The top 2026 trend in local theater: Companies are moving their plays from city to city staged for your enjoyment and convenience

There is an embarrassment of riches on Colorado theater stages this winter. And, to a growing degree, you don’t even have to go all the way to the theater to see it all. More and more, the theater is coming (closer) to you.

The Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company birthed this ingeniously simple trend a couple of years ago when it started presenting its plays both at its home base in Boulder and again on a second stage in Denver, making its stories more easily available to theatergoers who might be reluctant to make the drive up (or down) Highway 36.

Right now, BETC (or Betsy, for short) is readying “Brooklyn Laundry,” the latest play from John Patrick Shanley, best known for “Moonstruck” and “Doubt.” The play will open Jan. 30 and run for three weekends at the Savoy Denver just north of downtown Denver. Then it packs up and reassembles at the Dairy Arts Center for a month in Boulder.

Very few plays ever get seven weeks of performances, which means BETC has greatly expanded the potential audience pool for Shanley’s bittersweet story about three sisters and the guy who operates the local laundromat.

“Brooklyn Laundry” has been called both heartfelt and polarizing (like pretty much every play Shanley has ever written) for its troubling examination of modern-day gender roles. Here, it will feature a powerhouse, A-list cast of Annie Barbour, Kate Gleason, Jessica Robblee and Torsten Hillhouse. The director is bigshot Allison Watrous – the Denver Center’s Director of Education. Info at betc.org.

Another play getting the Boulder-Denver treatment is “Bad Books,” a world premiere co-produced by both Boulder’s Local Theatre Company and Denver’s venerable Curious Theatre Company. In fact, it stars Curious Artistic Director Jada Suzanne Dixon (opposite Lauren Dennis) in this two-actor play by Sharyn Rothstein.

It’s set in “the quietest place in America” – the local public library, which becomes a battleground when one concerned mother goes head-to-head with a principled librarian over a book she has deemed inappropriate. Because this is an unknown new play, all we can really tell you is what its presenters are telling us: That the story is “a brilliant, bitingly funny exploration of book bans, parental rights and the battles over who decides which stories are told.” It’s directed by Local Theatre co-Artistic Director Nick Chase.

The play opened Saturday at Curious and continues through Feb. 1 at 1080 Acoma St. before shifting (also to the Dairy Arts Center) for a second run from Feb. 5-14. Info at curioustheatre.org.

There is something for every taste this winter. But I am seeing a particular abundance of socially relevant stories that will surely foster dialogue, honor history and, hopefully, strengthen our divided communities as our valiant homegrown artists do what they can to remove barriers to the arts and amplify diverse voices on the stage. These are the kinds of stories that very much form the picture of the future of the American theater.

At the same time, individual tastes can vary wildly, so we will now offer a few representative choices based on genre, followed by a listing of all the plays that we know of that are scheduled pretty much anywhere in Colorado.

But this we can tell you with certainty: There are multiple productions of “Romeo and Juliet,” “Rent,” “Shrek,” “9 to 5” and “Steel Magnolias” coming your way in the coming months. But for today, we will focus on titles you can see in the next six weeks.

Winter is the time to play

• Wintertime is generally considered prime time for new plays to proliferate. It’s just a given in the annual theater ecology. Maybe it’s something about the shorter, colder days that puts us more in the mood for big ideas and deeper contemplation. Toward that end, we have a plethora of intriguing new (or new to Denver) plays coming our way, and here are just a few of them:

If you want to see something fresh, unexpected and fully made in Colorado, put the Denver Center Theatre Company’s “Cowboys & East Indians” at the top of your list. It opens Jan. 16 and runs through March 1. It’s co-written by Nina McConigley, an utterly original humanoid who was born in Singapore, grew up in Wyoming and now lives in Fort Collins – which qualifies her as the rare Colorado-based playwright to land a mainstage DCTC production. And the second in two years, following Jake Brasch (“The Reservoir.”)

