Recommended by Matthew Ivan Bennett

Just do this play. It's clever. It's real. It will draw people in.

Easily one of my favorite for-the-stage sci-fi/cli-fi pieces of the past few years.

A perfect blend of Buffy-like fun and cozy mystery.

A zany, creepy, and moving comedy about trying to get ahead and our willingness to believe the unbelievable in order to get ahead.

This darkly funny piece has razor-sharp dialogue, mean-girl momentum, and a wicked downturn for its characters right at the end.

I had the pleasure of hearing this play aloud at Pioneer Theatre Company. It felt like an instant classic to me. It's vividly drawn, lyrical, complicated, and should be produced by regionals across the country.

You can smell the Elmer's glue and hear the plastic recorders in the play. It brings you back to elementary in the warmest and worst ways through its battered, relatable characters. What I dug most in "Circa 1976": its tragicomic take on bullies; its witty breakdown of American culture wars and how they echo the hierarchies of our school days; but above all, I admire the gentleness and subtlety with which Jones treats these people we all know. It's a shot of nostalgia plus humor plus politics plus the reckoning we fear for ourselves and want for others.

Here is a piece that deftly juggles its timeline, keeping us on the edge of our seats as the story unfolds. It's written with a spareness that underlines, rather than de-emphasizes, the play's ideas. "Ripped" moves along at a jog while never skimping on interiority. The final image is one that Americans need to see.

A taut, richly developed, two-hander that understands the pit of grief.

In the tradition of writers like O'Neill, Palmquist gives us a lyrical working-class story that connects us to a feeling, and fear, beyond class and even time—the feeling that we're not in control of our lives. FREQUENCY... is a risky, and sometimes funny, play with a vibrant and moving structure.