SEASON 14
MAINSTAGE-MAY
DENVER ARTS & VENUES IN ASSOCIATION WITH SYNCOPATED PRODUCTION GROUP & AND TOTO TOO THEATRE COMPANY PRESENT
THE WORLD PREMIERE OF
SHOW OF FORCE BY BEVERLY COYLE
“THE HARDEST DEPLOYMENT IS COMING HOME”
May 9-12, 2019
In the backroom of a bar four ex-military women face the realities of reintegrating into society. Tensions rise as their military experiences clash with their friends, families, each other, and their new civilian life.
Show of Force was our workshop production in September 2018. We are thrilled to now bring this world premiere play to the stage with the help of our producing partners Denver Arts & Venues, and Syncopated Production Group.
“Very special recognition is extended to Mary Ragan, Executive Director of the Psychotherapy and Spirituality Institute (PSI). Ten years ago Dr. Ragan began interviewing young women veterans whose stories are the basis and heart of this play. She subsequently found numerous New York City actors and directors as well as funding in order to provide over forty community evenings of In Our Own Voice: Women Veterans Tell Their Story. “
MAINSTAGE-SEPTEMBER
PLAY ON! BY LAURA JO TREXLER
“A MUSICAL ROMP WITH SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN”
SEPTEMBER 19-28, 2019
After a smash hit run in the Hollywood Fringe Festival, PLAY ON! has proved itself an innovative and refreshing modern day musical retelling of Shakespeare’s most famous women. From Juliet to Rosalind to Lady Macbeth, audiences will experience each woman’s unique story told from her perspective through song.
MAINSTAGE-NOVEMBER
CHARLIE’S WAITING by Mêlisa Annis
NOVEMBER 1-16, 2019
Charlie's Waiting follows two women the night before their wedding. A pregnant Louise is busy with all the planning while her fiancée Kelly busies herself feeding the goats. Everything is going to plan, that is until Louise is forced to confront questions of trust and intimacy, and she discovers how quickly plans can get derailed.
JUNE 12, 2019
Denver's original microplays.
Join us for the most unique fundraiser in Denver, and support women artists at the same time!
A WORKSHOPPED READING
FRACTURED MOONLIGHT BY CARRIE PRINTZ
April 8, 2019
"A former war reporter shows up unexpectedly at the coastal Florida home of his ex-wife and teenage daughter. While he is still dealing with injuries from Afghanistan that changed his life forever, his wife and daughter are coping with their own major struggles. A lonely dolphin, a boy named Elvis and the search for algebraic solutions round out this moving, humorous tale of a fractured family struggling to connect."
NEW YORK READING SERIES
LOST CREATURES BY MELISSA LUCERO MCCARL
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
PRODUCERS CLUB, MANHATTAN
This is the first in our series of plays to create a pipeline to New York of new work created in Denver, with an eye towards an off Broadway production.
Lost Creatures follows the evening in May of 1978 when British theatre critic Kenneth Tynan met his long time cinematic idol Louise Brooks. He travels to her dingy little apartment in Rochester, NY where she has sequestered herself for many years. He is there ostensibly to write a profile on Brooks for the New Yorker, but he discovers that they are kindred spirits, and in spite of an age gap of twenty years, theirs becomes an unlikely love story discovered through a marathon dialogue about sex, philosophy, art, and criticism. There is also a silent third character, Lulu, (based on Louise’s role in her most famous silent film Pandora’s Box) who drives the action of the play.
FREE READING SERIES 2019
POLISHED PIECES
BY LAURIE SCALF SCOGGINS
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
THE BLACK BUZZARD, 7:30 PM 1624 Market St, Denver, CO 80202
Twin sisters Amy and Lucy always dreamed they would have kids. We follow both of their stories through trial and error as Amy and her husband Rob try to adopt a child to achieve their goal of having the family they always wanted, while Lucy and her husband Tony struggle to come to terms with finding out if they even can conceive their own child. This story tests relationships between husband and wife, siblings and friends.
May 20,2019
SYNTAX PHYSIC OPERA, 7:00PM 554 S Broadway, Denver, CO 80209
Meredith is an itinerant college instructor who has reached the age where living contract to contract, small town to small town, is getting old. She is ready for a real place in the world. Could this Western town she has landed in become that place? The “real Westerners,” Meredith’s new boyfriend Jesse and his mother, LaNeve, will have a say in that. All are striving to shape a story of place and belonging. Can the West hold them all?
MAY 20, 2019
AMERICAN IN HIDING BY TRACY SHAFFER
August 12, 2019
THE BLACK BUZZARD, 7:30 PM 1624 Market St, Denver, CO 80202
This timely tale explores what happens to our decency when overpowered by darkness and how the decisions of today affect generations to come. The question remains, can the tide be turned?
SECRET HOUR BY JENNY STAFFORD
November 25, 2019
THE BLACK BUZZARD, 7:00 PM 1624 Market St, Denver, CO 80202
Thirty-five year old Kate is a professor of Ethics, with only one rule for her students--do not lie to her. However, as Kate and her husband struggle to have a baby, she finds herself in an ethical dilemma of her own. A new play exploring womanhood, motherhood, and the space between right and wrong.
CBCA 2019 Business for the Arts Awards Luncheon
And Toto too was invited to perform one of our micro plays at this annual awards ceremony celebrating the collaboration between the business community and the arts.
A BOYS GUIDE TO BRUTAL HONESTY
by Jessica Austgen
Directed by Kate Folkins
Starring Austin Lazek and Harrison Lyles-Smith
"A young scout, motivated by merit badges, has a difficult discussion with his dad."
