Recommended by Paul Donnelly

This is a riotous depiction of the audition from hell. The actor's mounting desperation and frustration are full of laugh out loud moments and the director makes a slyly amusing counter-point. This piece would be great fun to see on its feet.

A comically needy mother of the bride gets her heart's desire fulfilled thanks to her thoughtful, yet crafty daughter in this sweet-spirited and satisfying comedy.

What a delightful and engaging exploration of a young scientist coming into her own. Mary Anning is blessed with loving parents and a supportive friend so her real battle is with herself and her own impatience. She is an extraordinary young woman vividly rendered.

What a lovely depiction of an unlikely spark of connection. Two people of different generations, different life experience, and different roles (she's a seller, he's a potential buyer) bond over surviving losses and the meaning of the memories that permeate an old house. This is a work of great subtlety and gentle surprises that would be a delight to see in performance.

Who knew not being able to cook was the secret to romance? In this charming comedy a couple who are suffering from a little too much togetherness reach the tipping point during a very funny failed attempt to bake cookies. The direction in which they tip turns out to be toward a satisfying happy ending.

This is a lovely play about forgiveness and acceptance in the face of a spouse's dementia. This story deals honestly with the fact that dementia sometimes leads people to act out in unexpected and disturbing ways and that spouses deal with tremendous guilt and resentment. This honest exploration leads to a well-earned note of hope.

Jude's mother the astronaut is on the least interesting journey of discovery in this incandescently lovely play. The narrative use of the ensemble adds wit and freshness to the story of Jude's struggle to learn to hope and then embrace the limits of hope. Her complex friendship with Brian the Comet as she also deals with her father's cancer is the moving and at times delightful center around which this wondrous story revolves.

A richly layered, funny and moving portrait of Italian-American women coping with grief and coping with family. Beneath all the bickering and drama lies a solid foundation of love and shared history. And food. The food would be enough, but it's just one reason to want to be a part of the world of Sunday Sauce.

What a rich and moving exploration of family dynamics. It's hard to believe that such complex feelings and complex relationships can be plumbed so thoroughly in only 10 pages.

A gripping exploration of a tragic and mysterious disappearance told from the shifting perspectives of the victim, her mother, her best friend, and the presumed perpetrator. Rose sympathetically captures a young woman beginning to break free from the constraints of her upbringing with shattering consequences and a mother aching to find her missing daughter. The play is full of spot on specific details and effective lyrical passages that build to a wrenching conclusion.