Recommended by James McLindon

This is a play that is both heartbreaking and uplifting, sad and funny, despondent and hopeful, a play with great emotion, wit, and charm. Read it and, if you are so situated, produce it.

A terrific, terrifically dark comedy for anybody who's ever had their food stolen from a communal refrigerator ... as well as everyone else. Who knew vigilante justice in the company breakroom could be this much fun?

As absorbing as it is terrifying, this short will have you on the edge of your seat until the heartbreaking ending. I'd love to see it staged.

A thrilling play about being adventurous, being dangerous, and being yourself in a world where everyone else plays it safe. Allie is a powerful metaphor for artists and anyone else who risks it all because it's the only way they know to be. I can't wait for "it" to come back either.

I just loved this play, with its theme repeating, always the same, but always different, absurd and profound in equal measure and always, always funny. I would love to see a production.

For a play about loneliness at New Year's, this one is unrelentingly funny, as it subverts all of your preconceived notions about two socially unsuccessful people who at bottom are pretty okay with themselves. I'd love to see this staged.

This is a gem of a play that contemplates the guilt, fatigue and desire for deliverance of all who are doomed to live, and does it with drama, surprising humor and a wonderful ending.

A short but powerful play that covers much ground in a hopeful, beautiful, but always realistic manner that never lets us forget its circumstances. A play that should be seen and is worthy of many productions

I saw this play as part of the Boston Theater Marathon, and it was one of the funniest of the two-hour set. A Rosenstein-and-Guilderstern-type look at what one of pop culture's most famous girlfriends is worrying about offstage while her man is saveing the world onstage. Great idea, great execution.

One woman's seemingly awkward attempt to meet the woman in the apartment next door suddenly takes on a very different meaning and all the odd details that came before make sense. Skillfully plotted and written, with a ending as powerful as it is surprising.