Theatreworks Plays and Events

If you're an audience or community member, please follow this link to read about Theatreworks in-person season. If you're an Actor or artist, please follow this link for information about Theatreworks 2022-2023 auditions and technician submission.

How did we support art and artists during the coronavirus pandemic? In March 2020-July 2021, Theatreworks employed over 150 artists on a wide variety of programs. During 2021, Theatreworks committed to artists and audiences, by offering four in-person productions, in a variety of formats and locations.

• Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, starring Cheerish Martin as Billie Holiday, featuring her most beloved songs, July 15-August 1 2021 at the Ent Center for the Arts.
• Free-For-All: Midsummer Night’s Dream held outdoors and free of charge at community sites around the Pikes Peak region in May & June 2021.
• An Iliad, directed by Max Shulman and featuring one actor and one cellist for the return of our production from March 2020, outdoors at the Ent Center and virtually May 6-23,2021.
• The Mitten, crated as a co-production with Katy Williams Design and JParker Arts, an original midwinter shadow puppet fable with music, February 19-28, 2021

We also explored the digital world in conversations, videos, and readings:

• virtual costume tutorials, sneak-peek videos and artist interviews, now all archived on our YouTube channel.
• full-length virtual documentary theatre House Arrest and 'Elections at Altitude',
• Our December Month of Joy, offering 31 nights of performance including world-premiere toy theatre commissions.
• A four-play free virtual Sunday reading series.
  • January 24, 4p: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
  • February 21, 4p: Eliot: A Soldier’s Fugue by Quiara Alegría Hudes
  • March 14, 4p: Pipeline by Dominique Morrisseau
  • April 11, 4p: Little Women, adapted by Kate Hamill from the book by Louisa May Alcott

• Monthly Artist Coffee and Cocktail Chats, third Wednesdays at 7p (currently limited to patrons who subscribed to the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons; please reach out to clowans@uccs.edu with questions)
• Monthly Directors Circle Play Club, second Thursdays at 11a (limited to members of our Directors Circle donorship giving level; please reach out to clowans@uccs.edu with questions)

Thank you to our audiences and donors who supported us and the theatre community throughout this time.