Recommended by Jessie Salsbury

Borg and Plummer have crafted a beautiful and heartfelt play about a young woman wishing to interview a hero about his past. In few words, this play demonstrates the different thoughts of generations on tragedies that happened before our birth. Touching and a wonderful short work.

This is a thoughtfully crafted play that brings in a new perspective after a sexual assault - the side of the rapist's family. One of Lindsay Adams' strengths is to be able to craft work that addresses social commentary in an inventive way. I listened to a reading of this play in the spring of 2019, and everyone in the audience was engaged and full of questions after the reading. This is a strong work that needs to be performed in front of wider audiences.

Diana Burbano has created a play that is equally heartbreaking and hilarious. Ghosts of Bogota is a rare treasure that re-creatively tells a standard funeral family drama. The dialogue and characters are unforgettable and sharply created. This work holds fantastic roles for bilingual Latinx/o/a actors.

Asher Wyndham has a rare and incredible ability to build monologues so they contain an entire world very quickly. Monologues must jump from the start to keep the audience's attention, and this writing does exactly that. I felt where we were, I understood the location and the relationship. What was especially amazing was the bits of the character's past that were let in, showing us the reason for her incarceration, but it wasn't overpowering or unnatural. Asher Wyndham is truly a master of the craft.

Tiffany Antone has created a sparkling play full of analogies to the way those with vaginas are treated in today's times. It is inventive, wonderfully shocking, and these characters are incandescently different, hilarious, and moving through the work at a breakneck pace. Masterfully done with a lot for an audience to consider.

This show was one of the hits of Fringe 2018 in Kansas City. Everyone was talking about it, and people were turned away because it sold out in one of the largest houses in the Fringe circuit. A sharp and beautiful play about childhood, grief, loss, and friendship, I am excited to see it being expanded into a full length play. Anyone who grew up in the 90s will love this one.

This play is witty, advantageous and needed for today. There are lots of plays that explore a future where women could be in charge, and this one explores this future from a realistic and governmental perspective. It reminds me of 'Friends with Guns' by S. Walker in that you come in with one opinion but leave with another, having challenged yourself and your biases in another direction. Simply brilliant, can't wait to see where this one goes. Great large and diverse cast for school and college productions.

I have had the wonderful privilege to see this great work through workshop (OCTA) and now in full production (KCMPT) - both in the Kansas City market. There is not a play like it - historical, funny, poignant - Beautiful hints of Wizard of Oz woven into a history lesson. Michelle Tyrene Johnson puts her heart into her work, and her women in this play are absolutely incandescent. All theatres should add this one to their season.

Lavinia Roberts is an expert storyteller and she flexes all her muscles in this work. Each scene builds on the other, and the characters are complex and reflective of today. This is a work that can be successfully performed with an intricate set design or in a bare stage black box and have the same impact. This is truly a play for us now in our humanitarian and refugee crisis, without being heavy handed or cliche. Lavinia is a rare talent.

Are you looking for a haunting, other-wordly Gothic play that will surprise you? This is the one. Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos is a master at dialogue that is unique and world-building. You won't hear another play like it. This will be a delight to see on its feet. Unique role for an actress to tackle in Bunny.