Recommended by Matthew Weaver

Lee examines the toxic masculinity beneath the appeal of the vampire mythology and comes up with a strong winner that's sharp and clever and cutting. An important social issue is discussed, it's true, but it's also smart and funny.
Lee is a playwright to watch.

Jonte is just as fiery and passionate here as she is with the broad of your back (hurry up and go for a read it) although here the partner has allowed his male toxicity to show through, and Jonte (and we) are suitably frustrated, albeit still a bit flustered, and mourn what might have been, had he been able to get his head out of his rump. Le sigh. But Jonte's nameless narrator sacrifices nothing at all to thoughtlessness and callousness, and we in the audience are richer for the whole experience. Jonte writes with heat and fire, without mercy.

QUASARS is a very moving examination of family and faith at the hardest point of its characters' lives. Everything is complicated, messy and unsettled. No one is really at their best, everyone's spirit is being tested in the midst of chaos, stress and illness. No surprise to we fans who have become accustomed to her filling her pages and stages with celebrations of humanity in even the darkest and most unexpected of corners. But here O'Grady explores such a rich setting with patience and light brush strokes, building to an ending that's inevitable, sad, lovely and full of grace.

Every single artist should read this play. Every single artist should read Emily Hageman.
That's it. That's the recommendation.
Read it and you'll see what I mean. And you will agree.

Lefkowitz has a unique, winning voice that will draw in any audience. Here, he gamely volunteers to share one of the most uncomfortable and, perhaps, relatable, theatrical experiences that could happen to anybody. Along the way, he paints a full, vivid portrait of himself that is at once welcoming, engrossing and worthy of further adventures/misadventures.
Here's to hoping Lefkowitz pieces together a series of his adventures as a critic; I think we the audience deserve this to be merely the first stop of an epic quest for a modern-day Odysseus, trying to make his way home, underwear intact.

Lam speaks for so many so well, with such precise words.
Right after reading this one-minute play, I came across a thread on Twitter where someone asks if anything in America WASN'T used as a tool for white supremacy, and suggests Super Soakers. The immediate reply:
"Lonnie Johnson, the African American NASA engineer who invented Super Soakers and Nerf Guns, discovered that Hasbro cheated him out of millions in royalty payments by producing toys that were basically identical but claimed they were unlike Johnson's invention. So, no."
Lam speaks for so many, so well. Produce this play, please. Please.

This is ... SO COOL!
It's refreshing. It's honest. It's unflinching. It's hysterical (no surprise to anyone familiar with Prillaman's work). It's unashamed. And necessary.
Alas, only the bravest theatres will likely consider this short, because the ones that won't are likely the ones where it would do the most good. I would like to be proven wrong.
This would also be a good contribution in sex ed discussions or classroom discussions. (Someone should be putting together a festival of plays like this!!!!)
If Prillaman wasn't already on your radar, this is an excellent introduction to his work. Bravo, Daniel.

A very moving and honest work, about a loss of innocence, or more a revelation of what innocence is and what knowledge is, and a new understanding that there is a difference. Bultrowicz shares a timeless tale. We don't know the movie Andrew sees, we don't need to know, it is every R-rated movie, it's the one you dreamed of seeing that can never live up to your expectation and hope; it's the one that was put on this earth for you and you alone to watch. Bultrowicz has written a lovely homage to movies and to growing up.

A necessary and FLAWLESS continuation of St. James' A GODAWFUL SMALL AFFAIR. They strike every right note here, the inherent conflict when the people you most disagree with are the ones who birthed and raised you, and what happens when those differences of opinion threaten the love you've found?
At the same time, St. James captures the uncertainty and the dawning feeling of ... could it actually be ... hope?
I LOVED the question Luca asks the Nurse, and the Nurse's reply.
St. James gifts their characters a tiny victory, which feels all the more monumental because it's so earned.

Shakespeare nor George R.R. Martin nor Stephen King could not have penned a better tale! Full of strong women and political intrigue, Prillaman offers a complex and compelling fantasy that captures the reader/viewer. It's smart, it's sharp, it's FUNNY, it's unnerving, it's mysterious and intriguing.
If this is (as it was mine) your first true exposure to Prillaman's writing, he is a VERY GOOD storyteller, evoking whole histories and secrets, moving his characters and revealing truths to maximum effect. This is for artists who know how to elevate a script by letting it work its own peculiar magic.