Brooklyn Laundry by John Patrick Shanley
REGIONAL PREMIERE
January 30-February 15 at The Savoy Denver
February 20-March 15 at the Dairy Arts Center (Grace Gamm Theater)
*Please note: Our evening performances will now begin at 7:00 pm.*
DENVER
Friday, January 30, 7:00 pm – Preview
Saturday, January 31, 7:00 pm – Opening
Sunday, February 1, 2:00 pm
Friday, February 6, 7:00 pm
Saturday, February 7, 7:00 pm
Sunday, February 8, 2:00 pm
Monday, February 9, 7:30 pm - Industry Night
Friday, February 13, 7:00 pm
Saturday, February 14, 7:00 pm
Sunday, February 15, 2:00 pm
BOULDER
Friday, February 20, 7:00 pm – Preview
Saturday, February 21, 7:00 pm – Opening
Sunday, February 22, 2:00 pm
Friday, February 27, 7:00 pm
Saturday, February 28, 7:00 pm
Sunday, March 1, 2:00 pm
Friday, March 6, 7:00 pm
Saturday, March 7, 7:00 pm
Sunday, March 8, 2:00 pm
Friday, March 13, 7:00 pm
Saturday, March 14, 7:00 pm
Sunday, March 15, 2:00 pm
“Stanley keeps the play moving ruthlessly forward, peppering what sounds like the grimmest of tales with wry humor.”
About the Play
From the Oscar-winning, Tony-winning, Pulitzer-winning writer of Moonstruck and Doubt comes a new play about three sisters, a guy who operates a laundromat and the random tricks life plays on them for better or worse.
Tragic and funny by turns, this deeply romantic story will remind you what is important in life and the sorrow and joy of fully embracing adulthood.
Like many of Shanley’s plays, the story pits the quest for love and happiness against the demands of family obligations.
Run Time
Brooklyn Laundry is expected to run approximately 90 minutes, with no intermission.
Content Considerations
Brooklyn Laundry is best suited for audiences aged 14 and above. BETC does not offer more specific advisories about the subject matter, as sensitivities vary from person to person. If you have any questions about content or age-appropriateness, please call the BETC Office at 303-351-2382.
Tickets & Discounts
Subscriptions
Brooklyn Laundry is part of the 2025-2026 Season Subscription package. Using the code provided to them, subscribers will receive 10% off of additional single tickets beyond their subscriptions.
Single Tickets
Single tickets are on sale now through BETC (for the Savoy) and the Dairy Arts Center.
Single tickets for the Friday-Sunday performances are $42.00. Tickets for the Previews are $25.00.
Students can get $15.00 tickets and must show a valid student ID at the theatre.
Tickets purchased through BETC will be emailed to you automatically from ‘Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company.’ Purchased tickets from the Dairy Arts Center will be emailed to you directly from the box office, and copies can be found on your Dairy Arts Center account.
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Group Sales
Looking to purchase tickets to a show for a group of 10 or more? BETC offers generous discounts for groups of 10+. If you are seeking special group arrangements, please call us at 303-351-2382.
Parents Paint the Town
Parents-Paint-the-Town is an event through which we welcome parents to treat themselves to a show while treating their kids to a fun and creative workshop.
Our March 1, 2026 workshop will be a combination of theatre games/exercises taught by BETC teaching artists. On this date, parents can see BETC's show Brooklyn Laundry for $25, and their kids (ages 5-11) get to try out the art forms of theatre and dance just down the hall.
To ensure a helpful teacher-student ratio, limited slots are available. The show and the workshop will both take place at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder. We'll contact you via email to confirm your child's enrollment and let you know where to drop your child off before the show.
Once you fill out this form, we will send you the Parents Paint the Town discount code to purchase tickets!
Parents get $25 tickets to Brooklyn Laundry for March 1! Simply register your child for the workshop here: https://forms.gle/QhPHcr4uTpWWUZxK7 and branden.smith@betc.org will reach out to help you secure your $25 tickets!
March 1st, 2pm at the Dairy Arts Center
Enroll your child today! Space is limited!
