Recommended by Kyle Smith

This play reads like a rage filled queer manifesto, taking on the toxicity of suburban life, and the loss that comes with queer people renouncing their queerness for favor of suburban acceptance. Acerbic, biting, and all so true, the play (and foot notes) point us toward the reality of being queer in a society that wants you to be anything but.

This play has everything. Gangs, guns, talk of another kind of strap, everything you want from a gritty thriller, turned up to 11, and Clarence is 100% the action hero we didn't know we needed. We need more trans thrillers, and Flynn delivers this one with commendable force, authenticity, and action. I can't wait to see this one live.

I had the pleasure and honor of performing the role of Jake in a reading of this play, and my God. What a meaty, fascinating, challenging, complex role, and he's only half of the equation. A nuanced, complex, and compassionate portrayal of autism that asks necessary questions of who gets included and who does not in conversations of inclusion in the arts.

A beautiful update to Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, that takes us into the 21st century and the lives of the new inhabitants of Grover’s Corners. This play deals with some of the big questions that have faced our century so far, with the backdrop of a town we’ve all been to before. Beautiful, haunting and haunted, and deeply emotional, Wilder must be smiling on from beyond the grave with his own SM watching this play unfold.

A beautiful, heart wrenching play about ascension, transformation, and yearning. All these people (or this one person, if that’s how you do it), have a deep yearning for something lost, for finding themselves, and in the end, none of them, nor the audience, come out of this play unchanged.

Experimental, lyrical, beautiful, and profoundly funny. Daniel deftly combines beautiful poetic language with some of the best humor I’ve found in a play of this type. George Washington, cum drips, and hope all come together to blend the high and the low in a play that you will not soon forget.

A sex farce for the 21st century! Trans people! A polycule! Bigoted wasp parents! A vibrator! Werner Herzog impressions! One has to imagine Moliere is smiling on from whatever ethereal plane he's watching it from. Truly excellent.

At time haunting, at times hilarious, and always gorgeously realized, up strung down asks questions of identity and selfhood that demand to be considered. How do we arrive at a fully integrated self, when all we know about ourselves is what we've been told. Deeply existential, lyrical, with stage directions that dig into your brain. Well done.

This remix of the expulsion from Eden is everything you want from a modern take on a bible story. The sexism is laid bare, the woman deeply sympathetic, God the moody creator that God is. If Bailey adapted the whole Bible, there wouldn't be a single copy left unsold.

Here's what I found succinctly sums up the human condition, using three robots. We all want connection. We all want more from life. We all want the perfect grilled cheese. Whether or not life will grant these to us, the search provides us the means to keep going. Beautifully written, funny, and deeply felt, this play is a must read.