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Doug DeVita

Recommended by Doug DeVita

  • Predictor by Jennifer Blackmer
    12 Aug. 2020
    “ Jennifer Blackmer's PREDICTOR educates without lecturing, is thought-provoking without being heavy-handed, smart without being overbearing, and more than anything else, it's incredibly entertaining. Written with a sure sense of time, place, and theatricality, the central role of Meg Crane is a tour de force for an actress, and all the other roles in the ensemble will provide a field day for the rest of the cast. Insightful, funny, touching, and sharp as a scalpel; oh, how I would love to see this staged! ”
  • Welcome to the House of Karma by Cindi Sansone-Braff
    11 Aug. 2020
    “ Bette Midler once referred to Long Island as "Satan's Little Theme Park;" Cindi Sansone-Braff has supplied the prime attraction with her hilariously dark haunted house of crumbling cards. Wonderfully over-the-top characters flinging zingers like rice at an Addams Family wedding help make this an easy, breezy read, and I imagine it would be even more fun to experience live, perhaps as an immersive staging in a creepy old house, preferably on Long Island, but really anywhere would do. Snaps. Snaps. ”
  • The Day I Turned Into A Bird by Dave Osmundsen
    11 Aug. 2020
    “ This lovely, lyrical fantasy is full of life and longing, and may be one of Osmundsen's lightest, yet most deeply felt works. It doesn't just fly, it soars. ”
  • TERMINUS by Gabriel Jason Dean
    10 Aug. 2020
    “ This beautiful play haunts. Gabriel Jason Dean's characters are so alive, his dialogue is natural yet achingly poetic, and the play builds momentum artlessly but irrevocably; it's a riveting read, and I can only imagine how wonderfully it works in production. Completely worthy of its accolades thus far, "Terminus" has made me want to read all of the plays in Dean's "The Attapulgus Elegies." ”
  • Why the Hell is it so Hard to Write a Recommendation on NPX? A Monologue by Izzy Salant
    9 Aug. 2020
    “ Well done! ”
  • How to Tie a Cravat (a monologue) (Playing on the Periphery #2) by Scott Sickles
    6 Aug. 2020
    “ We’ve all read and/or written about adults grappling to find their inner child; what Sickles does so effortlessly here is give us a child who has found, and embraced, his inner adult. And it’s a breathtakingly intoxicating experience. Bravo, Bertram. ”
  • The Steps by Scott Sickles
    6 Aug. 2020
    “ These three inter-connected inner monologues may be some of Sickles’ most gorgeous writing; both sophisticated and childlike, the sense of wonder and trepidation is visceral and powerful. ”
  • The Object is to Prevent Moisture (Playing on the Periphery #5) by Scott Sickles
    6 Aug. 2020
    “ Sickles perfectly captures the fluidity of children and their ability to live in the moment in this charming, lovely short. He goes for the heart, and lands a benevolent bullseye. ”
  • Parameters (a monologue) by Scott Sickles
    6 Aug. 2020
    “ Logical, angry, and passionately Sicklesian, this monologue hits the bullseye. Or should I say windpipe? Either/or, it’s spot on, and flawlessly reasonable. ”
  • Eat, Slay, Leave by Heather Meyer
    5 Aug. 2020
    “ Three dissatisfied women on the cusp of middle-age, alone in an isolated cabin in the northern Minnesota woods... what could possibly go wrong? Read this horrifyingly funny work from Heather Meyers to find out. There are plenty of edge-of-your seat moments of terror mixed with plenty of gasp-inducing belly laughs; think the distaff version of "Ghostbusters," but really, really GOOD! A howler, in all respects. ”

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