Recommended by Asher Wyndham

Along with the script's startling revelations, the development of Gabi and Manuel's relationship from strangers to siblings has perfect pacing - emotionally satisfying until the violent showdown with the assassin El Hombre. If you're looking for an unexpected brother-sister play or US/Mexico border drama, if you're interested in plays on faith and family, then check this out. Should be easy to produce given its single setting.

This short play ruined my weekend. When you think you know where it's going, the playwright surprises you again and again. His short plays deserve an evening length of theatre.

A poignant road-trip scene about loss, mourning, and sisterhood. Many readers will relate - having either been in the driver's seat or the passenger seat, literally or not, with a sibling mourning the loss of a parent or family member. It's outstanding how much character and plot development is covered in a such a short amount of time - with a car stalled on a road in the middle of nowhere. Perfect for young actresses, in high school or college. A smart choice for a festival on death and mourning or family matters.

Loss of innocence in the Age of the Internet - a great concept for a short play. With 'Going Viral' by Brandon M Crose that loss of innocence with Facebook and YouTube - and a child learning that his/her identity exists in this other world, that past and present is documented and viewable by milliions - makes you question modern parenting and the role of technology in raising children. Great work. Highly recommended for theatres around the world!

A feminist comedy that would be a perfect choice for feminist theatre artists on and off campus. I enjoyed how the comedy and biting satire never weakened as the play progressed. A great challenge for a scenic designer.

A dark comedy on straight marriage in the Age of Trumpism. Necessary theatre because it captures so perfectly partisan tension between many married straight couples today. An allegory for that ideological divide in the United States. A rollicking theatricalization of marriage, its rites and rituals, like raising children and answering to the previous generation's expectations. With Man & Wife's domestic life as a series of performances before an unseen fourth-wall camera, this experiemental two-hander plays with the structure of theatre and marriage, while dealing with gender identity and truth relativism post-2016 election. Highly recommended for reading and production. Bravo!

This short play does what I find most delightful in plays - characters playing parts. Capturing what's theatrical in life. The play within the play itself. The playwright effectively uses the structure of recess time play - playground play - to focus on the narratives/myths of parenting, marriage, and family life. The use of adults to play children is not just for comic effect. The play is surprisingly serious in its execution and intent. Check it out.

The choice of structuring the play with a Storyteller, with action performed at times like a silent film, with images like from a children's storybook, along with dancing and singing and fighting, creates an unexpected theatricality. It's a show for young audiences, yes, but it's also for their parents--it's for the entire Latinx community and their allies. As a romance inspired by love stories of classic literature/myth, it speaks of Puerto Rico's past, but also speaks to the present, right now, post-Hurricane Maria with its allegorical good vs evil story. Another gem from Diaz-Marcano. Bravo.

Instead of relying on exposition to detail the newlywed and young years of marriage, Weaver cleverly captures three stages of marriage on stage at the same time. An imaginative exploration of love, commitment, changes and new experiences, and the beauty of patience, waiting for...the Quail. Weaver's short plays showcase a playwright with an incredible range of styles and structures. If you haven't checked out Weaver's short plays you're missing out. He's probably one of the most productive short playwrights on New Play Exchange!

The symbolism and choreopoetic language functions to express the oppressive, racist reality of American education that encourages complicity and de-values diversity and difference. Haunting. Heartbreaking. This play would appeal to highschool and college students. And if performed by kickass students, it's brutal criticism, it's a wake-up call to teachers and administrators. I recommend that it's performed in cafeterias.