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Coyote Web Synergy, Playhouse Smithville, and the Smithville Cultural District are proud to announce the World Premiere of Where’s Bucky?, the latest work from Award-Winning playwright Douglas Scott Delaney and directed by Playhouse Smithville’s Sam Blasco, teaming these two theatre veterans together again for the first time since the 1980s.

Blasco and Delaney cut their dramatic eye teeth at The Working Stage Theater Company in New York City, where they were both Writers In Residence and Directors as well as proficient actors. Both had Off Broadway productions with the troupe. Blasco’s play, The Killing Time, was performed at the Irish Arts Center in Hell’s Kitchen and Delaney’s play, My Last Confession hit the boards at the Peter Xanthos Theater on the Upper West side. When not having their own plays produced, Blasco and Delaney worked as actors in many productions about Manhattan.

“Community Theaters like Theater Smithville are the midwives of new plays across the country,” says Delaney. “Almost all my plays began in houses just like this one. It’s exciting, and it also a bit scary and dangerous because it will be the first time you get to see if what you hope works actually will work. And it is bold for Playhouse Smithville to take this on because Where’s Bucky? is not your usual Community Theater fare. And that’s both the fun and challenge of the production. There is a sentiment out there that you have to spoon feed audiences, and I just don’t believe that!”

Douglas Scott Delaney's drama and musical have been performed to rave reviews in theatres all over the United States and won many awards. including the prestigious Los Angeles DramaLogue Award for Best Play (My Last Confession.)

The revival of his original musical, Lafitte, The Pyrate!, winner of New York City’s Broadway Tomorrow Award, is scheduled for the Spring of 2024. 

DRAMATIST RESUME IS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST (email grp@coyotewebsynergy.com)

Douglas Scott Delaney's My Last Confession, has been performed all over the United States and won numerous awards, including the prestigious Los Angeles DramaLogue Award for Best Play.

"Playwright Douglas Scott Delaney has written a warm and admirable dramatic comedy with humanistic overtones and a claque of ragtag and realistic characters."

-DRAMA-LOGUE

"Delaney's My Last Confession is yet another play that addresses the capacity of religion and faith to heal moral ills and real life dilemmas.  Fortunately, it is a potent and well-crafted work."

-Los Angeles Village View

"My Last Confession is a transcendent joy to behold in live theater and is our Critic's pick of the Week."

-Kaleidoscope Radio Magazine

"The Road Theater knows that new plays are about beginnings, and Delaney's has just begun.  Delaney's faith is by far the play's most interesting element."

-Los Angeles Times

"A multiple whirlwind is at the center of My Last Confession: the turmoil in the Catholic Church, the turmoil in a Catholic Church, and the turmoil in Catholics.  The easy answers of "Going My Way" don't exist here.  Only the hard questions, and they are asked with style and conviction in this production."

-Stages Magazine

"The playwright has a keen ear for street language and a sharp eye for those whom God has apparently neglected, or so it seems.  His frank observations of a society passing through cosmic urban changes are hilarious and searing in turns.  It takes a strong and tolerant theology to deal with the guerilla tactics Delaney has so artfully crammed into the dark underworld of St. Martin's dying days."

-Ponte Vedra Recorder

Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 

SUMMARY

After a lifetime of globetrotting, an aging invalid finds himself in a tiny Kansas town under the care of his domineering sister. This rewarding play has delighted audiences from coast to coast. 

 “Award-winning playwright Doug Delaney turns the brackish water of human tragedy into the sparkling wine of high comedy... Avery J. Coping explores the dark side of a fatal illness, illuminating it with wit, wisdom and lyric cadence.” 

– Ponte Vedra Recorder 

 “Drives a comedic stake through the ugly black heart of small town Americana, with its backwater mores, archaic ideals and neurotic characters. It is a thought-provoking play that is also very funny and endearing. Delaney has injected guffaw producing humor into a serious play with such finesse, he effectively drives home his premise without pretension.” 

– First Coast Entertainer