Recommended by Doug DeVita

Guidroz totally captures the delightful innocence and the glee with which tweens discover and use foul language, and gives us a wonderfully funny trip back to a time when cursing was both dangerous and cool.

What a distinct pleasure to meet up with a character from another play and learn even more about them, which is one of the distinct pleasures of "The Trouble with Mustard Greens." Just one of the pleasures, as this monologue for Jaspreet/Jessie, the protagonist of Gill's marvelous "The Bitter and the Sweet," is so beautifully layered and textured it just keeps revealing the complexities of a mother/daughter relationship with a pungent, but not unpleasant delicacy.

Plays like this restore my faith in God and his deliverance of just rewards. Delightfully arch and deliciously vengeful, to watch Anita Bryant (and, by extension, others of her nasty ilk) get a taste of her own medicine is a gleefully satisfying experience, and even if it’s only in the form of a revenge fantasy, it’s a damn good one.

The need for human contact in the digital age is explored with great intimacy and insight in this beautiful gem of a play. Featuring two terrific roles for LGBTQ teens, this coming of age story should be a mainstay in short play festivals everywhere.

A neat twist on the modern family, Middleton-William's "All Together Now" is a warm comedy – with a few prickly edges – that's really a coming-of-age story in which the usual suspect, ie: the teen-ager, is not the one who comes of age. Wise, funny, and totally winning.

This play is every long-term relationship, be they gay or straight or whatever, whenever big life decisions must be made... and it is beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.

Franky Gonzalez is a playwriting genius, and this play is a fearless, heartbreaking, inventive, intensely theatrical, gorgeous piece of work. It bruises, it blisters, it burns, and ultimately, it heals from the sheer courage of Gonzalez' riveting ability to bare his soul so openly and without pretense. Absolutely stunning.

"Cannoli Cream," the play, is as rich and flavorful as its namesake pastry filling, and despite its rather bitter premise, packs quite a bit of punchy comic sweetness into its ten pages.

A hilarious primer on, well, how to create dialogue and subtext in a script, Danza'a short comedy also serves as a pretty accurate portrait of marriage as well. Fun, pointed, and educational satire that entertains as well.

A ghost story in which Nina Simone is the hard-hitting ghost? Yes, please! I love this play for so many reasons, not the least of which are Diamond's wryly humorous observations and her diamond sharp characters – pun not intended.