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Doug DeVita

Recommended by Doug DeVita

  • Rite of Passage by Izzy Salant
    20 Jun. 2019
    “ What a gut-wrenchingly gorgeous play. Salant's grasp on his characters and their heartbreak is true, and he's infused them with both anger and humor: they're wonderfully human. It's a cliché to say this, but: I really laughed, I really cried, and the play really became a part of me. It's a universal story, beautifully told. ”
  • What Melvin Bought for This Week's Game Night by Tyler Joseph Rossi
    13 Jun. 2019
    “ If God does exist, let's hope he's as chill as the dude Rossi has created in "What Melvin Bought for This Week's Game Night." If, of course, the dude actually is God? Who the hell knows? And that mystery is part of the fun of this hilarious short play. After all, when God is summoned by asking a Ouija board, you kind of get what you deserve, no? Funny stuff to ponder. ”
  • Flying by Sheila Cowley
    13 Jun. 2019
    “ What a touching, moving, and exquisite play; beautifully written, it is filled with both the joy and despair of life, delivered in a forthright and truthful manner that is both engaging, and heartbreaking. Absolutely lovely. ”
  • Branwell (and the other Brontes): an autobiography edited by Charlotte Bronte by Stephen Kaplan
    16 Mar. 2019
    “ What a gorgeous piece of writing; heartbreakingly touching and wildly theatrical, Kaplan captures the dynamics of a creative family with a sometimes acidic, sometimes honeyed pen, and in the process creates a vivid world of sorrow, loss, fear, and the redeeming power of love. Beautiful. ”
  • Perfecting the Kiss: a mockumentary for the stage by Scott Sickles
    22 Apr. 2017
    “ Perfecting The Kiss is a fall-on-the-floor funny valentine to the off-off B'way world and the people who populate it with such determined devotion. An absolutely delightful, fast-paced bon bon. ”
  • Composure by Scott Sickles
    19 Mar. 2017
    “ Composure shows Sickles doing what he does best: creating compelling characters one cares about from beginning to end, and then setting them up in a tense balancing act as they are forced to negotiate the tangled strands of their individual relationships with the central character, Fletcher Driscoll. That he does it with a swift-moving clarity is one of his greatest strengths as a playwright. ”
  • ALICE IN BLACK AND WHITE (full length) by Robin Rice
    15 Aug. 2016
    “ Another lyrically beautiful work from Robin; her ability to create genuine emotion with just the simplest of phrases and gestures is astonishing. ”
  • The Boys Club by Marjorie Bicknell
    2 Aug. 2016
    “ A gripping two character play that had me guessing all the way through. ”
  • The Galilee House by Benjamin V. Marshall
    2 Aug. 2016
    “ Marshall raises some very intriguing questions about both academia and race-relations, and does so with laser beam precision. No one is completely right, no one is completely wrong, and the play is both deeply satisfying and deeply unsettling at the same time because of this. ”
  • Five Husbands by Benjamin V. Marshall
    2 Aug. 2016
    “ "Five Husbands" is a terrific piece of writing; very, very funny, and so truthful it hurts. Marshall captures the humanity of his sometimes less than likable characters, which gives the play its heart. ”

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