Donna Hoke News

New Deal Creative Arts Center has announced the inaugural Hudson Valley Theatre Festival (HVTF) that will feature readings of twelve new works from playwrights throughout the country and beyond.

TOY presents the WORLD-PREMIERE of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES by Donna Hoke, sponsored by M&T Bank, which runs from January 27-February 4, 2024.

Join First Look Buffalo Theatre Company for the New Play Reading Festival Vol. 2, featuring local and national playwrights. No reservations necessary. Donations accepted at the door.

Join First Look Buffalo Theatre Company for the New Play Reading Festival Vol 2, featuring local and national playwrights. Special guest responder Mr. Robert Moss, founder of Playwrights Horizons, will provide feedback. No reservations necessary, donations accepted at the door.

First Look Buffalo Theatre Company (FLB), which exclusively showcases both world and regional premiers, will present the first theatrical production to be held at the all-new Canterbury Woods Performing Arts Center in Williamsville. The season kicks off October 6, 2023 with “HELL-oween: Eight Short Plays. One Raging Inferno.” See photos from the show.

First Look Buffalo Theatre Company (FLB), which exclusively showcases both world and regional premiers, will present the first theatrical production to be held at the all-new Canterbury Woods Performing Arts Center in Williamsville.

First Look Buffalo Theatre Company has announced its 23/24 season to be held at The Canterbury Woods Performing Arts Center located at 705 Renaissance Dr. in Williamsville, NY.

The Workshop Theater has, once again, dedicated a session of their Spring 2023 Workshop Intensive to HONOR ROLL!, an advocacy group for women+ playwrights over 40. The participants for this cycle are Diane Davis, Donna Hoke, Hortense Gerardo and Serena Norr with facilitators Leslie Kincaid Burby and Stephanie Kane.

Nu Sass Productions will concludes its 2023 season with The OREO Complex written, directed, and performed by Lillian Brown, in repertory with Nu Sass's Finding Neil Patrick Harris by Donna Hoke and Open by Crystal Skillman, and Mr. & Mrs. Fitch a collaboration between Nu Sass and Landless Theatre Company. All three shows will be performed between April 14 and June 9, 2023.

WatermelonAlligator Theatre Company presents the New England premiere of “The Way It Is,” by Donna Hoke, at Cotuit Center for the Arts’s Black Box Theater May 4th through May 21st. Performances are Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 PM and Sunday at 2 PM. Jess Wilson directs, assisted by Tony Ferreira of Swansea as stage manager.

What did our critic think of FINDING NEIL PATRICK HARRIS at Nu Sass? Whether or not Edmund Gwenn (he played Santa in Miracle on 34th St.) verifiably said on his deathbed that dying is easy but comedy is hard doesn't change the truth, and Donna Hoke's ninety-minute play Finding Neil Patrick Harris proves it. Somewhat thoughtful nevertheless, Finding Neil Patrick Harris considers promises, friendship, competition, the nature of both comedy and happiness, along with the role that being a fan of a TV celebrity can have in a life. Staged by Nu Sass in its 30-seat space, the scene changes run the risk of exhausting the actors, but there really is nowhere to put a stagehand.

Rorschach Theatre has announced the finalists for its annual Magic in Rough Spaces New Play Lab.

The Mary Moody Northen Theatre's 50th Anniversary Season continues with the powerful, These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich, playing November 10 – 20, 2022.

Even so, what sets her apart from fellow actors is the catalog of engagements she drums up away from the spotlight. Sam (as locals fondly call her) is a gifted, do-it-all thespian: a scenic designer who thinks like a director, a choreographer who innovates posthaste, and a handywoman with a soft spot for power tools. That's not all. A buoyant charm that conspires with a quicksilver pace makes Samantha Cormier the quintessential youth leader of many a theater camp, a role she relishes during the off-season. I'm not sure there's someone more absorbed in various aspects of the theater year-round.

SHADOWLAND STAGES has announced it has cast comedienne Kyle June Williams in its second production of the 2022 season - THE CROSSWORD PLAY (or Ezmeranda's Gift).

Shadowland Stages announces its joyful return with a wonderful seven-show season including musicals, dramas and rib-tickling comedies. The season is highlighted by two world premieres, including one co-written by Tom Hanks.

BWW Interview: Actress Caitlin Coleman stars in Grindr Mom

Road Less Traveled Productions' production of Little Women…Now by Donna Hoke, originally scheduled for April 21, will now open on Saturday April 23. Patrons who who purchased tickets for April 21 and 22 will have their tickets honored for a new performance date.

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) will end its 2021-2022 season with Little Women…Now, a world-premiere adaptation by Ensemble member Donna Hoke.  Little Women…Now will run for five weeks, from April 21- May 22 and will star RLTP Ensemble member Lisa Vitrano alongside Alex Watts, Brittany Bassett, Heather Gervasi, Sabrina Kajwaty, Jake Hayes and Ricky Needham under the direction of RLTP Ensemble Member Doug Weyand.  

Every year, one of my favorite annual theater traditions is seeing the evening of one acts at the Ridgefield Theater Barn, in Ridgefield, CT.  I had the pleasure of continuing that wonderful tradition on Friday, March 18, with AN EVENING OF ONE ACTS 2022 which continues with the consistent first-rate shows and performances I have come to expect and enjoy every year.  This show contains seven one acts, mostly with a comedic tone.