Recommended by Lucy Wang

Deeply moving and incredibly relevant today. As a freelance health care journalist for AJN (American Journal of Nursing), I have been in awe of how dedicated nurses are, the burnout, the care, their sacrifices, skills -- and this monologue captures it all. So beautiful and as necessary as our nurses.

Lovely and Brilliant. What Elisabeth Giffin Speckman has done here should be law. I want unsolicited advice, please! said No One Ever. In a world where everyone and their second cousin twice removed feels entitled to an opinion and social media has made it every so easy to broadcast advice, limiting advice to four words is pure genius and fun.

Hilarious vivid portrait of the insane text messages we all get at the wrong time that create false emergencies and conflict with what really needs to get done. You may want to turn off your cell phone after you see this play, shortly after, of course, you text Vanessa and say I wanna see you soon at a theater near me.

What a tasty smorgasbord of characters dishing up their food issues. We all have our own relationship with food and Lermond knows how to deftly serve us a heaping platter of deliciousness.

Hibernus has me longing for the poetry and drama of winter.

Delightful. Ice is indeed nice, and would be thrice as nice on stage.

Powerful IRL! Aberman expertly shows us how friendships have a life of their own, and some friendships don't last forever -- which is made more painful by social media. Fear of missing out becomes a certainty with social media, which Dan and Lulu confront when they run into each other by chance. We are uncomfortable because we have all been there, and Aberman knows how to capture that loss.

Carnes has written a play that feels like a fun holiday. Snappy banter between two people who share a cornucopia of love and family quirks to dish up.

Feeny-Wiliams' Writers Block feels like a wonderful Writer's Block Party that I want an invitation to attend. I love how the character wonders what happens to characters she's written about, reminding us how our favorite characters live on, off and beyond the page. Poignant portrait of how creativity works and tortures.

Brilliant and hilarious. Partain transform the agony of finding the "right bikini" into comedy gold.