WE THE PEOPLE: THE DEMOCRACY CYCLE

July - August, 2024 | Boulder, Denver, and Gunnison

The Democracy Cycle is a project led by Local Theater Company in partnership with Gunnison Theatre Festival and Curious Theatre Company. The Democracy Cycle centers storytelling to promote civic engagement around the Colorado rural-urban divide. Utilizing story circles, trained facilitator/artists, playwrights, and a music director/composer, the project promotes engagement in complicated civic dialogue to result in action-based change. We’ll be inviting you to step into the new play development process and create new work exploring the questions that are most important to you today. 

STOCKADE
by Andrew Rosendorf with Carlyn Aquiline

September - October 2024 | The Dairy Arts Center | 2590 Walnut St. Boulder, CO

Five years after the end of WWII, a group of gay soldiers gather for a reunion of sorts on Fire Island—and are met by an outsider with a surprise that will cause them to question whether history is best left in the past. At a time when “security risk” is government code for “homosexual,” it will take courage for them to step out of the shadows and confront their past and future.

Stockade is a Local Theater Company commission

CHASING BREADCRUMBS
by Michelle Tyrene Johnson

February - March 2025 | The Dairy Arts Center | 2590 Walnut St. Boulder, CO

Serena, a playwright who has been commissioned by an organization with questionable intentions, navigates a minefield of “Karens”, creative compromises, and re-written history. Chasing Breadcrumbs explores how a Black woman navigates the world and discovers her need to tell a story that money can’t buy.

LOCAL LAB 14: NEW PLAY FESTIVAL

Spring 2025 | Boulder, CO

Sparking tomorrow’s stories, today - Local Lab is an annual festival of new theatrical work presented by Local Theater Company. Step into the new play development process with talented and prolific playwrights. Experience staged play readings featuring exceptional actors, and provide valuable feedback through facilitated post-show conversations. Connect with playwrights, directors, actors, and fellow theatergoers eager to explore the most current stories of our evolving world.

237 VIRGINIA AVENUE
Written by David Myers

May 2-19 | Denver

When Eric, an overeducated and underemployed professor, begins researching the history of his father Rex’s property in Virginia, he thinks he’s going to write a horror story.  What emerges is something far more profitable. In 237 VIRGINIA AVENUE, two actors portray ten characters tumbling through 400 years of American history in this darkly comedic new play that asks, what are you willing to sacrifice for the American Dream?