Recommended by Eric Pfeffinger

This remarkable play engages insightfully with the wider world on the macro level while simultaneously being an impeccably observed, detailed portrait of recognizable people living their lives. Moving and stirring and ingeniously structured.

Innovative and surefooted, built on a confident awareness that the most momentous drama in our lives often expresses itself through the most unassuming and mundane moments.

A brainy drama of petty ambition that goes to the heart of what art's all about, with a driving comic sensibility that's positively vaudevillian.

The anxious experiences of regret and second thoughts and reduced opportunities, dramatized here with such immediacy, has a queasy universality. Coupled with the phenomenon of working poverty it takes on a sharp political specificity. The notes of hope and optimism at the end are complicated and welcome.

Starts as a deftly brisk and funny slice-of-life, something that three young actors with good timing can really crush. But when things turn -- dropping what feels like a big bomb on these young lives -- the feelings are real and the anger is unsparing and the final moments, which could have been unsatisfyingly pat, are instead laden with emotional subtext.

I first saw this play years ago; it's the kind of subject you'd hope would go out of date but regrettably it feels as electric and relevant as ever. This is the kind of thing theater's supposed to do: translate an idea into concrete, grounded drama with such immediacy that even audiences who think they already agree with the premise are discomfited and enlightened by the experience. Tight and relentless and necessary.

There are three great comic roles in this smart, funny play with a pitch-black heart.

If you've got a male-heavy ensemble with tight comic timing and a way with a laugh line, this brisk and loopy short should bring the house down.

Lively and exuberant -- a play about publishing and posterity, about minutiae and dealmaking, that keeps its most famous character offstage and yet manages to be a rollicking high-stakes life-and-death drama about striving to recognize and preserve something fundamental about humanity itself.

A refreshingly grown-up play that regards youth with a gimlet eye and middle age with knowing regrets. To call something a memory play risks making it sound inert and backwards-looking, its stakes in the past; but this play demonstrates that the past is relentlessly present, shaping the current moment with merciless urgency. Keenly felt and resonant.