posted 12-31-2009 07:46 AM               

Heavy issues confront weightlessness when Soviets and Americans join together to establish the International Space Station. Playwright Rogelio Martinez explores the 1990's Cold War thaw as two intensely driven people find love in space, a breakfast drink, a stray dog and a ghost named Yuri. Commissioned by the Denver Center Theatre Company and Magic Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation New Science & Technology Plays Initiative. [Full Synopsis]

CBS4 Denver: Astronaut Gives Denver Actors Insight On Flight

First rehearsals -- especially for a new and unknown show -- are always a challenge, but the first rehearsals for the new Denver Center Theatre Company show "When Tang Met Laika" are more challenging than most.

Not only will the cast need to learn lines and develop characters that have never seen the light of stage before, they will also have to convey to the audience the idea of being in space.

With that in mind, the Denver Center enlisted the help of Capt. Bruce McCandless (USN-Ret), a former astronaut, who, aboard STS 41-B, flew the first untethered EVA missions in outer space. McCandless, a NASA veteran, was happy to share his insights with the cast...

posted 02-22-2010 01:00 PM               

Countless plays have been written throughout history about such central human concepts as love, friendship, and conflict. Far fewer have attempted to deal with spaceflight. And, most likely, none had attempted to tackle love, friendship, conflict, and space, not to mention the collapse of the Soviet Union and, for good measure, the "Miracle on Ice" at the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid 30 years ago. Until now.