Recommended by Eric Pfeffinger

A well-crafted and deftly wrought exploration of cultural identity, divertingly dramatized through characters who speak with erudition about Rousseau and African artifacts even as they don't realize how confined they are within their own silo of cultural experience. A clever and engaging conversation-starter.

Loopy and relentlessly unpredictable -- like an amusement park ride except with occasional heartbreak. Audiences and actors alike will welcome the chance to submerge themselves in the smart, peculiar, distinctive and idiosyncratic world built by this play.

A moving, gripping, and often surprisingly funny play that blends tense stakes, disarming lyricism, and refreshing humor. I came away from the play particularly struck by the characters -- these are five intricately drawn, convincingly flawed, completely recognizable human beings that the audience roots for and that any actor would love to play.

A bracing and unflinching exploration of accountability and forgiveness in a War-on-Terror world. Compellingly flawed characters collide with each other in provocative ways in the big world of this smart play.

This play is a sure-handed wonder: unbridled in its hilarity, except when it's being starkly confrontational in its dissection of identity politics and artistic representation. Just unbelievably funny and so, so smart.

An often hilarious, very relatable story of loss and human connection, at once highly theatrical and eminently stageable. The central metaphor is both fanciful and heartbreaking and it lends this often poignant story a buoyant, transporting lift. The play rewards cunning but stripped-down approaches to staging.

Alternately raw and funny, LUCINDA'S BED is a masterfully assembled character study, built around a strong and surprisingly flexible design element and a fanciful but robust facility for metaphor. Eminently stageable, relentlessly involving and theatrically ingenious.

At once poetic and theatrical, WAVING GOODBYE is a finely drawn exploration of loss, parenthood, and the capacities (and limitations) of art.

A cunningly constructed play, propelled by a compelling mystery and with a warm and lyrical heart. In performance it pulls you into its world immediately and doesn't let go until the curtain falls ten minutes later.

A fanciful, witty and elegantly brainy origin story of two major historical figures -- semi-Stoppardian in its speculative storytelling and thought-provoking in its exploration of faith and integrity.