- The Effect (Strawdog Theatre Company) — Experiment in how romance forms, with alarming questions at play.
- The Great Leap (Steppenwolf Theatre Company) — Basketball means cultural clashes and introspection in this thrilling drama.
- Women Of 4G (Babes With Blades Theatre Company) — What if Agatha Christie, but it happened in outer space?
- Head Over Heels (Kokandy Productions) — This glam-rock fairy tale and gender non-conforming dance party has EVERYTHING.
- Take Me (Strawdog Theatre Company) — This space-traversing new musical needs more time to bake.
- Life On Paper (Jackalope Theatre Company) — Numbers add up in this tale of failure and meaning.
- Othello (Babes With Blades Theatre Company) — Shakespeare gets a much needed transfusion of bombastic feminine energy.
- Baby with the Bathwater (Eclipse Theatre Company) — Script and design save this show from obscurity and pain.
- Utility (Interrobang Theatre Project) — The intense realism of poverty takes its time and toll.
- Small World (The New Colony) — A ride at Disney World turns into a real terror.
- Best for Winter, being a short Shakespeare adapted from The Winter’s Tale and other works (Idle Muse Theatre Company) — The impossible is given its due in an elegant production.
- Bright Star (BoHo Theatre) — A youngster finds fortune, while a woman explores her past.
- The Total Bent (Haven Theatre, in association with About Face Theatre) — You are not ready for what is being sung/said.
- I Know My Own Heart (Pride Films & Plays) — Anne Lister’s milkshake brings all the girls to the yard.
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