Dobbins Conservatory 2022-2023 Theatre Season
Kitt is directing the World Premiere of Last Dance With MJ by Lindsay Partain and The SpongeBob Musical as part of this year’s Dobbins Conservatory Theatre Season. In addition, he is dramaturg for the World Premiere of The Winter Guard Play by Avery Deutsch and mentoring several student directors on an evening of new short plays.
The 2023 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival (Kitt Lavoie, Artistic Director) will be held from May 28-June 3 in Cape Girardeau, MO. Plays and guest speakers for the 2023 festival will be announced soon.
The 2022 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival featured developmental stagings of five full-length and ten short plays, all featuring exclusively characters that are age-appropriate for university theatre students, in addition to seminars and workshops by new play development professionals from around the United States, including Tony-nominee Lonny Price and Actors Theatre of Louisville Executive Artistic Director Robert Barry Fleming. The festival also featured a staged reading of the Los Alamos, an unproduced play by the late Pulitzer Prize-winner Lanford Wilson.
Merrily We Roll Along
Kitt recently directed Merrily We Roll Along at Capital City Theatre in Madison, WI.
Kitt co-edited the collection Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival 2022: The Short Plays, featuring the one-act Official Selections of the 2022 festival. It is available for pre-order here. The collection of shorts from the 2021 festival is available for purchase here.
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened, a documentary about the original Broadway cast of the 1981 Stephen Sondheim-Hal Prince musical Merrily We Roll Along, which Kitt produced and co-wrote, recently finished its run on Netflix. It will become available on a new streaming platform in Spring 2023. Watch this space for details.
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"Touching, sweet and altogether exuberant! There have been other backstage documentaries over the years, but Best Worst might well be the best."
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"You don't have to be a fan of Broadway musicals to love every minute of Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...This movie is more than good, pal. It's indispensable."
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See the trailer here!