Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

Yes, it seems on the surface to be a math/science play, but I found it to be a metaphor about Art, what it is, how do we create it and can it be pinned down? There is a great search to understand the unfathomable here, and I ended up in love with the mystery. Beautiful work!

I like to think of Celine Song as a better version of Wallace Shawn, always taking on the large issues of civilization and how we are - or aren't - human - or the nature of humanity itself - and this play proves my thesis once again. I love her work, the language choices she makes, the rhythms and the way she draws our eyes to notice what we would typically miss. She is one of the best reasons Plato has to kill all the poets! Long live Celine Song!

Wonderful, frank comedy where the mother-daughter relationship is so loving and able to move to essentials and truth because it's set just after the death of the husband/father in that liminal time when our ability to be honest with each other is possible and necessary even with a wildly inappropriate object!

A beautiful adaptation of a poem that builds off the language in the poem to create a world inhabitable and inhospitable, loving and impossible like so much life! A wonderful sweet reverie of a play that handles death in a manageable way. I am grateful to have read it!

I've been living in Inwood since just after 9/11, so I can vouch for the world that Sobler creates as real and beyond that, she has made it wonderfully funny and all-too-true as she works to get us to look at all of our differences and yet the show really brings us all closer together by revealing the schisms. Kudos for that!

Wonderful dramatic play about a bully and his target. The sexual content makes the struggle much clearer and helps to raise all the stakes. Sickles has written a powerful truth here, and I hope many get to see it!

An exciting play about how a sister comes between two women in a lesbian relationship, how family secrets hold us back from living and from loving. I love how Rice uses her flair for theatricality to great effects here, and I love the journey she takes us on. The storm is evocative of the emotional lives of her characters, and the supernatural aspects of this tale make it a great play for the Halloween slot in your season! Highly recommended!

Here is a mysterious family drama that raises some intriguing questions. Almost every line could be the beginning of further intrigue, and yet Lawing keeps the lid on it all while his characters stew in their separate resentments for very good reasons. What is it that keeps families together and what tears us apart? Fascinating!

Here is a fun play where two women get to take out their frustrations on a loaf of bread, and it's hilarious! No idea where Bultrowicz gets his inspiration but I'm so glad he wrote this down because I doubt it will ever go stale. It's the kind of metaphor that works so well in a short play.

Intense and compelling play about a Jewish American woman torn between her family and her desire to rescue a young boy who is a refugee. I love the connections she makes between today's refugees, those from the Nakba, and those who died in the Holocaust. Welden's sharply beautiful the language resists sentiment while the doubling of the mother characters allows us to recognize ourselves in others without having to use any words at all.