Recommended by Hilary Bluestein-Lyons

I was invested from the very beginning. DC Cathro created such compelling and rich characters who are stuck with each other, at least for a little while, whether they like it or not, that we lose track of or don't even realize we don't know where they're going or why until it becomes painfully obvious.

Love me a good horror play! And this one surely satisfies. Emma S. Rund does a great job keeping the suspense and momentum going to the gory end.

I love these two endearing characters! Donna Hoke takes us on a short and sweet journey, revealing so much about how these two met and what their motives are. It's an updated version of When Harry Met Sally for the stage, in 10-minutes.

I love a play with an unexpected twist and characters who both have what's coming to them but you also have sympathy for. Josephs succinctly creates a set up then punch to the gut in this wonderful short piece and turns the tropes of the entitled male and seductive female literally on their heads.

One of the most authentic plays I've seen. The creative structure, including chronological jumps, spoken word, and child-like rhymes, is a perfect reflection of the shattered innocence portrayed in this play. Emma Goldman-Sherman created a raw, genuine and heartbreaking play. Our society, the way women and girls are treated, and what we're taught to believe, it's so broken. This play makes me so angry. I wish every man on the planet could watch it, and just let it sink in.

I'm am so grateful to have more of Beauregard and Zeke! Would You Like Fries With That is cringy, endearing, awkward, frustrating, comical, painful and sweet, which is everything this kind of interaction between two teens should be.

Scott Sickles doesn't waste any time getting to the point, and neither does Zeke for that matter. There's an Order to These Things, the 1st in a series, is a well-crafted introduction to two teens who are figuring their world out. Sickles' dialogue drops us right back to high school, a place most of us wouldn't want to return to, yet with this wonderful series of short plays, there's no looking away.

This play is a perfect reflection of 2020. The ebbs and flows of a budding relationship—the awkwardness, the uncertainty, the hopefulness, giving up, forgetting how to connect, and then finally, just maybe, connecting, all of this sums up what so many us have just experienced. Through the vignettes, repetition, and delivery orders of DoorDashed, we see what was and what is possibly yet to come.

We all have that one friend. That friend who will give us the support that we need, tell it like it is, but also call you on your shit. Jo is seemingly not that friend, but then she is. Friends, and this wonderful play, Skin, will surprise you. As a vegan, I approve this message.

Dominica Plummer has taken the liberty of imagining post-pandemic life in her dark comedy, "Lunch". One where two friends finally have the opportunity to venture out, unmasked. But what Plummer so brilliantly illustrates, is that after being cooped up for so long, perhaps we've lost our footing, our sense of our surroundings, and most certainly our cat-like reflexes. Plummer has a flair for impeccable timing, witty dialogue, and the unexpected, all of which make "Lunch" a fully satiating play.