Recommended by James McLindon

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.

I saw a Tiny_Theatre reading of this play and was struck by its quiet power. What starts out as a small fight between a couple following a disagreement at a wedding suddenly becomes enormous and dangerous, not unlike how tugging at a loose thread can suddenly put a garment in danger of unraveling. Carefully crafted and compelling.

Karen Saari gets all the details right in a nuanced play about a misunderstanding that suddenly is about so much more. This play, full of meaning and insight is wonderfully crafted and has a big payoff.

What a charming, sneakily powerful play about gender and relationships and parenthood and even a little existentialism and more. It's raises so many questions and does so in such a funny way and with an unrelenting drive to the finish that makes you surprised that it's already over when it ends, and yet feels just right. I loved it, was left wanting more, and yet also very satisfied.

I should probably say first that sci fi is not at all my genre, but I loved this piece, first for avoiding a lot of the cliches of the genre and even more importantly putting us in a world with people who felt real and fully developed. The story was lovely and the ending rich with possibility, which I'll be thinking about for a while.

I also saw the Tiny Theatre reading of this play and it was wonderful, as the realization of just who one of the characters is dawns on us and his date at the same time. And such a satisfying twist to end the play! This one deserves a lot of productions.