Play puts noble ideals to personal test

Rivertowns Playhouse stages Pulitzer finalist

At age 15, Heidi Schreck traveled to American Legion halls across the country giving speeches about the U.S. Constitution in a scholarship contest. She won — again and again — and eventually paid for her entire college tuition with prize earnings. Decades later, as a celebrated actress, playwright, and screenwriter, Schreck transformed that unusual chapter of her life into the critically acclaimed play “What the Constitution Means to Me,” a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and nominee for two Tony Awards.