Celebrating Imagination and the Creative Spirit through Quality Theatre in Durango, Colorado
Announcing our 2026-27
Season
Season Subscriber Tickets will be on sale beginning August 10.
Auditions are complete
Auditions are complete
Summer just makes you want to dance, and we are excited to feature DHS alum and choreographer Ava Allen’s dance workshop.
Dancing Through Life: A New Age of Dance Styles in Theater
Dates: Monday, June 22; Tuesday, June 23 ; Time: 6-8:30pm. This is a two-day workshop
Ages: All ages 15 -Adult . Tuition: $35
Musical Theatre is ever-changing, shifting, and modernizing, meaning that as performers, we have to keep up. Over this two-day course, we will dive into different dance styles emerging in today’s theatre world by dancing through the styles that are beginning to shape new works. Prepare to MOVE through styles such as Jazz, Musical Theatre, Jazz Funk, Hip-Hop, and Contemporary, and come out on the other side with plenty of dance material prepared for dance reels, self-tapes, prescreens, auditions, and more! Or just come for some dance fun with friends!
And because summer laughter is abundant, Matt Bodo will instruct actors on Comedic Acting in his class.
SERIOUS Comedy – Comedy Acting in the Theatre
Dates: Monday, August 3; Wednesday, August 5, 2026. This is a two- day workshop from 6:00 – 9:00 PM both days
Ages: Adult (18 and above). Tuition: $50.00
What makes us laugh? You don’t know. I don’t know. Nobody knows… Butwhen we do laugh, we know. Through the delivery of a perfectly worded line, a prat fall, a funny voice, a ridiculous walk, the absurd, the preposterous, or even the deadpan slow burn straight to the audience: in theatre, comedy waits around every unexpected corner. Explaining comedy is hard. Try describing your favorite SNL sketch to a friend. Performing it is even harder. It takes discipline, dedication, timing, and the courage to be gloriously dumb. SERIOUS Comedy is your backstage pass to unlocking the technique.
About Still Around Readers:
Born from a play reading group, Still Around Readers is stepping up and stepping out with its inaugural performance project, opening doors of opportunity for Durango’s mature population to move from spectator to participant. This new Readers Theatre effort invites community members to come out of the bleachers, get involved in acting and performance, and help grow a more age-inclusive theatre community where experience, curiosity, and creativity all have a place onstage.
Summer is also a time to make changes as we embrace life, and we are elated to bring a powerful reading of Sean Daniel’s The White Chip. The play won accolades for its production in New York and is making the regional rounds. It’s a raw and remarkably funny journey of addiction and recovery. It’s real, it’s gritty, it’s humorous. It’s a reason we make theatre.
Dates: Friday, July 24 and Saturday, July 25 at 7pm and Sunday, July 26 at 2pm
No Reservations Necessary. Just show up at the door and Pay What you Wish.
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As is true in theatres across the nation, ticket prices account for only about 30% of our operational and production costs. The rest of our expenses must be met through private donations and grants.
Live theatre is a dynamic, expensive venture, and our costs keep rising. Donations are used to meet venue expenses, pay royalties, hire actors and other personnel, pay for technical elements such as scenery, costumes, and lighting, and to publicize our shows. The money we raise directly affects the quality of our productions.
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Merely Players believes that theatre belongs to everyone. All employees, volunteers, and audience members – whatever their race, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability or disability – are welcomed, supported, and valued.
Merely Players celebrates the dignity and inherent potential of every human. We reject any form of discrimination or hatred, as we aspire to create a community built on respect, belonging, diversity, inclusion, collaboration, and creativity.
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women Merely Players
– William Shakespeare, As You Like It
