I met a woman from Maryland in the lobby of P&P last night, who had flown in from out of town just for a few vacation days to see shows at the DCTC. I shared this with some of the house staff and they were pleasantly surprised. But Denver has enough shows going on in rep right now that, like Ashland, it can be a real destination.

You can’t see eight plays in four days, and they don’t go to OSF’s extent of changing over shows on different stages – here, one play plays on one stage till it closes – but you can still make quite a weekend of it. Denver also has the attractions of natural outdoor activities. If they can maintain an audience from out of town as well as their local community, they’re in great shape.

“I love this town,” the woman said. “I come back all the time.”

I think that’s pretty impressive for a regional theater with the weather and transportation problems this airport must have, especially now.

Come to think of it, I remember Stephen flying to see 1001 here, from LA. But that was when he was looking at it for NOTE. This woman wasn’t a theater person – she was just a working professional on vacation. That’s even better.