Denver’s Curious Theatre will be among the first sites in the country to present Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan’s new play, a political protest piece.

“Building the Wall,” a work of “speculative fiction,” opens April 4 at Curious, in what will be only the show’s second production after Los Angeles.

Schenkkan’s previous works, “All the Way” (Tony Award 2014) and “The Kentucky Cycle” (Pulitzer Prize 1992), took years to complete. But anger is a good accelerator: The new play was written “in a white-hot fury” in the two weeks prior to the Inauguration. To read more, click here.