DeVita comedy hits the Heights.

Community theater has a really bad rap.

The stereotype — so much of one that it even has a meme — is that community theater is filled with local admins and shopkeepers wearing their own clothes standing in front of bland sets doing Hello Dolly or The Odd Couple (over and over again).

Nothing could be farther from the truth in downtown Brooklyn where the venerable Heights Players — now in its [wait for it] 66th year — presented a work fresh from its off-Broadway run. And they did it will all the bells and whistles one might expect from a professional production.

One of New York’s foremost playwrights, Doug DeVita was in the audience for the premiere of NELL DASH, THE GRUESOMELY MERRY ADVENTURES OF AN IRREPRESSIBLY SENSIBLE CAPITALIST WITH A VENGEANCE (Nell Dash on second reference).