Local Theater Company announces 2025-2026 lineup

Boulder group celebrates 15 years with new play initiatives and world premieres

Local Theater Company has announced its 15th season lineup, featuring new play development programming and world premiere productions across multiple venues.

The season includes world premieres and regional collaborations, with productions scheduled through spring 2025. The company continues its Local Lab new play development program alongside its mainstage productions.

Lineup:

A Case for Black Girls Set the Whole Central Park on Fire by Kori Alston

Oct. 2-25 – Dairy Arts Center, Boulder

Directed by Betty Hart

A Case for Black Girls Set the Whole Central Park on Fire to be staged at Denver’s Curious Theatre Company. The play is about a brilliant 12-year old Black girl runs for her life from Brooklyn to Harlem. Over the course of her dusk-to-dawn journey she is aided by her Rottweiler, the ghost of Nat Turner, and a fire-wielding Oracle. This new American myth uses poetry, gospel music, and long-distance running to burn through pain.

Bad Books (World Premiere)

Jan. 10-Feb. 1, 2026 – Curious Theatre, Denver

Directed by Nick Choate

A concerned mother. A dedicated librarian. The quietest place in America turns into the battleground for a fiery debate about parenting and censorship that starts a chain of events no one saw coming.

Co-produced by Curious Theatre Company and Local Theater Company, this world premiere production is part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. Curious Theatre Company engages the community in important contemporary issues through provocative modern theatre.

Local Lab

April 17-19, 2026 – Nomad Playhouse, Boulder

Local Lab is Boulder’s premier new play festival. Experience three staged readings of new plays, post-show conversations, playwrights panel, parties, and more.

Local Listens: Queer Lineage

From July – September 2025, Colorado LGBTQ+ individuals and their allies will come together for facilitated community story circles. Your stories will inspire two commissioned playwrights who will write 45-minute plays that will be presented in April 2026.