Recommended by Lainie Vansant

This play is so sweet, about loyalty, friendship, and screwball misunderstanding, plus the importance of being honest about women's health. It's sure to tickle an audience's funny bone!

This play is so haunting, ethereal, beautiful, and terrible all at once. It's a wake-up call in poetry, both heartbreaking and terrifying, but with a glimmer of hope in the end. There's lots of room for designers to be creative, for actors to dig in, and for audiences to be moved.

This adorable short play that would be a ton of fun to perform!

A painful play about not knowing what you want. The characters are flawed and complex - I find myself wondering if there is a right answer here or not - making the story feel true and intimate. Certainly worth a read!

Middle schoolers have their own brand of cruelty. It's easy, as an adult, to forget what that is. What it's like. But this play is designed to let middle schoolers celebrate their weirdness, and it works in a lot of young voices!

The banter between these two characters is sweet and intriguing. Very real and also, sometimes, very beautiful. What a treat!

An adorable examples of girls rocking their nerdiness and helping one another. It's fun and friendly with lots of room for creativity - I would love to see it done!

Surprisingly sweet for a play set in an icky situation. These characters have engaging voices and important things to take care of - they're an odd pair forced together by fate, and it's a pleasure to experience this moment with them.

Routhier has created real characters who aren't necessarily good or bad but are... complicated. Just like humans. Great care is taken with them, and we're left wondering at the end whether this is an insignificant moment or something more important. Very nicely done.

Goldfinger balances dystopian future with a present that audiences will very much connect with in this heart-wrenching play. The arguments for both sides are believable, and it asks big questions about how we label people and how damaging labels - even those that are "earned" - can be. Plus, there are real, high stakes, tight two-person scenes, and a lot of heart. Excellent all around!