McConigley and Matthew Spangler have concocted a completely unprecedented and original story of how one Indian American family assimilates into the tight-knit fabric of conservative Casper, Wyo. The play has an “August Osage County”-worthy twist that will ultimately reveal to you what this play is really all about – and because I’m not a monster, I’m not spilling that secret here. But it will show you just how far Wyoming – and, to an extent, the American theater – have come since Matthew Shepard.

I can tell you what McConigley has said of her own story: “Our play is a rare exploration of what it means to be an immigrant in the rural American West. It is about Wyoming. It’s about masculinity, race, identity and how you form identity when you don’t see reflections of your identity around you.”

Just go see it. You’ll be talking about it for a long, long time.

• Meanwhile, the DCTC is also offering “Godspeed,” a western with a major twist of its own. It’s set in 1865. Slavery has just been abolished in Texas. And a Black, female gunslinger named Godspeed has returned to the Lone Star State with a six-shooter, one bullet and vengeance on her mind. Jan. 30-Feb. 22.

• Also high on my list of intriguing titles is rising Denver playwright Kenya Mahogany Fashaw’s “Happy 2b Nappy,” a new play for Control Group Productions that celebrates the beauty, pride and cultural significance of natural Black hair. Fashaw told radio station KGNU that her play encourages Black people, especially children, to embrace their natural hair textures and roots as a source of strength and joy.

• “Hold These Truths” is a timely one-man play based on the true story of Gordon Hirabayashi, an American-born student who, in 1942 – his senior year at the University of Washington – was ordered to report to an internment camp in northern California. He not only refused, he challenged the constitutionality of the U.S. government’s internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, demonstrating the kind of moral courage that seems in such short supply in our world today. Rock on, Gordon. This play, starring Denver’s Rob Payo,” is a big deal for Platte Valley Theatre Arts, which is staging the story at the Brighton Armory from Jan. 30 through Feb. 7.

• Denver treasure Edith Weiss has a new play that promises to quickly separate audiences from their charmed-off socks. She’s written “Fierce Satire and Mediocre Sex” for the And Toto Theatre Company. All I’m seeing about the play is that we are in for an evening of short scenes woven together “to remind us of our humanity and to laugh a little at ourselves.” Frankly, I might prefer an evening titled “Fierce Sex and Mediocre Satire” but, no matter. Really, they had me at “Edith Weiss.” Whatever goes up from Feb. 13-28 at Buntport Theater (717 Lipan St.), I’m all in. 

• The rising Firehouse Theater Company is coming off its best creative year, and we’ll see if that momentum continues with “H-E-Double Crooked Letter,” the latest Latine family comedy from Leonard Madrid. His “Weekend at Bernie’s” dead-body road-tripper “Cebollas” was launched by the Denver Center in 2024. Here, three cousins have somehow opened a gate to Hell in their grandma’s living room, and now they can’t get it closed. This is a rare world premiere for Firehouse. Feb. 7-March 8.   

• Immerse yourself: Boulder’s The Catamounts are known for telling stories everywhere from a golf course fairway to inside a creek, but it is (mildly) cold in Colorado at this time of year, so better for all of us that its winter offerings are staged inside the Dairy Arts Center. The Catamounts are known for their metatheatricality, so the new “Burning Bluebeard” will surely blend comedy, vaudeville and clowning as it retells the story of the horrifically tragic 1903 Chicago Iroquois Theatre fire that killed more than 600. The play, told from the perspective of the performers, is described as a celebration of the way theater brings us together in moments of both joy and catastrophe. Jan. 31-Feb. 21.

• New(ish) spin on an old classic: Theater companies don’t much stage Neil Simon chestnuts anymore, but an intriguing exception is the Miners Alley Performing Arts Center’s “The Female Odd Couple,” with powerhouse actors Emma Messenger and Sheryl McCallum playing not Felix and Oscar but rather Florence and Olive. That’s Jan. 30-March 8 in Golden. But if you are a traditionalist who wants to see the play with dudes (for the 40th time), the Longmont Theater Company has you covered there from Feb. 6-21.

