Recommended by Nick Malakhow

Wow! What an amazing piece. I can't believe how effortlessly it travels from warm human realism to razor-sharp satire to gutting tragedy to magical realism and back again. This piece manages all of those tones, styles, motifs, etc. while feeling like a beautifully unified piece of art. A dangerous read on public transit, as I vacillated many times between raucously laughing aloud to crying openly. I'm so grateful to have read it and can't wait to experience a production.

As a former teacher from a Quaker school, this satirizing of the "well-meaning-liberal-agenda gone astray" is so very on point. The group chat gone awry is one of the funniest scenes I've read in a long time, and it had me laughing uncontrollably to myself on a quiet plane. I'd love to see what that looked like in production! This is a fresh and novel group of people rendered onstage, and Spector shifts effortlessly between hilarity and poignant personal tragedy.

This piece uses line breaks in a truly wonderful way, capturing a somewhat lyrical, but also natural rhythm of speech effortlessly. I also loved the amplified and heightened world of the piece. While high school coming of age stories tend to be full of oft-used tropes, the characters rendered here were recognizable, but also fresh, unique, and distinct. This piece captures with theatricality, music, and rhythm what disingenuous teen movies fail to capture onscreen. Wonderful on the page, and would be even more kinetic onstage!

This is already highly recommended on NPX, but I have to add my voice to the chorus of people floored by this piece! The seamless, real-time drama is perfectly paced from the beginning. There is not a false note struck at all in both the dialogue and the way the revelations burst forth throughout the taut 90 minutes. I was both left in stitches with some of the priceless moments of organic humor and gutted by seeing these sisters try to navigate their complex and nuanced relationship.

I saw this workshop at the BPT and there is such an astounding mosaic of complex people within this script! This deeply intersectional play uses doubling in an effective and affecting way. A perceptive and nuanced piece, it moves at an almost meditative pace, though still constantly building up to a satisfying climax and resolution.

Bublitz writes these four characters with great generosity, empathy, and humor. Her wise use of direct address provides both hilarity and poignant insight. So many narratives that comment on masculinity and male self-image focus on simply rendering men's problematic behaviors; LET'S FIX ANDY interrogates those issues further than other plays by honoring the inner lives of its male protagonists. A super speedy and funny read that I can easily stage in my mind as I read it.