Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

Wow! This is an incredibly dramatic piece that pulls no punches about motherhood, breastfeeding, cis-het-partnering, the neediness and selfishness of white men, the pressures on and anxieties of people who give birth and our desire to have lives beyond our ability to feed and clean our spawn, the loneliness of parenting as the primary caregiver... There is so much said here in EDGE Of ONE's SEAT DRAMA about the inequities that continue to this very minute. This play is so relatable. I wish I'd written it! VISCERAL and full of desperation. POWERFUL!

A wonderful short that will be super for actors to dig into. So much history uncovered without it feeling exposition-y. So much that happens in this brief exchange. There are moments of realization and recognition that land with real force. Well done!

A stunningly theatrical play that will surely take the world by storm. The exploration of gender and sexuality, the characters embodying these predicaments so wonderfully, will surely make this a classic play for many years to come. I love a play that can be performed on an empty stage, and this is so gorgeously written! A tour de force!

A beautifully structured one-act that would be very moving to see performed. I love the timelessness and ungroundedness of it, and yet we are firmly situated in the Warsaw ghetto in the center and then Senese-Grossberg lets the play move back to its timelessness, and I could feel how universal the play could be, how it ties us to any 2 girls in love for the first time caught amidst evil forces at work to destroy them, so relevant today.

A wonderfully complex situation, real-to-life, 3 dimensional characters, and great moment to moment storytelling that evokes an entire world. The humor lightens a hugely awkward situation, and yet Cameron understands how to allow for the depth of the humanity on display here, so that the big events of this play landed with me, and I had room to feel them. I also love that it's a play with a trans/nonbinary character that isn't only about that. A rich, moving piece!

The voice! The story! What a wonderful and wild ride! Spatsy Klotz and her whole neighborhood and their history on display here in such complexity, there should be more, but I'll take it. Fabulous language that creates such a vivid character! So specific and filled with tension beginning to end. Brilliant!

A stunningly powerful and theatrical metaphor of genderqueer life, adaptation, being misunderstood, time, and evolution. Beautiful. A poetic dream full of hope. It will be gorgeous onstage and funny and heartbreaking and uplifting.

This is a hard play for me, and that's what makes it so powerful and necessary. As an autistic person diagnosed late in life (almost 56) it's a conversation I've had often, and it hurts my heart to see it so wonderfully represented on the page in a way that is very real, relatable even if you're not autistic, and funny - yeah, it's gonna play funny (haha funny) and I think that's fabulous because that's how playwrights get audiences to learn stuff, through humor and the open-heartedness that laughter brings. Thank you, Dave, for this courageous play!

Here is a stunningly theatrical play! Barbot makes the history of and the ongoing fight for Puerto Rican independence so alive and palpably necessary while deconstructing stereotypes to provoke both hilarity and pathos in well-apportioned doses. Barbot writes to stir our emotions with fabulous roles for actors. He succeeds beautifully with this gorgeous work of art. A privilege to see or read.

I heard this on Ugly Radio. It's a great exploration of a ghost story/family drama with super atmospheric elements and the feeling that so much is happening underneath. The characters feel completely real which is not always the case with a ghost. Well done!