Cast member and UCCS theatre professor Birgitta DePree and Ent Center for the Arts Executive Director David Siegel fill us in on the Ent Center, Theatreworks, and an exciting 50th season of professional theatre. The Importance of Being Earnest opens in a few days. It’s “a trivial comedy for serious people.” David and Birgitta give us all the colorful details.

We also chat briefly about:

Our first live, on-location episode (Brit Pub Grand Opening, episode 31)

Bicycle speed limit signs going up on area trails

Colorado Springs Vibes played their last season

New offices for Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region (COPPR)

A noteworthy new episode of Pedal the Springs podcast

LINKS:

Ent Center for the Arts

https://entarts.org

Brit Pub Grand Opening, episode 31 of Loving the Springs

https://studio809podcasts.com/brit-pub/

Westside Bicycle Service – episode 36 of Pedal the Springs podcast

https://studio809podcasts.com/westside-bicycle-service/

MENTIONED:

Oscar Wilde

UCCS

Ent Center for the Arts

The Next Us

Theatreworks

Bee Vradenburg Foundation

Colorado Springs Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services

Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region (COPPR)

Green Box Arts Festival

Grass It Up

Mango fan Django

Jeremy Facknitz Band

Auric Gallery

Chriz Alvarez Gallery & Art Studio

The Sluice in Old Colorado City

Cottonwood Center for the Arts

Millibo Art Theatre

LART

Lulu’s

Poor Richard’s

Galleries of Contemporary Art

Cabaret

The Importance of Being Earnest

Romeo and Juliet

The Garbologists

Max Shulman

Kathleen Fox Collins

Manitou Springs

Brit Pub

Weidner Field

Downtown Colorado Springs

Experience at Epicenter Apartments

Ivywild School

The Principal’s Office

Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort

Pedal the Springs podcast

Medicine Wheel Trail Advocates

COS Racing

Terry Gross

Loving the Springs celebrates the best of Colorado Springs and elevates the rest.

Plug into what’s happening in the Pikes Peak region, learn about awesome people, places and happenings, and explore opportunities to make life here even better. Longtime Springs booster Carrie Simison co-hosts with local gadflies Al Brody and Dave Gardner. All three love our two springs – Colorado and Manitou, so they give them the mic in this twice-monthly podcast. Nothing’s off the table – recreation, the arts, government, business, politics – if it touches your life, they’ll talk about it. We’ll invite the movers and shakers, conspiracy theorists, NIMBYs, YIMBYs, yaysayers and naysayers to join them.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and give us feedback and suggestions via comments at https://studio809podcasts.com/loving-the-springs or lovingthespringspodcast at gmail.com

34: Nov 24 2025 – Theatreworks 50th Season