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 […]
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.
Annual celebration of new plays had its storytelling feet planted in all sorts of different worlds
Playwright’s goal is to incorporate American Sign Language ‘in really beautiful and complicated theatrical ways’
A mother, a daughter and the thread of an American Dream
The mission to put an end to racist sports mascots moves into a Denver Center theatre
Homegrown project sheds light on a hidden heritage in southern Colorado
The region’s largest new-play festival will gather dozens of actors, directors, playwrights and crew
Near-future world-premiere play considers the consequences of assimilation Playwright Tony Meneses was intrigued when he came across a Pew Research Center study that predicted 2050 will be the year the U.S. population will no longer have a white majority. That, in itself, could make for a compelling “near-future” pot-boiler. Imagine: What will white people do […]
Playwrights span Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, Colorado Springs native and ‘the definitive voice of Middle Eastern American theatre’