Tag: Colorado New Play Summit
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Denver Center will make history by staging Jake Brasch’s ‘The Reservoir’
Jake Brasch has a message for the military: “Colorado artists are on the verge of taking over the world!” (If only that were not hyperbole.) Brasch is a Denver-born playwright and floating on Cloud 99 this week with the announcement that the homegrown Denver Center Theatre Company will produce his play “The Reservoir” as part…
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Colorado New Play Summit: Where tomorrow’s stories come to grow
If you want to see a play staged by the DCPA Theatre Company this month, you have two choices – “Cebollas” and “Rubicon.” They were both first introduced to local theatergoers as staged readings at the company’s 2022 Colorado New Play Summit. The Summit is to playgoers what the NFL Draft is to football fans:…
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Twelve new stage openings to warm your January chill | John Moore
Much of the local performing arts community takes a collective breath around the holidays, which means they tend to come back each January like a synchronized Arctic blast of drama. And one look at the upcoming calendar makes one thing perfectly plain: They are coming back leaner – yet still loaded for (dramatic) bear. We are…
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Local playwrights delivered the write stuff in 2023 | John Moore
Jake Brasch put the Colorado in the 2023 Colorado New Play Summit in February. The feel-good story of the 2023 Summit was the Denver-born playwright coming home from New York to tell his own brutally honest addiction-recovery story that, in the end, felt pretty darned good. The Colorado New Play Summit is the DCPA Theatre…