Recommended by Donna Hoke

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.

Turns out it's just as easy for teens to dismiss each other as it is for grownups to dismiss teens, but in this well-crafted and highly theatrical play, Yee powerfully proves that beyond teens' seemingly banal chatter, there are big emotions and monsters--real and imagined--to contend with. Yee may have created the genre "existential slasher comedy," but that's okay, because with HOOKMAN, she provides a stellar example to emulate.

The challenge with this clever play is to NOT recognize any of the behaviors of the office workers. If you laugh--and you will--you fail.

Clever juxtaposition of the good and bad of malfunction among things, and people.

A favorite from Gwydion, and a play that shows us that there is never one right answer, one interpretation, and that we can never expect to all see things the same way--but we learn to live with that or accept the consequences.