Tag: theater
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Friendship between sanitation workers at heart of new comedic play in Colorado Springs
The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) is the world’s largest municipal waste services organization, serving more than 8.5 million residents across five boroughs. And in playwright Lindsay Joelle’s “The Garbologists,” we meet two of its sanitation workers: Danny, male, White, blue-collar, native New Yorker, nine-year veteran of DSNY; and Marlowe, female, Black, Ivy…
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3 shows set for ‘PAW Patrol Live! A Mighty Adventure’ at Pikes Peak Center
Get ready as “PAW Patrol Live! A Mighty Adventure” turns Colorado Springs into the next place to witness the action-packed world of a heroic yet adorable puppy crew. Nickelodeon’s hit series “PAW Patrol” is trading the screen for the stage as the show’s theatrical adaptation brings a weekend of tail-wagging to the Pikes Peak Center…
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Comedy, theater and dance across Colorado Springs this week
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‘STAR DANCER’: Theatre Across Borders presents a family-friendly production at The Millibo Art Theatre following an alien’s journey to save her planet while learning about the science of stars. Designed for elementary-aged audiences, the show blends storytelling, movement and music, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday and at 11 a.m. on Sunday, 1626 S.…
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New 2026-2027 Broadway series announced at Pikes Peak Center in Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs Broadway lovers have spoken. As part of its recently announced 2026-2027 Broadway at Pikes Peak Center Series, the Tony Award-winning “The Book of Mormon” will come to town April 6-8. Every year, the American Theatre Guild, which brings Broadway series to cities around the U.S., surveys audience members in each location about which…
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Colorado Springs native brings Broadway career back home
Beneath the glow of Broadway stage lights, Aléna Watters steps into the rhythm of “West Side Story,” her voice rising as the tension of the iconic rivalry unfolds in song. Night after night, she moves through the choreography that defines one of theater’s most famous productions, while soaking in the reality of her first Broadway…
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Broadway musical ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ makes stop in Colorado Springs
Comedian Robin Williams delighted us as a wise and athletic Scottish nanny in the 1993 film “Mrs. Doubtfire.” He starred as Daniel, an out-of-work actor who loses custody of his three kids in a messy divorce. To stay in their lives, he creates the character Euphegenia Doubtfire, whom his ex-wife hires to care for the…
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Drama, comedy, dance fill up Colorado Springs stages this weekend
– “Metamorphoses” by Colorado Springs Conservatory: The play is a collection of Greek myths symbolic of psychological or spiritual journeys. In each tale, the characters are transformed into birds, trees, rivers and other such non-human entities, 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Colorado Springs Conservatory, 420 N. Nevada Ave., $22.50; coloradospringsconservatory.org. – “Picasso…
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New Colorado Springs theater company starts season with ‘Shrek’
Some ogres live under a bridge. Others are swoon-worthy. Shrek, the large, grumpy, green ogre, star of a children’s book, Disney movie, and musical, is the latter. Third House Arts, a new community theater group, will mount “Shrek: The Musical” Thursday through Saturday in their host theater at Colorado Springs Christian School. “The movie representation…
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Award-winning musicals, plays coming to Colorado stages this spring
Through April 5: “The Phantom of the Opera”Denver Center for the Performing Arts In Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award-winning tragic musical, based on the 1920 novel by Gaston Leroux, a mysterious, disfigured musical genius who lives in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Paris Opera House develops an obsession with a singer. April 2-19: “Frozen” by…
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Theatreworks’ new season in Colorado Springs includes Tony Award-winning ‘Sweeney Todd’
A barber who goes to ghastly ends to enact revenge kicks off Theatreworks’ 2026-2027 season. The new five-show season at Ent Center for the Arts begins Sept. 10 with Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” It also includes the popular Noël Coward play, “Private Lives”; “Sweat,” by the Pulitzer Prize-winning…