Recommended by Paul Donnelly

All the usual human stressors that plague any band lead to the break up the Five (!) Horsemen of the Apocalypse. These are revealed in hysterical interviews with band members as poor Annoyance tries to stake a claim to be part of the reunion tour. Names are used to great effect and the piece does a marvelous job of skewering the conventions of the "where are they now?" documentary form.

So demons get a bad rap from meat machine propaganda? These very funny demons are great company and they are able to inadvertently help El work through their enormous grief. This is a wild comedy with a big heart.

A couple preparing to enter a purely transactional marriage find that their humanity intrudes and makes it difficult to follow through on the transaction. There is a bracing mix of cynicism and romanticism at play here as Paul and Vera share a true journey, ending up at a very different place from where they started.

Katie and Cha-Cha take a life changing and completely lunatic road trip in an attempt to dispose of Lucio's ashes (or some of Lucio's ashes or an ash mix that includes some of Lucio's) as he specified. The characters they encounter along the way are richly funny and the pay-off to their adventure is sweetly satisfying. Although one should never lose sight of the fact that "Mondays are hard." As are Tuesdays and Wednesdays and ...

With elegant simplicity, Ricardo Soltero-Brown gives us a wordless portrait of two people lurching toward connection. The specificity of the action gives this play its fascinating rhythm.

How do artists of every sort sustain the creative spark in the face of crippling self-doubt and meagre external reinforcement? That's the question at the heart of this thoughtful reflection on two artists' struggles to keep the spark alive. The miracle is that they do and that is the heartening conclusion that these two highly relatable artists reach.

Two very different men meet in a hotel room for a casual hook-up. A hook-up which, thanks to Eli's neuroses and Jeremy's kindness, becomes a bit more. The two characters are sharply defined and engaging and the dialogue is funny and rings absolutely true.

The insults Claire hurls to express her anger are dazzlingly funny. As the object of her ire, poor Brian bumbles his way back into her good graces. This is a lovely play with a resolution full of holiday charm.

What an utterly charming depiction of the beginning of a romance. The two senior characters are well-drawn and ingratiating and the two younger characters are chock full of delightful surprises. This play left me with a big ole goofy grin.

Wow. Is this ever a vivid portrait of a unique and specific thirteen year old girl. From the depiction of her family to the adventure in the LIpperts' house I was riveted by Spatzy's voice and perspective. This is a wholly original and thoroughly compelling narrative.