Recommended by John Minigan

Lee Roscoe's Impossible? is chilling, partly in itself, and partly because we can see that the impossible has become increasingly possible every day. This trenchant play is a warning that we need to turn away from the direction we're headed or we will, like the characters in the play fighting from the start or thinking they will win, lose big.

A sharp, funny, and truly moving play in which the best kind of holiday miracle happens--cynicism meets its match in the power of love. Yes, maybe oil can last eight days, but it's love that can endure and light our way much longer.

This little gem of a play is both a reality check (for my least favorite holiday song) and a laugh-out-loud delight! Maybe, at last and thanks to Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend, the song will fade from the holiday, even if it didn't fade for Joseph, Mary, and the kiddo. Like that famous family, we could all use a little peace and quiet.

A powerful play that is such a gut-punch, especailly in the time we're in and the times we're entering. There is rage, there is compassion, there is acknowledgement that conversations can only take us so far. But most of all there is the essential question of how we will survive our times and our fragmentation--and what, if anything, will survive with us. A necessary play that should be produced all over in 2025

This gem of a monologue moves beautifully and joyfully from dissatisfaction with self to a kind of wonder, a wonder that comes with beginning to discover your possible self rather than "proving yourself to yourself (or anyone else)." The arc of the piece provides a great opportunity for the actor to dive into and build on both uncertainty and positive possibilities. Lovely work!

Yours Until Niagara Falls is stunning in both its simplicity and its depth. Like Gurney's Love Letters, it uses a series of letters (and digital communication) to trace a complex relationship over time, but it is refreshing in its honest, sometimes quirky, sometimes devastating portrayal of female friendship over time. The play's structure allows for a large or small cast to portray Lina and Izzy, and it is a testament to the strong, resonant writing that it would work equally well as a play for young audiences (and actors) or as a two-hander for adults.

I had the great pleasure of seeing the premiere production of Jillian Blevins' often funny, richly imagined, and highly satisfying Romeo & Her Sister. The play captures the complexity of its three central characters – sisters Charlotte and Susan Cushman and Sally Mercer – as they struggle to navigate their relationships with one another, with their identities, and with the world (theatrical and otherwise) around them. At the same time, it centers an important piece of queer history and provides a compelling portrait of the challenges and ultimate joy and power of even difficult sisterhood.

I was lucky enough to see this brilliantly crafted, hilarious and heartfelt play in Boston Theater Company's Queer Voices fest. It was the perfect way to end the evening--with joy, love, hope, and more than a little magic. Kaplan gives us a young player unsure of his position in the field and in his family who, because of the generosity of an unexpected figure from baseball history, is able to let his mom/coach know which team he's playing for. It's a short play that hits for the cycle.

I was lucky enough to see this lovely play as part of Boston Theater Company's Queer Voices festival. John Mabey has carefully crafted a heartfelt and positive piece about the challenge of revealing identity and the way that true love means true acceptance. It's a subtle piece that speaks big and hopeful truths.

Un Hombre manages to be powerful and intimate, searing and funny, steeped in the tradition of Golem stories and also as new as yet-to-be-shaped clay. Kaplan gives us nuanced and fully-felt responses to grief, from anger and denial to the ways we can learn to reconnect to the world and one another. Just as Rebecca sculpts new life from clay, the play creates a renewed mother-child relationship from the pain and shared love they feel. Beautifully wrought.