• Bring on the Broadway classics: Despite all the intense plays taking place about town, there is also a surprisingly large number of big, traditional Broadway blowouts on the docket this winter as well, and the buzz is strong on all of them: Performance Now is killing it with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific,” running through Jan. 25 at the Lakewood Cultural Center; “Hello Dolly” opens Jan. 29 at the Candlelight Dinner Playhouse in Johnstown; “Shrek” bows Jan. 16 at the PACE Center in Parker; the Town Hall Arts Center’s Monty Python riff “Spamalot” will have them snickering in Littleton starting Jan. 23; and the workplace comedy “9 to 5” comes to the Vintage Theatre in Aurora starting Feb. 20.

• At a time when we are so wearyingly divided, I am reminded that nothing brings audiences together like laughter. So I am keeping a special eye out for stories that will hopefully give us a chance to chuckle in unison. And I’m told one strong candidate is the Miners Alley Performing Arts Center’s “My Mother and the Michigan/Ohio War.” It’s by Paul Stroili, who is quickly becoming a favorite in Golden for tender comedies like last season’s senior-centered “A Jukebox for the Algonquin.” Opening Feb. 20 (and overlapping in repertory with “The Female Odd Couple” for a couple of weeks is Stroili’s recognizable family story of a Michigan matriarch who has found herself colliding with her grown children over everything from tofu to Toledo to Gordon Lightfoot.

Now, go see a play. You’ll either come out of it lighter, more enlightened or more empathetic. Maybe even all three.

2026 THEATER SCHEDULES

(Does not include existing companies that have no announced upcoming titles. Please email any corrections or additions to john.moore@denvergazette.com)

11 AFTER THEATRE

At the Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, facebook.com

• Feb. 13-15: First Date

ADAMS MYSTERY PLAYHOUSE

Presented by Marne Interactive Productions, 2406 Federal Blvd., Denver, 80211, 303-455-1848 or adamsmysteryplayhouse.com

• Through March 28: Murder at an Irish Wake

AM.SWOPRODUCTIONS

At Mountain Toad Brewing, 900 Washingtotn Ave., Golden, facebook.com

• Jan. 16: Haus Bingo

AND TOTO TOO THEATRE COMPANY

At the Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., andtototoo.org 

• Feb. 13-28: Fierce Satire and Mediocre Sex

THE ARTS HUB

420 Courtney Way, Lafayette, https://www.artshub.org

• Jan. 16-Feb 1: Legally Blonde: The Musical

ARVADA CENTER

6901 Wadsworth Blvd., 720-898-7200 or arvadacenter.org

• Feb. 13-March 29: Romeo and Juliet 
• March 27-May 10: Come from Away 

AURORA FOX ARTS CENTER

9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora, 303-739-1970 or aurorafox.org

• Jan. 30-Feb. 22: Waiting for Godot
• March 27-April 19: Fat Ham
• June 5-28: Violet
• Oct 2-Nov. 1: Feeding Beatrice
• Dec. 4 -Jan. 3: Hank Williams: Lost Highway

BAS BLEU THEATRE

401 Pine St., Fort Collins, 970-498-8949 or basbleu.org

• Feb. 13-March 8: Rabbit Hole   
• April 24-May 17: The Importance of Being Earnest 

BOULDER ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY

At the Savoy Denver, 2700 Arapahoe St.

