Recommended by Emma Goldman-Sherman

Vast in its scope, a marvel of fractured storytelling that leaves me shocked and breathless. Honest and brave, Willett creates a drama we piece together out of its pieces that she scatters across the stage in broad strokes and fine detail, the story explodes in front of us until we have a whole life in our hearts.

A remarkable play that is moving and inspiring, a family drama that sheds light on today's America. Willett has a sharp eye and tells this story with compassion.

Beautiful response to this moment in our American lives, Bates gives us an American woman waking from the nightmare in which we all find ourselves, the reality of how our country is treating the displaced persons of Honduras, El Savador and Guatemala, including/especially the children, so we can connect with each other in community watching ourselves respond, and this is cathartic and will hopefully help spur us all to action. Bates includes 3 versions formatted to encourage different approaches. She's open to how it might be performed, and I hope it will be often!

Thoroughly enjoyed this beautiful story of the inhabitants of an American town, not unlike Our Town in its simplicity and clarity of emotional arcs that take an ensemble through longing, love, and loss to a peaceful denouement that is as uplifting as it is complete.

This is a brilliant play that uses a tech of Wilder's Our Town to dismantle all our notions of American life as we might like it to be and replaces it with what we are all living among right now, the awful possibility of more tragedy. As the mother of a 15 year old son in high school, I have to say that Ripe Frenzy is a terrifying read that is also an immensely satisfying play.

Drama that really forces me to question my own responses and bias - this is a rare treat! I love what Hoke does in this fascinating, compelling play. The characters are so human, it is a great pleasure. Wonderfully exciting work!

Beautiful play - I really enjoyed the fable-like qualities, the way the props get invested with meaning, how the magic works, and how loss and disappearance get worked in with the magic. I also enjoyed the way the relationship changes and grows and transforms and yet still leaves us with a large sense of loss, missed opportunities, and unrelenting sadness. Well done!

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.