Recommended by Doug DeVita

  • Hologram Nan
    26 Apr. 2020
    Having lived through the slow and painful dissolution of both of my parents, this gut-wrenching monologue perfectly captures all the concurrent feelings of fear, anger, resentment, pity, and loss one goes through. Horrifyingly beautiful, and a terrific showcase for an actress "of a certain age."
  • The Darkside of the Mom
    26 Apr. 2020
    What viciously charming fun! And what a viciously charming opportunity for an actress to have fun with! Vicious. And charming. And oh, so much fun!
  • Covid Cohab
    26 Apr. 2020
    This breathtakingly fast-moving examination of a divorcing couple forced to prolong their relationship by sheltering-in-place together plays like a modern-day "Odd Couple," complete with hilariously funny one-liners, but with much darker stakes and a far more realistic tone that's perfectly in keeping with the contemporary world. Excellent work, Richard!
  • I Found Her Ear and She Stole My Heart
    26 Apr. 2020
    One of the strangest plays I've read in a while, and also one of the most captivating. It's so darkly funny, so weirdly riveting, and just so damn creative! How much fun it would be to see it staged!
  • Copley: Boy with a Squirrel (Boston, MFA)
    26 Apr. 2020
    Oh, I love this monologue. In just a few, rich minutes, Rinkel captures a lifetime of thoughts while gazing at favorite pieces of art in a favorite museum. A deeply affecting piece of art itself, this monologue is a gift for whoever performs it, and for whoever has the chance to experience it, contemplate it, and perhaps revisit it again, and again, and again.
  • Good Vibrations
    24 Apr. 2020
    In five crisply written pages, Philip Middleton Williams turns a sour lemon into the sweetest lemonade whilst delivering a subtly sharp “fuck you” to a lame-brained hypocrite, and he does it with wonderfully wry elegance and style.

    Bravo, Philip!
  • Game On
    24 Apr. 2020
    Substituting a scalpel for a pen, Garrison rips into decades of self-defeating gay dating norms, and in ten quick, painfully funny minutes exposes and decimates a certain type of gay personality while giving his protagonist a complete and enormously satisfying journey to newly minted self-confidence. Wonderful.
  • UNDERFUR (co-written with Hugh Brinkley)
    23 Apr. 2020
    Weirdly wonderful? Wonderfully weird? Full of weirdness and wonder? All of the above? You decide. I don’t really care, because I’m still catching my breath from laughing so hard at Chauncey and his oh-so-real problems with his girlfriend, his human, and a bureaucratic form.
  • Hope
    23 Apr. 2020
    I read this tonight because I guess the universe was telling me I needed to read this tonight.

    Beautiful. Necessary. And BEAUTIFUL!
  • Dark and Stormy
    23 Apr. 2020
    An intense bit of fun from Sickles, with a delicious “Hold my beer” twist that ratchets up the tension and the playful horror.

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