Friends and collaborators: Durango’s tight-knit theater community – Durango Herald
Time and time again, I forget how quickly tickets to Merely Players’ productions sell out – and, consequently, people must join a waitlist. However, I was recently gifted tickets to “Hamlet” by a friend who couldn’t make it – and what a gift it was. Of course, the...
Silencing the Arts: How New Federal Policies are Gutting Cultural Funding – Durango Herald
Fundraising for the arts has never been easy. New funding priorities at the national level now add another layer of fear and uncertainty for small nonprofits already walking a financial tightrope. The current administration has repeatedly targeted the National...
Why play development festivals matter – Durango Herald
Playwriting often begins in solitude: a writer hunched over a laptop or notepad, coaxing characters into existence. But a play doesn’t truly breathe until actors give those characters a voice. Only then – when words are spoken aloud and tested against an audience’s...
