Recommended by Rachael Carnes

Funny and charming, 'til the steel trap closes - This tight new full-length peeks into the weird and wonderful world of BigFoot science, exploring the mossy northwest with a scientific eye and powerful heart. Lots of trailblazing and switchbacks keep the conflicts coming and the pace high. Surprising, unsettling, satisfying. Like a walk in the woods, where you get lost enough to feel it.

Theatrical, entertaining and bitingly satirical, this piece asks compelling questions in a high-stakes way. Tedford Kendall's bracing dialogue and this looming tree gives us enormous imagery to grapple with, as challenging as American history itself.

Cole encapsulates so much about the pressures of parenthood, its relentless internal energies, and the power of the outside world to create competition. Dynamic roles for three women gave a creative team in the Whiskey Theatre Factory performance such great room to explore. Recommended for your short festival about women and women's issues.

A deeply felt requiem for nature. Theatrical and sharp, Martineau's language draws the listener into what seems like an everyday moment, that holds a mystery, and a future. Poignant and all-too prescient, with lush criss-crossing dynamics that will give a creative team tremendous room to explore.

Bwahaha! So funny! Any parent will totally resonate with this. Heck, so will *anybody* forced to share their space for a year of quarantine. I am 100% here for a Fractured Fairy Tale, and this one's a beaut.

Honest and hilarious, this delightful play plumbs a friendship for the edges of self/other with humor, good nature and awe. Lamedman hits all the right notes, revealing truths and finding connections, even here and now. A lovely production with Oregon Contemporary Theatre highlights the rich characterization and story-building.

A powerful clarion call out of history, bringing the Stonewall Riot to right now, right this very moment. Sylvia's warm, relatability draws us into her world, carefully and empathetically built by Burbano's skillful craft, and demands our empathy, and should ignite us to learn more. A perfect addition to any festival on human rights. Brilliant and heartbreaking.

A deeply humane inquiry into family history and the passages in our lives we carry forward to our children, our grandchildren, to the future. Stolowitz deftly crafts a tapestry of voices, threading colors and textures across time and space, tightly binding her careful research with vital storytelling. A recent sharing of an audio play of the work, via Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, OR, with the addition of compelling visual cues, rich sound design and a deft cast of two brilliant actor sharing 14 roles, is in a word, stunning.

Oh, this is fun. Like the way you get snapped into the shoulder thingy on a rollercoaster and then it goes up at a steep angle and you're like "Hang on? Where are we going?" fun. Prillaman somehow combines the repartee of a good intergenerational women's comedy and the Dark Lord himself. It's high time these tropes had a crossover episode! And as a mother, I can attest that there are definitely women this scary out there, and they know who they are. First rate work!

Oh my word. Insanely funny. I love the pace of this raring dialogue - great rhythm and punch all the way. It's a normalish setup - work environment - but that's where absurdism reigns supreme! Allen mines a zany situation for every pearl, and I can only imagine that onstage, this one would be a barn burner. Delightful!