Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

It is a beautiful thing how the theatre can show us so much and let us understand how we are all connected. McLindon has 2 actors double as Irish people during the famine and as a contemporary Middle Easterners desperate to survive today so that we might empathize with ourselves (some might say "others"). It is beautiful how actors can embody us all and remind us so easily with the shifting of a piece of cloth, the magic of the theatre, the miracles of humanity.

Fascinating existential play that really takes us on a journey beyond what I expected. With twists and turns, humor and depth, these squirrels get me to contemplate the meaning of life while enjoying two great roles for actors that would be a blast in any play festival. A visual feast!

I think this is one of my favorites of Robin Rice's oeuvre! It includes a lot of zany antics, a huge dose of the visual created via language, and there are lots and lots of colors! This would be a blast in any short play festival!

An incredibly moving play about our divided world, how we misunderstand each other and fail to listen to each other, how separate we are in our beliefs, and how hard it is to find common ground. The Butcher brings five richly-drawn characters together to provoke us theatrically through storytelling; we are all better off for the experience. Read it! Produce it! Discuss!

Wow! So two rovers on Mars can help reflect to us our own mortality, our own fallibility and inconsistencies and fragilities. This play makes me love theatre so much again! Thank you, O'Neill!

A Staten Island ferry play that brings up some deep questions like what do we owe each other, and what can one culture do for another, or how two wrongs can be made right. Weibezahl manages to skillfully compel strangers to share deeply with each other and the dramatic tension held me to the very end. Kudos!

A wonderful re-imagining of the life of Yasodhara from a contemporary intersectional feminist perspective juxtaposing life today and the difficulties women are asked to manage. I related strongly to these characters as a woman, a mother, a wife and a person! It is both a beautifully told tale/fable/myth and a story we need to see onstage in all its theatricality!

A play that is at the heart of almost everything these days - business or the environment, mining or protecting, who we are and how we choose. Grounded in a community and a mother/daughter relationship, I really enjoyed the theatricality of it, especially the way Harry moves through the play and also the way Carol comes to understand who she is and where she belongs. Beautiful work!

Beautiful work! I love how Gonzalez uses the theatre itself as the art that lifts the inmates up and gives them hope. I love the way it ends. We have the sadness of a "real" ending and the dream of the way things could be and we have a surprise too. Everything blooms.

Stunning! The Place That Made You is sparely poetic and hauntingly filled with silences and the inarticulation of its characters in pain so that I feel every ache of it myself. Beautiful work!