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The Other Side of Summer (American Theatre Magazine)

The Other Side of Summer (American Theatre Magazine)

The Other Side of Summer  by Stuart Miller How the season’s theatre festivals are faring amid rising costs, fickle audiences, and the warming planet. Snakes on the sidewalk. No, it’s not a new Samuel L. Jackson movie. The snakes are real, and are just one of the...

Prima’s Guide to Funerals featured on Colorado Public Radio

Prima’s Guide to Funerals featured on Colorado Public Radio

To listen, check out https://www.cpr.org/2024/07/11/colorado-arts-spotlight-things-to-know-and-do-around-the-state-july-12-14/ World Premiere at Creede Repertory Theatre The world premiere of “Prima’s Guide to Funerals,” a new comedy by Leonard...

Summer Theater: Out of Chaos – Comedy

Summer Theater: Out of Chaos – Comedy

by Judith Reynolds, special to the Durango Herald. July 3, 2024. Take a well-known story, exaggerate its characters, sprinkle with music and high jinks, stir in an eager audience, and simmer for two-and-a-half hours in a Colorado mountain town. Last weekend, Creede...

Creede Rep Selects Emily Van Fleet as Next Artistic Director

Creede Rep Selects Emily Van Fleet as Next Artistic Director

Van Fleet is a veteran actor and director both in Colorado and nationally. Creede, Colorado (June 21, 2024) – Creede Repertory Theatre’s (CRT) board of trustees is pleased to announce Emily Van Fleet as the theatre’s new Artistic Director. The company continues its...

Mountain Octopus NOMINATED FOR 2 HENRY AWARDS

Mountain Octopus NOMINATED FOR 2 HENRY AWARDS

The Colorado Theatre Guild has nominated our 2023 production of Mountain Octopus by Beth Kander for Best New Play and Kate Berry for Best Lead Actress in a Play. CRT’s newly appointed Artistic Director, Emily Van Fleet, was nominated for Best Lead Actress in a...

59th “Season of Discovery” Announced

59th “Season of Discovery” Announced

Creede Repertory Theatre (CRT) is thrilled to announce its 59th Season of Discovery, featuring a mystery, a comedy, a classic, a new work, and more! Opening Memorial Day weekend in the Ruth Humphreys Brown Theatre is Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: a Sherlock Holmes...

John DiAntonio to Depart Creede Repertory Theatre

John DiAntonio to Depart Creede Repertory Theatre

He will take over as the new artistic director of Utah Shakespeare Festival this fall.   Creede, Colorado (September 6, 2023) – Creede Repertory Theatre’s (Creede Rep) board of directors announced today the departure of their longtime producing artistic director, John...

Creede Repertory Theatre featured on Marks & Vincentelli Podcast

Creede Repertory Theatre featured on Marks & Vincentelli Podcast

“Creede Rep may be isolated, but it’s thriving.” Check out the full podcast HERE. There are just about 400 people living year-round in Creede, Colo., and yet that town has been sustaining a theater company since 1966. How the heck did that happen,...

Fox21 News: We are the San Luis Valley

Fox21 News: We are the San Luis Valley

Deep in the heart of Creede — and in the hearts of people who have grown up there — is the Creede Repertory Theatre. For almost 60 years the theatre has been holding shows multiple times a week, all summer long. “The theater was started by 12 Kansas University...

Creede Rep Nominated for 11 Henry Awards for 2022 Season

Creede Rep Nominated for 11 Henry Awards for 2022 Season

Henry Award Nominations 2023 17th Annual Henry Award Nominations Outstanding Play “The Children,” Butterfly Effect Theatre of Colorado “The Royale,” Butterfly Effect Theatre of Colorado “The Book of Will,” Colorado Shakespeare Festival “Hotter Than Egypt,” DCPA...