Recommended by Shaun Leisher

A movement piece about a Black girl's longing to grow up as someone who is remembered even if she doesn't know what this means. Patrick does a fantastic job at showing the desperation her family has to help LaKeisha see what she is saying while keeping LaKeisha firmly in her own world.

Twigg has crafted such a tender and intimate play about finding joy in art and where one comes from.

An imaginary future where we can get rid of all the unrequited love we carry. Of course that love has to go somewhere, and Twigg has beautifully crafted a world that features the people who take on our unrequited feelings. It's a play about longing and craving for something more. A play about "essential workers" that are done with serving everyone else.

This play was a real gut punch. Twigg does a fantastic job at lulling us into false security with the playful conversation these two children are having only to rip the rug out from under us when we find out about the Institute and evil it represents. Excited to see how the effects in this piece are designed for its production.

"Nobody has time for complicated truths." Luckily this play DOES have time for them. This is a play about rage and whose rage is deserved. Very faithful to Sophocles and the ancient dramatic form in a way that is fully of the moment. A play I can't wait to see fully developed with an adventurous cast, director and creative team. Twigg joins Luis Alfaro in the conversation about genius playwrights that are breathing ferocious life into the Greeks.

Matt has found the heart of this epic novel and found ways to make it so vital to our times today. Never before have I been more conflicted about Levin. The way societal norms around gender and sexuality are explored feel so rooted in the period but so current. The tie-ins with the physical novel and actual text are brilliant. Produce this play!!

Such a good two-hander. Gardner just drops us in the middle of this conversation and we are left to figure out who these two are and how they know each other. It's a play about connection, memory and storytelling.

The protests during the national anthem by NFL players has been a polarizing issue in this nation. Every news channel you turned on had a different view on it. We heard from so many people about what it meant to kneel during the anthem but we rarely paid attention to what the players that were doing the kneeling were going through. With balletic scenes of football play and heated scenes taking place off the field, Wilkins has written a vital play that imagined what various players of various races were going through at this time in history.

I feel like these are the kind of plays written about towns in the midwest. The less affluent conservative parts of Orange County don't get written about much. I appreciated this play providing a window into that world and into the lives of these people that are trying to be themselves and figure out what the future has in store for them. The short scenes really make for a well-paced play that spans many years of adolescence. Got some big Our Town vibes.

A play that couldn't be more relevant. We know that something is off about Wyatt throughout the play but nothing can prepare us for this ending that audiences will be thinkin about and discussing long after seeing this play. Williams has created a conversation that so many white people that consider themselves allies have thought about but pray they never have to face. This play is going to make a lot of people uncomfortable like all theatre should.