Tag: theater
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Colorado Springs theater company to mount bloodiest Tony Award winner ‘Sweeney Todd’
The costume shop is a bloody mess. Blood in the sink. A bloody tunic in the washing machine. A nearly empty plastic container of vampire blood on a work table. And Kaya Cogger’s palms are stained red. There isn’t a secret serial killer on the loose in the second-floor shop at the Ent Center for…
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Local playwrights produce ‘Honey and Ruin’
A drama enriched by turbulence and the resiliency of women, “Honey and Ruin” plays in September at the Sangre de Cristo Art Center in Pueblo. The play springs from a collaboration of three playwrights from Woodland Park and Cripple Creek, Maddy Sneckner, Emily Heida and Jaime Brown. The three performed together in Crazy” in 2023…
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Colorado Springs playwright to perform her award-winning show about suicide in New York City
Jessica must make an impossible choice. If she leaves her husband, she knows he will kill himself. But if she stays, she knows it’s her own life that’s on the line. Jennifer Caress’s award-winning debut play, “The Pool,” is set two years after Jessica leaves her husband, who has indeed done the inevitable. What unravels…
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Star Bar Players to bring outdoor production of ‘As You Like It’ to Manitou Springs
As the sun begins to set over Manitou Springs, deer wander across the hillside, owls settle into the trees and Smokebrush Foundation’s Onaledge Historic Lodge quietly transforms into William Shakespeare’s Forest of Arden. There are no elaborate backdrops to build. Nature has already done the work. Beginning Aug. 6, Star Bar Players will turn the…
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Roast battles, secret comedians and musical thrillers take the stage this week
‘SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET’: Stephen Sondheim’s thriller is coming to Colorado Springs Conservatory. Set in 19th-century London, the story follows a barber consumed by revenge and a pie shop owner whose fortunes take a turn, 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Ent Center for the Arts, 5225 N. Nevada Ave., $22.75;…
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Top of the poll: It’s John Denver, Colorado’s Rocky Mountain Highlight
The Colorado 150, Part 6 of 6: When choosing the state’s most significant cultural pathmaker, the choice between Helen Bonfils and the beloved singer came down to a soccer match After six months of deliberation, it comes down to this: The woman who gave Denver its class. Or the man who gave Colorado its voice.…
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Funky Little Theater opens 2026 season with comedy at Palmer Lake Town Hall
Friendship, second chances, resilience and laughter are all themes in the Funky Little Theater Company’s latest production at Palmer Lake Town Hall. Funky Little Theater Company returns to Palmer Lake to open its 2026 season with “The Savannah Sipping Society,” a heartfelt comedy about friendship, reinvention and discovering it’s never too late for a fresh…
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Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs offers summer theater intensive for youth, full-length show
For more than a quarter of a century, young adults from around the Pikes Peak region have spent five intense 40-hour weeks every summer preparing to become Tony Award winners. And the rest of us have enjoyed the fruits of their labor. Almost 50 high school students, who auditioned and were accepted into the Youth…
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‘Dames at Sea’ sails into Cripple Creek this summer
Every Broadway star has to start somewhere. And while some dreams take years to come true, others just need one catchy song and a conveniently timed battleship. That’s the delightfully over-the-top premise behind “Dames at Sea,” the off-Broadway musical comedy bringing tap dancing, romance and old Hollywood charm to Cripple Creek this summer. The whirlwind…
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‘Dames at Sea’ sails into Cripple Creek this summer
Every Broadway star has to start somewhere. And while some dreams take years to come true, others just need one catchy song and a conveniently timed battleship. That’s the delightfully over-the-top premise behind “Dames at Sea,” the off-Broadway musical comedy bringing tap dancing, romance and old Hollywood charm to Cripple Creek this summer. The whirlwind…