Recommended by Dominica Plummer

Have you ever wondered about the life (or lack of it) of the odd sock? The one that never matches? Cotton's search for her missing match quickly turns into existential musings on everything from lost mittens to dryer lint. Hemphill's charming short will give you an original take on these dilemmas, as actors become sock puppets (and more) and enact the whole drama. Warmly recommended.

A great situation created by a writer who has a great gift for comedy. But this is not just a play for laughs. If you met a child who thought she was a tiger, how would you teach her to be a human? And should you even try? Actors will have enormous fun with the characters that Rand Higbee has created. A timeless script I confidently predict will be a hit with audiences everywhere.

This is a remarkable play that manages to deal with a range of life changing events in just one act. Kudos to equally remarkable playwright Emily Hageman for creating a heart warming, yet also heart wrenching drama that audiences, young and old, will relate to. Loved it!

Janine and her pink tee shirt. Janine with her grandma's fanny pack. Janine standing up to the bullies who don't get that she is a strong, confident girl who knows exactly who she is, and why it's important to honor her grandma and wear her fanny pack. Love this girl and her attitude, and I hope this gets performed in middle schools around the country!

Anna, Margaret's Trinidadian caregiver, and Margaret's daughter Frances face off as they try to decide how best to deal with Margaret's slow progress towards death, made all the more painful because Alzheimer's has robbed Margaret of her mind while leaving behind a body that needs 24 hour care. Anna is determined to keep Margaret's body comfortable for as long as possible, while Frances is actively working to end her mother's suffering. Zamoyta's deeply moving drama encourages us to empathize with each character even as we wonder how we would act in a similar situation.

An absolutely hilarious farce that will have audiences laughing until their sides hurt. This fast paced comedy has great roles for actresses who have a talent for slapstick. Kate Danley has written a play that will appeal to audiences everywhere, and especially those who have some experience of life in a modern corporation!

This steam locomotive of a play is one heck of a crazy train trip, and Carnes has handed us the ultimate ticket to ride. Whether you identify with the alpha wolf (please no) or the hapless omega, get on board for a laugh loaded 10 minute spin through the world of work in the grip of a demented manager from hell!

An intriguing short play that isn't so much a "whodunnit" as a "is she going to do it"? An anonymous motel in Iowa is the setting for this unexpected visit from a young man who attempts to persuade his future mother to avoid the rendezvous that will lead to his conception. Just the ticket for a play festival that is looking for something original and thought provoking.

Too young to have been alive in 1968, the chosen study year, Calley Anderson's characters work through powerful confrontations unleashed by personal assumptions about race and gender while assessing the importance of events of that watershed year. As their choices reveal the truth of who they are to themselves, and to each other, each learns what empathy truly means, and how history's long reach can affect both present and an as yet undetermined future. Highly recommended.

As others have said, the echoes of Thornton Wilder are loud and clear in this accurate, break your heart tribute to all those New England towns that are broken down shadows of their former glories. Brian James Polak's play creates quietly memorable characters as they go about stultifying existences, dreaming of escape. There is both irony and tragedy in their stories, and the whole piece is nicely held together by a parking attendant narrator who presides over both the living and dead. A play for our times, speaking clearly about the dangers of exhausted slogans and unheeded cries for help.