Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

Quite delicious! A comedy to sink our teeth into!

Sapience is a beautifully written play that gives us a fascinating look into difference and how we as humans connect or miss connecting with each other based on the various ways we manage our differences, how communication can succeed or fail on the slimmest of edges. I was so moved by the light hand of Burbano that inspires deep meditations into the nature of our mortality and our creativity. Lovely work!

Super-fun, theatrical play that has great roles for older actors. I particularly love how immensely capable Claire is. Beardsley's NEST is highly relatable. In 74 days my son will start college, so this could be my life only with a lot more laughs!

The idea of the Book of Life has always been awe-inspiring to me. Lang invents a beautiful and moving story that seems to me to be less about queerness and more about any identify and how we can become ourselves in the absence of our parents. Grief can't even begin until we can accept the finality of death. Birdie's search and what she finds are important for all of us, and I hope the play will get produced often and for many.

Yes! This is a beautiful play that is so moving because Partain chooses to be so incredibly vulnerable as Imogen tries to connect all the dots between our families of origin (and their knowability and unknowability) and our families of choice - how we form and maintain relationships as adults. This is an incredible journey with wonderfully theatrical language.

An incredible achievement! This theatrical physical piece is an extraordinary work of art with strong women's roles so juicy and challenging - I would love to see this onstage! Pascal explores our shared humanity when people are pushed to their very edges in the muck and mud of this play but also the stunning passages of thrilling language to embody. Pascal makes art from the mud of the lives of real women living through the Holocaust. We should be producing this work on all of our stages.

They will always speak of it, on NPX, the play "Goony Bird Hat," an absurdist piece of joy and delight to conquer the Sturm und Drang of Schiller and Lenz, what a thrill it is! And what fun to be the Lady Hat, what a role to be the center of attention without having to say much and then to get in the last word! It's witty, it's silly, it's historical and literary, and in a way, it's sort of like parts-therapy. I laughed the whole way through. It would be hilarious staged!

This feels like such an honest true story, I didn't want it to end. Amos takes us deep and specifically into a farming family in Nebraska and the generations of abuse they suffered, but I don't want to make it sound dark or intense. This is a gentle tale that is infused with the need to heal and reconnect and deepen connection that will move even the toughest stump of emotional resistance. So much to be gained here, read it, produce it, put it up for all to see and be healed by! What a loving offering to the world.

For structure - build, climax and the form itself - Coble can't be beat. You can learn a lot reading his work. I highly recommend this play because it pulls you in without any explaining or dread exposition. I love the way it works including the mystery of its beginning and how it's also about "the mysteries!" So form and content combine beautifully to create an intense and moving experience that really makes a person think. Enjoy! It is un-put-down-able!

Both strange and delightful, this would be really fun for an actor to perform! I love planting the impossible in the audience's minds, and McBurnette-Andronicos does that here in a wonderful way in a world where the impossible already exists in so many different guises. Makes you wonder!