About Us
We're Coal Creek Theater of Louisville, and we've been Louisville's playhouse since 1990.
Your neighbors step on stage and volunteers build the sets behind the scenes. You fill our 55-seat historic schoolhouse. We never repeat shows, and we're committed to keeping live theater thriving in the Colorado Front Range, while also giving Colorado playwrights a stage for new work. Welcome to CCTL -
Where every seat is a front row seat
Our History
Coal Creek Theater of Louisville opened in 1990, founded by Pasco Scarpella and locals who believed Louisville needed a stage.
Our first show was Paul Sills' Story Theater, performed for free in Memory Square Park. Pasco later wrote December in Louisville—1914, depicting the town's coal mining history—the strikes, family life, and working underground.
30+ years, one pandemic and hundreds of shows later, we’re still here. Every production is a first and a last. Your neighbors step on stage, and you sit close enough to see every choice they make.
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Our Mission
Our mission is to keep live theater thriving in Louisville and eastern Boulder County, preserving a cultural tradition that's been part of this community since 1990. We create space for volunteers to perform, build, design, and participate. By nurturing local talent and engaging our community, we're making theater an accessible and enduring part of life in the Colorado Front Range.
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Our Vision
We envision a thriving community of storytellers - volunteers, artists, and audiences - creating transformative theater. We're expanding opportunities to connect through productions that challenge, entertain, and inspire, from timeless classics to new voices. We see a Louisville where live theater isn't just something to attend. It's something we make happen together, a cultural heartbeat for generations to come.
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Our Values
Community. We create space where everyone belongs—on stage, backstage, and in the audience.
Creativity. We embrace originality and innovation, exploring new stories and reimagining timeless ones.
Collaboration. We bring people together to build something bigger than any of us could create alone.
What Makes Us Different
We're Louisville's oldest surviving community theater, and have been keeping live theater thriving here since 1990.
We never repeat shows. Every production is a first and a last, so if you miss it, you'll never see it again.
Every seat is a front row seat in our intimate 55-seat venue. Here, you're close enough to feel like you're part of the story.
We perform in a 130-year-old Victorian schoolhouse from 1894, which is listed on the Louisville Register of Historic Places.
Your neighbors step on stage, build the sets, and run the lights. We are (and always will be) a true all-volunteer community theater.
We develop new work by Colorado playwrights through our Front Range Playwrights Showcase, giving regional voices a stage for original stories.
