Recommended by Kyle Smith

This play is powerful. Oubliette gives physical form to RSD and Emotional Dysregulation, and as a neurodivergent writer with a neurodivergent spouse, they have never been more terrifyingly familiar. On top of that, Oubliette is steeped in metaphor and theatricality, breathtakingly so, even just on the page. I’ll be thinking about this one for a while.

My God, this play is mad. Tragic for Minky and Billie, and so damned funny for the rest of us. A relationship is on the rocks, so of course, some Chekhov has to bleed in, and WHY DO WE NEVER VISIT GIANT'S CAUSEWAY! This relationship comes with too many strings attached, anyway.

An important moment in queer history is brilliantly rendered by Malakhow. This play blends the personal, the political and the historical, and gives the audience, especially the queer ones of us, a glimpse into the human moments that make up our collective history. Well done.

This timeless play is remarkably funny and terribly heartbreakingly sad. When we sit with these two, we understand the personal cost of war in a present, painful, and persistent 15 minutes. Death and war are timeless.

Funny and deadly serious. Trump’s tirades gets put under the microscope when Bernice enters, and the audience gets to laugh at an unhinged man losing it over a piece of paper. The political is on full display here and sings with truth and comedy.

As an Autistic playwright, this play was tough to watch. For anybody who has Autistic loved ones, it is necessary viewing. This deeply compassionate play examines family trauma, ableism, internalized ableism, and many of the other horrors that Autistic people are all too familiar with. Dave takes you to uncomfortable places, knowing full well, it is necessary to go there for healing to occur. And healing does occur. Zachary ends this play well and fully changed, as does Mary-Ellen. And the rest of us leave changed and healed, too.

A rapturously funny take on God and what we did to anger him so much that we got all of *gestures* this. This play has a laugh a minute, deftly drawn deities and angels, and God’s peak creation ticking away all the time. At least in Alex’s play there’s an expiration date on this nightmare we’re all living, if there weren’t, then, well, may God help us all…

A funny, fabulous, and raunchy play. Sex abounds in this nursing home, and safe sex at a certain age apparently means a whole lot more than wearing a condom. Debra Cole creates brilliantly realized hysterically funny older women that any older actors with comic chops would be lucky to perform.

We all know, that politicians can get dirty sometimes. They accept bribes, and slander opponents, and in Olivia’s Ladybug troop, they put centipedes in little girl’s ears. This hilarious play goes into Olivia's political campaign as she tries to become troop leader, in the most horrific of ways. Our kids are learning from our politics, and what works for adults must work for kids… right?

I saw Dave's play at kean university last night and haven't stopped thinking about it. This play taught me more about myself than any other work I've experienced about autism. So many aha moments for me personally, in a play that was at times hilarious, at times deeply sad, and always deeply felt.