Recommended by Kevin King

  • The Pitchforks
    27 Feb. 2019
    This is a dark, surreal, scary, and smart piece of theater. Its shape keeps you guessing and involved. Kramer's play is a cutting and insightful commentary on the media and the perils of homophobia and toxic masculinity.
  • Wicked Creatures
    19 Feb. 2019
    “Wicked Creatures” is a fascinating play with strong fully-drawn characters. Carter’s tale gives us three complex women who will make you reassess your loyalties multiple times throughout this tightly-woven play. Each character is at various times an unknowing rube, a master of their destiny, a sympathetic figure, and the antagonist. Often all at once.

    Carter juggles all these elements skillfully. It’s impressive and fun to watch and read.
  • My Dear Children
    19 Jan. 2019
    What starts out seeming like something close to a typical sitcom set up quickly twists into something completely different. It's a lived-in, yet very surprising, play. Gonzalez examines so many relationships here: sibling, parental, lover... in an economical, startling way that grabs and drags you forward to places you never thought you'd end up. Very well done.
  • Shimmers
    19 Dec. 2018
    Partain's short play takes you on a journey through the woods and makes you question what you would give up for someone, and recall lost love. There are such nuances to tease out of this piece. The audience is left to the consider the relationship between the two characters (Partain made a great choice to let us decide). And then one sentence reveals a deep connection between Amanda, Amalia, and Amalia's husband; one that makes us ache for Amanda. And the gift that Ryan gives at the end...it would be a lighting designer's dream.
  • Back Cover
    15 Nov. 2018
    In this beautiful and theatrical play, Hageman perfectly captures the perspective of a 14 year old girl facing the divorce of her parents. Through that lens, she helps audiences process loss, find courage in the face of huge changes, and shows us that while the world is indeed big and scary and it's also, almost magically, small.
  • PARTNER OF —
    22 Oct. 2018
    This a haunting and lyrical play. Carnes is masterful in how she structures the ebb and flow of the language. It's an important play that portrays an ugly moment of history and sheds light on inconvenient truths about one of the Founding Fathers of the US. While being about something so weighty, the play never collapses from the burden of that weight. The play, unlike the subject matter, nearly floats on dark wings.
  • The Sentience Test
    22 Oct. 2018
    This is a funny and legitimately creepy play. It plays as a cautionary tale. By casting the audience as not-quite sentient robots, Hageman makes audience members question the ethics of how we'll treat our future robo-assistants and likely how service and research animals are treated today. A play in the dark, The Sentience Test will delightfully creep audiences out and toy with their senses.
  • The Jinx
    30 Sep. 2018
    The characters in this play jump off the page. You're immediately engaged by them. They're ridiculous and all-too-real. Plummer captures this series of conversations between two baseball fanatics with such accuracy. It's a great play that transcends its basis in sports fanaticism, making these guys at once true-to-life, verging on pathetic, and hilarious.
  • Last Dance with MJ
    30 Sep. 2018
    So much fun! The dialogue is sharp, breathlessly hilarious, and real. I love this portrait of women navigating modern dating, and dealing with modern (or classic...?) men. And the fact that one of them is a "nerd girl" is so great. More of all of this, please!
  • THE SAUNA
    30 Sep. 2018
    This is a fun, and darkly comic, piece of absurdist theater. It puts us in an existentialist crisis. Is it about the futility of theater set building, given that everything is so ephemeral, or is it a comment about the pointlessness of life and struggle to change? Ultimately, the answer seems to be yes.

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