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Phillie’s Trilogy

Phillie’s Trilogy by Doug DeVita Growing up gay in the “fabulous” 70s was no picnic for the precocious budding writer Phillie McDougal. Through nuns, priests, bullying classmates, parents – and years later the realization his best friend may not be the person he thought she was – he lived to tell the tales, with results […]

Nell Dash

NELL DASH by Doug DeVita In the alternate London of 1820 during the reign of King Stanley V8, Elinor and Marianne Wood, the illegitimate daughters of Sir Henry Dashwood and his cook, have become Nell Dash and Nance. They find themselves whirling up against Fagin, The Artful Dodger, Miss Havisham, Celia and Polly Peachum, and […]

The Fierce Urgency of Now

The Fierce Urgency of Now by Doug DeVita This fast-moving comedy follows art director Kyle as he tries to discover his real self amid the power struggles and skewed priorities of a high-powered New York ad agency. After an office restructuring puts him in a new creative group run by the megalomaniac homophobe Kate, he […]

Fable

Fable by Doug DeVita Who has the right to tell your story? Especially when it’s the same story told from the differing memories of two legendary show business siblings? And one sister’s version is about to become a big, Broadway musical that is also destined to become legendary? June Havoc was famously ambivalent about the […]

Shore House

Shore House by Kerr Lockhart SHORE HOUSE, a suite of 10 short plays set in a resort cabin, the kind that high school seniors rent after the prom or graduation. A play for and about young people on the cusp of their new life, plays about moving on and growing up — who will and who […]

9 Character Plays

9 Character Plays BANKRUPT by Marshaline Letcher Cast Size: 3M 6W Running Time: 90+ minutes Royalty Rate: $75 per performance Ted’s family goes ballistic when he gets a $100,000 raise to and move to an upscale suburb in Kansas.  They think they are rich and adapt a rich life style.  Keeping up with the elite, […]