Theatre Performances
The Gunnison Arts Center hosts a variety of theater productions, including locally written shows like SonofaGunn, Reader's Theatre plays, solo-directed performances, youth theatre, traveling shows, community collaborations and more. Showcasing local talent and creativity, our theater programming offers engaging performances for the Gunnison Valley community & tourists alike.
Theater from the machine
Performances:
Friday and Saturday, October 3rd & 4th | Doors 7:00, Curtain 7:30 pm.
The Gunnison Arts Center and Firebird Theatre are proud to present Theatre from the Machine, an evening of short plays and sketches mostly written by artificial intelligence and performed in staged reading format by human actors. This hour-long night at the theatre is intended to examine the current state of AI in the arts and to reinforce the irreplaceability of human expression. Will you be able to guess which of these plays is human-made?
Tickets: $20 | Non-Member, $18 | Member
Dracula + Spider
Friday and Saturday, October 24th + 25th
Doors: 6:30 pm. Curtain: 7:00 pm.
The Up Valley, Down Valley Players present Michael Callihan's readers theatre adaptation of Orson Welles's 1938 Mercury Theater radio production of Dracula — the chilling tale of a mad Transylvanian Count turned blood-sucking fiend in search of a bride. If you have a weak heart, you may want to cover your eyes during certain scenes! Stay after intermission for Spider — a creepy-crawly reminder that the average person swallows eight spiders a year while sleeping... and far more might just be walking across your face, even human sized ones!
Location: Blue Box Theater
Directed by Mike Callihan
Tickets: Non-Member, $15 |Member, $13.50
Subject to Change improv
"Subject to Change" Comedy and Community
November 14, 2025
Doors: 6:30 p.m. | Curtain: 7:00 p.m.
The Gunnison Arts Center is excited to welcome Subject to Change, Crested Butte Mountain Theatre’s in-house improv team. Performing both short- and long-form styles, they bring comedy and community together in an engaging, interactive style that promises belly laughs — and might even inspire you to jump on stage with them! This marks a new collaboration between the GAC and Crested Butte Mountain Theatre.
Tickets: $15.00 | Non-Member $13.50 | Member
