Flyn' West - Theatreworks
Through: Sun, 07/27/2025 - 04:00 PM
Ent Center for the Arts
Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theatre
5225 N. Nevada Avenue
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
Thursdays and Fridays at 7:30 p.m.
Saturdays at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Sundays at 4:00 p.m.
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All conversations are free and available to everyone, no matter the date on your ticket.
NEW: Subscriber Screening in collaboration with UCCS Film
Film to be announced
Thurs, June 26, 2025 | 6:30PM
Chapman Auditorium
BEFORE THE SHOW
Designer Hang
1st Thursdays
Thurs, July 10, 2025 | 6:45PM - 7:15 PM
Casual encounter with directors and designers from the production, as well as scholars expert in questions surrounding our plays!
Framing Panel
1st Sundays
Sun, July 13, 2025 | 2:30PM - 3:30 PM
Join creative team members to gain insider perspectives about the show you are attending.
Chit Chat In Collaboration With GOCA
2nd Thursdays
Thurs, July 17, 2025 | 6:45PM - 7:15 PM
Mash-up conversations with two wildly different subject matter experts - a guaranteed hour of edutainment!
AFTER THE SHOW
Community Conversations
1st and 2nd Saturdays
Sat, July 12, 2025 | 5:00PM - 5:30 PM
Sat, July 19, 2025 | 5:00PM - 5:30 PM
Theatre staff, local experts, and community leaders discuss our shared experience of the production.
Actor Interchange
2nd Sundays
Sun, July 20, 2025 | 7:00PM - 7:30 PM
Actors from the production discuss their process with enthusiastic audience members.
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![Flyin' West - July 10 - July 27, 2025](/sites/default/files/2024-07/Flyin%20CTA.png)
Written by Pearl Cleage and Directed by Marisa Hébert.
In 1890s Kansas, the homesteading Dove sisters are proud of their land and of the all-Black town of Nicodemus. But soon they find themselves contending with speculators attempting to buy up their town from outside, and an unsavory brother-in-law who might break up their family from within. Directed by Marisa Hébert (actor - Steel Magnolias, director - Every Brilliant Thing and King Hedley) this play by Pearl Cleage, one of the essential modern American playwrights, highlights unsung pioneers of the American West and the resilience, resolve, and recipes that let them weather an unforgiving time and place in American history.
UCCS students are always free. Contact the box office in person or by phone with your student ID to reserve seats.
This production contains melodrama, domestic abuse, revenge, racialized language, and death by baked good. As each audience member is different, we don't make age recommendations, but if you have questions about the material or wish to read a copy of the work in advance, please email Artistic Director Caitlin Lowans at clowans@uccs.edu
Director
Marisa Hébert |
Cast
Kelly Armstrong* |
Tresha Farris* |
Lynne Hastings |
Cheerish Martin |
Bobby Bennett* |
Coming Soon |
Creative Team
Coming Soon, Scenographer (Costume/Scenic) |
Jennifer Fok+, Lighting Designer |
Coming Soon, Sound Designer |
Garth Moritz*, Stage Manager |
Skylar Campbell, Asst. Stage Manager |
Nereyda Flores, UCCS Observing Director |
* Member of Actors Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
+Member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, the union and professional association of Designers, Artists, and Craftspeople in the entertainment and decorative arts industries.