Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

To add to the horror of an office party during the holiday season, New Love! This play helps us enjoy the misery of it all. With the breaking of the 4th wall and the janitorial narrative device -- O What Fun! Seriously - Lovable!

Exactly right. Perfect. What else can I say? Read it! Produce it! Enjoy the everything out of it! Now. And again after that.

Wonderfully funny family dynamics! Homo for Christmas is a perfect laugh-out-loud holiday comedy! Bavoso has a great sense of the visual too!

Great characters! I can imagine everyone they talk about inside the house and back in LA, four very different holiday pictures, but the play took me by surprise because it's not really about what's happening in the house after all. Heartwarming too! A merry happy play!

Absolutely worth every award and production it has received and hopefully more and more to come - a beautiful play with every sensory aspect invoked and playable - and the world changes. Something I try to get my students to do and they say, but it's only ten minutes - but sometimes that's all you need. Kudos to Mullen for changing the world and showing us how.

I admit I have a thing for the Jersey Shore, and mythology/religion - whatever you want to call it - makes me swoon, so this new one-act by Michael G. Hilton, Paradise Beach, is an easy play to recommend. The trash, the off-costumes, the quirkiness/awkwardness of running into an ex, there is so much that is familiar and so much that is raised up to the level of O, Please Let It All Mean Something - the abyss, the suicidal fears, the rage - this is a play worth seeing!

A satisfying and fun, theatrical play about how Jane can't deal with the death of her brother. I love that Strayer has a light hand with the tone and the language so there's never too much, and we can only understand through the slanted way she shows us with costume and spectacle and Ophelia herself in the bathtub!

Sometimes there are plays so good, I wish I'd written them; STAND is one of those plays. STAND is a play that should be enacted after every rape in every community as a healing and a cleansing and a teaching and a way to end brutality against womxn forever. STAND is a sacred ritual like the ancients created so vital and so true, I am grateful to be able to recommend it as highly as is possible.

From the Kroeger's pharmacy waiting area to a duck blind forty years ago and then all the way out to the speculation about the end, Middleton Williams moves us in many ways. I know, because of this impossible conversation, everything will really be all right, and that's a great comfort; that's what we all want - to know how to do this, to see it done, to be able to be this available to our parent/to our child when it matters most, and it always matters. What a gift!

I love how dramatic this is - specifically how the three worlds collide to become one story that is impossible to tell. Stolowitz estranges us from it to bring us into it sideways, so that we can't brace ourselves for it, and therefore we are moved. The story never feels forced because it's structured to happen on a snow-covered landscape in three places at once (Susan's world, Scott's world and Hilary's world). I also love how a mother can interfere in her daughter's life in miraculous ways.