Dobbins Conservatory 2024-2025 Theatre SeasonKitt is directing Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods and serving as dramaturg on the world premiere of Girlhood by Ida Esmaeili as part of the 2024-2025 Dobbins Conservatory mainstage theatre season. In addition, he is mentoring the student directors of the Lanford Wilson Festival Short Plays on the Conservatory’s second stage.
Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival The 2025 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival (Kitt Lavoie, Artistic Director) will be held from May 25-May 31 in Cape Girardeau, MO. Plays and guest speakers for the 2025 festival will be announced soon.
The winner of the top prize at the 2023 festival, Our Play, and at the 2022 festival, The Winter Guard Play, are both available for licensing through Concord Theatricals.
Publication of Together, Even When You’re NotKitt’s play Together, Even When You’re Not was recently published by Applause Books in the anthology Stage It, Stream It: Plays for Virtual Theatre.
Publication of Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival 2024: The Short PlaysKitt is co-editing the collection Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival 2024: The Short Plays, featuring the one-act Official Selections of the 2024 festival, which will be released in late 2024. The collections of shorts from the 2021, 2022, and 2023 festivals are available for purchase on Amazon.
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have HappenedBest 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, is available on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, Vudu, and other streaming platforms.
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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."
Rolling Stone
See the trailer here!