Recommended by Kevin King

This is a hugely imaginative and fantastically fun play. From the delightful and oh-so-specific character names to the comically goofy plot, Pirate / Queen is a wild ride that at once evokes classic swashbuckler tales AND ball culture. This is an unapologetically queer fairy tale! I'd love to see it on stage!

Malakhow gives us a fascinating and intimate view into the past. He does a fantastic job of capturing the feel of that time in history, both in terms of the fear of being outed and their manner of speaking. The characters are bold and well-defined. Malakhow treats the characters with a wonderful warmth.

Works like this are important because they capture the experiences of queer men in the past. They serve as time capsules and, in their own way, a warning.

This is a supremely entertaining vaguely campy, Gothic pearl-clutcher of a play about a certain kind of conversion therapy, queer identity, and the perils of living in the closet.

Whim Productions was proud to feature this play in the 2018 Alphabet Soup: Stories from Queer Voices LGBTQ+ short play festival.

This play is a deft snapshot of what dating in time of pandemic could look like. It's in turns haunting and cute.

This is haunting, moving, and lovely.

In a single page, Gonzalez creates 2 fleshed out characters and then pulls the rug under you with a duly scathing response to today's America.

This play is a work of beauty and heart that's also a scathing indictment of the prison industrial complex in America.
Gonzalez manages to make many insightful points about poverty, the imbalances of capitalism, and the prison cycle without being pedantic or cloying. The play's about family, it's a love letter to theater, and it's a meditation on the meaning of time. This is a compelling, sprawling, and fast-moving play. It’s many things simultaneously that shouldn’t work together, but in Gonzalez's hands, they do.

Diaz-Marcano is so at home in presenting magical realism. He's equally at ease working with under-represented voices, be they Latinx, Native American, or trans. Misfit, America is a tour de force tale that turns the western genre on its head and inside out. He shows an intimate empathy for his protagonists and his characters speak with sharp dialogue that is both elevated and real.

This is a sweet, loving depiction of a older gay man facing homophobia. It's a touching look at how LGBTQ pride can be found, and held onto, everywhere, in the face of adversity - even in nursing homes.