Recommended by Donna Hoke

Though it's set firmly in the Reformation Era, Thomas and Margaret Moore's father/daughter story will resonate for anybody who's loved, defended, and stood up for unpopular belief. Beautiful language throughout is full of humor and poetry.

For everybody who was bullied in high school and knows that old resentments never die.

MEDUSA UNDONE is a deftly wrought and compelling play that reveals monster Medusa's origin story while raising relevant and resonant questions about our own culture: Who has the power? Why are women often each other's worst enemies? How do we fight back?

Overflowing with warmth and wit, POZ is an homage to the past and a promise that if wounds can't be healed, they can at least stop hurting so much--if only we take a leap of faith. A beautiful, funny, and life-affirming work.

As a childhood Nancy Drew fan, I found this delightful! Theatricality and mystery, all with tongue planted firmly in cheek.

A lovely opportunity for middleaged theatergoers (and there are more than few of those, right?) to see themselves and their issues on stage: the plaguing regrets, the beliefs that a different choice would have made all the difference. Susan Westfall's Two Weekends and a Day helps us work through those question, and reassures us that our lives are exactly what they should be.

A touching, beautiful, heartbreaking portrait of love, and a reminder that bringing the soldiers home is only the beginning.

David Hilder has a great comic voice that guides you easily through this play from its attention-getting opening monologue to its perfect final line.

When I got to the end of this poetic and theatrical play, I realized that Romero had deftly explored our feelings about "distant" war and revealed that we love, grieve, and share and absolve blame collectively--because in our best and worst moments, we are all connected. Beautiful work.

"You may be tired from feeling, but you’re not tired from giving. And we’re all tired from
feeling." What a beautiful and poetic message wrapped in a highly theatrical play that explores the question of self-worth and ascension and its connection and conflict with purpose. Lovely.