Look back: 2018 Colorado New Play Summit got real
Readings explored contemporary social issues through the lens of real stories taken from the recent and distant past
Summit Spotlight: Barbara Seyda’s collision with voices of the dead
By listening to the voices of history, playwright brings the voice of a hanged slave to Colorado New Play Summit stage
Summit Spotlight: Kemp Powers on a matter that’s black and white
New play explores when the bond between biracial twins, like the Space Shuttle Challenger, goes up in smoke.
Summit Spotlight: David Jacobi on affluenza, the rich man’s plague
Ethan Couch drove drunk and killed four people. Apparently he was too rich to know right from wrong.
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…