Theatre Aspen Office
Our administrative office is open Monday through Friday 10 am – 6 pm.
110 East Hallam Street
Suite 126
Aspen, Colorado 81611
Phone: 970.925.9313
Email: info@theatreaspen.org
Theatre Aspen’s Hurst Theatre
470 Rio Grande Place
Aspen, CO 81611
It’s easy to see the public faces of Aspen’s major arts organizations – the Aspen Art Museum and the Red Brick Center for the Arts host exhibits; Aspen Santa Fe Ballet performs dances; Jazz Aspen Snowmass and the Aspen Music Festival & School stage big...
I’m not sure why, but it seems rather timely to me that the Theatre Aspen production making its official opening this weekend is “Our Town.” Maybe it’s because I live in Basalt, where we’re still dealing with the destructive Lake Christine Fire and where we’ve...
When your top-billed actor ruptures his Achilles tendon three days before opening night, as they say, the show must go on. Theatre Aspen faced this dilemma when Michael Andreaus, who plays the pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr. in the company’s season-opening production of the musical “Ragtime,” fell during one...
You may think of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” as a folksy and old-fashioned bit of nostalgia, worn thin from eight decades of productions in schools and professional theaters. But Theatre Aspen’s intimate new staging will make you think again. The play, which opened Friday and runs...
An exuberant young cast propels a peppy spin on the Gospels in Theatre Aspen’s production of “Godspell,” which opened Saturday at the Hurst Theatre. Its game, seven-member cast hams it up and mugs for the audience more than a little, while showing off their formidable voices...
He’s a 28-year-old internet celebrity bro and sex blogger. She’s a gifted but frustrated and overlooked novelist nearing 40. What happens when you throw this literary odd couple together in a remote writer’s retreat in snowy backwoods Michigan? Sex, of course. But also, in Laura Eason’s “Sex...
In the opening scene of Theatre Aspen’s production of “Hairspray,” the main character, Tracy Turnblad, emerges on the stage tucked under the covers of her bed. The bed, however, is vertical rather than horizontal, and Turnblad, played by Taylor Hartsfield, easily surges from semi-supine sleep...
The musical “Hairspray” is a family show and also a subversive epic of social outcasts. It’s a celebration of early 1960s teen culture that pays tribute to the rock ’n’ roll and Buster Brown-scuffing dance moves of the day while also staring down the era’s...
The musical “Hairspray” changed Taylor Hartsfield’s life, both professionally and personally. As the 23-year-old Los Angeles-based actress prepares to star in Theatre Aspen’s summer production of the Broadway smash, she said, her long relationship with the show is coming full circle. A recent graduate of California...
ASPEN, COLORADO—To say a play is “dated” is to confine it to the dustbin of history and simultaneously to leech the story of any contemporary meaning. In a movie, being dated is an irrevocable curse that can arrive with the wrong soundtrack or a cellphone as...
