All Season Images (except for MacHomer) have been created and rendered by Colorado Springs artist Alan Flinn. THEATREWORKS is extremely grateful for his contribution and support over the years.
Teachers take note: A Midsummer Night's Dream student matinees on August 25 & 27 at 10:00 a.m.
Shakespeare’s most enchanting comedy takes a striking new turn this summer when four young lovers find themselves lost and beguiled in a world where the moon is full, love is in the air, and just around the bend a man has been transformed into an ass. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what this dream will be! But you won’t want to miss it.
A spaceship is wrecked on planet D'llyria, where lives the mad scientist Dr. Prospero, his lovely daughter, and his robot servant. Goofy magic is on display, and there is music in the air. Very loosely based on the movie loosely based on The Tempest, this is the Rocky Mountain premiere of Shakespeare's forgotten rock 'n’ roll masterpiece, featuring a live band, blank verse and plenty of classic songs from the 1950's. It's a wild and unforgettable ride.
Only seven performances!
Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
September 24-October 25 (in rep with Invisible Voices)
Teachers take note: Student Matinees October 6, 8, 15, & 22 at 10:00 a.m.
We dust off and strip down one of America’s best known and most moving plays, in which everyday lives are set against all eternity. At the Bon Vivant Theater, this production comes to you in a simple package with this address: Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, United States of America, Continent of North America, Western Hemisphere, the Earth, the Solar System, the Universe, the Mind of God. The package is addressed to you.
The internationally acclaimed Ping Chong Company comes to Colorado Springs to create a new work—a world premiere-- featuring people with disabilities. The performers will all be local, chosen to tell their own very personal stories on stage, giving voice at last to our largest, least understood, and least visible minority.
Doth Birnam wood come to the Nuclear Power Plant? You bet it does when the Simpsons meet Macbeth. Rick Miller plays over fifty characters in this phenomenally entertaining new show which has delighted audiences from coast to coast. The cowardly, ambitious Homer is a funny yet tragic hero, aided and abetted by the faithful Marge, who has always worn the pants in the family. With plenty of projections from America’s favorite show, it’s a tale told by an idiot, a train wreck and a triumph both for Bart and the Bard.
There are dark doings at Mandacrest Manor. A portrait bleeds, a mummy’s tomb opens, a wolf howls. The tormented one legged butler looks strangely like the lady of the house, and the Egyptologist bears a strange resemblance to the jealous maidservant. It’s all highly ingenious, ridiculously spooky, and outrageously funny—a bouquet of wolfsbane to keep those holiday blues from your door.
They are mostly white, mostly middle class, and they have no names. You’ll meet them around the table as they decide the fate of a 16 year old boy accused of murder. It’s an apparently open and shut case. But the deliberation that follows is a seething cauldron of prejudice, insight, and tense revelation. This may be the best courtroom drama ever written for the American stage, and it’s the best chance you’ll have all year of seeing ordinary men (and extraordinary actors) fight and grope their way to justice.
They are two of the dearest, sweetest old ladies who have ever walked the earth, and they serve the nicest homemade elderberry wine. It packs quite a kick. There’s a playwright in the living room, bodies in the basement and Teddy Roosevelt running up stairs to take San Juan Hill. Perhaps the best loved, and the funniest, of all American stage comedies, coming to THEATREWORKS at last. Charge!
