Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

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!

I love that the play ends with a connective gesture. Deluge feels to me like an honest response to a long period of difficulty causes by a great struggle. Something anyone can relate to. As a piece that is open to many interpretations, I hope it becomes a favorite for directors who want to collaborate with it. Brava!

Hilarious and HOT! This is one of the best sex scenes ever written! It rocked my Zoom!

A super title for this wonderful monologue about friendship and fear and reconciliation. Beautifully written. Makes me think about the dangers in this world, how we move or are moved/pulled apart and the ways we try to come back to each other.

Even in the first few words of this beautiful monologue, there is the feeling that here is a writer worthy of attention, someone who is working at the top of their game. There's so much clarity. And the piece itself is so important for those of us who have difficult relationships with our dead. A great healing piece of theatre that is needed! I look forward to reading its companion.