Recommended by Danielle Mohlman

Watch Us Burn is everything you could ever want in a solo show — a captivating and fully realized protagonist, a warm audience experience, and a riveting storyline. It’s a story of destruction and rebuilding, full of hope in a war-torn world. By the end, I found myself wishing for a way to contact the main character, just to see if he’s okay. That’s how real it felt.

Riverwood is a hopeful story about finding family in community when the place you call home is disappearing. Andrew beautifully weaves together so many poignant and potent themes — gentrification, colorism, racism, and family — all while exploring the importance of art and expression no matter what. I was lucky enough to see a reading of this play as part of Seattle Public Theater's Locally Grown series and I hope I get to see a full production one day. Thank you, Andrew!

I was lucky enough to listen to the Diversionary Theatre audio production of this play, letting it wash over me as I walked through my neighborhood, mask on my face and wind in my hair. And because it was being broadcast into my ears, and because it's so intimate to begin with, I felt like it was being written just for me. It's everything you know love is but don't want to talk about. It's messy and painful and heartbreaking and so right, so perfect. I felt like I was eavesdropping. That's how good it was.

Final Boarding Call is incredible. I was lucky enough to see this play as part of the 2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and I was swept up by the enormity of this intimate play. I hope that everyone has a chance to see it staged one day soon. It's urgent and important and deeply deeply human. And while it's historic and beautifully political, it's also, at its heart, a play about siblings, a play about best friends, a play about romantic relationships -- long and short term. It's a play everyone needs in their life. Because wow.

Derecho is a gut punch of incredible storytelling. I'm struck by the beautiful, messy, complicated relationship between these two sisters Mercedes and Eugenia, of course. But I'm also floored by how each character in this play has a direct and distinct relationship with at least two other characters in this world -- relationships that breathe full and complete life into each and every one of them. I want to see this play produced over and over and over again. There is so much to mine here. It's beautiful, Noelle!

The Droll is an imaginative and beautiful piece of historical fiction, one that should be produced again and again at every Shakespeare theatre in the country -- once our own End of Theatre is over. Meg Miroshnik takes us on a journey through a Puritan England without live performance, asking audiences to grapple with what they might do if theatre was gone for fifteen years or more. And to think that this play was written in 2014. Is Meg a soothsayer?

This play is so beautiful. It's full of poetry and life and joy and silliness and it's not enough to read it on the page. I want to see this big beautiful play staged over and over and over again.

Oh wow I absolutely loved A Play About David Mamet Writing A Play About Harvey Weinstein. I laughed out loud reading it and I cannot wait to shriek with laughter in the theatre when someone inevitably produces this firecracker of a theatrical experience. I truly cannot fully articulate how smart and funny this play is. All I can say is thank you, Mathilde.

School Girls; Or the African Mean Girls Play is so incredible that I'm having a hard time coming up with the right words. And after watching it, I find myself shaking off the deep-rooted teenage judgments that were whispered (and yelled) around me in middle and high school. I could not be more different from these characters, and yet there is a universality there — a feeling of never being enough and a realization that your school is only a speck on the world stage. Thank you, Jocelyn!

I love how vivid and magical and terrifying this Reykjavík that Steve Yockey has created is. It felt simultaneously like a dream and like the most real reality I've ever experienced. The characters are so beautifully drawn and the doubling is extraordinary, which makes me want to see it on stage — as soon as humanly possible. Thank you, Steve!