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.

What an intense ride Lexi takes -- and we're along for every second of it. Lauren Yee's HOOKMAN is a powerful examination of how hard it is for young women to be heard, perhaps especially by themselves. A knockout of a play.