Recommended by David Hilder

  • David Hilder: The Oktavist

    A beautiful play, perfectly scaled to capture both the moment it represents and the current moment we're living in. Moving and funny and, yes, sad. Hooray for Vince Gatton.

    A beautiful play, perfectly scaled to capture both the moment it represents and the current moment we're living in. Moving and funny and, yes, sad. Hooray for Vince Gatton.

  • David Hilder: Fourteen Funerals

    Just so wonderful, this two-hander that feels so full of life and lives. Incredibly funny, appropriately deep, silly and serious and significant. I hope so much to see this play in three dimensions, because I know I'll have a great time should I have that chance.

    Just so wonderful, this two-hander that feels so full of life and lives. Incredibly funny, appropriately deep, silly and serious and significant. I hope so much to see this play in three dimensions, because I know I'll have a great time should I have that chance.

  • David Hilder: Pandora's Box of Donuts

    Such a beautifully realized conversation about deep despair and reasons to not think about it. Gosh, what a warm, loving play about a nearly impossible struggle. A small marvel.

    Such a beautifully realized conversation about deep despair and reasons to not think about it. Gosh, what a warm, loving play about a nearly impossible struggle. A small marvel.

  • David Hilder: Welcome to the Taj Palace (motel)

    The depth of feeling here is belied by the swirling atmospherics, but don't be fooled: Sachdeva is exploring potent themes including assimilation, motherhood, the struggle for authentic identity, and much, much more. Such a terrific, terrific experience -- a wild ride well worth taking.

    The depth of feeling here is belied by the swirling atmospherics, but don't be fooled: Sachdeva is exploring potent themes including assimilation, motherhood, the struggle for authentic identity, and much, much more. Such a terrific, terrific experience -- a wild ride well worth taking.

  • David Hilder: Nurture

    "I think there may be more wrong with you than there is with me." This hilarious and terrifying play lives fully in this line and in all the rest of them, too, as Cathy and Doug talk across each other for about 100 gripping pages. Not for the faint of heart, but more than worth a read for the truly daring. Wonderful work.

    "I think there may be more wrong with you than there is with me." This hilarious and terrifying play lives fully in this line and in all the rest of them, too, as Cathy and Doug talk across each other for about 100 gripping pages. Not for the faint of heart, but more than worth a read for the truly daring. Wonderful work.

  • David Hilder: Ridgway

    Oofffff. What a great play -- a powerful, deeply personalized story about large issues and how they intersect with individual lives. On the page, the piece is so strong; I can imagine it being multiple times stronger fully realized (so, theaters, get on it). I intend this as high praise: Man, would I love to direct RIDGWAY.

    Oofffff. What a great play -- a powerful, deeply personalized story about large issues and how they intersect with individual lives. On the page, the piece is so strong; I can imagine it being multiple times stronger fully realized (so, theaters, get on it). I intend this as high praise: Man, would I love to direct RIDGWAY.

  • David Hilder: Perfect Teeth

    I have been lucky enough to direct this play twice, and was there when Dan first started writing it. I. Lovethisplay. A 60-minute two-hander that's a nuclear bomb. Extraordinary.

    I have been lucky enough to direct this play twice, and was there when Dan first started writing it. I. Lovethisplay. A 60-minute two-hander that's a nuclear bomb. Extraordinary.

  • David Hilder: First Chair

    Charming as can be, with a terrific ending that both surprises and feels inevitable. A great ten-minute piece that would stage like a dream!

    Charming as can be, with a terrific ending that both surprises and feels inevitable. A great ten-minute piece that would stage like a dream!

  • David Hilder: WAKE

    Oh, it's just my favorite thing: A combination of genuinely funny, deeply spooky, and profoundly sad. Filled with palpable feeling without in any way being mawkish. Eminently ready for production. So get on it, theaters. Get. On it.

    Oh, it's just my favorite thing: A combination of genuinely funny, deeply spooky, and profoundly sad. Filled with palpable feeling without in any way being mawkish. Eminently ready for production. So get on it, theaters. Get. On it.

  • David Hilder: Hyannis

    Suuuuch a strong play. Terrific, plausible characters in uncomfortably plausible circumstances -- the constant and implacable threats addiction poses are treated unflinchingly but with great nuance and compassion. A wonderful play I'd love to see.

    Suuuuch a strong play. Terrific, plausible characters in uncomfortably plausible circumstances -- the constant and implacable threats addiction poses are treated unflinchingly but with great nuance and compassion. A wonderful play I'd love to see.