Union Colony Civic Center

Performing arts have been a part of Northern Colorado from its earliest days. Fort Collins’ first theater shared space with the post office and drug store on Linden Street in 1865; Greeley opened its opera house in 1870, almost a decade before Fort Collins or even world-famous Central City; the University of Northern Colorado offered drama classes in its first catalog in 1890.

The Little Theatre of the Rockies opened under the auspices of UNC in 1934 and has trained such luminaries as Nick Nolte and Greg Germann (Fish on “Ally McBeal”). Today local theater venues range from Carousel Dinner…