Bach at Leipzig

Bach at Leipzig
By Itamar Moses
A regional premiere!
May 3rd – 18th
Preview May 2nd
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Click HERE to read a wonderful preview piece from our friends at the Boulder Bach Festival!

Starring: Sam Gregory, Anthony Bianco, Michael Bouchard, Josh Hartwell, Jim Hunt and Chris Kendall.

Bach at Leipzig runs approximately 2:15 with a 15 minute intermission.

The “greatest organist in all of Germany” suddenly dies, leaving his post vacant. In order to fill the position, the Leipzig city council invites a small number of musicians to audition for the appointment, including a young Johann Sebastian Bach. Based on actual events, Bach at Leipzig imagines with hilarious wit and uncommon intelligence how six little-known musicians resorted to bribery, blackmail, and betrayal in an attempt to secure the most coveted musical post in all of Europe. A six-part harmony of music and mayhem!

"A hilarious story... nothing short of spectacular!" - The Huffington Post

“Lovely, wise, tender, strong…Bach at Leipzig combines Larry Gelbart’s vaudeville instincts with Tom Stoppard’s metatheatrical intricacies” – Chicago Reader

Bach at Leipzig is presented through the generous support of Producing Partners Diane and David Zile and Corporate Partner ChefTec/Culinary Software Services.

Season 7 is presented through the generous support of Sacha Millstone, Senior Vice President,
Millstone Evans Group of Raymond James and Associates, Inc.

The Other Place

The Other Place
By Sharr White
A Regional Premiere of the recent Broadway hit!
Starring Rachel Fowler, Josh Hartwell, Erica Young and Benaiah Anderson
March 22nd – April 7th
Preview March 21st
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The Other Place runs 75 minutes without an intermission.


Click HERE to listen to a radio interview with playwright Sharr White about The Other Place.

Dr. Juliana Smithton has it all together: career, family, fame. But just as her research leads to a potential breakthrough, her life takes a disorienting turn. What starts as merely an "episode" ends in a revelation. One step at a time, the mystery of The Other Place unravels as contradictory evidence, blurred truth and fragmented memories collide in a cottage on the windswept shores of Cape Cod.

"…a haunting drama…so cleverly constructed that the nature and depth of the problem isn't revealed until the last shattering scene." —Variety

"[A] wonderful surprise…in which we the audience collectively discovered we'd been had. And that we'd liked it." —Village Voice

The Other Place is presented through the generous support of Isabelle Clark.

Season 7 is presented through the generous support of Sacha Millstone, Senior Vice President,
Millstone Evans Group of Raymond James and Associates, Inc.

Ghost-Writer

Ghost-Writer
By Michael Hollinger
February 1st – 16th
Preview January 31st
Directed by Josh Hartwell
Starring: Laura Norman, Jim Hunt and Anne Sandoe

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Performances at the Dairy Center for the Arts
Ghost-Writer runs 90 minutes with no intermission.

Novelist Franklin Woolsey dies mid-sentence, but his secretary Myra continues to take dictation. Attacked by skeptics, the press, and Woolsey's jealous widow, Myra sets out to prove she is more than just an artful forger. Is she trying to steal Woolsey's legacy or does she truly posses a gift born from a relationship that transcends the professional? An unusual romance blooms from the creative process as Ghost-Writer walks the fine line between fact and fiction.

"Tantalizing, understated and lovely. This engrossing, old-fashioned play is about the drama of writing—and typing—and creativity and love.” – Philadelphia Inquirer

"An absorbing tale. Ghost-Writer works marvelously well—a finely wrought piece of entertainment that does just what it sets out to do." —Wall Street Journal

SantaLand 4.0

The SantaLand Diaries
By Davis Sedaris, adapted by Joe Mantello
Starring Matt Zambrano!

December 15th – 24th
Previews December 13th & 14th
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Performances at the Dairy Center for the Arts
The SantaLand Diaries runs 80 minutes with no intermission.

Tickets on sale now! Click HERE to purchase.
Due to adult content, The SantaLand Diaries is not recommended for patrons under 13 years of age.

Local favorite Matt Zambrano dons the candy-cane tights and David Sedaris' real-life story of working as an "elf" in Macy's SantaLand gets a complete makeover as we move it into the Performance Space at the Dairy Center. With a bigger space, redesigned set, and new holiday hijinks, The SantaLand Diaries cements its status as Boulder's best holiday tradition!

"BETC's version of SantaLand reaches out and tickles the bad Santa that lives in many of us." - Boulder Daily Camera

How the World Began

How the World Began
By Catherine Trieschmann
A regional premiere!
November 2nd – 18th
Thurs-Sat at 7:30pm, Sundays at 4:00pm
Performances at the Dairy Center for the Arts
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Critical praise continues to pour in for the production!

3 & 1/2 stars from the Denver Post!

"Once again BETC proves itself to be one of the Front Range theatre scene’s best and brightest." - Gary Zeidner, Boulder Weekly

"Big ideas, a conflict of core beliefs, and outstanding performances come together here to create an uncommonly rewarding theater experience." - Bill Wheeler's Theatre Colorado Blog.

In the aftermath of a deadly tornado, a flippant remark about the origins of life brings further chaos to a small Kansas town. As a big-city biology teacher and her troubled small-town student doggedly battle over their divergent beliefs, How the World Began explores faith, grief, and fear and highlights the nature of the chasms that divide our culture and our country.

