Durango PlayFest Pass
Durango PlayFest Pass – Only Available til June 5th!
Each summer, professional and emerging playwrights, actors and directors gather for a week to develop and workshop new plays before showcasing them at staged readings in front of local audiences. At our 6th annual festival, June 25-30, we will feature playwrights Richard Dresser, Deb Hiett, James Anthony Tyler and Kathleen Cahill.
All That Remains
by: Richard Dresser
A couple living on a small island off the coast of Maine invites the neurotic husband’s college roommate and his conservative trophy wife for a weekend visit – only to discover that long-buried secrets unmoor both couples and the “good old days” may not have been so good after all.
Circle Forward
By: Deb Hiett
Seventeen years after the loss of her young husband from cancer, Mia meets a teenager who believes he is the reincarnation of her late husband. When the teen and his mom come to Mia’s house for lunch, his uncanny memories force Mia to face her doubts, her past, and the whole truth.
Hop Tha A
By: James Anthony Tyler
During his late-night commute on the A train, Harlem native Tyrone tries to impress Niesha, his coworker at a nightclub, who just wants to read her book and pass the ride in silence. But as they travel uptown, the two forge an unlikely connection that extends beyond the confines of the subway car.
Mrs. Einstein
By Kathleen CahillA young Albert Einstein meets the brilliant Mileva Marić when they are physics students at the Zurich Polytechnic. Their deep emotional, intellectual and physical connection results in a ground-breaking scientific theory – but only one of them gets the credit. We know what becomes of him. This is a play about her.
- Find your emailed receipt from purchasing your season pass and locate your season pass code.
- Visit our ticketing site (https://app.arts-people.com/
index.php?ticketing=dac) - Click “BUY TICKETS” for the show you wish to see.
- Choose the performance you’d like to see and add tickets to that performance to your shopping cart.
- Either continue shopping to add tickets to other shows to your cart or log in on the right side of the shopping cart screen with your email.
- Enter your account password to finish logging in.
- Ensure all your contact information is accurate, that you have chosen “Yes” or “No” to subscribe to our email list, and click “save and continue”.
- Enter your season pass code from your emailed receipt into the bar below “Do you have a code?”.
- Click Complete Order.
- Put the show in your calendar so you don’t forget!
If you have trouble with any part of this process, please contact the Durango Arts Repertory Theatre by emailing dart@durangoarts.org or calling (970) 259 – 2606.
Shows
Hand to God
Book by Kevin Murphy & Dan Studney, Music by Dan Studney, Lyrics by Kevin Murphy
Written by Robert Askins and Directed by Michael McKelvey
In the tiny, conservative town of Cypress, Texas, the shy, mild-mannered Jason is just trying to be a good son. When he joins his mother Margery’s Christian Puppet Ministry at the local church, Jason discovers a burgeoning talent for puppetry, and it seems like things, after his father’s sudden death, might just turn out okay. Tyrone the puppet, though, has other plans. As the foul-mouthed, independent, and devilishly funny Tyrone grows in strength, Jason’s complex relationships with the school bully, the girl-next-door, and most importantly, his mother, are thrown into upheaval. An irreverent, occasionally shocking, and perpetually hysterical romp to hell and back, Hand To God’s exploration of the ideas of faith, morality, and human nature will leave you sore with laughter.
MAR. 15-16, 22-23 & 29-30 @ 7:30 PM
MAR. 17, 24 & 31 @ 2 PM
$20 General Admission | $15 Students
14TH ANNUAL 10-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL
We are bringing a new feel to our Annual 10 Minute Play Festival that accepts scripts from both professional and brand new playwrights from around the globe. This year we are requesting plays that embrace our Season of Mystery, Murder and Mayhem! After our panel of readers choose their stand out scripts, DART will fully produce 8 to 10 of these World Premiere 10 minute plays, showcasing the amazing talents of new writers, actors and directors for a winning weekend of never before seen Theatre.
