Abstract: Beginning with Bertolt Brecht's Galileo in 1943 - which deals with the responsibility of a man of genius in a hostile world – and Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Physicists in 1962 - a modern morality play – science and, in particular, physics, have served a number of dramatists as a backdrop for the exposition of existential problems. In 1998 Michael Frayn, with Copenhagen, broke new ground by actually presenting significant content and ideas of science on stage and examining recent, factually controversial and emotionally charged events in the history of science and the world. The opening of Copenhagen in New York in March 2000 provided us with the stimulus and occasion to mount what we believe to have been the first symposium on the science and history of the events that are presented - some would say adumbrated - in the play to a wide audience. We are now making plans, together with physicists, historians, and theater people to organise similar, more locally based, events during this fall's and winter's tour of Copenhagen in many cities of the United States. During the last few years a minor boom of science and scientists related plays, by authors known and (as yet) unknown have been staged in the United States. We will provide information about them and venture some thoughts about the pluses and minuses this new popularity may hold in store for the practice and history of science.