Recommended by Donna Hoke

I love the honesty game and the idea of playing it with a stranger you'll never see again just tickled me, and made the end all the more sweet.

College directors are going to SNAP THIS UP. Fun, creepy, with great roles to dig into. And five teens--awesome job!

Rachael at the top of her game, weaving past and present with beauty and threads of terror.

A great slice of American history that feels particularly timely, right down to the title. Compact, fast-moving, and funny, this was a delightful read even overshadowed as it was by current resonance.

Best play I've read of Lauren Yee's to date. It's powerful and poignant and surprising and theatrical and funny and a master class in all the things a good play should be.

What I love about this monologue is that it reminds us that when we read fairy tales to our daughters, we have to ask them, "What do you think happened the next day? And the next year? And why?"

This play is deceptively simple; you think you know where it's going but when you get to the end, you have to go back and read it again for it to fully sink in. Good job!

I'm such a sucker for a tale of "I liked you but didn't know you liked me" people finally finding their way to each other. And Claudia does this one so incredibly well, putting these two together at a time when they each need to find themselves before they considering finding themselves with each other. A great piece of writing!

This is such a clever play in the way it articulates all the popular discourse without ever articulating the words that provoked it. It's illuminating to hear this debate in the absence of anything to hang it on.

Asher is a cheese whiz! As someone who has blown fifty bucks in a cheese shop and wouldn't eat a Kraft single for love or money--well, maybe if it were enough money to buy the cheese described in this monologue--I feel for this character who sees good cheese as a sign of wealth and prestige. Cheese is a stand in for the better things in life while simultaneously being one of the BEST things in life. Distribution of wealth on a cheese continuum. Brilliant.