Recommended by Doug DeVita

  • Doug DeVita: Sun, Moon, and Stars

    This trio of ruminations about the various aspects of love is a wonderfully theatrical work, rife with heightened language, witty verbal ripostes, wonderfully apt homages to other writing styles/authors, and deep, universal questions tossed off with a sure, light hand. By turns funny, charming, touching, even at one point horrifying, this would be a blast to direct and perform, and a delight for its audiences. Bravo, Ricardo!

    This trio of ruminations about the various aspects of love is a wonderfully theatrical work, rife with heightened language, witty verbal ripostes, wonderfully apt homages to other writing styles/authors, and deep, universal questions tossed off with a sure, light hand. By turns funny, charming, touching, even at one point horrifying, this would be a blast to direct and perform, and a delight for its audiences. Bravo, Ricardo!

  • Doug DeVita: Eight Tales of Pedro

    This is a gorgeous piece of theatrical storytelling; both intimate and epic, Garcia’s characters and their tales settle into one’s heart and stay there. Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

    This is a gorgeous piece of theatrical storytelling; both intimate and epic, Garcia’s characters and their tales settle into one’s heart and stay there. Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

  • Doug DeVita: Brompton's Truth

    One minute of delightful – and excruciating – truth, beautifully done.

    One minute of delightful – and excruciating – truth, beautifully done.

  • Doug DeVita: But Soft

    Scott Sickles wrote: “This is the best Scott Sickles play Scott Sickles didn't write.”

    He’s right.

    I love the subtle, tender, somewhat naive eroticism simmering under the surface of this piece; this gives the play those ineffable Gattonesque qualities that allow it to stand out from more Sicklesian fare. Highly recommended.

    Scott Sickles wrote: “This is the best Scott Sickles play Scott Sickles didn't write.”

    He’s right.

    I love the subtle, tender, somewhat naive eroticism simmering under the surface of this piece; this gives the play those ineffable Gattonesque qualities that allow it to stand out from more Sicklesian fare. Highly recommended.

  • Doug DeVita: Days of Wrath (Original title: States of Grace)

    Expertly navigating shifting times, places, and emotions, William Triplett's STATES OF GRACE is a deeply moving, sharply observed work of art. Its richly drawn characters any actor would give their eye-teeth to play, as well as the scintillating dialogue they are given (beautifully crafted with marvelously graceful, efficient, and nearly invisible exposition) help make this another Triplett win, one I'd love to see staged and can highly recommend.

    Expertly navigating shifting times, places, and emotions, William Triplett's STATES OF GRACE is a deeply moving, sharply observed work of art. Its richly drawn characters any actor would give their eye-teeth to play, as well as the scintillating dialogue they are given (beautifully crafted with marvelously graceful, efficient, and nearly invisible exposition) help make this another Triplett win, one I'd love to see staged and can highly recommend.

  • Doug DeVita: E-Mail: 9/12

    More than twenty years after the horrifying events of 9/11, it still hits home with terrifying immediacy. This play is a touching, moving, and very human work that captures the horror of that day and the immediate aftermath with graceful theatricality. Highly recommended.

    More than twenty years after the horrifying events of 9/11, it still hits home with terrifying immediacy. This play is a touching, moving, and very human work that captures the horror of that day and the immediate aftermath with graceful theatricality. Highly recommended.

  • Doug DeVita: The Sugar Ridge Rag

    As enjoyable as plays are to read, they are meant to be performed; interpretations by a director and their cast are bound to differ from the preconceived notions that come from reading a work, and seeing Williams' THE SUGAR RIDGE RAG in performance at the Lab Theater Project recently revealed so many more levels to this touching story than are apparent on the page. A powerful piece of writing, the production pointed the way to what the script could be when performed – a heartbreaking, engrossing, and thought-provoking piece of theater.

    As enjoyable as plays are to read, they are meant to be performed; interpretations by a director and their cast are bound to differ from the preconceived notions that come from reading a work, and seeing Williams' THE SUGAR RIDGE RAG in performance at the Lab Theater Project recently revealed so many more levels to this touching story than are apparent on the page. A powerful piece of writing, the production pointed the way to what the script could be when performed – a heartbreaking, engrossing, and thought-provoking piece of theater.

  • Doug DeVita: Maeve's Camellia

    Symmetry is a word that comes up frequently in this beautiful, asymmetrically symmetrical two hander. Ruyle delineates a burgeoning relationship between two wounded 50-somethings with a delicate hand; the work is both effortlessly funny and deeply moving.

    Symmetry is a word that comes up frequently in this beautiful, asymmetrically symmetrical two hander. Ruyle delineates a burgeoning relationship between two wounded 50-somethings with a delicate hand; the work is both effortlessly funny and deeply moving.

  • Doug DeVita: The Admission

    Oh, the humanity of the sainted. The unvarnished, dirty little secrets of one exceptionally lauded nun in a third world country are exposed in this hilarious rumination from John Busser, here working with his usual rapid fire sense of humor intact but with deeper layers of meaning, layers that lift the piece into the realm of the seriously sublime. Every single word works on two or three levels at once, and the result is intoxicating. To say I love this play is an understatement; it may well be my favorite Busser work. So far.

    Oh, the humanity of the sainted. The unvarnished, dirty little secrets of one exceptionally lauded nun in a third world country are exposed in this hilarious rumination from John Busser, here working with his usual rapid fire sense of humor intact but with deeper layers of meaning, layers that lift the piece into the realm of the seriously sublime. Every single word works on two or three levels at once, and the result is intoxicating. To say I love this play is an understatement; it may well be my favorite Busser work. So far.

  • Doug DeVita: Little Egg, Big World

    At times whimsical, at times sobering, Rachel Leighson gives us an inventively conceived look at the process of egg donation from the viewpoints of the donor child, an egg, and a uterus. Both funny and sad, it's a wonderfully theatrical work and I recommend reading it quite highly.

    At times whimsical, at times sobering, Rachel Leighson gives us an inventively conceived look at the process of egg donation from the viewpoints of the donor child, an egg, and a uterus. Both funny and sad, it's a wonderfully theatrical work and I recommend reading it quite highly.