Recommended by David Hilder

This play feels both huge and intimate, and it's to Bentley-Quinn's credit that she juggles the epic scale of on-line misogyny and the personal struggles of Jess and Wendy so aptly. How I wish this play were not so on point, but in our current world it's nothing but.

Intense, wildly creepy, and entirely theatrical -- Aura and Billy's battle with each other, with a ruined world, and most of all with irritating crickets is gripping from first to last. This is a powerful look at the end of our planet, and a dissection of just how culpable we all are. Terrific.

A powerful, significant play examining, among other things, straight male terror of fully empowered women. Chilling and funny and serious and frankly amazing.

I just love this bold, seriously American play. The strength of Brandli's writing lies in her flawed, fully human characters -- they're great to spend time with, and their story here is gripping and powerful. I hope this piece gets produced everywhere.

Playful, inventive, hilarious and moving -- Dan McCoy finds a fantastic new spin (or set of spins) on well-established folklore, and the result is smashingly theatrical and never less than interesting. Love it.

I just love this play -- it totally caught me off guard while also feeling inevitable. A really strong short play about our contemporary American race problem.

A terrific exploration of core concepts of good and evil that's suitable for audiences of many ages. Subverting the superhero genre to the ends of a deeper look at our unconscious desires to do right AND wrong is a matter for a deft writer to tackle, and Suilebhan is clearly just that.

A Russian doll of a play, with a center rooted in guilt and loneliness. A lovely, lovely play -- and very funny, to boot.

There's a whole lot of history between characters Britt and Joe, and Donna Hoke's command of their complications and great humor means we want to know more, all the time. A terrific, very grown-up story of what can go wrong between people who love each other, and how hard it can be to right the ship.

To call these damaged characters "complicated" is to undermine the very word. Lane's control of tone, pace, and character, and her love of language, are on full display in this funny, savage play about how hard it is to stay open when life has hurt you over and over.