Recommended by Rachel Bykowski

A play that is full of heart. Hageman shows with these sisters how characters can be vulnerable, flawed, and strong all at the same time.

A heartwarming play bursting with theatricality. Weaver has tapped into what makes theatre creative and imaginative from setting the play in the belly of whale to a giant squid fight on stage. These are the kind of creative challenges any director would want to tackle.

Saw this tremendous play performed at the Br!nk New Play Fest in Milwaukee and was astounded by the theatricality created on stage. You follow the story of a couples' hopes as they dream about their future together in way that can only come to life on stage. All the little and big moments of a loving relationship are captured perfectly, then immediately shattered just as fast as they are created. Alayna Jacqueline created a truly beautiful, moving piece that demonstrates the meaning of Black Lives Matter.

I had the wonderful opportunity to see a staged reading of this play with Relative Theatrics. A SciFi play about falling in and out of love. The play asks the difficult questions about mechanics of a relationship: what is compromise? What is trust? When do we put the relationship first? When do you put ourselves first? If that was not enough to chew on, Stanton does a poetic job of navigating the laws of artificial intelligence and begs the question, are human beings the only things capable of love?

I don't know how more timely you can get with a play. The stakes in this play are incredibly high as reputations and relationships are constantly tested. The best part of this play has got to be the ending; everything builds to it. To see this staged would give the audience chills as we wonder how much longer the people of Flint have to wait.

Loved this play and it was also featured in 20% Theatre Company Chicago's Snapshots 10-min play festival and was an instant fan favorite! Burbano's writing has a way of raising awareness to greater ills in society when you think you are just watching an interaction between a mother and tutor. A timely, necessary piece that will have the audience thinking about their own privilege and complacency in current affairs.

A delightfully absurd and insightful take on the sad/comical current state of affairs in our society. Carnes's imagination juxtaposes Viking-like rulers with corporate office politics to show how even over a thousand years later not much as changed.

Everything you loved and hated about being a undergrad at a party that was too cool for you to attend but you wanted to fit in sooooo desperately. Weingarten perfectly channels the feeling of young adulthood angst that makes every character in this play so relatable. The language is rich and emotions and stakes are incredibly high that makes this play a fun, glittery rollercoaster ride

A humorous play that celebrates childhood innocence and the high stakes of a parent trying to navigate the high stakes of a seven year-old's life.

The moment I saw "three women, ghost stories, and wendigos" I was hooked. A lovely coming of age story of three 20-somethings sharing stories and bonding over their worst fears. Watch as three women pass along the oral traditions of their families that include a spooky tale of a grandmother and a father's ghost coyote. A beautiful depiction of how oral tradition creates legends/myths and keeps generations of family members alive through their stories