Recommended by Claudia Haas

Cathro deftly captures a sibling relationship. The sisters are smart, edgy, and both have a gift for one-upmanship. Social media is a permanent way to cement a rivalry. Cathro makes me wish for the olden days when you could be stupid in an argument and the ramifications are not headline news.

There’s a dream world here for sustenance. And a real world that requires a sense of humor to maintain. O’Neill-Butler skillfully weaves both worlds into one and you realize you can’t have one world without the other. Keep your life. Keep your dreams. Who knows? The ending may bring you a unicorn.

And just when you think you know what’s going on, Blevins sends you a curve ball and you start having new epiphanies. Isn’t that what a good ghost story will do? Send you up paths unknown? Witty, unexpected pleasures and don’t be surprised if you’re watching Poltergeist later (such a good choice) while eating pistachio nuts.

Seasons end. And so the life of Prince Hal ends as he makes ready to be King Henry V. Blevins gives us a good-bye to youth that is a good-bye to everything and everyone that Hal loved. There is a high price to pay in becoming a king. Blevins shows us how this king paid with his true life. And all that he loved. I would love to see this in combo with some of the Hal=Henry V history plays.

Miller makes you yearn for that perfect moment in summer, for when love was sweet and uncomplicated… for a time that maybe never existed but it exists in our dreams.

Dance is so personal. It involves so much trust in your partner. McPherson offers us a dance of trust, of history, and of hope for later. The possibilities of movement in separate productions are endless. All artists have a role here. Would love to see all the versions.

Every culture has tales of the beginnings of time - of how the natural wold came to be. Rice has given us a vision of the end of times - with a view from the wonders we share our world with. It’s a tough and realistic assessment. Framed with gorgeous visuals, love of the natural world, and an all-knowing cast of characters, Rice dishes up hope side-by-side with a caveat - it’s almost too late but not too late. Appropriate for families, and ripe for discussions. When will it be too late?

Lermond always delivers a succinct, character driven play. Here she just shines in a clever twist on the rom-cons that saturate on Valentine’s Day. Only Lermond’s play is best suited for “Single Awareness Day.” You don’t need stage directions to envision the sheer fun in staging this.

Who ever thought that Pickleball and Shakespeare’s As You Like It could combine to be the ultimate romantic comedy? With the big sneeze, a wedding toast, and a fractured rib, Norkin has dished up a love-fest of word play with proof positive that sneezing is good for you. Unless you withhold the sneeze to find true love. It’s just a tangled web. Oh well, the course of true love never did run smooth but Norkin finds a way and you will enjoy the journey.

This play just aches with truth: a painting that is truth, a relationship that is truth and when the world gets its act together - what better truth is there than love? You want to shake Adrian but you don’t because he is a product of those (and these) times. You want to embrace Knut in his grief and as you question the final moment, wonder if he is also part of those times even though he fights it. And you yearn - for a time - where truth in legacy allows all love.