FULL PRODUCTIONS MAY. 24 & 25 @ 7:30PM, MAY. 26TH @ 2PM
$20 General Admission | $15 Students
I HATE HAMLET
Written by Paul Rudnick and Directed by Monica DiBiasio
Television star Andrew Rally is about to start rehearsals to play Hamlet—and he is terrified. Unsure of himself, worried about his career, Andrew doesn’t know what to do. In the midst of his confusion, he is visited by the ghost of legendary actor John Barrymore. Barrymore explains that all actors who take on the role are visited and mentored by their predecessors, and that he cannot leave Andrew until he takes the stage as Hamlet. Andrew’s girlfriend wants him to be a romantic hero of the stage, his friend wants him to accept a lucrative new TV gig, and Barrymore wants him to accept his own great theatrical mantle. As Andrew grows under Barrymore’s larger-than-life wing, he is forced to confront the ultimate question: who he wants to be, or not to be.
JULY 12-13, 19-20, & 26-27 @ 7:30PM
JULY 14, 21, & 28 @ 2:00PM
$20 General Admission | $15 Students
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Written by Rupert Holmes
Directed by Jenny Fitts Reynolds
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a hilarious, interactive whodunit mystery musical that allows the audience to enter the action and become the ultimate detectives. The show is based on Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel of the same name. In the small town of Chesterham, England, the young and charming Edwin Drood has been mysteriously murdered. But by whom? His leering romantic rival, John Jasper? The infamous purveyor of opium and vice, Princess Puffer? The mysterious Landless twins, newly arrived from Ceylon? Or someone else even more dastardly and villainous? Dickens passed away before he was able to reveal the culprit. Rupert Holmes’ award-winning musical solves this predicament by asking the audience to choose which character is the killer by putting it to a vote. Staged in metatheatrical manner by the Music Hall Royale, a traveling Victorian theatre troupe full of just as many colorful characters as the roles they play, this charming and inventive musical is sure to intrigue and entertain any musical or mystery lover.
AUGUST 16-17, 23-24 & 30-31 @ 7:30PM;
AUGUST 18, 25 & SEPTEMBER 1st @ 2PM
$25 General Admission | $20 Students
Wait Until Dark
Written by Frederick Knotts and Directed by Michael Grais
Frederick Knott’s thriller is the story of Susy Hendrix, a recently blinded housewife who unwittingly possesses a doll filled with illicit drugs. Harry Roat, a brutal and sophisticated criminal, coerces two small-time thugs into helping him con Susy into giving up the doll. A battle of wits ensues as Susy and the young girl upstairs launch a counterplot against the thieves. The drama plays on the themes of darkness and light as Susy navigates through her sightless world, and the crooks signal each other with light through the Venetian blinds.
SEPTEMBER. 13 – 14, 20 – 21, & 27 – 28 @ 7:30PM;
SEPTEMBER. 15, 22 & 29 @ 2PM
$20 General Admission | $15 Students
RICHARD O’BRIEN’S THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Richard O’Brien and Directed by Jenny Fitts Reynolds
One fateful night, Brad Majors and his fiancée, Janet Weiss — a wholesome, well-behaved, utterly normal young couple in love — innocently set out to visit an old professor. Unfortunately for them, this night out is destined to be one they will never forget. A thunderstorm and a flat-tire force them to seek help at the castle of Dr. Frank ’N’ Furter, an alien, transvestite scientist with a manic genius and insatiable libido. Brad, Janet, and Frank’ N’ Furter’s cohorts are swept up into the scientist’s latest experiment. The night’s misadventures will cause Brad and Janet to question everything they’ve known about themselves, each other, love, and lust. A loving homage to the classic B sci-fi film and horror genres with an irresistible rock’n’roll score, The Rocky Horror Show is a hilarious, wild ride that no audience will soon forget…which is why we are so pleased to host it and shout out with you!
OCTOBER 25, 31 & NOVEMBER 1 @ 7PM,
OCTOBER 26, 31, & NOVEMBER 2 @ 10PM
OCTOBER 27 @ 7PM
$25 General Admission
$20 Students
4th ANNUAL 24-HOUR THEATRE PROJECT
Join us for the mayhem that IS 24hr Theatre! Writers will receive prompts, suggestions of set, characters, dialogue, on Friday evening at 7pm. By 7pm on Saturday those prompts have been turned into scripts, cast, rehearsed, and are ready to hit the stage for a night of One Night Only theatrical magic! From page to stage in 24 hours!
NOV. 15 @ 6:30PM & NOV. 16 @ 7PM
$15 General Admission | $10 Students
