Recommended by Doug DeVita

As much as we love the humans in our life, our pets hold a special place in our hearts; Williams captures the profoundly emotional bond we share with them in this deeply touching, tender, and moving work from the master of memory, longing, mourning, letting go, and moving on – but not forgetting. Well done.

A lovely, touching work from Vansant that deals with love, loss, and reconciliation in an appealingly low-key yet magical manner. Truly haunting, in the best way.

A few things stood out for me in Ian Thal’s gleefully satiric comedy: the nostalgia for a time when we fervently believed passion was enough to change the world; the precise look at the absolute fatuousness of college administrations and their steadfast inability to ever truly listen to their students; and – as mentioned before – that fabulous pillow fight. Well done, Ian!

Taube’s incisive look at a rape victim’s emotional journey to forgiving ¬– but not forgetting ¬– tackles the generational damage inflicted by bad parenting with clear-eyed, dispassionate passion. Greatly benefitting from it sharply drawn characters and its all-female cast, this play should enjoy a long life in theatre’s all over the country. It has something to say and says it with eloquent force.

Incredibly theatrical, relentlessly sharp, often hilarious and just as often heartbreaking, Andrew Rincon’s magical romantic comedy is a wonder. Oh, how I’d love to see this staged; a gifted director could kick this already high-flying work into the heavens and keep it there, where it belongs. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!

Sick, twisted, and hilarious. And at least these parents realize they’ve probably screwed up their kid. “…Who hasn’t? Better from us than the internet, right?” Brill. Positively brill.

Good God, what a stunning play! It works on so many levels it leaves one dizzy with anticipation for the next line, the next turn of the page, the next twist in the plot… Terrific sense of time, place and characters one loves despite – or maybe because of – their flaws, and one hopes the choices the make are the right ones, while knowing how impossible those choices are in the moment. Beautifully done from beginning to end.

McClain pretty much sums up dating in the digitally mandated, self-distancing world in which we’re currently living, and she does it with hilariously sad accuracy. One feels for both of these tech-challenged people, and fervently hopes they’ll have a second, more propitious chance to make their incipient relationship bloom. A wonderful Zoom play with wonderful roles.

This is a fascinating look at human nature, smartly structured and often quite funny. Martineau’s characters are nicely balanced archetypes, straddling the line between believably normal and theatrically stylized with ease, and I imagine they would be fun to play, as well as fun to watch.

I love very single word of this convulsively funny, impeccably truthful play, right up to its perfect closing line. Now let’s all have cake!