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 our family stories are in conversation with the history of our country and state, as well as of our democracy.

Motus Theater presents What Love Requires, a powerful autobiographical monologue project featuring stories from parents of transgender and nonbinary adults.

For this special March 28 performance ahead of Transgender Day of Visibility, we will present three of the eight monologues in the full project, offering an intimate glimpse into parents’ journeys of love, reckoning, and growth as they support their children (now adults) to step into their authentic selves.

Join us for an evening of powerful autobiographical performance, music, and civic reflection centering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of intersectional justice. 

Featuring the musical duo the ReMINDers, and autobiographical storytelling from Motus Theater's Youth Behind & Beyond Bars, which brings powerful, artistically-crafted personal stories from adults who survived incarceration as youth. Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty will join Motus storytellers to co-read this moving autobiographical performance that lifts the curtain on the realities of the juvenile legal system while inspiring action toward true justice.

Motus Theater’s Youth Behind & Beyond Bars: Stories from the Frontlines of the Juvenile Legal System brings powerful, artistically-crafted personal stories from adults who survived incarceration as youth. Colorado State Senator Judy Amabile will join Motus storytellers to co-read this moving autobiographical performance that lifts the curtain on the realities of the juvenile legal system while inspiring action toward true justice.

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Motus Theater’s Youth Behind & Beyond Bars: Stories from the Frontlines of the Juvenile Legal System brings powerful, artistically-crafted personal stories from adults who survived incarceration as youth. These moving autobiographical monologues lift the curtain on the realities of the juvenile legal system while inspiring action toward true justice.

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Motus Theater, with Congregation Har HaShem and Congregation Bonai Shalom, present a performance of Motus UndocuAmerica monologue “The Meaning of Courage” by Cristian Solano-Córdova and co-read by Rabbis Fred Greene and Marc Soloway with musical responses from Cantor Devorah Avery.

Motus Theater and Being Better Neighbors present a performance of civic love stories from Motus Theater’s UndocuAmerica project, with musical responses from the Boulder Philharmonic’s String Quartet. In this special collaboration, Motus monologists who are   immigrants with DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) perform artfully crafted personal stories about their lives underscored by violinist Anthony Salvo. The Boulder Philharmonic String Quartet performs musical responses to each story curated by Fernanda Nieto. Featuring music of Dvorak, Heins, Ponce and more; with stories of Motus monologists Laura Peniche, Alejandro Fuentes Mena and Cristian Solano-Córdova.