KAIROS


What starts off a meet-cute romcom ends up something a good deal more thought-provoking and profound in Kairos, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s intriguing examination of love, life, and the search for eternal youth, now getting a terrifically acted East West Players’ World Premiere.
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MONSTERS OF THE AMERICAN CINEMA


What starts out a sitcom-style two-hander about a precocious teen being reared by his late father’s gay black husband ends up something far darker and deeper and more powerful in Christian St. Croix’s Monsters Of The American Cinema, the latest in a string of world-class Rogue Machine winners.
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COULD I HAVE THIS DANCE?


To get tested or not to get tested? This is the dilemma faced by 30something sisters Monica and Amanda Glendenning in Doug Haverty’s captivating, compelling family dramedy Could I Have This Dance?, now getting a terrifically acted 33rd-anniversary revival at the Group Rep.
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THE ALLSTORE


Life is a living hell for the minimum-wagers staffing The AllStore in Evan Marshall’s pitch-black, trigger warning-packed, frequently hilarious counterpoint to ABC TV’s feel-good Superstore, now getting its World Premiere at Theatre of NOTE.
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FAITHLESS


A pair of 30something siblings summoned to their widowed stepfather’s home confront a family crisis involving their adopted teenaged sister in Jon Klein’s absorbing family dramedy Faithless, a laughter-and-discussion-provoking Victory Theatre Center World Premiere.
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THREE

If you’re a die-hard Chekhov fan, Nick Salamone’s 20th/21st-century “queer meditation” on the Russian playwright’s 124-year-old classic Three Sisters, a Playwrights’ Arena/Los Angeles LGBT Center World Premiere, will likely be more up your alley than it was mine.
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SUKKOT


Few situations are riper for raucous laughter, long-festering rage, and buckets of tears than the much dreaded family reunion, and since almost everybody on this planet has attended at least one (if not dozens) of them, expect to find much to identify with and relish in Matthew Leavitt’s marvelous new family-reunion dramedy Sukkot.
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BISEXUAL SADNESS


A bi woman about to marry the man of her dreams fears losing the community of gay women who welcomed her during her lengthy relationship with a lesbian in India Kotis’s Bisexual Sadness, a laughter-and-drama-packed Road Theatre World Premiere guaranteed to get you thinking and talking about sexuality and gender in new and unexpected ways.
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