Recommended by Claudia Haas

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.

“Knowing what you should do and will do are two different things.” We all experienced this during Lockdown. Mabley takes this a step further. What will we choose after Covid? It makes you ponder if you would have made different choices if there was no Covid. Mabley wisely centers on life choices - considering the old normal and new normal. With humor and poignancy, the play speaks to all of us.

Move over, Classical Greek Mythology. There are new myths in town as Lucy Wang heralds in an age of enlightenment. It doesn’t hurt that this new age gives us the sexiest man alive and support sheep. A fun comedy that blossoms into something more. Clever, sexy, and knowing, this new age welcomes you. Yes, all of you.

So, I know a dairy farmer or two. And have wondered about what Heyman tells us dairy cows think about. And I think - yeah - Heyman nailed it. And you have to love how the playwright milks the end.

Yeah.. we did the Kondo thing here. We forgot the bowing. And the folds were not pretty. Syran acknowledges my imperfections and forgives. The play brought me joy.

Be careful when you read this and prepared to be gutted. Lawing does not scrimp in showing a family gutted by gun violence. Nor should he. We should never become immune.