CAST
Annie Barbour (AEA) (FRAN) is delighted to be making her BETC debut! She has performed with the DCPA Theatre Company, the Arvada Center’s Black Box Repertory Company, Theatreworks, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Greater Boston Stage Company, the St. Louis Symphony, and the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival. As a teaching artist, she works with DCPA Education and Denver School of the Arts. BFA from the Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University.
Kate Gleason (AEA) (SUSIE) last appeared with BETC in Little Women and Annapurna (Westword Award, Best Actress). Broadway: Noises Off, The Pillowman. Selected Off-Broadway: Henry IV (Brooklyn Academy of Music), A Flea in Her Ear (Roundabout Theatre). Regional/ International work includes performing with Playmakers Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Northern Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Vienna's English Theatre, Hebbel Theatre Berlin, Off Square Theatre, The Arvada Center, DCPA Theatre Company, and Theatreworks. As a director, she has worked with several Colorado companies including The Arvada Center, The Aurora Fox, Miners Alley, Benchmark, Thunder River Theatre Company as well as Off Square Theatre Company in Jackson Hole, WY.
Torsten Hillhouse (AEA) (OWEN) BETC debut. NYC credits/Off Broadway: The Polish Play, The Odyssey, NY Classical Theatre, 59E59 Theatre. Regional and International credits include productions with American Repertory Theatre, Pioneer Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Portland Stage, Capital Repertory, The Public Theatre, Shadowland Stages, Stonington Opera House, Theatre at Monmouth, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Perseverance Theatre, Commonweal Theatre, Off Square Theatre, Moscow Art Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Colorado credits include productions with the Arvada Center, Miners Alley Theatre, Theatre Aspen, and Creede Repertory Theatre. Film: Adam and Where God Left His Shoes. Television: The Blacklist, FBI, Bull, Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, As the World Turns. MFA from ART/M.X.A.T. at Harvard University. Visit torstenhillhouse.com for more.
Jessica Robblee (BETC) (AEA) she/her (TRISH) is very happy to be part of this production. Her BETC acting credits include The Belle of Amherst, What the Constitution Means to Me, and This. She has performed with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Arvada Center's Black Box Repertory Company, the DCPA Theatre Company, Theatre Aspen, Curious Theatre, Square Product Theater, Sis Tryst Productions, Wild Blindness Productions, UpstART Theatre, Off Square Theatre and Buntport Theater. Robblee received a Henry Award for her work in The Belle of Amherst (BETC), True West Awards for her work in Frankie and Johnny (Miners Alley) and Electric Baby (Arvada Black Box), and Westword recognitions for her work in The Moors (Arvada Black Box) and This (BETC).
ARTISTIC TEAM
Tina Anderson (BETC) (SCENIC DESIGN) has been the scenic designer for many BETC shows, including The Thin Place, Cry It Out, The White Chip, Hope & Gravity, Little Women, What the Constitution Means To Me, Coal Country (True West Award) and Eden Prairie, 1971 (Henry nomination). Elsewhere, she’s designed 39 Steps and The Fantasticks (Creede Rep); Twelfth Night and Sweeney Todd (Off Square Theatre); Dracula- a Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really and The Laramie Project (Arvada Center); POTUS and Cullud Water (Curious Theatre); Heartbeat of the Sun and Headliners (Cherry Creek Theatre); and What the Constitution Means to Me, POTUS and Hurricane Diane (Thunder River Theatre Company).
Adara Baltazar (SOUND DESIGN) is delighted to be returning to BETC for both sound design and stage management. She made her BETC sound design debut with The White Chip. Recent stage management and assistant stage management credits include The Diva Royale, Assassins, Morning After Grace (MAPAC), The Ballot of Paola Aguilar, Holly, Alaska! (BETC), and Shakespeare in the Parking Lot (DCPA). She is a graduate of the University of Denver with a distinction in stage management and recently graduated from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology with her Masters in forensic psychology.
Sloan Hewitt he/him (ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER) is thrilled to be working on his second BETC production! As a new Colorado resident, he is thrilled to have previously worked with Colorado New Play Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Emerge Pathways, and the Denver Botanic Gardens. Management highlights include The Thin Place (BETC), Arden of Faversham (Colorado Shakespeare Festival), I and You (Oral Roberts University), Matilda the Musical (Children’s Musical Theatre), and more. Follow his work at @s.hewitt_design on Instagram.