“An unusually sensitive theatrical dialogue about the nature of belief and the culture of coping, in which Trieschmann complicates each issue she raises.” –Time Out New York

“A thought-provoking look at the complexity of people who find it impossible to empathize with viewpoints not their own when it comes to the topic of religion.” - Huffington Post

Starring: Emily Paton Davies, Ryan Wuestawald and Chris Kendall
Directed by Producing Ensemble Director Stephen Weitz

GROSS INDECENCY

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
By Moises Kaufman
April 19th – May 5th, 2012
Produced in partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder’s
Department of Theatre and Dance
Gross Indecency runs 2 hours and 25 minutes, including one 15 minute intermission

Tickets on sale now! Click HERE to make your purchase today.
Gross Indecency is recommended for ages 13 and up due to mature themes and content.

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as well as additional events like talkbacks with the cast!

In three short months, Oscar Wilde, the most celebrated playwright and wit of Victorian England, was toppled from the apex of British society into humiliation and ruin. Drawing from trial documents, newspaper accounts, and writings of the key players, Moises Kaufman ignites an incendiary mix of sex and censorship, with a cast of characters ranging from George Bernard Shaw to Queen Victoria herself.

"A triumph…truth, purity, and simplicity suffuse [this] thoroughly engrossing new play…sweeps away cobwebs and distortions, allowing complex, credible human beings to emerge from history." —Washington Post

"Stunning…taut, shattering, yet delightfully exuberant…altogether fascinating." —NY Newsday.

Producing Ensemble Director’s Comments: I'll never forget the first time I saw this show in New York. The amazing story of one of the world's greatest writers, that touches not only on issues of sexuality, but also on the very nature of Art and how it defines the culture we live in. We are so excited to be teaming with the Department of Theatre and Dance at CU Boulder on this production in a collaboration that should be hugely valuable to all involved.

Gross Indecency is presented through the generous support of Goff & Goff, LLC.

Season 6 is presented through the generous support of Sacha Millstone, Senior Vice President,
Millstone Evans Group of Raymond James and Associates, Inc.

SHIPWRECKED! AN ENTERTAINMENT

Shipwrecked! An Entertainment –
The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself)
By Donald Margulies
A Regional Premiere!
Directed by Rebecca Remaly
February 9th – 25th, 2012
Running time: Approximately 90 mins with no intermission.

Tickets on sale now! Click HERE to make your purchase today.
Shipwrecked is suitable for children age 6 and up. Children age 4 and up are welcome at our special "Family Matinee" on Feb 25 at 10:30am!

Visit our interactive calender for specific dates and times
as well as additional events like talkbacks with the cast!

The adventurous Louis de Rougemont invites you to hear his amazing story of bravery, survival and celebrity that left nineteenth-century England spellbound. Featuring tempests and battles, pearl divers and sea turtles (and a bit with a dog), Shipwrecked examines how far we're willing to blur the line between fact and fiction in order to leave our mark on the world.

Starring Josh Hartwell, Lindsey Pierce and Stephen Weitz.

"The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Donald Margulies scampers to the defense of good old-fashioned yarn spinning with Shipwrecked. The breathless story of a Victorian gentleman [and] seafaring wanderer springs to life like a theatrical pop-up book." —NY Times.

"A deft literate narrative folded into a vaudevillian romp with radio theater overtones.” -LA Times.

Producing Ensemble Director’s Comments: This show is the epitome of everything we try to do here at BETC: a wonderful story of adventure and discovery, told in a style that only theatre can truly convey. Part Robinson Crusoe, part reality show, this is sure be a fun ride for patrons of all ages. Shipwrecked will also be featured as our student matinee series, continuing the success we had with last season's Crime and Punishment.

Shipwrecked! is presented through the generous support of Isabelle Clark.

Season 6 is presented through the generous support of Sacha Millstone, Senior Vice President,
Millstone Evans Group of Raymond James and Associates, Inc.

SANTALAND 3.0

The SantaLand Diaries
By Davis Sedaris, adapted by Joe Mantello
Back by popular demand!
November 30th – December 24th, 2011
*Due to adult content, SantaLand is not recommended for children under 13.

Tickets are on sale now! Click HERE to purchase.

Visit our interactive calender for specific dates and times
as well as additional events like talkbacks with the cast!

BETC returns once more to this hilarious and irreverent tale detailing Sedaris' real-life experience of working as an Elf in Macy's SantaLand. For those searching for the cure for the common Christmas show, look no further. This uproarious show has played to packed houses the last two years, so be sure to get your tickets early!

“[BETC’s SantaLand is] quite possibly the best Christmas-themed show.” – Boulder Weekly

“BETC’s version of SantaLand reaches out and tickles the Bad Santa that lives in many of us.” – Boulder Daily Camera

Producing Ensemble Director’s Comments: SantaLand is fast becoming a tradition in Boulder. We've literally been turning people away the last two years, so we felt it was only right to give them another shot at it. With Geoffrey Kent returning as our velvet-clad hero, it's sure to be anything but a "Silent Night."

Season 6 is presented through the generous support of Sacha Millstone, Senior Vice President,
Millstone Evans Group of Raymond James and Associates, Inc.