived. Thank you!

It's so hard to move forward in life all alone! This is such a sweet play with great roles and surprises. I love the floating bottle and the fact that no one has to figure out how to make that happen technically. Wonderfully relatable work!

I enjoyed this stoop conversation between two dads of teenage girls. The dads are coming from such different places, it's great to see them misunderstand each other the way they do. Marchant sets this on Halloween appropriately because she is writing about fear, and she works a kind of subtextual magic to get us to understand just how scary it is to be the dad of a teenage girl. Wonderful roles for 2 men!

BRILLIANT, 1 of the most theatrical, moving experiences I've ever had (and I saw it online), this play sings/moans & begs us to pay attention, and I will never forget. Liddell uses her incredible gifts of language and focus so that 1 actor/character and her pov inhabits a whole world (not by shifting into other characters) but by staying with the story, with the body, with the experience from Lena's point of view in such a way that it remains emblazoned on my memory. A great blessing!

I love how much time and specificity Kaplan takes w/the opening sequence. I had a palpable sense of how long Tracy has been waiting and how much it is costing her, so that there is a world of waiting alone that I was relating to by the time the others show up. Such a great attention to detail amid all the farcical elements, the physical comedy and the language play! But the best parts are the monologues, so revealing and moving! Succor -- great work!

The title is hilarious. The setting, a cafe called Les Imbeciles, is a comment on the play itself and works to set the tone, but the tone is abundantly clear. These siblings are doomed, and we know it, but they don't. It just doesn't register in their iphone-sized worlds. ("Where even is Iowa?") So in a way it's like a horror film with the audience wanting to scream "run!" and another way, it's a great satire about our obsessions with the mundane. But it's wonderfully entertaining, edge of your seat wacky fun!

Ah, the abyss! I know this. I relate to this. And the play is a beautiful and healing moment in the dark. This is what theatre can do for us. And Martin takes a whole minute to do it. And it works so well. Wonderful!