Recommended by Scott Sickles

Sharp, smart, and powerful! The piece and its protagonist! A concise yet thorough examination of the double-standard between boys’ and girls’ attire in school and how that hypocrisy pervades the world at large by way of a power structure that celebrates men while subjugating women... especially smart, confident women. If Daria Morgendorffer and Jane Lane had a love child, she would be Zoey!

Utter perfection and absolutely delightful! As someone who had theatrical pretentions as a child, this is a nostalgia overload! The children's interpretation of what theater is and who in theatre does what and plays whom is brilliantly spot-on! This play is gorgeously observed and laugh out loud hilarious!

Compelling and disturbing, POPSICLE KISSES elegantly combines words and movement to a complex tale of abuse – physical, emotional, sexual – never flinching from the love and desire that can exist in horrific circumstances. A profound, daring and indelible short piece.

If you like Neil LaBute, you should like this play and if you don’t, then you’re bound to LOVE IT! While every character REPRESENTS A POINT OF VIEW as they do in LaBute’s work, these characters are first and foremost PEOPLE. They have dimension and desires. They’re conflicted about what they’re supposed to stand for and the way the world actually is, and their own expectations of each other. While DOUCHEGIRL is certainly a take on other writers, it is unfailingly its own complicated story of friendship, love and the bloody gray area in between.

I saw this Off-Broadway. Elegant and powerful, it beautifully captures a time in our history that older people should never forget and younger people, especially LGBTQ folks under 40 need to learn about.

You know when you think you and That Other Person can handle Things and be Perfectly Rational Adults and then you find out “NOPE! NOT HAPPENING!”? That’s this play. And this play is pitch perfect. What’s great is that despite being at odds, neither one of the characters seems wrong. Everyone is mad yet no one is the bad guy. We’ve all been the emotional one or the rational one and sometimes we’ve taken turns. This captures a glimpse into a relationship that’s reached critical mass and could go either way. A terrific piece!

Evil is most insidious when it has a kind face, a calm voice, and words of love to make its agenda seem reasonable to the people it's trying to destroy. In ALEXANDRIA, the subject of the Lord comes up and suddenly bigotry isn't personal, self-defense seems intolerant, and "agreeing to disagree" is a lethal trap! It gets you thinking while you're watching it, talking when you're done, and sticks with you long after. And it will help you determine which Christians truly love their neighbors and which just say they do.

What starts out seeming like a spoiled white child tantrum turns out to be sobering and powerful. DOLPHIN KID holds up a mirror and a magnifying glass to those who experience paralysis in the face of another person’s injustice, even and especially questioning his own. A powerful piece.

A haunting story of a town teetering on and ultimately over a moral precipice. Every character has a complicated history and secrets to conceal, which is no easy feat in a tiny parish. Morality and law, ethics and religion, and the compromises a community must make to keep the peace are examined with provocative questions and no easy answer.

Equal parts poem and play, this short monodrama is an astounding examination not only of thought, emotion, and the senses, but how we prioritize them. It dissects a marriage with precision and depth, giving the audience a strong sense of who these people were and are to each other on a drive in the night. Powerful!