At the Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder

303-440-7826 or boulderensembletheatre.org

• Jan. 30-Feb. 15: Brooklyn Laundry (at The Savoy)
• Feb. 14, 2026: Fireflies (at the Dairy Arts Center)
• Feb. 20-March 15: Brooklyn Laundry (at the Dairy Arts Center)
• May 1-24, 2026: Mary Jane (at the Dairy Arts Center)

BUG THEATRE

3654 Navajo St., 303-477-9984 or bugtheatre.info

• Every third Monday: Exposed: Raw Memoirs on Stage 
• Every third Thursday: The Emerging Filmmakers Project 
• Every last Monday: Freak Train (variety)
• Every last Friday: Nerd Nite Denver
• Every last Saturday: The Grawlix (comedy)

BUNTPORT THEATER

717 Lipan St., 720-946-1388 or buntport.com

• Every third Tuesdays: The Great Debate
• Every third Wednesdays: The Narrators
• Jan. 23-25: The Rembrandt Room

CANDLELIGHT DINNER PLAYHOUSE

4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown, 970-744-3747 or coloradocandlelight.com 

• Jan. 29-April 4: Hello, Dolly!
• April 16-June 14: Anything Goes   
• June 25-Aug. 30: Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical
• Sept. 10-Nov. 15: Les Misérables
• Nov. 27-Jan. 17, 2007: Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
• Feb. 4-April 11, 2027: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
• April 22-June 13, 2027: Finding Neverland
• June 24-Sept. 5, 2027: Frozen

THE CATAMOUNTS

Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder,

• Jan. 31-Feb. 21: “Burning Bluebeard”

COAL CREEK THEATER OF LOUISVILLE

Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant St., 303-665-0955 or cctlouisville.org

• Feb. 27-March 14: The Revolutionists
• May 1-16: The Fox on the Fairway
• Aug. 20-22: An Evening of Colorado-Grown One-Acts
• Oct. 30-Nov. 14: Doubt: A Parable

CLOCKTOWER CABARET

D&F Clock Tower, 16th and Arapahoe streets, 303-293-0075, clocktowercabaret.com

• Ongoing events, mostly drag and burlesque
• Every third Thursday: The King Penny Radio Show
• Saturdays in January: Unleashed Aerial and Burlesque Show

COLORADO NEW PLAY FESTIVAL

Chief Theater, 813 Lincoln Ave, Steamboat Springs, CO 80487, cnpfsteamboat.org

• June 12-14: Colorado New Play Festival

COLORADO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL

At the Mary Rippon Amphitheatre and University Mainstage, CU-Boulder campus, 303-492-0554 or coloradoshakes.org

• May 30-Aug. 2: Twelfth Night
• June 13-Aug. 2: Julius Caesar
• June 27-Aug. 1: Shakespeare in Love
• July 11-Aug. 1: Friends/ Romans/ Countrymen

COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER AT COLORADO COLLEGE

At 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, 719-634-5581 or fac.coloradocollege.edu

• Feb. 12-March 1: The Roommate
• April 30-May 24: Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill: The Musical
• July 25-August 2: Curious George: The Golden Meatball

CONTROL GROUP PRODUCTIONS

Manos Sagrados, 9975 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora, 303-947-2827, controlgroupproductions.org      

Feb. 14-March 1: Happpy 2b Nappy

CREEDE REPERTORY THEATRE

124 Main St., Creede, 719-658-2540 or creederep.org

• May 23-Sept. 19: Fully Committed
• May 30-Sept. 6: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
• June 20-Sept. 5: Working: A Musical
• June 27-Sept. 13: Moriarty: A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure

CURIOUS THEATRE 

1080 Acoma St., 303-623-0524 or curioustheatre.org 

• Jan. 10-Feb. 1: Bad Books 
• Feb. 5-14: Bad Books (co-production with Local Theatre Company at Dairy Arts Center, Boulder)
• March 7-April 5: Another Kind of Silence 
• May 2-May 31: Furlough’s Paradise 

DCPA THEATRE COMPANY

Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, 303-893-4100 or denvercenter.org

