Events

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Spring Musical: Rent by Jonathan Larson

March 6, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm –

CSU Theatre presents Rent, the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning rock musical about love, loss, and community surviving a pandemic. Set against the edge of the millennium, Rent follows a group of friends as they try to survive an economy in fluxband an AIDS pandemic in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This tour-de-force musical will be directed by Professor Noah Racey.


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High School Matinee: Rent by Jonathan Larson

March 13, 2026 @ 10:00 am – 12:30 pm –

CSU Theatre is excited to offer free matinees for school groups. School teachers or theatre directors should complete the form(s) below to register your group. If you have questions, please contact SMTD@colostate.edu.


Dr. Kim TallBear speaks at CSU on March 30, 2026

Distinguished Lecture Series on Race, Gender, and Ethnic Studies: A Public Talk by Kim TallBear

03/30/2026 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm –

Dr. Kim TallBear, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, will speak on The Indian’s Death to Make Settler “Indigenous” Life: Genetics, Ancestry, and Self-Indigenization in the USA and Canada


Book Talk: “Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain”

04/08/2026 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Join us for a book talk with Dr. Teresa Mares, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont and ’02 alum of the CSU anthropology department.


Humanities Research Day

04/22/2026 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Please join the Blake Center in April 2026 for our first Humanities Research Day! This event builds on our past end of the year events celebrating our Faculty Research Fellows by creating a space to highlight even more of the fantastic research done by humanists at CSU. The event will include research talks by our […]


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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield

April 24, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Guest Director Sydney Parks Smith April 24, 25, 30, May 1, 2, 7:30 p.m.; matinees April 26, May 3, 2 p.m. Can our cast really cover thirty-seven Shakespeare plays in less than two hours? This fast-firing comedy does just that as it parodies all of the Shakespeare plays (plus the sonnets!). As the characters run […]


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Musical Theatre Voice Studio Recital / FREE

May 6, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – A recital given by musical theatre vocal music students from the studio of Patricia Goble.


students participating in Kids Do It All 2023

2026 Musical Theatre Summer Intensive

July 27, 2026 – August 7, 2026 @ 12:00 am –

Colorado State University’s Musical Theatre program—an exciting new star in undergraduate arts education for the region—invites students to participate in a rigorous two-week intensive.