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Donna Hoke

Recommended by Donna Hoke

  • Life On My Knees (A New Award-Winning Comedy) by William Missouri Downs
    24 Aug. 2015
    “ From the spot-on character descriptions straight through to the end, the laughs simply do not let up. Expertly wrought and exquisitely fine-tuned, this play is the rare comedy that has just as much weight as it does humor. Downs is a true talent in this arena. ”
  • Hairdresser on Fire by Scott Sickles
    13 Aug. 2015
    “ What a stunningly accurate portrait of friendship and relationships and our inability to stop friends from getting hurt. Niles' page 55 monologue alone makes this worth reading, but Scott's ear for reality shines throughout. ”
  • DON PONZO!!! A MONOLOGUE by Asher Wyndham
    30 Jul. 2015
    “ A compelling character drawn in record time. I hope to see Don Ponzo as part of a longer work in the future ”
  • OBLIVION by Paul Lewis
    27 Jul. 2015
    “ I first saw this as a ten-minute play several years ago, something I realized instantly the minute I began reading--clearly, the characters had stayed with me. I much enjoyed the fleshing out of the main character's backstory and the flashback visuals that were only in memory in the shorter version. ”
  • @thespeedofJake by Jennifer Maisel
    21 Jul. 2015
    “ There is another popular play about the death of a child that has never felt real to me; it feels like a journalist has gathered facts and was unable to imbue them with any sense of truth about this specific grief. This play has done what that one could not; it is full of painful and heartbreaking truth, exquisitely expressed (Emily's monologue is PERFECT) and, in the end, like a Pandora's box of grief, a tiny shred of hope emerges. ”
  • Pen: A Musical by DC Cathro
    20 Jul. 2015
    “ Good humor, good music, and a good love story combine in a musical that proves the right person can be wrong for all the right reasons (it's complicated!) ”
  • una casa/a home by Stephen Kaplan
    8 Jul. 2015
    “ Always tackling big issues with a subtle and deft hand, Stephen Kaplan uses one home in danger of extinction to illustrate how we are more similar than we are different and that we can't go home again because we never really leave. ”
  • A Real Boy by Stephen Kaplan
    8 Jul. 2015
    “ With his usual comedic flair, Kaplan takes a satiric look at what happens when a system decides somebody--in this case a puppet child of puppet parents--needs to be just like everybody else, for his own good. At turns heartbreaking and hilarious, this play resonates across so many current issues but without a heavy hand. ”
  • Exquisite Potential by Stephen Kaplan
    8 Jul. 2015
    “ Stephen Kaplan has a fine-tuned sense of comedy, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have anything to say. Quite the opposite, this comedy serves as biting commentary on the culture of helicopter parents who believe every child is destined for great things--and what happens when the child doesn't quite live up. ”
  • Bound by Truth (Full-length Historical Drama) by Sheila Rinear
    7 Jul. 2015
    “ Though it's set firmly in the Reformation Era, Thomas and Margaret Moore's father/daughter story will resonate for anybody who's loved, defended, and stood up for unpopular belief. Beautiful language throughout is full of humor and poetry. ”

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