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Lose Yourself to Find Yourself
Our world is evolving every day. Local Theater Company ensures that we all continue telling the stories of that evolving world. From the spark of an idea to the closing night audience, we build audience communities that encourage us to let go, connect with one another, and be transformed!
From our LocalWRITES program for middle school students to the Local Lab new play festival and world premiere productions, your gift today sustains the theater of our future.
"intricate, sexually frisky and open-hearted work...the entire ensemble hums, strums, and finds a beautiful melody." Lisa Kennedy, the Denver Post
"The world premiere of Topher Payne's play is a stunning achievement that - despite being set at a remote Vermont farmhouse that feels almost out of time - is able to speak to our current moment in a way rarely captured onstage. You don't need to know the intricacies of jam band culture to connect to this play; each of the seven characters are complicated, complex individuals who are equal parts messy and relatable." Toni Tresca, arts reporter
"More of this please: An original, local production that combines music, comedy, personal narrative and an enormous amount of warmth that makes you leave the theatre feeling all squishy inside." --Alex Miller, Onstage Colorado review of Raised on Ronstadt
Westword's 2021 "Best Season Spent Planning for the Future" Best of Denver award
5280 Magazine's 2019 Top of the Town Editor's Choice Best Theater Company
"Local Theater Company is one of "five reasons [the] region's theater scene is on [the] national map."
--Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Local Theater Company discovers, develops and produces exceptional new plays and theatrical works. We provide artists a fertile environment to grow their work, and cultivate audiences for new plays by including them in all stages of new play development.
We believe theater is a local experience. When you elect to join an audience, you create a new community where, for that brief span of time, everyone is a local.
Local Theater Company is a professional theater company passionate about telling the evolving stories of our time. We develop, discover and produce new American plays and offer exceptional arts education.
The cornerstone of our new play development programs is Local Lab, a new play festival, where audiences engage in concert style readings of new plays and participate in post-show discussions with playwrights to help develop their work. Local Lab has developed over 60 new works and many of the participating playwrights have earned regional, off Broadway and Broadway premieres. In 2015 the Denver Post named Lab "one of five reasons this region's theater scene is on the national map" and in 2019 the editors of 5280 Magazine named Local Theater Company,” Best Theater Company in Denver”.
Since the inception of Lab, Local has produced 18 world premiere productions in Colorado and earned nominations and awards from the Colorado Theater Guild including "Best New Play", "Best Direction", "Best Ensemble", "Best Actor" and "Best Scenic Design.”
To foster spaces of belonging, Local curates the Come Together series intended to deepen audience engagement and attract new-to-theater audiences.
Local offers playwriting residencies to secondary schools, called LocalWRITES, uniquely designed to promote literacy, inspire original writing, and increase self-esteem. The playwriting curriculum is Colorado Language Arts Standards based and deliberately designed to close the Achievement Gap in Boulder County.
In 2018, Local was one of ten companies nationwide who received the prestigious National Theatre Company Grant from the American Theatre Wing (the organization that produces the Tony Awards). Local is acknowledged by Actor's Equity Association as a "Small Professional Theater" because of our commitment to hiring local and professional talent at union rates. In 2020, Local was honored to receive a National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) grant. In 2022, Local shifted to a shared artistic leadership model including three co-artistic directors: Pesha Rudnick, Nick Chase and Betty Hart. And with Season 13, we expanded our leadership model to include the three Co-Artistic Directors, an Executive Producer, and Executive Director.
Organization name
Local Theater Company
2011
Tax id (EIN)
45-2208855
Category
Arts, Culture & Humanities
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
1630 30th Street Suite 171Boulder County, CO, US