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NEW YORK — Playwright Donja R. Love wanted to write a show about a topic underrepresented on stage — and audiences have responded. His play “soft,” about
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Donja R. Love's play "soft" has seen its run on stage extended again.
Playwright Donja R. Love has a lot he wants to say, and in” Fireflies” he tries to tell the audience everything he cares about- all in less than 90-minutes. The result is a work in which a lot of issues are raised, yet you leave Curtain Call Theatre in Latham, caring about few of them.
(© David Gordon) Playwright Donja R. Love is the first winner of the newly revived Terrence McNally Award, given by Philadelphia Theatre Company (PTC) to a local playwright whose work grapples with with queer identity, social justice, and the transformative power of art — just as many of the plays written by McNally do. Love was honored for his new play What Will Happen to All That Beauty?, which revisits the horror of AIDS in the 1980s. "Donja Love wrote an unflinching, sprawling epic featuring intricately detailed characters that are so hungry, you find yourself trying to breathe for th...