The mission of Motus Theater is to create original theater to facilitate dialogue on critical issues of our time. We aim to use the power of art to build alliances across varied segments of our community and country.
EVENTS (2026-27 SEASON)
Erie Stories of Good Neighbors
Join us for an evening of live, interactive theater celebrating the neighborly spirit that has shaped Erie across generations.
In honor of Colorado’s 150th anniversary, this special Motus Playback performance invites you to share stories that celebrate the extraordinary neighborly spirit that has shaped Erie across generations. Regardless of politics, culture, identity, and religion, nearly all of us carry a story about a neighbor who showed up when it mattered. This evening is an opportunity to remember those moments together.
Audience members are invited to share their own stories of generosity, belonging, and unexpected connection. Each story is brought to life in the moment by the Motus Playback Ensemble, whose improvisational actors and musicians transform lived experiences into powerful, unscripted theater. What unfolds is often moving, surprising, and deeply human.
After the performance, stay for tea and cookies as the conversation continues and connections deepen. Come experience how stories can shift how we see one another and remind us what it means to be good neighbors.
This family-friendly event welcomes ages 10 to 100 and offers a rare chance to celebrate Colorado’s sesquicentennial not just through history, but through the living stories that continue to shape our shared future.
Date: Sunday, September 13, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Erie Community Center (450 Powers Street, Erie, CO, 80516)
Stories of Migration & Music with Motus Theater & The Boulder Phil String Quartet
A remarkable performance featuring three Motus ImmigrantAmerica monologists and featuring violinist Anthony Salvo and the Boulder Phil's String Quartet. Featuring guest co-readers District Attorney Brian Mason, Broomfield Mayor Guyleen Castriotta, and Broomfield United Methodist Church Pastor Betty Nguyen.
In this special collaboration, Motus Monologists with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) perform artfully crafted personal stories of immigration accompanied by violin underscore, interspersed by musical responses curated by Boulder Phil Director of Education and pianist Fernanda Nieto.
Regardless of your ideas about immigration policy, come together for an evening of beautiful and profound monologues, music and community, as we get to know more about our immigrant neighbors.
This program is made possible by the Broomfield Arts and History Division artist-in-residence program and the Rose Community Foundation.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Broomfield Auditorium (3 Community Park Road, Broomfield, CO, 80020)
Stories of Your Family Rooting in Erie
What does it mean to find a sense of home, in a place, in a community, in the land itself?
Join Motus Playback Theater for an evening of live, interactive storytelling that invites Erie residents to reflect on the moments when they first felt rooted in the community and land of Erie, CO. As Colorado marks its 150th anniversary, this gathering offers a meaningful opportunity to honor the personal and collective journeys that shape Erie today.
Audience members are invited to share their own reflections about finding home, whether through family, migration, memory, or belonging in Erie. Stories can be from a long time ago, from across generations, or recent.
Each story is brought to life in the moment by the Motus Playback Ensemble, whose improvisational actors and musicians transform lived experiences into powerful, unscripted theater. What emerges is often surprising, moving, and deeply connective.
After the performance, stay for tea and cookies as conversations continue and new connections take root.
This family-friendly event welcomes ages 10 to 100 and offers a rare chance to celebrate Colorado’s sesquicentennial not just through history, but through the living stories that continue to shape our shared future.
Saturday, October 24, 2026
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Erie Community Center (450 Powers Street, Erie, CO, 80516)
What Love Requires
Motus Theater & the Parent Engagement Network (PEN) present What Love Requires, a new autobiographical monologue project featuring stories of parents of transgender and nonbinary adults.
In many ways, the job of parents is to support our children to blossom into the unique gift they were meant to bring to the world. However, every parent’s idea of who our children are can be limited by family or societal expectations (You’re supposed to be a doctor like your parents, not a musician!)
For parents of transgender and nonbinary children, supporting our children has particularly high stakes because of the threats our children currently face simply by living their own true gender, and experiencing the joy we all have when we can truly be ourselves.
The performance shares stories of parents supporting their children to not only survive, but thrive. The performance also celebrates the ways parents are liberated from limiting perceptions about gender in the process of truly seeing and learning from their children.
Monologists include Beth Leyba (she/her), Lynn Kutner (she/her), and Cat Lindsey (she/her). Featuring music from acclaimed violinist Anthony Salvo (he/him).
Saturday, November 14, 2026
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
The Collective Community Arts Center (201 North Public Road, Lafayette, CO, 80026)
America 250, Colorado 150—Voices of Louisville
Share your story and engage in community conversation about our past, present, and future.
In recognition of the 250th anniversary of the United States and 150 years of Colorado, Motus Theater invites you to an interactive Playback Theater performance exploring how the family stories of Louisville residents are in conversation with the history of our country and state, as well as of our democracy.
Louisville residents are invited to share short stories or reflections, stories of family, migration, love, land, loss, resilience, and belonging. These stories are then improvised live on stage by Motus Playback actors through movement, music, and spoken word, transforming individual experiences into a collective moment of recognition and connection.
Each performance becomes a living conversation, where many paths, perspectives, and histories meet. Stories may be joyful or difficult, recent or long-held, deeply personal or broadly shared. Together, audience and performers co-create a one-of-a-kind theater experience rooted in listening, imagination, and civic connection.
There is no pressure to speak. Whether you choose to share or simply witness, your presence matters. By gathering, listening, and reflecting together about our past and present, we’ll imagine the future we can still build, together.
Friday, December 4, 2026
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Louisville Center for the Arts (801 Grant Avenue, Louisville, CO, 80027)