Recommended by Rob Silverman Ascher

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    Elegiac without being saccharine, THIS IS A FACE is a gorgeous look at giving oneself to their partner and carving out a new life.

    Elegiac without being saccharine, THIS IS A FACE is a gorgeous look at giving oneself to their partner and carving out a new life.

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    So beautiful and so rich. I’ve been thinking about OSHER regularly for the past few years.

    So beautiful and so rich. I’ve been thinking about OSHER regularly for the past few years.

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    A raw, deeply compelling play about nationalism and what facing history actually looks like.

    A raw, deeply compelling play about nationalism and what facing history actually looks like.

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    BASICALLY CHILDREN should be required reading for every college student. No one understands the way the Internet works like Charlie O’Leary.

    BASICALLY CHILDREN should be required reading for every college student. No one understands the way the Internet works like Charlie O’Leary.

  • Rob Silverman Ascher: In this Sepulcher, We Are Fed by Eli Campbell
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    Grimy and luxurious, SEPULCHER is a finely attuned look at how complicity eats people from the inside out. Eli’s writing is politically savvy, proudly queer, and always funny.

    Grimy and luxurious, SEPULCHER is a finely attuned look at how complicity eats people from the inside out. Eli’s writing is politically savvy, proudly queer, and always funny.

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  • Rob Silverman Ascher: Nancy by Sean Swenson
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    Only Sean can juggle all of the elements at the core of a play like NANCY and create a play so brazenly experimental and so emotionally attuned.

    Only Sean can juggle all of the elements at the core of a play like NANCY and create a play so brazenly experimental and so emotionally attuned.

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  • Rob Silverman Ascher: Art Gets What it Wants by Sean Swenson
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    Better than any other play about process, ART GETS WHAT IT WANTS takes the time to examine the ways that collaboration can both affirm and drain the parts of the whole. You learn to love Glen and Julie and also want to dunk their heads in the toilet. And when the play reveals its surprises, you will be shocked and delighted. Sean’s voice is so vivid, equal parts satirical and deeply invested in why people act like the animals that they are.

    Better than any other play about process, ART GETS WHAT IT WANTS takes the time to examine the ways that collaboration can both affirm and drain the parts of the whole. You learn to love Glen and Julie and also want to dunk their heads in the toilet. And when the play reveals its surprises, you will be shocked and delighted. Sean’s voice is so vivid, equal parts satirical and deeply invested in why people act like the animals that they are.

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  • Rob Silverman Ascher: Big Time Toppers by Patrick Vermillion
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    So funny, so horrifying, so true! Existing at the nexus of social realism and clowny absurdism, BIG TIME TOPPERS investigates the degradation of gig work and the artistic dreams that suffer as a result. Also, tons of knives.

    So funny, so horrifying, so true! Existing at the nexus of social realism and clowny absurdism, BIG TIME TOPPERS investigates the degradation of gig work and the artistic dreams that suffer as a result. Also, tons of knives.

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  • Rob Silverman Ascher: Basically Children by Charlie O'Leary
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    THIS PLAY... is prescient and brilliant. No one writes about the internet like Charlie. As discourse blooms and curdles on a once-a-month cycle these days, it is thrilling to see a writer tackle the Internet homophobia industrial complex with such compassion and skill. You will love and hate every character in equal measure, and you will laugh, cringe, and shiver in equal measure. I'm biased, but Basically Children is required reading for all people trying to make sense of the cultural behemoth that we are all a part of.

    THIS PLAY... is prescient and brilliant. No one writes about the internet like Charlie. As discourse blooms and curdles on a once-a-month cycle these days, it is thrilling to see a writer tackle the Internet homophobia industrial complex with such compassion and skill. You will love and hate every character in equal measure, and you will laugh, cringe, and shiver in equal measure. I'm biased, but Basically Children is required reading for all people trying to make sense of the cultural behemoth that we are all a part of.

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