The Fort Collins theatre serves up a mix of drama, comedy, readings and more

Main Stage

The School for Lies by David Ives

Directed by Steve Keim

Sept. 20-Oct. 13

It’s 1666 and the brightest, wittiest salon in Paris is that of Celimene, a beautiful young widow so known for her satiric tongue that she’s being sued for it. Surrounded by shallow suitors, whom she lives off of without surrendering to, Celimene has managed to evade love since her beloved husband died — until today when Frank appears. The School for Lies, a wild farce of furious tempo and stunning verbal display, sexy, saucy, and deliciously off color, written in very contemporary rhyming couplets by award-winning playwright David Ives, runs variations on Molière’s Le Misanthrope, which inspired it.

Airness by Chelsea Marcantel

Directed by Nathaniel Quinn

Nov. 29-Dec. 22

When Nina enters her first air guitar competition, she thinks winning will be easy. But as she befriends a group of charismatic nerds all committed to becoming the next champion, she discovers that there’s more to this art form than playing pretend. It’s about finding yourself in your favorite songs, and performing with raw joy. Will Nina be able to let go and set herself free onstage? Following her mission to shred or be shredded, Airness is an exuberant reminder that everything we need to rock is already inside us. A comedy about competition, completion, and finding the airness inside yourself.

The Trip to Bountiful by Horton Foote

Directed by Warren Sherrill

Feb. 21-March 16

This moving play tells the story of Carrie Watts, an elderly woman who longs to escape the cramped Houston apartment where she lives with her protective son, Ludie, and her authoritarian daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. Carrie wants to return to her beloved hometown of Bountiful, Texas, one final time before she dies. Carrie escapes to the bus station and befriends a young woman named Thelma. The new friends travel toward Bountiful together, but when Carrie arrives in nearby Harrison, Texas, she begins to learn that her beloved town isn’t the same as she remembered it.

Another Medea by Aaron Mark

Directed by Lynn Bogner

May 23-25 & June 6-8

Tells the story of the incarcerated Marcus Sharp, a charismatic and enigmatic New York actor who recounts in gruesome detail how his obsessions with a wealthy doctor named Jason and the myth of Medea lead to horrific, unspeakable events. At once ancient and contemporary, this provocative mono-thriller is Grand Guignol horror in the style of Spalding Gray.

My Brilliant Divorce by Geraldine Aron

Directed by Richard Pegg

May 30-June 1 & June 13-15

My Brilliant Divorce is a vivacious one-woman show that’s brilliantly hilarious, pathetic and poignant all at once as a woman scorned searches for the right sequel. It strikes a chord for any woman who has been through one, and for everyone else it is an engaging heart-to-heart with a friend who is far funnier and more entertaining than your real-life ones in suffering mode.

Readers’ Theatre

Nevermore, an Evening of Edgar Allan Poe

Directed by Robyn Cuthbertson

Oct. 24-26

Edgar Allan Poe’s renowned works are brought to life in a reader’s theatre format, featuring captivating renditions of “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Cask of Amontillado.” A candlelit evening of suspense, excitement, and the vivid enactment of classic literature.

The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl

Directed by Kate Reiter

April 4-6

In a ‘metaphysical Connecticut’, overly-serious career-oriented doctor Lane has hired a quirky Brazilian maid. The maid, Matilde, is too depressed to clean because she longs to be a comedian. In steps Lane’s compulsively cleaning sister, Virginia. Lane’s doctor husband, Charles, leaves her for his mistress, Ana, an irresistibly charismatic, much older, Argentinian woman whom he hopes to cure of cancer. The Clean House is a comedy about loss, love, change and redemption. Can the physicians heal themselves, or is laughter the best medicine?

Original Works at Bas Bleu Theatre

Special Sauce by Colton Thompson

Aug. 8-10

An original work making its debut in the summer of 2025 about horror podcast hosts, vampire pizza delivery workers, and menacing Pomeranians! Come sink your teeth into something new at Bas Bleu

Learn more at basbleu.org