Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

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!

Super production of this really wacky fun play by New Circle in NYC last year - what a trip! I hope it gets many more productions now that it has been anthologized. Kudos!

I remember this play because it was hilarious at the time, and it's still hilarious now!

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.

Fascinating story of Andrea's search for her family history in Berlin and how trauma can be passed down even without specific incident. I particularly love the way she uses two actors to tell this many-character'd story - it is so open to interpretation and so produce-able!

Isn't it always our mother who gets in our way just when we're doing the thing we've always dreamed? Davis gives us high stakes and a mother-daughter relationship - a very dramatic duo!

This is a beautiful play that is unexpected in so many wonderful ways! Davis is a poet for the stage with a visual sensibility that is evocative and moving.

Wonderfully intense drama that I found gripping! Once Joan is triggered, the inevitably tragic end, hinted at in the beginning, becomes a reality. The Western elements Burdick sews through the play provide us with a final ride into the sunset like never before.