The Sopris Theatre Company has been around for over 50 years at Colorado Mountain College (CMC). “The Cottage,” written by Sandy Rustin, is the play closing out their 2025–26 season, performed at the New Space Theatre at CMC’s Spring Valley campus (3000 County Road 114) in the Quigley Library building. The play is a mischievous […]
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Sopris Theatre presents its 2025-2026 season
Sopris Theatre Company (STC) is proud to announce its 2025-2026 season and is in the midst of rehearsing for its opening show, “26 Pebbles.” This season is dedicated in memory of Gary Katzenberger, a former director of the theater department at Colorado Mountain College, who passed away in July. “26 Pebbles,” written by Eric Ulloa, […]
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Sopris Theatre Company to showcase ‘Bright Star’ bluegrass musical
On April 4 — and continuing through April 20 — Sopris Theatre Company (STC) will premier its final 2024-25 season show at Colorado Mountain College’s New Space Theatre at the Spring Valley campus. The show is none other than Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s folk-bluegrass musical, “Bright Star.” STC does a musical every other season, […]
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‘Bloomsday’ explores the ‘what if?’
On Feb. 7, Sopris Theatre Company (STC) debuted its third show of the season, “Bloomsday,” by Steven Deitz. This bittersweet story of two whirlwind lovers takes place in Dublin, Ireland — both in the present and 35 years before.The lovers, Robbie and Caithleen, or Robert and Cait, met one another 35 years ago on a […]
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Sopris Theatre invites you to its upcoming season
Sopris Theatre Company (STC) of Colorado Mountain College-Spring Valley is gearing up for its 2024-2025 season. Budding thespian Julia Whalen will celebrate her directorial debut with this season’s opening show, “The Sweetest Swing in Baseball,” written by Rebecca Gilman. The play follows the story of Dana Fielding, an artist battling personal demons and who ends […]
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Sopris Theatre Company presents ‘The Book of Will’
Sopris Theatre Company, Colorado Mountain College’s community-student hybrid theater program, will present Lauren Gunderson’s “The Book of Will” to close out its 2023-2024 season. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts originally commissioned this comedic drama, and it won the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association’s New Play Award in 2018. It runs about […]
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Sopris Theatre Company tackles unconscious bias in ‘Native Gardens’
Sopris Theatre Company (STC), the hybrid student-community theater company at Colorado Mountain College’s (CMC) Spring Valley campus, is gearing up to premiere its third show of the season, “Native Gardens,” a comedy by award-winning playwright Karen Zacarías. This 90-minute play tells the story of two couples. Pablo del Valle, a young hotshot working for a […]
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STC production sheds light on neurodivergent perspective
On Nov. 24 at 7pm, Sopris Theatre Company (STC), Colorado Mountain College’s (CMC) student-community theater hybrid, premiered its second show of the season, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” The opening was met with an intimate and befitting audience and went off without a hitch. It will run again this weekend, Dec. […]
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Sopris Theatre Company tackles close-to-home topics in ‘Natural Shocks’
Sopris Theatre Company, a student and community theater enterprise of Colorado Mountain College (CMC), will open its 2023-2024 season with Lauren Gunderson’s 2018 one-woman monologue show, ‘Natural Shocks,’ on Oct. 13-14 at 7pm. The show is directed by CMC’s Theatre Operations Manager and Artistic Director Brad Moore and stars talented Glenwood Springs local Bostyn Elswick […]
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Frankenstein leaves audience pondering today’s world
“Frankenstein: The Man/The Monster?” performed by the Sopris Theatre Company at Colorado Mountain College (CMC) is a thought-provoking retelling of the 1818 classic horror tale, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus,” penned by an 18-year-old Mary Godwin, later known by her married name, Mary Shelley. An original musical, “Frankenstein: The Man/The Monster?” was first published in […]