Katie Hopwood McCleaf (BETC) (PROPS DESIGN) is excited to be working with BETC again! Her prop work was most recently featured in BETC’s Every Brilliant Thing, The Thin Place, Cry It Out, The White Chip, Hope & Gravity, An Enemy of the People, Holly, Alaska!, The Children, The Royale, Eden Prairie, 1971, and the touring truck shows- Amelia’s Big Idea and Dorothy’s Dictionary. Her prop work has also been featured in Curious Theatre Company shows Exhibit and Downstate. She graduated from Salisbury University with a degree in Theatre Production. She looks forward to working on more productions in the community!
Alexandra Ligh (COSTUME DESIGN) is excited to return for her fifth show with BETC! Previous costume design credits include Hope and Gravity and The Ballot of Paola Aguilar (BETC), Miss Holmes and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Phamaly). Alexandra is grateful for the friends, family, and collaborators who have supported her throughout the making of this show.
Jon Olson (LIGHTING DESIGN) is thrilled to return to BETC this season for Brooklyn Laundry. He previously designed Hope & Gravity with the company. Jon has been an employee at the Arvada Center for over twenty years where he currently serves as the Lighting Director. His work has earned him Henry Award nominations for Drowning Girls and Educating Rita (Arvada Center). Other notable design credits include: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really, The Laramie Project, Animal Farm, Sylvia, Plaza Suite, Blithe Spirit, All My Sons, The Moors, the world premiere of I’ll Be Home for Christmas. And the regional premiere of Trav’lin: The 1930s Harlem Musical (all at the Arvada Center), as well as the world premiere of Exhibit at Curious Theatre Company.
John Patrick Shanley (PLAYWRIGHT) is from The Bronx. His plays include Prodigal Son, Outside Mullingar (2014 Tony Award® nomination for Best Play), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Savage in Limbo, Italian-American Reconciliation, Welcome to the Moon, Four Dogs and a Bone, Dirty Story, Defiance, Beggars in the House of Plenty. His theatrical work is performed extensively across the United States and around the world. For his play, Doubt, he received both the 2005 Tony Award® for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In the arena of screenwriting, he has ten films to his credit, most recently Wild Mountain Thyme with Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, and Christopher Walken. His film Doubt – with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis – which he also directed, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. Other films include Five Corners (Special Jury Prize, Barcelona Film Festival), Alive, Joe Versus the Volcano (which he also directed), and Live From Baghdad for HBO (Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie). For his script of Moonstruck he received both the Writers Guild of America Award and an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2009, the Writers Guild of America awarded Mr. Shanley the Lifetime Achievement In Writing.
Wessie Simmons (STAGE MANAGER) credits include: Disney’s Frozen, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (Arvada Center), My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof (Aspen Summer Music Festival and School / Theatre Aspen), Hope and Gravity, Enemy of the People, What the Constitution Means to Me, Love Letters, Holly Alaska World Premiere, Coal Country (Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company), King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Book of Will, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Alchemist (Colorado Shakespeare Festival).
Allison Watrous (DIRECTOR) is the Executive Director of Education and Community Engagement at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, which has been her artistic home for nearly 30 years as an educator, actor and director. Acting work includes Kelly Young in Just Like Us, A Christmas Carol, John Brown’s Body and Scapin (Denver Center Theatre Company); Girls Only - The Secret Comedy of Women (Denver Center Cabaret); Astronomical Sunset (Curious Theatre Company); and Savage in Limbo, Crimes of the Heart, American Notes, Talley’s Folly and Gidion’s Knot (Sis Tryst Productions). Directing work includes What the Constitution Means to Me, Annapurna, The Revolutionists, Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike (Off Square Theatre Company); Cult Following, Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, Little Red, Elephant and Piggie, Goodnight Moon and Corduroy (Denver Center); Bus Stop (Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities); The Revolutionists, What the Constitution Means to Me, The White Chip (BETC); Brighton Beach Memoirs (Miners Alley Playhouse); Big Love, Trojan Women and Constellations (University of Denver); and Failure: A Love Story, The Laramie Project, Eurydice, Wintertime, Arcadia and The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Denver School of the Arts). Allison holds an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory.
