Boulder theatre has its performances at the Dairy Center

(Press release)

The Upstart Crow Theatre Company is pleased to announce our 43rd season.

The Tempest by William Shakespeare, September 7-17, 2023

It’s A Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play, adapted by Joe Landry, October 26 – November 5, 2023

The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, February 29 – March 10, 2024

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, May 2-19, 2024

The plays:

The Tempest combines drama, romance, comedy, and magic as Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, shipwrecks those who betrayed him years earlier, and then manipulates their actions and emotions with the help of the spirits on the island.

The Tempest explores themes of power, control, betrayal, and redemption while highlighting the tension between nature and civilization. The play also examines the complexities of human nature and the potential for redemption and personal growth.

It’s A Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play is based on the timeless Christmas movie classic, and just in time for….Halloween?!  That’s right!

See the first 2023 Colorado production of this beautiful, classic holiday story set in a New York 1940s radio station. Five talented actors portraying over 45 characters you know and love in just under 2 hours.

The Rivals follows the exploits of the men vying to win the hand of Miss Lydia Languish, complicated by the various plots being hatched by Lydia and her maid.

Lydia has fallen for Ensign Beverly, and is willing to surrender her fortune to marry him, not knowing that Ensign Beverly is really Captain Jack Absolute in disguise.  When his father and Lydia’s aunt, Mrs. Malaprop, arrange a marriage between their young people, Jack becomes his own rival and has to outwit nearly everyone.  And Sir Lucius O’Trigger, who thinks he’s been writing love letters to Lydia, has really been corresponding with Mrs. Malaprop, due to the trickery of the maid Lucy.

Inherit the Wind portrays the trial of a teacher arrested for teaching the theory of evolution, with fireworks in the courtroom provided by the guest prosecutor and a nationally known defense attorney, loosely based on William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow.

With book banning and legislative interference in school curricula filling the news more and more frequently, the play is both timely and compelling, as the festival atmosphere leading into the trial becomes intense and judgmental, drawing the entire community into its vortex.

More information at: https://www.theupstartcrow.org/

To purchase season tickets: https://www.theupstartcrow.org/season-tickets/