Tag: Edith Weiss
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Nina Miller: She didn’t just break a leg – she broke even
It’s a big deal when a local playwright both self-produces and earns back her costs on an unknown new play. How did she do it? Producing live theater has always required the moxie of a Vegas gambler. Only 20% of Broadway plays ever recoup their initial investments. The risk producers assume is just baked into…
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Denver playwright Edith Weiss: Short and sweet
The beloved local playwright, actor and director is having her moment at age 74 with an evening of ‘fierce’ short plays How good of a humanoid is Edith Weiss? “She feels bad killing Japanese beetles,” said Christy Montour-Larson, her friend and co-host of their award-winning gardening podcast “Upside Down Tulips.” That good. It’s true: Weiss…
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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…
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Using dance and play as a joyful antidote for burnout and compassion fatigue
2023 EMERGING ARTIST SERIES, DAY 6: TARA RYNDERS