Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center releases new seasons | Arts & Entertainment

A spoonful of sugar, rain on your wedding day and a feminist version of Sherlock Holmes.

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College’s new 2025-2026 theater season, which includes a couple of Tony Award winners, is built around the theme of wellness, as are the museum’s upcoming exhibits.

“We’ll share tales of navigating family dynamics, building new friendships and a flying caregiver,” said FAC producing artistic director Chris Sheley in a news release. “The goal is to cultivate joy for everyone in our community.”

The new season kicks off Sept. 18 with “Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson, Apt. 2B,” Kate Hamill’s 2022 comedy that reimagines Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic male characters as women.

Tony Award-winning musical “Mary Poppins” and Tony and Grammy Award-winning jukebox musical “Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill: The Musical,” along with Jen Silverman’s 2015 drama, “The Roommate,” will be interspersed with two children’s shows in the Second Stage Season, which includes Creede Repertory Theatre’s production of “Raquel’s Purple Pineapple Adventures.”

In the museum, “The Many Travels of Mary Chenoweth” will launch a new season of exhibits by local and regional artists.

Theater season tickets are $103-$336 and will be available at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Single tickets are $29-$67 and go on sale May 21. Go online to fac.coloradocollege.edu.

2025-2026 Main State Season

• Sept. 18-Oct. 5: “Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson, Apt. 2B” — Kate Hamill’s 2022 comedy recasts the famous Sir Arthur Conan Doyle characters Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick, Dr. John Watson, as women. The quirky, “Odd Couple”-like duo join forces to solve mysteries and come up against a bad guy who just might foil them.

• Nov. 19–Dec. 28: “Mary Poppins” — The 2006 Tony Award-winning musical, based on the children’s books by P. L. Travers and the 1964 Disney film, tells the tale of a magical nanny who appears on a couple’s doorstep out of nowhere to care for their children.

• Feb. 12–March 1: “The Roommate” — In Jen Silverman’s 2015 two-person drama, a recently divorced woman invites another woman who’s relocating from New York City to Iowa to be her roommate. As their friendship deepens, secrets are revealed.

• April 30–May 24, 2026: “Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill: The Musical” — The Tony and Grammy Award-winning 2019 jukebox musical by Morissette, Glen Ballard and Diablo Cody uses Morissette’s lyrics to chronicle the pain and healing of a suburban family.

2025-2026 Second Stage Season

• Oct. 25–Nov. 2: “Raquel’s Purple Pineapple Adventures” by Creede Repertory Theatre — In the bilingual musical by Noemi de la Puente and Fernanda Douglas, young Raquel struggles with summer school and reading until Pinkie the Purple Pineapple shows up to help.

• Feb. 28–March 22: “Curious George: The Golden Meatball” — George, the monkey who stars in numerous books, movies and a PBS TV show, embarks on an adventure to the Golden Meatball Contest in Rome with his friend Chef Pisghetti in a musical by John Kavanaugh and Jeremy Desmon.

2025-2026 exhibits• June 25–Oct. 4: “The Many Travels of Mary Chenoweth” — The new show features works inspired by Chenoweth’s global travels beginning in 1958.

• Sept. 5-Jan. 1, 2028: “Gathering Place: Permanent Collection Reinstallation” — Works from the FAC collection, including rarely shown pieces, will document the history of the Southwest.

• Sept. 26–Jan. 17: “Open-Hearted” — The exhibit takes a look at health beyond self-care to societal advocacy.

• Feb. 6–July 6, 2026: “Works from Ana María Hernando” — Hernando, an Argentine visual artist who lives in Boulder, creates soft sculptures, primarily made from tulle, that explore intimacy and monumentality.

• March 6–July 26, 2026: “Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard” — An exhibit of work created in or inspired by yards, which disputes the idea art must be made in studios, galleries and other traditional spaces.

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