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Longmont eyes old sugar factory as site for dual theater performing arts venue - Boulder Weekly

According to council member Marcia Martin, the concept of turning Longmont’s defunct and dilapidated sugar factory into a performing arts center basically fell into the city’s lap. 


The proposal came about a couple of months ago, while Council was still working on language for a ballot measure to ask voters this fall if they’re willing to take on a new property tax to fund such a venture. The venue was originally slated for development downtown at Boston Avenue and Main Street. But Council pa...

The Catamounts centers Black folklore in ‘One Way-Back Day’ - Boulder Weekly

Before she wrote One Way-Back Day—the most recent production by Boulder’s Catamounts theater troupe—Tresha Farris was questioning her writing ability. 


“I had a bad interaction with a professor about my writing,” the Denver-based actor explains. “I was a little disheartened.”But her father, himself a writer, pushed her “to go back to the pen,” Farris says. “I decided I had to find a project I was really interested in doing.”


She turned to her childhood for inspiration, to a collection of A...
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