Recommended by Ryan Stevens

This is such a smart play - it never goes for the obvious or easy choice, and always pushes the story into the most interesting and surprising possible territory. The characters are achingly human, and the way Garcia knots together so many different strands of longing and loss is really impressive. It's really hard to write a play about overlapping major life changes like this, but this script soars!

Metal is not just a music genre, metal is not just an aesthetic, metal is a way of life! This play really gets into the metal ethos, and self-sabotaging and hostile and tender underneath it all as it can be. Three fascinating characters pummeling each other like 'No Exit' with leather and face paint. It's got great dialogue, tight and taut pace, and a climax that feels wonderfully climactic! No posers here, this script is the real deal!

The funniest, most human play about Bigfoot you'll ever read! The relationships and tenderness are so insightful and well-drawn. It really pulls you in to these people's lives and it's so energetic and taut that it flies by!

McCloskey excels at capturing the soul of a character in a few quick phrases - the exhaustion and pride we all walk around with every day, making mundane moments into crises of the soul. The Drivers is full of these moments -- people caught in the squeeze of multiple jobs in a failing country that doesn't care about them, but who still find a way to keep their heads high. There aren't any easy answers here, but there are incredible characters deserving of time and dignity.

An incredibly humanist look at the people who make games, and the way we can't escape taking inspiration from our relationships. Every character feels fully realized, and Malloy weaves multiples tales of ambition and its personal cost together into a stirring mosaic of ideals and compromise. Highly recommended!

Hot damn! What a smart, fierce exploration of feminine creativity, the struggle to express oneself, and writing workshop fuckboys. Goes from funny to devastating and back again. A powerful time-tripping story that resonates now and probably will forever.

What a fascinating short play! A period piece of the early 2000s, a memory play on the perils of childlike imagination, a marital drama starring a teddy bear. Vivid and immediate, playful and cutting, the total package.

A fast, furious, feminist fable on the power and danger of giving your all for your craft. Smith assembles two characters that are full to the brim with life and personality. In a world where you end up having to sell your soul to something, usually your job, why not try the devil instead? Really, what do you have to lose, that this world isn't going to take already?

A wonderful insight into ambition and living with dreams out of reach. Velandra's characters are both immediately clear to the audience and full of unseen complexity. Their relationship and the way the play develops them create an excellent engine to power this tightly-focused, character-first whip-smart script.

A gutwrenching small-town noir that shoves a hand in your chest to grip your heart and never lets go. Appleby's most impressive trick is how they toss you into the middle of this sprawling, knotted mystery, then efficiently unties the whole thing in under 60 pages. The mystery is clear and concise, and you never feel the gears turning until the floor falls out from under you. I mixed my metaphors there, but the point stands -- a fascinating, edge-of-your-seat examination of the terrible creatures lurking under the pleasant suburban surface.