Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

This play quickly became unstoppable for me. I really enjoyed it and was deeply concerned for the characters. I'm also really torn up about the ending in a good way, as a spark for dialogue, and it's so theatrically fabulous, and there are so many ways to imagine it. A producible play about mental illness that is likable and feels so real. Well done!

He had me at the prop list. Actually, he had me at the epigraph. A wildly theatrical play about trauma - how could I not love this? Brokenness as character! Reduced to bagels - I am laughing and crying. And yes, these characters are permeable without boundaries as if they weren't given the chance to form complete selves, and they take on the mere suggestions of states of being in different moments. It would be fascinating to see onstage!

What a fabulous play! As someone who discovered I'm a quarter Greek/Balkan when I got my DNA tested, I really related to this play, loved the characters and how well wrought they are. And such impactful work about identity with so much humor and heart.

I love so many things about this play including having an adult in the kid role As An Adult - I have not seen this done anywhere else in this way, and it is very effective and allows for so much healing to happen, a very smart idea. The play has a lot to say, but the moving (I needed tissues!) reading at Drew U with ASOTO completely swept me up into the story of these incredibly well-rendered characters, such juicy roles for actors!!! Only later did its brilliant subversions seep in. What a wonderful play this is! Highly recommend!

I love so many things about this play including having an adult in the kid role As An Adult - I have not seen this done anywhere else in this way, and it is very effective and allows for so much healing to happen, a very smart idea. The play has a lot to say, but the moving (I needed tissues!) reading at Drew U with ASOTO completely swept me up into the story of these incredibly well-rendered characters, such juicy roles for actors!!! Only later did its brilliant subversions seep in. What a wonderful play this is! Highly recommend!

Beautiful work! Great roles for women. Great transitions and timing. The way the piece moves is masterfully crafted. Love how theatrical it is, love the suspense, very intense!

Hilarious play about a group of public defenders who are desperately fighting impossible battles against a cruel system while obsessing about lunch in the most wonderful ways! I highly recommend this for the theatrical use of language, brilliantly created characters and very distinct rhythms and scene dynamics that make this such a joyful show.

A spare but unsparing glimpse of heroic action, Mabey has given us a moment of history that should be better known and celebrated. To be able to stand up to such oppression is commendable, to be beaten and unbowed, to be honest in the face of erasure and lies is to inspire us all.

A charming and fascinating period piece about women for and against each other. I felt personally invested in Jane's journey in particular because I felt I could identify with her emotionally as an autistic character who couldn't speak falsely and doesn't understand hierarchy. I also love the physicality and the language, the sensory delights and odors, the muscularity of the langugage, and the diversity of characters from different classes and abilities. There is much truth-telling in this play. I hope it will be produced soon and often.

Good Cake is a good play about a good funeral with good friends. I really like it. It's real and honest and authentic and there will be good laughs in it too when it's produced. Also it's for middle schoolers so it feels really necessary and something they'd be into doing. Great roles and ensemble work.