Regional Premiere A single mom’s life is turned upside down by her child’s chronic illness. Abandoned by her husband, she faces reality with a sunny determination that borders on denial. A story of a mother’s unbounded love and the makeshift circle of women who support her, Mary Jane is a beautiful testament to endurance and […]
BETC: Mary Jane | May 1-24 Read More »
Watch top-notch improvisers light up the stage, while your kids’ faces light up! At each one-of-a-kind show, kids in the audience make up new book titles and then the MAD LIBrarians hilariously off-the-cuff stories to go with the kids’ titles. A free craft starts at the listed show time of every performance!
Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC): MAD LIBrarians | May 3 & 17 Read More »
Coming soon! The second installment of BETC’s Plays with Fire – Each performance includes two staged readings PLUS Mark and Jess share the inside scoop on our 2026-2027 Season! BONNET by John Patrick Shanley and THE WHEELCHAIR ON MY FACE by Sonya Kelly A pair of comedies to put some spring in your springtime! Mark Ragan
Why is life worth living? Can you count the ways? Ice cream? Lazy afternoons in the park? Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose? Every Brilliant Thing is a deeply funny and life-affirming play that begins with a child grappling with their mother’s attempted suicide. The child makes a list of brilliant, joy-giving
BETC: Every Brilliant Thing | Dec. 5-28 Read More »
Celebrate the New Year with BETC and the wildly charming and funny King Penny Radio Show. The party will continue after the show with hors d’oeuvres, a champagne toast, dancing to the music of the David Fulker Band, and a ball drop at 9:00 PM (Nova Scotia time!) so you can launch to your next
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Regional Premiere A single mom’s life is turned upside down by her child’s chronic illness. Abandoned by her husband, she faces reality with a sunny determination that borders on denial. A story of a mother’s unbounded love and the makeshift circle of women who support her, Mary Jane is a beautiful testament to endurance and
BETC: Mary Jane | May 1-24 Read More »
Regional Premiere From the Oscar-winning, Tony-winning, Pulitzer-winning writer of Moonstruck and Doubt comes a new play about three sisters, a guy who operates a laundromat and the random tricks life plays on them for better or worse. Tragic and funny by turns, this deeply romantic story will remind you what is important in life and
BETC: Brooklyn Laundry | Feb. 20-Mar. 15 Read More »
Jessie is a frazzled corporate lawyer in a cutthroat Manhattan firm. Lina dropped out of her community college and has a life circumscribed by her working class roots on Long Island. The two newly minted moms share one thing in common — they are both feeling isolated and trapped at home with their new babies.
Having thrilled audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, BETC favorite Tamara Meneghini and her artistic collaborators now bring their riveting, one-woman show to Boulder! This passionate and revealing play – threaded throughout with the monarch’s own words and passages from Shakespeare’s plays –shares the humanity, demands, and deep complication of being a woman and a
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Can we communicate with the dead if we try hard enough? Hilda thinks she can, and she’s befriended Linda, an eccentric but persuasive medium to transport her to “the thin place,” the fragile boundary between the living and the dead. Is Linda a con artist preying on the grief and suffering of the living, or
BETC: The Thin Place | Oct. 3-26 Read More »
