1. 1. Neglect

   Sharyn Rothstein’s drama about a heat wave in inner-city Chicago that brings together an elderly woman and a young man.

2. 2. Group

   Annie Baker’s comedic look at what happens when a neurotic aspiring author attempts to quit her writers’ group.

3. 3. The Roosevelt Cousins, Thoroughly Sauced

   A fictionalized, drunken visit with a young FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt at a polio clinic in Georgia. (The title alone should get you there.)

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