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.
Kent Haruf, Author of ‘Plainsong’ Trilogy, Dies at Age 71
Kent Haruf, who authored “The Plainsong Trilogy” brought to the stge by the DCPA, died Sunday morning of lung disease. He gave his final interview…
Colorado New Play Summit expands to two weekends; playwrights announced for 2015
2015 lineup will include works by Theresa Rebeck, Tanya Saracho, Catherine Trieschmann and Jason Gray Platt.