• Jan. 16-March 1: “Cowboys & East Indians” (Singleton Theatre)
• Jan. 30-Feb. 22: Godspeed” (Kilstrom Theatre)
• Feb. 14-15, 2026: Colorado New Play Summit (Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex)
• April 3-May 3: “Next to Normal” (Wolf Theatre)
• April 17-May 31: “English” (Singleton Theatre)
• May 1-31: “Somewhere” (Kilstrom Theatre)

DCPA BROADWAY AND CABARET

Buell Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, 303-893-4100 or denvercenter.org   

• Jan. 16-17: The Choir of Man, Buell Theatre     
• Jan. 24-25: The Simon & Garfunkel Story, Buell Theatre
• Jan. 31: Richard Thomas in Mark Twain Tonight!, Buell Theatre
• Feb. 4: Dirty Dancing in Concert, Buell Theatre     
• Feb. 11-22: Water for Elephants, Buell Theatre     
• Feb. 24: PlayStation, the Concert, Buell Theatre
• Feb. 27-March 1: Meredith Willson’s The Music Man, Buell Theatre
• March 18-April 5: The Phantom of the Opera, Buell Theatre
• April 14-26: Hell’s Kitchen, Buell Theatre
• May 5-10: Hadestown, Buell Theatre     
• May 13-17: MJ, Buell Theatre     
• May 30-June 21: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Buell Theatre
• July 29-Aug. 2: The Sound of Music, Buell Theatre     
• Aug. 4-9: Beetlejuice, Buell Theatre     
• Aug. 11-23: Monty Python’s Spamalot, Buell Theatre
• Sept 8-27: The Outsiders, Buell Theatre

DCPA EDUCATION THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES

Randy Weeks Conservatory Theatre, Newman Education Building, 1101 13th St. 303-893-4100 or denvercenter.org

• Through Jan. 25: Goodnight Moon

THE DINNER DETECTIVE

Interactive murder mystery comedy dinner theater held most Saturday evenings in these cities:

• Embassy Suites Denver, 1420 Stout St.
• Marriott Fort Collins, 350 E. Horsetooth Road
• Great Wolf Lodge, 9494 Federal Drive, Colorado Springs

866-496-0535 or thedinnerdetective.com

ELEMENTAL THEATRE COMPANY

At the People’s Building, 9995 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora), 720-244-5204 or elementaltheatrecompany.org

Feb. 26-March 8: The Runner Stumbles

EVERGREEN PLAYERS

At Center/Stage, 27608 Fireweed Drive, 303-674-4934 or evergreenplayers.org

• Feb. 13-14: Epic Improv Comedy

FIREHOUSE THEATER COMPANY

At the John Hand Theatre, 7653 E. 1st Place, 303-562-3232 or firehousetheatercompany.com 

• Feb. 7-March 8: H-E-Double Crooked Letter
• April 4-May 2: White
• May 30-June 28: The Cake

FLAMBOYÁN THEATRE 

At the Three Leaches Theatre, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood, flamboyantheatre.com

Feb. 12-21 Circo Flamboyán

FOUNTAIN COMMUNITY THEATER

326 West Alabama Ave., Fountain, 719-233-5192, fountaincommunitytheater.org

• Feb. 26-March 7: Adam’s Eve

GIVE 5 PRODUCTIONS AT BALLYHOO

At Ballyhoo Table & Stage, 3300 Tejon St., give5productions.com

• Ongoing events, mostly drag, comedy and burlesque
• Jan. 17: Do You Wanna Go?
• Jan. 26: D-Town
• Feb. 10: Rough Draught Playwrights
• June 2026: Rent, the Musical  

GLENWOOD VAUDEVILLE REVIEW

915 Grand Ave., Glenwood Springs, 970-945-9699  or gvrshow.com

• Through Jan. 17: Vaudeville Holiday Show

GREELEY GARAGE SALE THEATRE

Family of Christ Presbyterian Church, 2410 35th Ave., 970-573-6332 or greeleytheatre.org

