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New Play Festivals Across the U.S.

Every year, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts hosts the Colorado New Play Summit, featuring new play readings and attracting theatre industry leaders and artists. Launch Weekend showcases stripped-down readings of plays in development, so the playwright, director, and audience can focus entirely on the story. After receiving audience feedback, the productions spend the […]

Playwrights Leonard Madrid, Kimber Lee, Kirsten Potter, and James Ijames in a collage.

DCPA Theatre Company Announces Playwrights for the 16th Annual Colorado New Play Summit

The 16th annual festival will take place over two weekends, February 25-26 and March 4-6, and feature readings of new plays by James Ijames, Kimber Lee, Leonard Madrid, and Kirsten Potter.

2020 Colorado New Play Summit criss-crosses cultures like never before

Annual celebration of new plays had its storytelling feet planted in all sorts of different worlds

Summit Spotlight: Mary Kathryn Nagle and Suzan Shown Harjo, ‘Reclaiming One Star’

The mission to put an end to racist sports mascots moves into a Denver Center theatre

2020 Colorado New Play Summit casting includes first Native American Oscar winner for acting

The region’s largest new-play festival will gather dozens of actors, directors, playwrights and crew

2020 Scenesters Student Playwriting

DCPA Education names three student plays to be featured at 2020 Summit

The three winning scripts will be presented at next month’s Colorado New Play Summit Denver Center Education has announced the three winning plays for its seventh annual statewide AT&T High School Playwriting Competition, which this year drew 154 one-act plays for consideration from Colorado student writers. The following plays will be presented together as a […]