Recommended by Doug DeVita

  • Marianas Trench (Part One of The Second World Trilogy)
    19 Dec. 2019
    Part One of Scott Sickles’ Second World Trilogy, MARIANAS TRENCH is huge, complex, terrifying, and gorgeous. A stunning work of art, it is intensely personal and quite possibly his best. Bravo, Scott!
  • Pangea (Part Two of The Second World Trilogy)
    19 Dec. 2019
    Part Two of Scott Sickles’ Second World Trilogy, PANGEA is a stunning continuation of the love story begun in MARIANAS TRENCH, but far more intimate even as Sickles’ delves into ever deeper, darker waters with a skillfully deployed mixture of humor and dread, beautifully handled all the way through.
  • The Known Universe (Part Three of The Second World Trilogy)
    19 Dec. 2019
    Part Three of Scott Sickles’ Second World Trilogy, THE KNOWN UNIVERSE is both heartbreaking and horrifying, by far the darkest of the three plays, and in its own quietly devastating way brings Sickles’ epic trilogy to a sad but strangely beautiful conclusion.
  • Camp Mannuppia: An Alt-Masc Comedy
    18 Dec. 2019
    What fun! Bavoso makes some serious points about masculinity, toxic and otherwise, while all the while retaining a light-hearted approach that is both endearing and hilarious. For an early draft, it's in remarkably good shape, and will no doubt be a real audience pleaser when produced.
  • Something in the Balete Tree
    18 Dec. 2019
    Sprawling yet intimate, up-to-the-minute yet timeless, Ren Dara Santiago’s “Something In The Balete Tree” grabs one’s attention on page one and never lets go. Provocative, bruising, questioning, it is a stunning epic. I’d love to see it staged.
  • Smoke and Mirrors
    17 Dec. 2019
    Chelsea Frandsen’s “Smoke and Mirrors” plays with time and place with an unsettling, jarring beauty, and takes one on a roller-coaster of emotions as she details the differing difficulties two deeply loving brothers have with letting go of each other. Heartbreaking relationships and gorgeous writing make this play a winner.
  • A Dog's Life
    17 Dec. 2019
    Those of us who have or had pets know going into it our hearts are eventually going to be broken. And so it is with this tenderly beautiful play by Ronnie Larsen, which also captures all the love and joy that make that journey to the inevitable so worth it. Lovely.
  • Celtic Knot
    16 Dec. 2019
    A lovely and touching work that breaks your heart with its raw, emotional truth.
  • i believe in a republic in which money has a great deal to say.
    14 Dec. 2019
    Scathingly funny, brilliantly dark, and (as others have mentioned): the HATS – which speak volumes on their own.
  • Begging the Question
    14 Dec. 2019
    A perfect little gem – a "Kodak Moment" of a play – and blissfully sweet.

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