Slaughterhouse-5 opens tonight! I am SO EXCITED. This has been a great experience. Now people get to see it. I am so thankful to do a show like this after a long string of doing fairly traditional theatre, it was time to get weird. Sci-fi theatre, time travel, aliens, puppetry, AMAZING LIGHTS, and solid performances. I know this was the right show to hold out for.

Come see it everyone! It’s $10 for students in a brand new theatre. You will not see a show like this very often. I can promise you this. It will be interesting.

I have a had a great semester being assistant director for Pamela Downs for 2 shows and have learned a lot. I have also performed in both those shows. And tonight is the culmination of the work put in. I have been thinking about this play since last april when Pam had me read it during Philly story, then I read the novel, reread the play and so on. Now its ready, and it is a spectacle.

Everything has been going pretty good lately. The play has been great of course. It is also print deadline for the American River Review, and I can promise that this is the best magazine we have produced to date, and I have some really cool designs in the magazine!

Also Lavish Laines Winery has been making great progress, new board of directors, new investors and new part owners (including my brother). And I have started getting paid thank god….. I’m swimming in debt. Don’t get a DUI… their expensive.

And I have been way to busy to be going out or socializing or drinking. I’m generally sober all the time. Which is a nice change of pace. Most my friends are coming home this weekend and are going to see the show and I get to hang out with them yay.

Through slaughterhouse I have made a lot of new friends and gotten awfully good at beer pong. ha

But again… Come see Slaughterhouse-5

peace.

BLUE HAIR! “After midnight blue” hair actually. I wanted a real dark blue. It totally goes with our color scheme for our show. That’s why I did it. Dayummm I think it looks great. And my cheekbones look fantastic…. But enough about me…

Okay, more about me… I have been working super hard on Words & Voices and it’s kinda awesome. Really felt like I contributed to the project. Only 3 days people, and only $5. Come on. Please?

Been applying at more jobs, I’m sure blue hair will help that immensely. haha, well maybe, I applied at Hot Topic. I’m a sell out. whateva.

And Slaughterhouse-5 starts next week AND AND AND

ITS MY BIRTHDAY NEXT SUNDAY OCTOBER 3rd!!

I know I sounded a little dismayed about it earlier, but I don’t care. I LOVE my birthday. My mom is taking me to get hella new clothes. woot. Still no big plans. And I’m pretty cool with that.

On another note, I went on a real date this week! With a familiar face no less. Jeff, oh yes Jeff. You guys remember? This guy ——>

We dated for like a second about a year ago, off and off and on and then off again. Schedules really never allowed us. So we talked and he took me out on a real date (paid and everything, I know right?) and we have hung out the past three nights, and it kinda seems like its working this time. We shall see where this goes.

For the moment, everything seems to be going a little better, done with work project, show is opening tonight, enjoying my design class, no drama, and I have sweet ass blue hair! Now if someone will just hire me….

Peace

I’ve always been a bad new first kind of guy…

Court did not go my way, and I owe a lot of money…. A LOT OF MONEY. Full story about this whole ordeal soon. Its really quite funny an educational cautionary tale.

But… moving on, good news! Got cast in slaughterhouse 5! Feel good now that I held out for this show. Great right? well…

Here’s the thing, (and yeah I’m gonna bitch for a minute, so if you’re not interested yall can leave devinritchie.com. Directly). I studied for this play so hard. I read the play like 4 times, broke it down, read into characters, I even read the fuckin novel for this show. And I don’t read books. I need to prepare like this for every audition because I apparently don’t have the natural panache others have to just walk in to any audition and get cast on mere talent. But I got cast so what am I bitching about? Well, I’m playing a smaller role than I had hoped for. That’s fine. I really don’t mind doing ensemble roles, especially in a show like this. If you are familiar with Slaughterhouse, I am playing the British soldier named Reggie. The guy who puts on a production of Cinderella for the other soldiers, and stars as Cinderella. …That’s right. Somehow in a play about time travel, war, and the DRESDEN BOMBING I got cast as the ONE man who wears a dress. Yes ladies and gentlemen, the only fag in the play is in drag. I’m a fucking walking talking gay joke. I’m nearly offended. I’m just tired of this gay joke thing. It will be funny and I will do it well. But, ugh. This sort of thing has been happening to me a lot. Its not acting, its a fucking perpetuation of a stereotype. Most my friends got the roles they wanted, bad ass army guys who fight, or characters with real

depth. I’m the fag in the dress. Moreover, the person who got a role I wanted and literally cues my entrance, and has a more pivotal part than I, is the same person who missed his god damn entrance in Philadelphia Story (my last play), leaving me to have to improvise and cover for him. I was a fish out of god damn water in front of an audience. Twice. Yes TWICE. we only performed it seven times. Why we rehearse for 2 months to not even bother going on stage is beyond me. But I guess that’s how to prove yourself as a dedicated actor. So I feel a bit slapped in the face being a gay joke, and being cast under someone who has done this to me on stage. That is my rant. And now its over.

