Summit Spotlight, Sigrid Gilmer: What makes you laugh will make you cry
‘Mama Metallica’ is the playwright’s love letter to her mother, Metallica and the theater, all in one heavy-metal smash-up.
Summit prep begins at the intersection of Eugene O’Neill and Metallica
The Denver Center’s 13th annual Colorado New Play Summit is underway as dozens of artists begin work on four new plays.
2018 Colorado New Play Summit selections announced
Theatre Company’s 13th annual festival will feature readings by Sigrid Gilmer, David Jacobi, Kemp Powers and Barbara Seyda, alongside three world premieres.
Summit stands in thanks to departing founder Kent Thompson
“I think he’s done an incredible job, and he has offered a lot of people a home. He offered me a home.”
Summit Spotlight: Robert Schenkkan on the danger of denial
The Pulitzer-winner examines Hitler’s mentalist and hears uncomfortable echoes from history that reverberate today.
Summit Spotlight: Lauren Yee lays it all on the free-throw line
Inspired by her father, the playwright explores sport as a metaphor for how countries rub up against each other in terms of strategy, styles and…
Summit Spotlight: Rogelio Martinez on when world leaders collide
‘Blind Date’ centers on the odd-couple meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev’s at the Geneva Summit in 1985.
Summit Spotlight: Donnetta Lavinia Grays on navigating trauma
“The world feels kind of like an unsafe place. We don’t know what’s going to happen next … So how do we get that back?”
Summit Spotlight: Eric Pfeffinger on the fertile comedy of a divided America
A couple is devastated to discover that their fertilized embryo has been mistakenly implanted into somebody else. So obviously, it’s a comedy.
Featured playwrights named for 2016 Colorado New Play Summit
José Cruz González, Lauren Gunderson, Tira Palmquist and Mat Smart will have their plays developed and presented as readings.