Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

Highly theatrical and hilarious! A fight scene that adheres to pandemic rules. Gotta love it!

I thoroughly enjoyed this wonderfully bizarre play that skews funny and then disturbing throughout its fast and wild ride. The characters are marvelously relatable and recognizable. The story lines converge in delicious ways. It's a show that kept me on my toes and tackles the multi-levels of anxiety that are rising daily everywhere. Superstitions feels global and a wonderful part of the oeuvre that Zemba is building about how our beliefs shape us. Great work!

I'm so happy about the ending! Thank you Martha Patterson for writing a strong and successful female character who does what she wants. A super noir play for your festival's delight!

Incredible work from Asher Wyndham who tells epic tales with one voice so specific and grounded in the visceral experience of the life they are living that it is impossible to look away. This is graphic and intense and sad in some ways, but I felt carried along on the language, with every blow hoping against all hope for this character and his charges who are children and our future.

I saw a wonderful reading of this play that is such an authentic look at a family and their secrets. Every character is well developed and interesting. Berry does a great job creating tensions and giving characters their moments to shine. This will be a play that actors enjoy performing in. Glad it's getting the attention it deserves!

Becoming Justin is a brilliant play about disability. First Sholiton gives the audience a taste of how hard it is to be Justin. Then we learn how hard-won self-acceptance is, something I struggle with as autistic. I found it incredibly relatable. Becoming Justin is also filled with moments of real laugh-out-loud humor and emotional moments. By bringing in the young camper as a theatrical double of Justin before his Bar Mitzvah, we get to see Justin interact with a young camper and the past heals the boy's present struggle within us. Fantastic layered work. Yah sh'koah! (Wonderfully done!)

A wonderfully funny, endearingly bizarre everyday moment meets EPIC called The Ballad of Leslie will be a great hit at festivals! I enjoyed meeting Leslie and her chorus. I LOVE a chorus, even if it(they?) has been decimated by brutal budget cuts. (And on a personal level to Lisa, I bet Leslie would be a good friend to Cinderella. I hope they meet one day!)

This is hilarious and gut-wrenching and would be awesome to see onstage, especially the fantastic special effects! But more importantly it might get white audiences to recognize our racism in all the very real examples and displays that Hutchinson provides here. It is certainly a conversation starter for a conversation long overdue. Wonderful work!

What a perfect metaphor for this moment! McClain does it again! This is thrilling, and I just now noticed it's from one of my prompts - extra thrills for me! Woohoo! But wherever it's from, McClain has a way of using her particular brand of wackiness to twist the knife here and drive us all somewhere new we didn't expect all the while making it feel inevitable in retrospect.

Wonderfully funny concept that McClain uses to entertain us all in the most unexpected ways! Loved the ending. Adore the music choices. Plus I really feel for Margo. McClain's quirkiness is on perfect display here, wings and all.