Recommended by David Hilder

Ah, just fantastic! The fully legible, intelligible experience of being the person working toward Getting their Thoughts Out is potent and eternally relatable. And, as it happens, filled with beauty. Wonderful.

I'm not at all sure it's right to call this exploration of women's struggles with size "lovely," but Kantor manages to combine incisive social satire and a tale of a romance in ways that feel inevitable. Here's to Darcy -- and thank you, Lena!

Almost too true to be funny. Oh, blessed "almost!" Facing the reality of ... unreality, poor Jamie is stuck, and his stuckness is our delight.

Golly moses, this play is almost too beautiful. The intensity of feeling inside these young women is palpable at every moment, and though Maeve's fear often leads her to make poor choices I was entirely rooting for her best self to emerge -- which it does. Four wonderfully full characters inhabiting a deep world I couldn't get enough of. Hooray.

Ahahahahaha! Delightful! It seems certain strong emotions are sides of the same coin. Lovely and very, very fun.

This terrific play goes places I didn't anticipate at all, but every moment is earned, full, and fascinating. Oh, and it's extremely funny, too! Such clear, commanding writing. Splendid.

In a pair of syllables: Divine. I fully love this knowingly overcomplicated web of plots, schemes, and homicidal intentions. Huzzah, Finley!

Just the achiest, loveliest love letter to grief and family. I'm totally smitten with Elaine, Clark's family ... and Clark, who wants to be left alone but even more deeply wants not to be alone. The lack of explanation makes the cosmology here particularly unnerving and interesting. A play that refuses to offer too-clear explication of the ineffable, while also providing relationships we care about. Wonderful.

My favorite brand of ridiculous. Hanna has built a mousetrap of human size, made of whimsy, hilarious repetitions, and plot-convenient amnesia. A delicious winner.

This play operates with an efficiency and brutality that match the calm politeness of the character Red. That many details are left to the audience's imagination only heightens the tension in the room between these two -- and their names end up having fantastic resonance. Terrific, muscular writing wrapped in silk.