“The Living,” a play by Anthony Clarvoe...

“The Living,” a play by Anthony Clarvoe that was read last year at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, has received a second major grant in less than two months. The W. Alton Jones Foundation in Charlottesville, Va. has given the Denver Center Theatre Co. $100,000 to produce the play (Clarvoe will receive at least $15,000 of the total). Last month, the same theater company received $50,000 grant for the same production, that time from the Fund for New American Plays in Washington, D.C. “The Living” draws parallels between the AIDS epidemic and the Black Plague in 17th-Century London. It was read at SCR as part of A Day Without Art, a national observance of the destruction AIDS has wrought in the arts community. Clarvoe’s “Let’s Play Two” was produced this season on SCR’s Second Stage.