Recommended by Shaun Leisher

Very often when storytellers are dabbling in the horror genre they are using the tropes of said genre to make some extremely nuanced commentary on a critical social issue. This play does that and does it soooo well. Let’s hope in reality it doesn’t take catastrophic weather and syncing of cycles on a global scale for our society to stop shaming people that menstruate but while that still happens plays like this one need to be produced. Rosenberg balances the body horror and dark comedy with tender scenes of connection in crafting a truly moving piece of theatre.

I found it absolutely brilliant of the writer to use a myth that is at its core about what it means to be masculine and feminine to explore what the experiences of trans women. The way this piece flows and the inteludes that revolve around "the power of pussy" made it such a delight to read. We need work like this where trans characters aren't only coming out or being used as victims but are going on their own journeys of self-discovery.

The beautiful poetry mixed with the biting satire make this a play (and a playwright) that should be on everyone’s radar.

This play is so good and I really dig the opening and how it gives a “play-within-a-play” vibe!!! Everything the playwright is saying in the beginning about the lack of relatable age appropriate roles for acting students to work on feels so authentic and needs to be said. Gelfman saw what women her age were talking about and wrote a play that will engage all audiences. The character development, dialogue and pacing work really well in this piece of theatre about hookup culture that feels so fresh and exciting. Produce this play!!! Especially in colleges and universities!!

This was such an enjoyable and fascinating historical docudrama to read. It feels so well researched but Jamerson has also done such a great job taking creative license to craft an emotionally gripping story. This is a play about the extremes of obsession in the form of a little known historical account. Produce this play!!

This short play definitely didn't go where I thought it would and had some really deep things to say about death in such a short time. Really like these characters and I think the absurd physical comedy works really well even with such serious subject matter.

I really hope to see this on a stage very soon. It is so easy to connect with these characters and the writer has made sure that the faces of those that play them are the ones that have been absent from mainstream media for so long. This is a play about Dominican people today and the ancestor's of their past and how things like courage and self-sacrifice are passed on through generations. This is the kind of story that is meant for the stage and reminds us of one of the theatre's main function which is telling human stories.

This a brilliant fast paced collection of moments in the lives 3 young afrolatinx people that confronts the place art has in their lives and the place for people like them in an art world that was not made for them. Taveras is boldly experimenting with naturalistic scenes, poetic ensemble moments and visual art in ways that I have seen very few others playwrights do. Definitely not this effectively. This is a play that needs to be produced and this conversation about who art is for needs to be happening.

The questions Del Rosso is asking about toxic men and the possibility of rehabilitation is engrossing and makes this play one that all theatres focused on diving into the deep cracks of the human condition should consider producing. It also works as a great workplace comedy at times too and Tess has become one of my favorite audience surrogate characters that I have recently come across. Please read this play and make sure it’s produced everywhere.

These are the stories that need to be told today. The blending of fantasy and naturalism works so well and perfectly represents the conflicting worlds Latinx so often need to inhabit at all times. This is a memory play that’s as good and better than anything by O’Neill and Williams that is so often performed and just needs to die already!!! These characters and their voices are critical to the American story but they have been absent from our stages. Fix that by producing this play!!!