Photo: Longtime audience favorites (and recently engaged couple) Samantha Luck and Trevor Brown return to the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts for Thingamajig Theatre Company’s 2026 Summer Repertory Season.
The summer season has officially begun at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts, as performers, directors, musicians, designers and collaborating artists arrived Sunday, May 17 to begin rehearsals for Thingamajig Theatre Company’s 2026 Summer Repertory Season, opening May 29.
Artists have traveled to Pagosa Springs from places as far away as New York City and as close as neighboring Telluride, joining one of the strongest groups of locally based performers and creatives the company has ever assembled. The season reflects a growing blend of nationally based professional artists and the expanding depth of talent emerging throughout Southwest Colorado.
“This season feels especially exciting because we’re seeing the emergence of so much talent that has quietly been part of this community for years,” said Producing Artistic Director Tim Moore. “Many longtime local artists are finally reaching a point in life where they have a little more time to return to creative work after careers, raising families and everything else life demands. When you combine that with new artists moving into the area and returning performers coming back home to Pagosa, it’s creating an incredibly rich artistic community here in Southwest Colorado.”
The season opens May 29 with ‘Come From Away’, the internationally celebrated musical based on the true story of 7,000 airline passengers stranded in the small town of Gander, Newfoundland, following the events of September 11, 2001. Filled with heart, humor and an unforgettable folk-inspired score, the production celebrates kindness, resilience and the extraordinary connections formed during moments of crisis.
The production marks one of the first three professional productions of ‘Come From Away’ ever produced in Colorado.
The cast features local resident Darcy DeGuide as ‘Beulah’, one of the show’s most beloved characters. The production will also feature a live professional band supported by recent Pagosa-area transplant Payton McIntyre, who has quickly become a major force in the regional arts community through her rapidly growing youth strings program and community music outreach.
Following ‘Come From Away’, the repertory season continues with Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking musical Company opening June 12, followed by the classic ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ opening June 26.
The theatre’s annual youth production, Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book KIDS!’ opens July 11 and features local young performers working alongside the professional company throughout the summer. Additional summer highlights include the annual Broadway Gala fundraiser on July 28 and a full repertory schedule running through August 29, with all three mainstage productions rotating throughout the summer season.
Tickets and full performance schedules are available through pagosacenter.org or by calling 970-731-SHOW (7469).