Recommended by Katherine Gwynn

every time Dinah write a new play I am delighted and awed by the ways they unearth both joy and tragedy through language--god, and the snail sequence. I am going to think about that scene for a long LONG time.

yet again Arroyo has written a play that is stunningly queer right down to it's marrow, specific and exact to its and the characters' circumstances, and deliciously frigthening in its exploration in fitting form to narrative. nobody is really doing it like Arroyo. this play would be sooooo gorgeous to see in Chicago

swift sharp chilling satire. Like if Glee was eiffel-towered by John Waters and Carmen Maria Machado--which I mean as a high compliment. great fucking work

a play that stands as an endurance demand for your attention and your empathy and your discomfort and your joy and your fear all at once. at many points I could not imagine how this play could be done, which is thrilling, because it means that it needs community and collective, not singular, imagination.

a farce that slowly dissolves into something else entirely, I love how this play examines how we try to be in community with one another.

I'm so incredibly jealous that I didn't write this play because I just think it is so pitch perfect--a brilliantly fun and heartbreaking, Will and Way are modern Didi and Gogo in this hymn to artists and friendship and the vulnerable beauty and pain of both.

got to see a production of this at Red Theatre--the play is worth it alone for the devastating moment of Chelsea screaming into the recorder, playing back her own silence, her loneliness a vice grip in the room around her.

mostly read this because as a queer and trans catholic I'm fucking sucker for queer and trans catholic stories but this really surprised me. Vicious and horrifying and tender and earnest. I tire so deeply of trans perfectionism--and I yearn for trans stories like this, that allow us to foul and human like anyone else. Aster is a writer with so much promise, and I'm excited to see what else she might create.

a stunning symphony of life and death and pain and hope under the beautiful and unforgiving blister of the sun--Arroyo is a writer to watch.

a tender play about a mother and son at odds with trying to both discover and cling to their past--warm until the very end, despite it all.