Let’s put 2 and 2 together… I am no longer excited about this play due to casting and the fact that there is 20 people in it. AND I need money BAD. Do I drop the play? For my own sake and sanity and so I can be an adult paying off my fines. Or should I go gay it up and play dress up?

New Subject.

I’m headed to the bay in the morning. Kyle is having me take a train out there and were going to the Scottish Games in Pleasanton tomorrow, and the wine festival in Livermore on Sunday. Good. I need some space and clarity. And thank god Ruth is home tonight, I’m going out for the first time in a while. I have been taking it easy recently. But now its time to go celebrate my Scottish roots and wine taste. Watch pipers and get food from Clan McKintosh. Cant wait.

I dunno what to do I’m all lost and confused yall.

peace.

As You Like It is finally here! Opens this Friday June 25th. So excited about this show. It is my 2nd favorite Shakespeare show (after Macbeth), the concept is 1968 Orange County, CA with hippies exiled in an orange grove. Amazeballs. Featuring a live band which is stellar. I play Charles and Silvius, 2 good roles. And best yet, I get to work with some of the most talented people in Sacramento for this show. The set is beautiful.

Heres the info:

William Shakespeare
Directed by Christopher Cook

~~~Cast:~~~
Stephanie Zito, David Chernyavsky, Brian Watson, Ben Ismail, Mary Katherine Cobb, Owen Smith, Casey Worthington, Celena Tasabia, Steven Adkins, K.D. Beebe, Devin Ritchie, Kara Ow, Christopher Carlson, Johnny Sittisin, Ciara Ashley, and Ashlee Chimero

Performances 25 June thru 11 July
Fridays-8:00pm
Saturdays-8:00pm
Sundays-7:00pm
***No performance on July 4th.

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Tickets $15 general, All performance at Califronia Stage 1723 25th street Midtown Sacramento.

I’m just going to say that I will be shirtless wearing a Mexican wrestler mask and a cape, using a Mexican accent.

peace.

It’s finally here! The Philadelphia Story opens this Friday April 23rd. The show is going great, the set is stunning, the costumes are gorgeous, and I think the performances are awesome. I haven’t done a “real” show in a while, and it feels really great. I hope yall can make it would mean a lot to me. It’s my first bigger role.

Featuring
Brittaleigha Baskerville, Mike Holcombe, Betsaida LeBron, Casey Worthington, Devin Ritchie, Tim Yancey, Michael Hayner, Jacob Vuksinich, Anna Russell-Madonia, Tina Lehne, Florence Kirilova, Alisha Anderson, Joshua Lee, Gabe Hermon, Jayson Hart, and Erik Fetske

Phillip Barry’s classic romantic comedy about high society and love triangles.

The Philadelphia Story
Directed by Pamela Downs
Asst. Dir. James McMillon

Open’s Friday April 23rd -May 2nd
Fri-Sat performances 8pm, Sunday matinee at 2pm. Special added showings Thursday the 29th at 6:30pm and a matinee on Saturday may 1st at 2pm!

Tracy Lord, of the Philadelphia Lords has married C.K. Dexter Haven and divorced him when he, resenting her chilling attitude toward the comforting virtues of domesticity, takes to liquor. A little while later she has taken up with a handsome man snob of the mines named Kittredge and is about to marry him. One of the calender paper social gossip weeklies sends a reporter and a camera woman to cover the wedding. They are injected into the house by Tracy’s brother, Sandy, who hopes to divert their attention from Father Lord’s affair with a Broadway actress. Tracy, already a little shaken in her urge for Kittredge, finds herself suddenly bowled over by Connor, the fascinating reporter.

Gorgeous new costumes by Gail Russell
Amazing set and lighting design by Kathy Burleson

Ticket prices $10-$12 Box office- 916-484-8234