Recommended by Diana Burbano

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    A play that explores the emotional minefield of loving another artist while struggling to create yourself. Jealousy. Writer’s block. The fear of not being good enough or of being too good. When two ambitious creatives share a life, what survives: the work, the love, or their sanity?
    A darkly compelling exploration of art, ego, and intimacy. Saw the Geffen Playhouse production and loved it.

    A play that explores the emotional minefield of loving another artist while struggling to create yourself. Jealousy. Writer’s block. The fear of not being good enough or of being too good. When two ambitious creatives share a life, what survives: the work, the love, or their sanity?
    A darkly compelling exploration of art, ego, and intimacy. Saw the Geffen Playhouse production and loved it.

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    Stepping into this play is like stepping into the speeding van at its center, it grabs you at the beginning and never lets go. I knew nothing about this industry and read through the play horrified that any parent would do this to their kids, while also understanding the impulse. The character of Neela is a beautiful example of a real kid on stage. She's messy, defiant, troubled, intelligent, imaginative and filled with beauty. All the characters are complicated, not what you might think at the beginning. The play is truthful and doesn't speak down to teens. Highly recommend.

    Stepping into this play is like stepping into the speeding van at its center, it grabs you at the beginning and never lets go. I knew nothing about this industry and read through the play horrified that any parent would do this to their kids, while also understanding the impulse. The character of Neela is a beautiful example of a real kid on stage. She's messy, defiant, troubled, intelligent, imaginative and filled with beauty. All the characters are complicated, not what you might think at the beginning. The play is truthful and doesn't speak down to teens. Highly recommend.

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    Absolutely brilliant and gut churningly familiar. As a young actress, I too was schooled and groomed and convinced that it was all in the spirit of great theatre. I have to think that when someone reacts strongly to this play in the negative, it's an enormous "tell". I hope this piece is performed and seen by actors everywhere, and that we all have a reckoning about how we create art.

    Absolutely brilliant and gut churningly familiar. As a young actress, I too was schooled and groomed and convinced that it was all in the spirit of great theatre. I have to think that when someone reacts strongly to this play in the negative, it's an enormous "tell". I hope this piece is performed and seen by actors everywhere, and that we all have a reckoning about how we create art.

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    This is an alternately hilarious/squirm-inducing play about how we bend ourselves to our lovers to get what we think we want. Brilliant, modern, with to the moment references and a real and honest examination of Asianness. It's a terrific and very produceable play.

    This is an alternately hilarious/squirm-inducing play about how we bend ourselves to our lovers to get what we think we want. Brilliant, modern, with to the moment references and a real and honest examination of Asianness. It's a terrific and very produceable play.

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    “Change is constant, change is the natural order”
    This beautiful play—t’s a historical piece, yes, but it’s also rooted in contemporary issues; In the now/today/yesterday/always world of queerness, family, religion, and survival. I love the way the brothers talk to each other in this work, the deep bond they have with each other, and the way they navigate a world that is in constant, dangerous flux.

    “Change is constant, change is the natural order”
    This beautiful play—t’s a historical piece, yes, but it’s also rooted in contemporary issues; In the now/today/yesterday/always world of queerness, family, religion, and survival. I love the way the brothers talk to each other in this work, the deep bond they have with each other, and the way they navigate a world that is in constant, dangerous flux.

  • Diana Burbano: Have to Believe We Are Magic by Sara Guerrero
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    This play is magic, fun, pain, and Disneyland. It's so glorious when Gloria rolls on to steal our hearts and a bunch of Jack in the box balls. Tackling serious topics with humor and music and centering latinx women. LOVE THIS PLAY!

    This play is magic, fun, pain, and Disneyland. It's so glorious when Gloria rolls on to steal our hearts and a bunch of Jack in the box balls. Tackling serious topics with humor and music and centering latinx women. LOVE THIS PLAY!

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  • Diana Burbano: Helicopter Typhoon Carabao! Or, To Survive an Apocalypse Now by Amanda L. Andrei
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    This play takes you on a journey, deconstructing and destroying the myth of Apocalypse Now. A story of how filmmakers wreaked destruction in the Philippines, from a Filipino-American perspective. A definite "Our Stories" piece. Clever, biting, heartbreaking BRILLIANT. Amanda is a writer to watch.

    This play takes you on a journey, deconstructing and destroying the myth of Apocalypse Now. A story of how filmmakers wreaked destruction in the Philippines, from a Filipino-American perspective. A definite "Our Stories" piece. Clever, biting, heartbreaking BRILLIANT. Amanda is a writer to watch.

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  • Diana Burbano: Bingo Hall by Dillon Christopher Chitto
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    Hilarious, witty with a thread of love and longing to belong, Bingo hall is a delightful play by Native writer Dillon Chitto. So much heart, and some serious laugh out loud moments (at a funeral no less.) Here's a great play for those companies looking to center BIPOC work but now sure how to find them.

    Hilarious, witty with a thread of love and longing to belong, Bingo hall is a delightful play by Native writer Dillon Chitto. So much heart, and some serious laugh out loud moments (at a funeral no less.) Here's a great play for those companies looking to center BIPOC work but now sure how to find them.

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  • Diana Burbano: Waiting for Godínez by Daniel Olivas
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    Beautiful wrought, about the waiting that happens when you are ni de aqui ne de alla. This is an outstanding piece, especially for audiences who need to see the humanity that is the actual "border crisis" Profound.

    Beautiful wrought, about the waiting that happens when you are ni de aqui ne de alla. This is an outstanding piece, especially for audiences who need to see the humanity that is the actual "border crisis" Profound.

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  • Diana Burbano: MARVEL-OUS MONICA; IN WHICH MONICA LEWINSKY IS A SUPERHERO HELL-BENT ON REVENGE by Sarah Tuft
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    This play hits so deeply, especially for those of us who were young women who made what we thought were good decisions about men. I know the bones of the history, but to delve into it in this tight, funny and female-centric way, I came away with a real reminder of the way the patriarchy seeks to divide us. Here's to Monica and to Sarah and to all of us.

    This play hits so deeply, especially for those of us who were young women who made what we thought were good decisions about men. I know the bones of the history, but to delve into it in this tight, funny and female-centric way, I came away with a real reminder of the way the patriarchy seeks to divide us. Here's to Monica and to Sarah and to all of us.

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