OpenStage Theatre and Company
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OpenStage Theatre & Company, Inc. is governed by a Board of Directors
, administered by a professional staff, and composed of a community of artists dedicated to creating excellence in live theatre.
Since its inception in 1973, OpenStage has actively produced and promoted live performing arts
in Northern Colorado, making it one of the longest-practicing and most renowned theatrical producers in the state. In addition to being the foremost local producer at the Fort Collins Lincoln Center
, the city's primary performance space, OpenStage is a major figure in the statewide arts producing community. Citing productions that consistently garner critical and public acclaim, The Denver Post
applauded OpenStage's work as ranking "among Colorado's best companies."
Recipient of the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, commendation by the Colorado State Legislature
and the City of Fort Collins
and the CCTC Distinguished Merit Award, OpenStage Theatre is a constituent member of Theatre Communications Group
, the national association of professional not-for-profit
theatres. Excellence, discipline, and artistic integrity are the principles that continue to guide OpenStage.
OpenStage Theatre produces a season of six productions, each performing for five weeks.
A current artistic endeavor of openstage is the creation of Rabbit Hole Radio, original radio serials
being created for regional broadcast with the potential for national syndication.
openstage etc productions are mounted as projects are approved, with approximately three to six productions each year.
Openstage etc. performances, held at select locations in downtown Fort Collins:
Board of directors
A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization. Other names include board of governors, board of managers, board of regents, board of trustees, and board of visitors...
, administered by a professional staff, and composed of a community of artists dedicated to creating excellence in live theatre.
Since its inception in 1973, OpenStage has actively produced and promoted live performing arts
Performing arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
in Northern Colorado, making it one of the longest-practicing and most renowned theatrical producers in the state. In addition to being the foremost local producer at the Fort Collins Lincoln Center
Fort Collins Lincoln Center
The Fort Collins Lincoln Center is the primary performing arts facility of the City of Fort Collins, Colorado. The Lincoln Center sits at 417 W. Magnolia Street in Downtown Fort Collins next door to Mulberry Pool...
, the city's primary performance space, OpenStage is a major figure in the statewide arts producing community. Citing productions that consistently garner critical and public acclaim, The Denver Post
The Denver Post
-Ownership:The Post is the flagship newspaper of MediaNews Group Inc., founded in 1983 by William Dean Singleton and Richard Scudder. MediaNews is today one of the nation's largest newspaper chains, publisher of 61 daily newspapers and more than 120 non-daily publications in 13 states. MediaNews...
applauded OpenStage's work as ranking "among Colorado's best companies."
Recipient of the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, commendation by the Colorado State Legislature
Colorado General Assembly
The Colorado General Assembly is the state legislature of the State of Colorado.-Constitutional definition:The Colorado Constitution establishes a system of government based on the separation of powers doctrine with power divided among three "departments": executive, legislative and judicial...
and the City of Fort Collins
Fort Collins, Colorado
Fort Collins is a Home Rule Municipality situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, and is the county seat and most populous city of Larimer County, Colorado, United States. Fort Collins is located north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. With a 2010 census...
and the CCTC Distinguished Merit Award, OpenStage Theatre is a constituent member of Theatre Communications Group
Theatre Communications Group
Theatre Communications Group is an organization dedicated to the promotion of non-profit professional theatre in the United States. TCG has over 450 member theatres located in 47 states; 17,000 individual members; and a growing number of University, Funder, Business and Trustee Affiliates...
, the national association of professional not-for-profit
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
theatres. Excellence, discipline, and artistic integrity are the principles that continue to guide OpenStage.
OpenStage Theatre produces a season of six productions, each performing for five weeks.
A current artistic endeavor of openstage is the creation of Rabbit Hole Radio, original radio serials
Radio drama
Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story...
being created for regional broadcast with the potential for national syndication.
openstage etc productions are mounted as projects are approved, with approximately three to six productions each year.
2009-2010 season
OpenStage Main Stage performances, held at the Lincoln Center Mini Theatre:- The One-Eyed Man Is King, October 31-November 28, 2009
- The Glass MenagerieThe Glass MenagerieThe Glass Menagerie is a four-character memory play by Tennessee Williams. Williams worked on various drafts of the play prior to writing a version of it as a screenplay for MGM, to whom Williams was contracted...
, January 9-January 30, 2010 - BugBug (play)Bug is a play by American playwright Tracy Letts. It was adapted into a film in 2006.- Synopsis :Most of the play takes place in a seedy motel room. Lonely cocktail waitress Agnes lives there, hiding from her violent ex-con ex-husband Jerry Goss. One night, her lesbian biker friend R.C. introduces...
, February 20-March 20, 2010 - Is He Dead?Is He Dead?Is He Dead? is a play by Mark Twain. It was first published in print in 2003, after Mark Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin read the manuscript in the archives of the Mark Twain Papers at the University of California at Berkeley. The play was long known to scholars but never attracted much...
, April 3-May 1, 2010
Openstage etc. performances, held at select locations in downtown Fort Collins:
- Anton in Show Business, September 25-October 18, 2009
- Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol, November 27-December 20, 2009
- Shining CityShining CityShining City is a play by Conor McPherson, set in Dublin which was first performed in London's West End at the Royal Court Theatre in June 2004....
, May 7-May 30, 2010