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 GREAT NEWS!
We have a new home! We've recently partnered with the Cottonwood Center for the Arts (map here: 427 E. Colorado Ave.) and are one of two resident theatre companies occupying their new performance space! We can't tell you how excited we are to be working with them, surrounded by art and creativity.
NEXT UP:
MAYBE IT'S JUST ME by Phil Ginsburg
Take a trip inside the mind of local playwright, poet, comic, neurotic and modest mystic Phil Ginsburg with an evening of his hysterical short plays, poetry, and an opener by standup comic Sara B. Sirius. Anonymous encounter groups, coma patients, spouses who have put out hits on each other, a dystopian society where everyone is doomed to polka and a family that speaks only in email spam subject lines are only some of Phil’s strange brainchildren.
Directed by Kevin Brown, Beth Clements Mosley and Dylan Mosley.
Featuring Playwright and poet Phil Ginsburg, comic Sara B. Sirius, actors Elizabeth Kahn, Greg Lanning, Eric Peterson, Bob Kopp, Bob Morsch, JaNae Stansbery, Ashley Crockett and Mark Sullivan.
September 25 & 26, October 1, 2 3 & 4, 2015
Reserve seats here or call Cottonwood at 719.520.1899. Seats are also available on the day of the performance at the Cottonwood desk.
Tickets: $10 $6 Students (at door only)
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE HAVE CHANGED OUR EVENING CURTAIN TIME TO 7:30 RATHER THAN 8PM. OUR SUNDAY SHOWS WILL CONTINUE TO START AT 4PM.
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Bill Wheeler at BroadwayWorld reviews KILLER JOE: "Star Bar takes on Killer Joe with a bold enthusiasm. The challenges for a small company are considerable; this is a script that will appeal to a limited audience. The set and props are substantial, the special effects, including spilling blood onstage are critical to a successful performance. Star Bar blows right by these challenges, bringing Letts’ script to life with a brash, raw, nonstop energy."
Poster art by Phil Lear
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We are lucky in COS to have a group like Star Bar that is willing to take a chance on a risky play like "Bug" -- or, for that matter, "Waiting for Godot" last Fall. -- "Bug" is not an easy play. We witness how seemingly normal people in the first act are drawn into a psychotic world of paranoia and conspiracy theory in the second act. Not the most uplifting theme in the world! -- The transition is tough, and the playwright doesn't really help. Three weaknesses of the main character are revealed in the first act, and none are used in the second act to make the transition believable. The actors have to do that all on their own. The Star Bar players are powerful and should be supported, in my view, even if only because they are willing take huge risks -- like this one.
- James Wood, 2010
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