Curtains are falling all over Colorado.
When the world shut down for the pandemic in March 2020, Colorado had 117 active theater companies of varying sizes and scopes. Heading into the traditional start of the new fall theater season in September, only 73 companies have at least one announced upcoming title, and that includes the nine new troupes that have been launched since the pandemic.
While a few of the state’s venerated institutions like BDT Stage are among the shuttered, the vast majority of the vanished are the smallest, least-funded troupes that have blown away without being much noticed: 5280 Artists Co-Op. Forge Light Theatreworks. Fearless Theatre Company. The Black Actors Guild . Lost and Found Productions. The list goes on and on…