Recommended by Elana Gartner

I saw this script as a reading at the Midwest Dramatists Conference. This is a beautiful script with fury, starkly drawn spouses who want different things, expect different things and have different priorities. And when choices are made to prioritize humanity at Thanksgiving, Cathro seizes on the opportunity to show us how it affects one couple.

I saw this script performed as a reading at the Midwest Dramatists Conference. It is a constant laugh out loud argument between a man and his Alexa who is refusing to play the song he wants. Busser brilliantly develops Alexa (and then Echo) into characters with personalities. A dream play for actors to work on their comedic chops and for audiences to recognize their own relationships with their electronic devices.

I saw this script as a reading at the Midwest Dramatists Conference. An exploration of how frustrations with family members can bring someone to try something very different, O'Neill-Butler gives us a surprise ending that is worth it!

I saw this script as a reading at the Midwest Dramatists Conference. The characters are drawn with witty dialogue, laugh out loud lines and a wonderful sexiness. Great callbacks throughout the script. I hope this goes on to find more life in a full production.

I saw a reading of this very funny and sexy play at the Midwest Dramatists Conference. Sickles does a lovely job creating tension between the characters and creating choices for a future unknown.

I had the great pleasure of reading this play and then seeing it on stage at 59E59. Bader's smart dialogue and clever choices lead to a fantastic political and strategic dance between the two main characters. This play should be seen everywhere!

This play is so brilliantly written and meaty! The characters are incredibly well drawn and unique with their voices. A fascinating examination of perception of race and discrimination and why people make choices to belong to certain cultures. Buckle up. This playwright isn't playing around!

I got to experience this play from the time that it was a multi-week text communication with audiences and then again staged at Luna Stage. This is a powerful, important play examining the relationship between two brothers on opposite sides of ideologies. They make the decision to try to understand each other for the purpose of a book, but also to help repair their relationship. In the process, the audience learns about what else binds them together. A poignant, timely, phenomenal play that all audiences will identify with!

This play is beautiful and lyrical filled with mystery and spirits. A gripping plot with twisted magic and a complicated family history. Excellent dramatic parts for women.

This script is a very humorous approach to some of the Greek tales. As is his style, Pflaster takes on the tales with a queer spin but remains authentic to much of the original tales. A Greek chorus that doubles as many of the other characters brings female voices to life while the audience's narrator is a slave to the Greek God, Dionysus. Dionysus' ethics and morals are constantly called into question and Hades is, naturally, sneaky. A Greek tale for the modern age.