Recommended by Michele Clarke

Martin is extremely skilled at developing vivid understanding and empathy in her audience. As with her other Pennsyltucky pieces, we ache for and along with these characters. And we learn. It's magnificent, bravely honest work.

There's enormous room in this evocative and smart piece for a director and actors to interpret, imprint, and impress. The writing is divine - the "will they or won't they" tension is only surpassed by the "are they or aren't they" question that hovers over it all. Such an engaging piece!

Yassss Queen! Lucy Wang drops it like it's hot in this sharp, witty response to a moment every woman - of a certain age - has lived. A delight.

An exquisite look at the distance between self-delusion and reality, the deep destruction caused by unfettered appetites, and the hopelessness of being stuck where you are when those appetites invade your world. A metaphor for our times that is never heavy-handed. Brava!

A gripping and full-hearted exploration of choices, regret, and finding the grace to forgive.

What a fantastic TYA piece. Especially for theaters looking for alternatives to the Annie-Sound of Music-Disney rut. "Who made up these rules? Do traditions ever evolve? And who gets to decide?" BE LIKE WATER is a deft and thought-provoking look at the blind reverence we give traditions and institutions - and specifically a certain financial juggernaut with origins in 1816, 1891 and 1954.

A clever broach to an increasingly thermonuclear topic. Lucy Wang has gifted us with "junior moment" and we are not worthy.

A touching homily to the magic of seeing and being seen.

A delicious look at new love -- and the contortions we go through to get through it.

It's time for the right play about Covid. And this is it. Theatrical. Piercing. A masterwork. Anya Martin has captured first-person accounts of the height of the pandemic -- from the healthcare professionals who lived it - and the general public voices confused and terrified by it. Martin's significant skill is putting it all together in a way that draws us in instead of repelling us. Produce this event. This is the one.