Recommended by Greg Lam

Two characters separated by many miles of atmosphere make an unlikely connection while one whizzes overhead of the other very earthbound one. Black-Spence illustrates the two main characters burgeoning friendship and romance with care and an ear for wonderful dialogue. A sweet tale of isolation and connection, loss and new beginnings.

A striking ten-minute play about nurses nervous about working with Covid cases for the first time in March 2020. The uncertainty and dread of the onset of the pandemic is clearly rendered through these warm, sympathetic characters. Even more poignant now when reading this in 2021 as we know what future's in store for these characters.

You'll likely have read a number of plays on Zoom about the way things are now, but Andrea Aptecker's GET SEXY ON ZOOM is more real and salient than most. Aptecker shows with great wit and precision the fault lines between desire, responsibility, and the perils of flirting on zoom while your kid is just behind the door.

This is a delightful mashup which imagines characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream running into the poet Sappho, and who discover they have much to discuss together. Rose cleverly uses our familiarity with both of her classic sources to spin a new, fun tale about Shakespeare's women.

An intensely personal autobiographical story, the type of which I would never even dare to try to write. Daring and with a particular, creative theatricality and humor beyond its confessional one-person play trappings. I'm particularly interested in how this show changes from night to night with different people in the second role.

A moving, well-observed play which uses science fiction as a backdrop for the examination of a prickly sibling rivalry between. Cassie and Stella are at turns warm and resentful towards one another. Richly detailed and emotionally resonant, Berryman is wonderful at taking both science fiction tenets and interpersonal drama seriously to eye opening results.

A beguiling and very specific piece which places you in the subculture at the intersection of North and South Korean cultures through the lives of uprooted outcasts. Also a unique exploration of social media portrayed onstage as a hypermodern Greek chorus. Theatrical and personal all at the same time.

An empathetic and warm-hearted look at the lives of five girls at the margins of society. Carefully observed and generous in spirit. This was the featured play on an episode of Boston Podcast Players podcast. https://www.bostonpodcastplayers.com/updates/2019/12/4/the-tragic-ecsta…

A sprawling look at modern life through the pinhole of our economic transactions. People try to make their little corner of capitalism more tolerable with wide ranging consequences, with side trips to the rich guy who invented credit cards and socialist Emma Goldman, among others. This piece is theatrical, ambitious, funny, and clever.

A lyrical meditation on birth, death and memory through the lens of the Icarus myth as it applies to the family members of three generations of women. Mysterious and moving, this would be a treat to see produced with its use of song and a Greek chorus.