7th Annual Durango PlayFest
JUNE 24-29, 2025
PlayFest Pass – all events June 24-29, 2025
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 7th annual festival, June 24-29, 2025, we’re featuring playwrights Ian August, Andrea Aptecker, Bill Capossere, and husband/wife writing duo Lucy Wright and William Missouri Downs.
THE FESTIVAL PASS IS FOR SALE UNTIL JUNE 4.
40 PASSES ARE AVAILABLE FOR SALE.
Your all-inclusive VIP ticket admits you to each of the four featured play readings at the Durango Arts Center including early entry to the theatre, plus the Festival Party / Kick-Off Event at the Rochester Secret Garden where you’ll mingle with this season’s playwrights, actors, and directors.
If you have trouble with any part of this process, please contact the Durango Arts Repertory Theatre by emailing [email protected] or calling (970) 259–2606.
Individual Show/Event Tickets
Help us kick off PlayFest’s 7th annual festival with drinks and heavy appetizers in the lovely Rochester Hotel Secret Garden. Learn more about this year’s plays while mingling with the playwrights, actors, directors, our staff and board plus other friends of PlayFest. [Included in Festival Pass]
June 24 (6-8pm)
$120
Rochester Secret Garden
726 E. 2nd Avenue, Durango, CO
Desperate for work and facing middle age, a divorced Hollywood screenwriter takes a crap job writing an “inspiring” family channel movie about a child’s lung transplant, only to discover that the “true story” may not be true, nor is her own life.
June 26 (7-9pm)
$30
June 29 (11am-1pm)
$25 General
$20 YPOD & FLC Alum
$10 students
When a wealthy husband and wife welcome a pair of stranded strangers into their elegant but isolated home in the countryside, disturbing connections come to light. With a storm raging and no cell coverage, the evening takes a macabre turn and the strangers won’t leave until they get what they came for.
June 27 (3-5pm)
$25 General
$20 YPOD & FLC Alum
$10 students
June 28 (7-9pm)
$30
Drag queen Letta Celebrate just wants to live her life lip-syncing Lady Gaga at birthdays, weddings, and the occasional bar mitzvah, but when a strange woman asks for help after losing everything, Letta finds herself desperate to save her or be doomed to repeat the same day over and over.
June 27 (7-9pm)
$30
June 29 (3-5pm)
$25 General
$20 YPOD & FLC Alum
$10 students
Wracked with grief, Roger reconstructs his drowned son’s bedroom in their empty backyard pool. Roger’s neighbor, Simon, is drawn into Roger’s anguish. Both men are emotionally haunted by their potential responsibility for the drowning, but also possibly haunted by the dead boy himself.
June 28 (3-5pm)
$25 General
$20 YPOD & FLC Alum
$10 students
June 29 (7-9pm)
$30
2025 DART Season
JOIN US FOR SOME AMAZING SHOWS!
15th Annual 10-Minute Play Festival (May 30 – June 1)
Beginning in January of each year, the Durango Arts Repertory Theater (DART) at the Durango Arts Center (DAC) invites playwrights from around the world to submit original 10-Minute plays.
5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche (July 18-27)
It’s 1956 and The Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein are having their annual quiche breakfast. As the assembled “widows” await the announcement of the society’s prize-winning quiche, the atomic bomb sirens sound! Has the Communist threat come to pass?
The Spitfire Grill – A Musical (August 15-31)
A troubled young parolee yearning for a fresh start follows her dreams to Wisconsin, based on a page from an old travel book, only to find a small town with a gritty heart aching with longing and regret. Unexpectedly discovering the healing power of community while working at the Spitfire Grill, Percy reawakens the entire town’s capacity for rebirth, forgiveness and hope.
Hi-Ho Silver! (September 19 – October 5)
Saunter on over for a rousing, original comedy written by Durango’s own, Darryl Kuntz. Set in the colorful old west and chock full of larger than life characters, this tribute to classic westerns will have you hooting and hollering until the grand finale! Then sit back and enjoy an act of Vaudeville Favorites. An evening of belly laughs and knee slappers is guaranteed!
Rocky Horror Show (October 24 – November 1)
In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named “Rocky.”
24-Hour Theater (November 22)
Another evening of pure entertainment as Durango Arts Repertory Theatre brings you multiple short plays PAGE TO STAGE in 24hrs! A community favorite for the last 4 years, don’t miss your chance for a night of pure originality and lots of fun!
