Sopris Theatre Company’s season closes with ‘The Cottage,’ a fun-filled farce

From left, Joshua Adamson, Gerald DeLisser, Pax Wild and Marie LaBrecque in a scene from the Sopris Theatre Company’s manufacturing of “The Cottage.” Photo by Mason Marcy, CMC skilled pictures pupil

Sex, lies and revelations galore are simply a part of the foolish enjoyable as Sopris Theatre Company rounds out its 2025-26 season with Sandy Rustin’s “The Cottage.”

An entertaining romantic comedy within the model of playwright Noel Coward, “The Cottage” can be staged at New Space Theatre at CMC’s Spring Valley campus (3000 County Road 114), with 7 p.m. exhibits April 10, 11, 17 and 18, and a pair of p.m. performances April 12 and 19.

Those who’d prefer to benefit from the efficiency and the post-show conversations from the consolation of their very own dwelling even have the choice of livestream entry to performances held April 11, 12 and 17 – go to “The Cottage” to get entry to these digital performances.

Director Brad Moore, Sopris Theatre Company’s producing inventive director, says “The Cottage” gives a becoming different to a number of the extra serious-minded exhibits earlier this season.

“We were looking for something that was just simple fun, as everything else had pretty heavy messages this year – this show is more like, ‘can’t we all just laugh for a little while?’”

“The Cottage” is an intriguingly convoluted comedy which follows the chain of occasions set off when a girl decides to disclose her affair not solely to her husband, however to her lover’s unsuspecting spouse.

“The Cottage” options an ensemble solid of native performers together with Joshua Adamson, Michael Banks, Gerald DeLisser, Marie LaBrecque, Julia Whalen and Pax Wild. Behind the scenes, the majority of the present’s manufacturing staff are present CMC college students.

Moore says the play can be a continued partnership with Aspen Community Theatre. In alternate for permitting ACT to rehearse “Rumors” final fall on the CMC campus theater, Sopris Theatre Company is re-imagining ACT’s set for “The Cottage,” and saving hundreds of {dollars} of manufacturing prices within the course of.

The play, which was first produced in 2013, ran in New York City at Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theater in the summertime of 2023, with Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander as its director and “Will & Grace” star Eric McCormack within the solid.

Tickets for the present are $20 for adults and $15 for seniors, college students and CMC college and employees. Visit tickets or “The Cottage” to entry tickets and livestream performances.

New Space Theatre is positioned at CMC Spring Valley, 3000 County Road 114, Glenwood Springs.

For extra data on the present, contact Brad Moore at 970-947-8187.