Boulder Arts Commission Backs BETC's Integrated Theatre Project; 8th Season Announced

The Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC) was awarded the Boulder Arts Commission's Arts and Business Collaborative Grant on Wednesday evening, November 21, 2013. The $25,000 award was received for aproposed collaboration with Fiske Planetarium. These partnering organizations will create a "Star Power Series" of immersive events incorporating state-of-the-art planetarium projection technology with live performance.

BETC is regionally recognized for its world and regional premiere productions, and has won multiple grants to support past productions of new works. Fiske Planetarium staff have created and distributed award-winning planetarium shows for NASA missions including the Hubble Space Telescope. Fiske's science expertise and established local, regional, and national networks for content distribution will combine with BETC's bold, innovative theatrical programming to create exciting new works for audiences from Boulder and beyond.

The initial project in the series is scheduled for a world premiere at the Fiske Planetarium Theater in Fall 2015.

Presenting Season 8:

For ticket information for any of the following plays, click here.

THE SANTALAND DIARIES

by David Sedaris, adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
directed by Stephen Weitz
November 30 - December 24, 2013 (Preview November 29 and 30)
At The Garner Galleria Theatre in the Denver Performing Arts Complex
BETC and Denver Center Attractions are partnering to bring BETC's production of The SantaLand Diaries to Denver this holiday season! Local favorite Matt Zambrano dons the candy-cane tights once again, bringing to life David Sedaris' hilarious real-life story of working as an "elf" in Macy's SantaLand. Filled with holiday hijacks and biting insights into the absurdities of the holiday season,The SantaLand Diaires has become one of the region's best holiday traditions!

ANNAPURNA
a regional premiere by Sharr White
directed by Rebecca Remaly
January 31 - February 16, 2014 (Preview January 30)
Emma and Ulysses haven't laid eyes on each other in 20 years. Now she's back, lugging her matching suitcases into his squalid Colorado motor home for a final reckoning that neither of them saw coming. Desperate for answers about what drove them apart, these ex-spouses investigate love and loss in a gripping duet that is simultaneously shocking, comical, and heart-rending. Sharr White is a Boulder native and one of the true rising stars of the American theatre.

AND THE SUN STOOD STILL
a world premiere by Dava Sobel
directed by Stephen Weitz
March 27 - April 20, 2014 (Preview March 26)
"I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them." -Nicolas Copernicus
The publication of Copernicus' masterpiece, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, transformed the history of science and man's understanding of our place in the universe. This is the story of how it almost never happened. And the Sun Stood Still reveals Nicolas Copernicus as a man struggling to reconcile the disparate desires of his loved ones and the constraints of his faith as he contemplates challenging the most fundamental beliefs of his time. BETC is proud and honored to present the world premiere production of this new play from Pulitzer Finalist and award-winning novelist Dava Sobel.

THIS
a regional premiere by Melissa James Gibson
directed by Christy Montour-Larson
May 2 - 18, 2014 (Preview May 1)
Jane is not okay. She's a promising poet without a muse, a single mother without lessons to pass along. Her life's a shambles, and her helpful friends are only helping make things more complicated. This bright, witty, un-romantic comedy is a superbly crafted portrait of a group of friends navigating parenthood, death, desire and the choppy waters of impending middle age. An Off-Broadway hit by Obie-winning playwright Melissa James Gibson, This explores with wit and grace the treacherous contours of being a gr

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