Doug DeVita News

New York's preeminent LGBTQ Arts Festival returns for another season of exciting work on stage - on film - and on the air. THE FRESH FRUIT FESTIVAL 2024 Main-Stage will premiere two dozen new works exploring the LGBTQ experience.

Experience the myth of Diana the Huntress reimagined in Doug DeVita's GODDESS OF THE HUNT, a featured event at the 2024 Fresh Fruit Festival.

The Secret Theatre, a leading professional theatrical company in Queens - after a widely popular run of more than 50 productions - will conclude its festival with the FINALS where winners will be announced.

The Secret Theatre, after a widely popular run of more than 50 productions, has unveiled its semi-finalists. Learn more!

Discover the exciting lineup for freeFall Theatre's 15th season, featuring a world-premiere farce by Hannah Benitez, a return of Sherlock Holmes, a Stephen Sondheim musical, and more.

Discover the works of prolific playwright Doug DeVita at The Secret Theatre's Queens Short Plays Festival.

The Secret Theatre of Queens is set to present over 50 new works in a mammoth new works festival.

The Drama Book Shop served as host for a special celebration of the publishing of Doug DeVita’s latest play, FABLE, concerning the backstory that went on during the creation of arguably one of the most celebrated musicals of the golden age, GYPSY.

The Drama Book Shop will serve as host for a special night with celebrated New York playwright, Doug DeVita, Tuesday, June 6 @ 7:30 p.m.

David Sabella, original co-star of CHICAGO, the Musical, returns to 54 Below with his critically acclaimed show, “The Razzle Dazzle of CHICAGO,” celebrating John Kander and Fred Ebb, and Broadway's longest running American musical with a special behind-the-scenes look at the show's creation and his personal history with it, and since leaving the show.

Chicago turns twenty-five this year and OG cast member David Sabella has created a celebration show that has sold so well that fans are flocking to the internet to score tickets to the live stream simulcast.

Next month, FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club & Private Event Destination, will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.

David Sabella, original co-star in CHICAGO, the Musical, will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Broadway’s longest running American musical with the music of Kander & Ebb and a special behind-the-scenes look at the show’s creation and his long history with it.

As Chicago, the longest-running revival in the history of Broadway (indeed, the longest-running American Musical ever), celebrates 25 years on The Great White Way, OG cast member David Sabella has some memories to share, and some Kander & Ebb music.

This past Sunday, Indie Art Today - hosted by award-winning writer and producer Anthony J. Piccione - began its three week series of live video panels on the future of theatre in the post-COVID era with a live panel featuring five playwrights, with two more panels featuring directors and actors scheduled for May 16th & 23rd, respectively.

A regional favorite for some time, the play has been turned into a screenplay and is currently in development as a motion picture. In the meantime, playwright/screenwriter Doug DeVita has reworked the piece into a joyous radio-style play

Doug DeVita's witty exploration of homophobia and ageism in the ad world becomes a radio play. Premiering in March. Doug DeVita's fast-paced comedy, The Fierce Urgency of Now, has multiple lives across the country. A regional favorite for some time, the play has been turned into a screenplay and is currently in development as a motion picture.

The Fresh Fruit Festival, now in its 19th consecutive year, is presenting works in the following format for development in filmed virtual presentation: LGBTQ MONOLOGUES, curated by Rachel Kara Perez and artistic director, Dennis Corsi. 

Former Artistic Director for Westside Repertory Theater, Doug DeVita has had work produced in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, New Jersey, Connecticut, and London.

Doug DeVita's one-person film, 'Nigel, Guys, and Dolls' will be presented as part of the Fresh Fruit Festival's filmed monologue series (showing dates TBA). Atmospheric and compelling, DeVita's NIGEL... is the story of a young boy whose life was manipulated by his mother who decided exactly how she would like her son to be.