Recommended by Jordan Elizabeth

There's a lot to love in this funny, tender play about being seen and feeling alive. STUPID GHOST is a play to read and reread -- it's hilarious and so fast-paced that you'll be dying to find out how it ends; but it also invites deeper, slower consideration about what it means to be alive, what it means to move on from the ghosts of lives we've abandoned, what it means to really see another soul. Totally charming. Totally wonderful.

So cute!! A funny concept executed perfectly, in true Steve Hayet style. Oh the ways parents subtly (and not so subtly) try to influence their children's lives.

Bleak and hilarious, ROUND ONE is a great little play about commitment, compromise, and experience. The bit about Mark making the creepy cake-topper himself pushed me over the edge from chuckling to laughing out loud. A terrific short play for three actors with great comedic timing.

FEROCIOUS. This would be a fantastic audition piece: this character is fierce, a little deranged, and in absolute control of herself and her surroundings. Super fun. I love the women Partain puts onstage.

Gorgeous, heartbreaking, and immediate: BARS AND MEASURES walks the line between worlds, blurs them together, and separates them again. The final moment of this play is inevitable, and the impact took my breath away. I hope I have the chance to see a production of this someday soon. A must-read.

Equal parts tragedy, horror, and gut-busting comedy, MAN & WIFE paints for us a bone-chilling universal future that made me want to scream; at the same time, it dives deep below the skin of a single married couple to explore the deceptions, vulnerability, and struggle to do right that exists in all loving commitments between two people. Being involved in a production of this play, in any capacity, would be such a blast: great creative challenges for a large team with a grand vision, and plenty of options for a scaled-down production.

Musical and poetic, the beauty of the language of this play is like oxygen:the rhythms and lyricism keep us alive as Poynor helps us through this horror. This play is an essential voice in the national conversation about gun reform and gun violence in schools -- it at once celebrates life and hope while staring the national demon of gun violence in the face. I love the idea of staging this play in an immersive setting -- because this story is deeply personal and specific, but it is also, horrifyingly, a corporate experience. An Important piece of theatre.

ABSO-FREAKIN-LUTELY HYSTERICAL. I woke my dog up from her nap, I was laughing so hard. There's something -so satisfying- about women talking about sex without it being exploitative. Comedy gold for four funny women.

The world of this play feels so familiar to me -- which makes each of these characters in equal parts frustrating and lovely. The space between Jane and Abigail is so. wide. But it is in this broad space where the beauty of this play really lies because you have the sense that Jane and Abigail will find each other somewhere in this middle space, no matter how dark and mysterious it is. The set up breaks my heart, as does the slow decline of Jack's mental faculties. This play caught me by surprise.

A very short play very worth-reading. What begins as a light moment of peace between a mother and daughter takes a sharp turn that left me with chills and tears in my eyes. If you're planning a production of plays about gun reform, give this short play a look.