Recommended by Claudia Haas

You know those ships in a bottle and you wonder how it got in there? Duprey offers a solution. According to the laws of physics, it should work. Entertaining and original and maybe scientific - a play for fun, science, and an oddball but engaging romance.

“How can I leave the unknown?” How many of us have struggled with that? Wild has higher stakes than we may be used to but the universal truth of safety with the known versus the unknown is a force to be reckoned with. Friendship, fear, blazing new trails - Wild’s play offers new perspectives.

Rose hits the nail on the head in all ways with this play. By crafting this for young actors and audiences, she acknowledges that they are our future and hope. By making the play wickedly funny, timely, and crafty, she gives her actors ample room to play with their characters while sending an important truth to all audiences. I love that the gods wrap their message in humanity.

There are so many ways to lose someone and get lost yourself. Tennant has found them all. Childhood magic and memories of war are so tightly bundled up, it’s hard for the characters to see one without the other. A portrait of a family, growing up, growing apart, and a bear that won the hearts of an entire population, the play encompasses so many universals - while asking, “what is a life?”

A series of phone calls builds until the tension is overwhelming. Without giving too much away, Hansen sets up a series of possibilities that will have you on edge even after the play ends. Theatrical and nerve-wracking.

“I was working.” An old-age excuse with truth. The play is set in 1835 but resonates today. Family, siblings, missed holidays - all truths in our memory bank. A memory that Monica Cross dishes up with love and regret.

What can you do in one minute? A lot. Powerful and poignant. Life turns on a dime. Radke’s play illuminates that.

A reminder that if you’re hungry, just eat the dam**ed food. A beautiful foreplay of food expectations and love/lust. They go together. Like a horse and carriage.

Time doesn’t heal all wounds. Especially the ones you suffered in childhood. O’Neill-Butler captures a past and a present in a succinct and knowing manner. Heartfelt and unusual roles for senior actors.

Filled with surprises, happy and poignant, this is a play that begs to be produced. The role of Melody is a gift to actresses and the guards who letdown their guard are flesh and bone and nuanced. Charming and sweet with the knowledge of what can be robbed from you for no reason at all. Abstract art. Abstract life.