Recommended by Aly Kantor

After losing someone who hurt them terribly, three siblings reunite in their family home to go through the motions and perform the rituals of grief for the world. Tiana's narration is a gorgeous way to naturally incorporate exposition as we get to know the house, the characters, and the backstory. The play has a stunning gothic sensibility, and the haunting atmosphere is tense and tangible on the page. It presents a brilliant opportunity for a horror-loving sound designer to ply their trade to tremendously spooky effect! This is a tightly plotted tale about trauma, regret, and healing.

Ah, this script is an absolute repository of snappy one-liners! This short may depict Steve's melatonin-addled dream, but it's certain to become a costumer's dream, as well! It has ample opportunities to play with iconic looks and period flair. The character voices are recognizable and specific, with a sense of anachronistic theatricality that's straight out of a Caryl Churchill play. Silly, low-stakes, highly engaging fun for the holiday season!

I adore this hilariously heightened homage to Noel Coward, full of ridiculous and laugh-out-loud dialogue that, nevertheless, possesses a glorious theatrical poetry that makes you want to read it aloud! Every twist is just as goofy and irreverent as the last! Actors would be lucky to portray this larger-than-life, crystal-clear duo, and audiences would be lucky to experience it! Silly, surprising, spectacular!

An adorable, consistently funny, supernatural coming out story with a fun twist and a happy ending! It includes fun, challenging roles for actors (especially the actor playing Garth, who is tasked with doing double duty), and opportunities to make the technical elements as simple or over the top as you'd like. I found the relationship between the characters authentic and believable. A laugh out loud offering for any queer, spooky, or queer and spooky festival!

"Cushmania" has taken over my life, and this sharp, intelligent, hilarious play is more than worth the hype! This is a compelling, theatrical story of sisterhood, with some brilliantly prescient ideas at the center. It's grounded in the period but with a fresh and modern sensibility. The script is packed with funny, larger-than-life, and complex roles for women (and some men). The plot is immaculately crafted, and the verse is a playful, genius touch that never feels out of place in the heightened world of the play. A fast-paced and moving story of queerness, friendship, and art! Bravo!

This irreverent holiday play has all the nostalgia of your favorite stop-motion Christmas special, the rom-com, small-town splendor of a Lifetime Christmas Movie, plus a little bit of fairytale flair for seasoning... but just when you think you know what to expect, the plot turns political, with real-world issues coming to the forefront in inventive and hilarious ways! Mitchell and Daisy are gorgeous foils for the hardworking Santa and the savvy Mayor Claus. The various and sundry festive references come fast and furious, and those paying close attention will be rewarded! This is a fun offering for the holiday season!

I LOVE the transient liminality of a hotel as a setting, and it's utilized to brilliant dramatic effect here! This enigmatic play makes you work through a bit of uncanny disorientation to figure out the relationships between the characters and their backstories. It keeps things engaging, providing just enough information for a keen observer to connect the dots and put the deeply sad narrative together. Who is the mysterious concierge, and does he do more than facilitate? Is this an afterlife or merely a stopping point on the way to a final destination? An eerie and intriguing work!

The conceit of this play is sublime in its simplicity, yet somehow so brilliant! Nostalgia rises to the forefront as we revisit the same green room through the years as one actor ages through all the male roles in A Christmas Carol. A poem as much as a play, you'll love noticing what changes and what stays oppressively the same. Anna Ouyang Moench leverages a doubling plot with more finesse than any other living playwright. This Christmas Carol alternative is just a touch more honest, with a well-earned, bittersweet, metatheatrical ending I'll be thinking about for a while! Fantastic!

This play is a delight! Derman has managed to capture the epic theatricality and specific language of the way young girls play and transform it into a comedic and occasionally raw glimpse of the way dominant power structures shape the way women perceive the world and their place in it. While the play addresses many identities, it is unapologetically queer, and the intersectionality here is seamless. I love and appreciate that the kids are allowed to be kids, warts and all. I definitely saw my own messy, complicated girlhood in this play. A hilarious warm hug of a memory play!

What a charming, efficient little play! Is it about a tree, or is it about the relationship between a less-than-observant person who feels big things and the thoughtful observer who feels big things about the first guy?

Hint: It's not about a tree because... there isn't one! Ha!

I think we've all been in this situation, trying to offer advice or suggestions to someone who seemingly doesn't want any of it. The fantastic button at the end of this play brings it full [stone] circle, and comes with a satisfying dose of visceral relief... for Drew AND the audience! FUN!