Recommended by Zach Barr

By turns both hilarious and haunting, Myers has crafted a deft mystery whose layers slowly coax the audience along. The play captures the tension of being trapped by a creature that has developed it’s own twisted vision of who you are - a fear that women who have been pursued know all too well. Looking forward to seeing it in performance.

I’m completely floored by the depth of Gwynn’s writing throughout this play. A deeply felt and personal reckoning with the self, with the church, with desire and want and the divine fear that comes from choosing. It’s a masterful, poetic play that truly feels - appropriately - miraculous.

I know very few plays that utilize silence so effectively in a story about language and communication. A unique story that begins slow, and then continues moving slowly, and then suddenly you realize you've been completely wrapped up in it. The wide range of possibilities for how this story can be told onstage is particularly thrilling, and its deft balance of myth and heart will sway audiences of all kinds.

A play about people breaking through the surface of banal office chatter, which just finds deeper and deeper layers as it goes. Grounded by two supremely relatable and human characters, it's a story that will resonate with anyone who has tried to make real connections in an environment designed to prevent them. Excited to see how this play can grow in performance.

honestly still frustrated that this play hasn't had its major debut production yet

An elegiac and worthwhile mediation on the nature of fate, transplanted into a community and time period where the people had little freedom to escape the cycle of violence and addiction. Pearson weaves classical and modern language together into a play where being understood is nearly as difficult as saying the right thing.

Of all that I appreciate in this script – it's humor, it's universality, it's score, it's seasonal applicability – perhaps what stands out most is the very delicate balance it strikes between uplifting the humanity of the flawed humans at the center of the story, while honoring the reverence for this narrative culturally. It is, in a sideways manner, a realistic depiction of how this narrative would play out. Still occupies my thoughts years after first reading it.

A play as sweet as a candy cane, which approaches the holiday spirit from a unique angle.

A whip-quick, smartly-abridged adaptation that centers the beauty of Dickens' language, written with an eye towards adaptability in production. Any enterprising artists, from major regional companies to scrappy collegiate troupes, can find heart in Jadhwani's script. If you have to do "A Christmas Carol," try this script out!

A hauntingly simple play, wrestling with our desire to eulogize those who have made an indelible impact on us. Raw emotionality that feels earned and necessary, and not exploitative. An excellent exploration of queer romance made universal.