On March 10, Durango PlayFest unveiled the four plays that will be presented at its eighth annual festival in June. Of the 200 pieces submitted for our consideration, there were many exceptional...
PlayFest 2026 has come and gone. In less than a week, four plays-in-progress burned brightly. Three new works and one that dates back 25 years received staged readings in the Community Concert Hall...
Since 2018, Durango PlayFest has brought audiences into the early stages of new plays and musicals, offering something rare — the chance to experience a story before it is finished. Read the full...
When Durango PlayFest was just a kernel of an idea in early 2018, organizers approached the theater department at Fort Lewis College for advice and direction. Felicia Lansbury Meyer, then a theater...
The last three months have been a blur of reading, re-reading and then reading some more, evaluating 200-plus play submissions in hopes of finding four unique plays to present at Durango PlayFest’s...
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...
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....
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...
Ask Felicia Lansbury Meyer or Mandy Mikulencak what PlayFest is all about, and one word continuously pops up: process. The essence of Durango’s unusual workshop-to-public performance is the creative...
