Gin and Gothic: A Brontë Rocktale

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Gin & Gothic: A Brontë Rocktale

Boulder, CO – Band of Toughs: a theatre collaboratory (BoTs) proudly present a limited engagement of their newest immersive rocktale mashup, Gin & Gothic: A Brontë Rocktale. A site-specific, Victorian gothic romance, literary adventure. Sweeping moors, women in attics, brooding Byronic heroes, all staged in and around Altona Grange in Boulder County. Featuring a live band and a splash of sibling rivalry.

In this renewed, original production, we follow the tenacious and gifted Brontë siblings as they love, lose, and conceive some of the most famous literature of the 19th century! This 120-minute performance takes place, indoors, outdoors (with heating), and involves short walks between locations, including stairs. Seating will be provided.

For more information, visit www.bandoftoughs.org or visit our Facebook or Instagram. Tickets available through Eventbrite and due to limited seating, tickets may or may not be available at the door.

DETAILED INFORMATION IN BRIEF:

Gin & Gothic: A Brontë Rocktale
Devised by Band of Toughs

DATES & TIMES:

Friday, January 16, 2026 at 7:00 PM*

Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 7:00 PM

Friday, January 23, 2026 at 7:00 PM

Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 7:00 PM

TICKETS:

$38 GA

$19 Student / Senior / Military / Financial Hardship (12 tickets available per performance)

* Special 2-for-1 deal available for opening night, January 16, 2025

For advance purchase, please visit Eventbrite for online purchase. If tickets are still available, the box office opens at 6:30 pm prior to each performance (Venmo, card, or cash accepted at the door.)

LOCATION:

Altona Grange Hall

9386 North 39th Street

Longmont, CO 80503

BRIEF DESCRIPTION:

Gin & Gothic: A Brontë Rocktale features literature’s favorite Victorian novelists in a rocktale of romance, live music, and a splash of sibling rivalry. Band of Toughs (BoTs) creators of the sold-out theatrical adventures Nirvamlet and I Miss My MTV, return with their signature genre-mashing style.

This performance contains some mature language and imagery.

This event is made possible through the support of the Boulder Arts Commission, Boulder County Arts Alliance, Create Boulder, Colorado Creative Industries, Altona Grange, and YOU our stallworth followers!

The cast and creative team includes:

Colleen Mylott, Janet Mylott, David Ortolano, Kate Moore, Michael Gunst, James Brunt, Kamara Thomas, Michael Sater, Elizabeth Kirchmeier, Heather Ostberg-Johnson, Atlas Drake, Fabian Vazquez, Mel Schaffer, Michael Strzepek, Anna Strzepek, Aaron Bustamante, Jeannene Bragg, and Jeff Goldberg.

The Brontë Siblings.

Photography by Brian Miller and Alex Miller.

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

The Band of Toughs (BoTs) are a Colorado based “collaboratory.” The BoTs are a group of interdisciplinary artists that banded together in 2009 to produce genre-mashing theatre events with a rock and roll sensibility. The Band of Toughs have produced over a dozen genre shattering works on the Front Range. Their artists are widespread and varying, but all share the belief that theatre should be passionate, kinetic, fun, inspiring and engaging.

In 2009, the Band of Toughs creative team debuted with Big Love, garnering multiple Denver Post Ovation awards, including Best Comedy of 2009, as well as the Westword’s “Best Debut on a Denver Stage.” Other original productions and adaptations have included Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers, (re)production, a staged reading of 8 in a co-production with Out Boulder, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Thugs, Moulin Scrooge, and I Miss My MTV. Under the Stars with the Brews and the Bard: As You Like It was run in 2012, 2016 and 2021 to audience acclaim. It won Audience Choice Best of Fringe at Boulder International Fringe Festival in 2016. Nirvamlet, a rocktale adventure of a grunge murder most foul, ran at Boulder International Fringe Festival in 2018 and was restaged in 2019 at Denver Performing Arts Complex. The 2019 restaging won a True West Award that year for Uncommon Grounds: Theatre in Unusual Spaces. The original staging of Gin and Gothic was awarded the Best Immersive show of 2024 by Onstage Colorado.