Recommended by Ben Rosenblatt

This play brilliantly takes one of society's biggest double standards and turns it on its head. Super smart and hilarious, until you remember how unfunny the reality is. Incredibly relevant to today's "smash the patriarchy" cultural ethos, this play is equally important for men and women alike to see. Entertaining, fun and horrifying all at once. Highly recommend.

In this unique short, Alice's anxiety is personified (or bear-ified) by a character in the play, through whom we see the inner workings of a mind paralyzed with worry. It's, at once, endearing and disquieting, as it depicts the greatest weapon our fear deploys: Comfort. Great dialogue and wonderful insight. Very smart.

Gorgeous and heartbreaking. An insightful short play about the longing for perfect love. I connect deeply with Gonzalez's take on relationships and romance, even though it's a tough pill to swallow - that the satisfaction found in fantasy can never last in reality, but the false hope it might never fades. Also enjoyable, is the continual subversion of expectations both in this play and in his other work. I'm a fan.

An unflinching character study of a sex worker. A tiny slice of life that tells a massive story of a new mother fighting for survival. Specific, honest, uncomfortable. Dense material for a talented young actress.

This is an absolutely thrilling play about love and desire and the agony of huge feelings that can't be acted on. Thick with tension and subtle eroticism, this play is layered with subtext screaming to be uttered aloud. Like expert foreplay, this piece unfolds at a tantalizingly methodical pace toward it's seemingly predictable but incredibly satisfying conclusion, before stunning us with a jaw-dropping twist. Gonzalez doesn't waste a single word in this tale of forbidden love. I look forward to reading more of his work.

I'm falling in love with Hageman's plays for young audiences. Clever, fun, positive messages. This one helps turn the insidious Disney love myth on its head. The dialogue moves swiftly and unencumbered. Strong concise storytelling peppered with some hilarious one-liners.

This is an adorable and truly clever backstage interaction between a magician and his...assistant. With a hilarious twist (that I won't ruin) this play is quirky, funny and heartfelt. Great for young audiences, but it tickled me immensely as an adult, too.

A tender and insightful portrait of a family's grief and how they cope. Haas' three characters are fully and compellingly realized and their occasionally hostile sisterly interchanges are pure gold. True mastery in psychology and family dynamics at work in this play, as well as a great lesson in moving on and letting go.

A fun, quirky take on reality vs. expectations when it comes to love, with some commentary regarding society's newly attuned focus on consent. A quick coming-of-age story, in which a big lesson is learned with brevity. Both current and timeless. Really enjoyed the smart stylization.

A dreamlike and magical meditation on depression. Perfectly captures the sufferer's empty search for the ever-elusive "why?" that so often surrounds mental health issues. Seamlessly weaves in big topics like sexual assault, the loss of a parent, complex family dynamics, and the trials of early adulthood without pointing the finger at any of them as the cause or catalyst. Bleakly comic and sincere. A slow, satisfying burn. Inventive and poetic in its heightened theatricality. Offers exciting possibilities for both casting and staging.