Recommended by Brigid Amos

I watched the the recent CreateTheater Monday Night Development Series rebroadcast of the TRU Voices Series reading of this gripping play. I found myself completely engrossed in Kym's ethical dilemmna as she struggled to choose between transparency leading to a potential roadblock and academic subterfuge leading either to great success or utter disaster. Minigan does an amazing job of showing us that in academia, as in Shakespeare's world, forming the right alliances and making the right decisions at the right time is everything.

This play was such a fun read! Peter Fenton spins out Neverland's secrets in a way that kept me off balance and guessing all the way through. When the hidden truth is finally revealed, we are asked to consider how resistance to taking on adult responsibilites can cripple a person rather than free them, and the wasted years of what could have been a loving relationship is heartbreaking. Yet the playwright leaves us with hope for the young college students who have stumbled into Neverland. I highly recommend this for high school production. Oh, and Tinker Bell is hilarious!

With compassion and insight, Kerr Lockhart navigates the conflicting responsibilities weighing on the main character Eileen Kinsella. How does one balance responsibility to society with responsibility to those at our doorstep asking for help? What if what we have sworn to uphold violates our deeply held beliefs? And how does a person of faith justify tolerating evil for the greater good? Lockhart puts us in Eileen's impossible position to understand her decision and to answer these questions for ourselves. I heard Sanctity read by American Theater Group, and that stellar reading proves this fine play deserves a production.

A fascinating, complex, and intimate portrait of the theologian as he finds himself torn between his devotion to God, country, family, and romantic love. This play is beautifully written, particularly in Bonhoeffer's direct address to God, which allows the audience insight into a great mind and a brave soul.

Abraham's Daughters has everything you could want in a play: brilliant humor and gut-wrenching tragedy, bitter conflict and uplifting reconciliation, a family story and a global story, all moving toward an ending both foretold and unexpected. Most unforgettable is the central character of Abraham Abramowitz. He is a gentle and wise patriarch with a heart big enough to fit within it the entire world and a courage of his convictions that can bring change.

Fun and frightening at the same time, this play portrays the anger and solidarity among a group of women fed up with those who manipulate local and national politics to their own selfish ends.

A joyous, meditative, angry, and hopeful journey to face the fears we inherit, find beauty and love among ugliness and hate, seek justice for the oppressed, preserve our fragile earth, and discover our true place and responsibility in a broken world.

In this beautifully crafted evocation of lost youth, John Patrick Bray has captured its extreme closeness and bitter rivalries, its good intentions and terrible decisions, and the secret abandoned places we gathered to console each other with tales of the truly lost.

I love stories like this that break down the boundaries between the living and the dead in a way that instill hope rather than dread. Yes, there is the horror of possession, of self-harm, of madness, but this is really a tale of connection and caring between the living and the dead, a union of souls, and one soul protecting another by turning possession from an infliction of harm to an act of generosity and caretaking.

A fascinating exploration into the modern concept of digital remains. Unlike the social media accounts and other online traces of the dead that live on to haunt us, this play further upends the grieving process by pushing digital remains closer to AI, a disturbing prospect that may emerge in the not so distant future.