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.
Artists have traveled to Pagosa Springs from places as far away as New York City and 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 will open 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 Sept. 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 DeGuise 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 will continue with Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking musical “Company” opening June 12, followed by the classic “Fiddler on the Roof “opening June 26.
The theater’s annual youth production, Disney’s “The Jungle Book KIDS!,” will open 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 Aug. 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).
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