past shows – Buntport Theater

Best Town

A new play about stars, isolation, the magic of libraries, and Laura Ashley curtains.

Napoleon Sits slumped over in a red chair, one a beach with water in the background. he looks unhappy.

The Death of Napoleon: A Play in Less Than Three Acts

Napoleon Bonaparte spends the last years of his life in exile on an island playing solitaire, arguing with insects, and refusing to get on his teeter-totter in this comedy by Buntport Theater.

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4 fantastical creatures sit on a bench together.

Public Domain Theatre Festival

Buntport Theater joined The Catamounts and Su Teatro– in the presentation of original adaptations of public domain works in select outdoor spaces around the Boulder Public Library and around Westminster Station Park on its second and third.

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A man wearing what looks like a homemade regal looking jacket and a brown paper crown stands in front of a screen that has a royal church interior projected on it.

♥️ Richard

Inspired by true events, Richard is a comedy about Richard III enthusiasts, Victorian undergarments, and the lying liars that make theater.

This is Buntport’s 50th collaboratively-created full-length play!

Listen to a fun interview with Buntport on Colorado Matters here!

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Tommy Lee Jones Goes To Opera Alone

TIME FOR PIE

A near life-size version of Tommy Lee Jones waxes poetic about cowboy boots, his life as a movie star and his love of opera – particularly Puccini’s Turandot.

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Close-up on an unhappy bearded man holding a telephone. He is behind plexiglass. In the distance are three other people sitting in large plexiglass boxes.

Middle Aged People Sitting in Boxes

Middle Aged People Sitting in Boxes barely needs to be described because the entire show is perfectly encapsulated in the title.

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In the foreground, a sobbing blond woman is at a gold microphone. In the background, a man in a white suit sits at a white baby grand piano. The stage is washed with bright pink light.

Cabaret De Profundis, or How to Sing While Ugly Crying

WEEPING INTO AN URN

Originally slated to open March 13th, 2020, this live production finally premiered October 2021!

A comedy about grief, dirty woodcuts, and one of the wonders of the world…

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A yellow line drawing of a woman's face singing into a black microphone. She has blue tears running down her face

Cabaret De Profundis or How To Sing While Ugly Crying- a filmed stage production

A comedy about grief, dirty woodcuts, and one of the wonders of the world… on a screen!

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Three panels from left to right: a pink crocheted with a googly eye grasshopper sits in a jade plant. A brown grasshopper against a white background. The head of a smiling toy grasshopper wearing a red tie is in front of a line drawing of a living room.

3×3 Projects: Rocky Mountain Locusts

Check out this video Buntport made with FannyPack Films and Adam Stone. Made possible by a grant from the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College.

Three awkward men in front of a window grate. On the left is an intense man with a buzz cut and black turtleneck. In the center, a man in a suit and large glasses purses his lips. On the right is a man with a space t-shirt on he is holding a fish bowl with a goldfish in it

Something is Rotten

THE SMELL IS THE SOCK

Join the oddballs George, Julius and Harold as they present their interpretation of Hamlet. Using a packed trunk, the shirts on their backs and the socks on their hands, these three men hope to bring Shakespeare to the people. Why? Well, they are in disagreement about that.

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