Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

Two hips and a hooray for Period Sisters, Ali Viterbi's play! Fabulously theatrical, Viterbi controls this ambitious ensemble piece linguistically and structurally with very tight writing and entertaining thrills including a Bulimia Ballet and a "Dirty Disney" costume party. And then there's ANAGNORISIS - to read this play is to love this play. L-O-V-E!

Beautiful moving play about what this country does to its people. Very well written. Read it and weep.

I love how deep Heinrich makes his extraterrestrials, as if they, being from another world, do not have all the masculine inhibitions of our world yet, so they can feel for the pets they name, even the stuffed pets. Their empathic powers seem so out of this world, they can even feel for the families of those they've eaten. Heinrich understands how defamiliarization works which makes him someone to read/watch especially since he is also a violence designer.

Well-deserving of all its awards, this is a thrilling dramatic piece that I read with such hope for the characters! And it is so wonderful to have Charlotte and Emily on stage with all the difficulties of their lives in such an imaginative story that makes Rochester and Jane Eyre live again, and the maid Justine - O'Grady is more than a sly historian, she is a mischief-maker!

What a wonderful play - from a sentence written by Dostoyevsky, Carabatsos makes a whole new piece, and it sings! I love the words and the birds. Fascinating and filled with so much dramatic tension, great moments - the destroying and rebuilding of lives - a memorable play!

I saw this read in Omaha, and it is a dynamic and fascinating story. There is great tension between the students and the teachers - not the typical tension of schoolroom expectations but Reisman exposes a grand disconnect between the goals of schooling and the needs of these students wholly at odds with each other, separate worlds that collide and create a moving distinct experience. Unforgettable!

Here is a parody of a very famous play by a very famous man that does pretty much what that guy did only funnier and in only ten pages, and without all that nasty language! Jolly does with life insurance what some other guy did with real estate only I am so happy to recommend this! And life insurance is a much better choice, dramatically, because it's life insurance, and you probably don't get paid if you lie down in front of a bus. Read this as a matter of policy.

Does Don Zolidis know about this? I won't tell him, but this is a very funny satire that will keep them laughing and rolling in the aisles! Excessive in all the best ways!

Beautiful play about the fleeting nature of life! The characters are so wonderfully drawn, and their secrets are deep, and they have great desires that keep them pressing onward. It feels like a fairy tale for grown ups. And sometimes it is only a fairy tale that satisfies.

This is a very funny one-person play with great roles! I found the information massively interesting - this is such a disorder of our time with so many people suffering, and the play actually helps us all understand how to deal with it because Ben performs the solution for us! Save us all a lot of therapy and tour the country with this play!