Recommended by Doug DeVita

Once again I marvel at Gill's extraordinarily light touch while writing about extremely serious and dark stuff. As up-to-the-minute New York (and beyond) as he can get, Gill captures our current crises with a gravitas that is not without humor and compassion. A terrific, provocative work from this terrific, provocative playwright.

Bicknell turns her dark and twisted side loose in this hilarious short in which everyone, including the audience, is gaslighted — and this “audience” enjoyed every deliciously absurd, pseudo magically realistic, broken fourth wall moment.

Tear my heart out, Ruben.

In one minute, Carbajal delineates an entire pandemic, and he does it with all the hope and despair attendant. Beautiful, gut wrenching work.

Oh, how I love this! The wordplay is astounding, the humor is fall on the floor funny, and the homage to both Sir Andrew and Mr. S is at once reverentially witty and deliciously sly. Bravo, sirrah, bravo!

An aching sense of loss and a rising tension permeate every line in this structurally inventive, emotionally ambitious work of art. Everything works here, and the play shines with a dark beauty that hurts as much as it heals. A stunner.

At its heart and from its earliest incarnations, theater has existed to tell stories – whether through words, actions, song, dance, all combinations thereof – and as playwrights, telling stories is, or should still be, our main concern. And Barbara Kahn tells a beautiful one, and beautifully simply, in "Cyma's Story." Vivid, touching, intimately epic, this letter written by a Russian Jewish emigre living in Shoshone, Wyoming at the outbreak of WWII pierces the heart, and lingers for days after reading it.

An early work from the poetic Gacinski, "Didactic Digressions" not only shows all the promise and the passion that continues to flower in each succeeding work of his, but also stands on its own as an auspicious debut for this constantly and consistently evolving young writer.

Intensely theatrical, and theatrically intense, this tightly woven – yet sprawling – work is an exciting and creative retelling of the Bonnie & Clyde story. While not neglecting their obvious charisma,Rossi gives us a raw, violently visceral look at these two legends; there's no romantic whitewashing here, and that's to both Rossi's, and the work's credit. Highly recommended.

Intense and riveting from its first lines, GUSHER! kept me glued to the page from beginning to end; my head exploded on at least four occasions, from both the emotional involvement I felt with the characters, and the sheer craft of Rosenberg's writing. Recommended, highly.

One of the sharpest, clearest, most even-handed delineations of the different ways Boomers and Millenials view the world I’ve ever read, made even more engaging by Thompson’s well-drawn characters and their very specific wants, needs, and viewpoints.