Recommended by Elana Gartner

I first read "Teenage Dick" and then saw the virtual production of it at Huntington Stage. As a person with a disability, I was very grateful that Mike took wonderful thought and pains to portray people with disability not just with accuracy but with the ability to be jerks. Inspired by Richard III, this play excellently explores the dark hallways of high school where ambition is everything and being class president is more important than keeping secrets. This play should definitely be seen everywhere by all ages.

I first read this play and then saw it onstage. "Dead and Breathing" is an amazing script, navigating the concerns and pressures of dying with great humor. The relationship between the two characters is phenomenal. Some wonderful reveals throughout the script! A great script for unique casting. I would love to see it again on a bigger stage.

As a person with a disability, I truly appreciated that this was written from the perspective of someone with autism. Her adventure with her cousin who is trying to take advantage of her disability to get out of her familial obligations and run off with her boyfriend is true to form and painful to watch as it unravels. There are wonderful emotional arcs for all of the characters. This is a great play to put on stage!

This is a fascinating examination of the journey of gender transition of an Indian/Muslim from the point of view of everyone else. There were points in some of the monologues that I found myself surprised at the points it was making that I had never thought about and entirely grateful to be challenged to consider them. This is a play that needs to be seen right now. It is very timely, exposing cultural challenges on many levels.

This unique immersive play shines a light on how women use their relationships opportunistically and don't recognize the values of friendship that exists. Anderson wonderfully weaves otherwordly ghosts and voices into a sales event gone wrong. A fun and mysterious experience for an audience! I have seen it performed both in person and on Zoom.

I saw a reading of this play at Latinx Playwrights. Franky's characters and structure draw the audience in and create sympathy for even unsympathetic seeming characters. Each one has depth and vulnerability. Throughout the play, the stakes rise until the inevitable challenge must be faced. Franky weaves poetry and cosmic nature into the relationships and language. This will come alive on the stage and be a big meal for all technical people involved but it will be worth it when the audience responds.

Kira Obolensky's beautiful and mysterious tale weaves easily from scene to scene, uncovering secrets and relationships. As the past is reunited with the present and the characters learn some truths, some are unburdened while others find a new path forwards that they never anticipated. Lovely language and characters!

This play is a painful, truthful and fun examination of complicated family dynamics around secrets. What is it to survive under the challenges that a pregnant young woman faces while simultaneously trying to keep her youth? How can she not end up like her sister? How can she not disappoint her mother? Most of all, how can she not disappoint herself? Guerrero is masterful at creating a fun protagonist who the audience will desperately want to win the day.

It is to Zuercher's credit that he has adapted this script to address the complicated issues of Deaf culture within a hearing world using the familiar Greek tragedy story. Zuercher does a magnificent job of writing bilingually, creating characters that are challenging to like as well as those that are sympathetic. I saw a reading of this virtually and I would love to see it in person!

As this play unfolds, the audience starts to understand that the only appeal that the character has left is to an alien he once saw many years ago. He needs the alien to fix things in his personal life. Diaz-Marcano uses this opportunity to have the character comment on how society is broken and affected by the economic injustices. Both a beautiful and very funny play, Diaz-Marcano has written a lovely piece!