• Jan. 30-Feb. 14: Fool

IRON SPRINGS CHATEAU

444 Ruxton Ave., Manitou Springs, 719-685-5104 or ironspringschateau.com

• Feb. 13-15: 2026 Valentine’s Murder Mystery
• April 24-Aug. 1: 2026 Melodrama

JESTERS DINNER THEATRE

224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980 or jesterstheatre.com

• Through March 1: Nunsense
• Feb. 21: Front deRanged Improv Comedy
• March 6-May 31: 9 to 5, the Musical
• June 5-Aug. 30: Brigadoon

KING PENNY RADIO SHOW

At The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St. clocktowercabaret.com

• Third Thursdays: “The King Penny Radio Show”

LOCAL THEATER COMPANY

The Carsen Theater at Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-379-4470 or localtheatercompany.org

• Through Feb. 1: Bad Books (at Curious Theatre)
• Feb. 5-15: Bad Books (co-production with Curious Theatre at Dairy Arts Center, Boulder)
• April 17-19: Local Lab 15: New Play Festival 
• April: Local Listens: Queer Lineage (Dates and location TBD) 

LONE TREE ARTS CENTER

10075 Commons St., just west of Interstate 25 and Lincoln Avenue, 720-509-1000 or lonetreeartscenter.org

• March 14: An Evening with Cheyenne Jackson 
• April 9-19: Steel Magnolias

LONGMONT THEATRE COMPANY

513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200 or longmonttheatre.org

• Feb. 6-21: The Odd Couple
• March 27-April 12: Terms of Endearment
• May 1-16: 9 to 5, the Musical

MAIN STREET LIVE

131 W. Main St., Trinidad, 81082, info.mainstreetlive@gmail.com, 719-846-4765 or mainstreetlive.org

• Jan. 17: Blood on the Silver Screen: An Interactive Mystery
• Jan. 30-Feb. 8: Steel Magnolias
• March 6-15: Anne of Green Gables
• June 11-24: Star Quest
• July 31-Aug. 8: The Wizard of Oz
• Oct. 2-11: Over the River and Through the Woods
• Dec. 11-20: Nuncrackers

MAGIC MOMENTS

At Kent Denver School 4000 E. Quincy Ave., Cherry Hills Village, Englewood, 303-575-1005 or magicmomentsinc.org

• March 2026: “Another Night at Nicks'”

MILLIBO ART THEATRE

1626 S. Tejon St., Colorado Springs, 719-465-6321, themat.org

• Jan 16-18: The Arts Uprise
• Jan. 23: The Mat!Ch Game 
• Feb. 12-22: Babette’s Lovette 
• March 7-8: Suitcase Fairytales 
• March 12-22: The Women’s Theatre Festival

MINERS ALLEY PLAYHOUSE

1224 Washington St., Golden, 303-935-3044 or minersalley.com

• Jan. 30-March 8: The Female Odd Couple 
• Feb. 20-March 29: My Mother and the Michigan/Ohio War
• April 24-May 31: Pump Boys and Dinettes 
• Aug. 7-Sept. 13: Taco Town
• Oct. 2-Nov. 8: Good Night Oscar – 
• Nov. 27-Dec. 27: Holiday Production TBA

MOTUS THEATER

At the Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, motustheater.org

• Through Jan. 30: Immigrant America: Lotería Visual Arts Exhibition (at the North Boulder Recreation Center
• Jan. 19: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day performance with The ReMINDers

ONE NIGHT STAND

At Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora, 303-856-7830 or onenightstandtheater.org

• Feb. 22: Stages of Love
• April 12: Conspiracy

OPENSTAGE THEATRE & COMPANY

Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia St., Fort Collins, 970-484-5237 or openstagetheatre.org

• Through Feb. 7: The Mousetrap   
• March 21-April 18: The Cottage 
• June 6-July 11: The Merry Wives of Windsor

OVATION WEST PERFORMING ARTS

Center Stage, 27608 Fireweed Drive, Evergreen, 303-674-4002 or ovationwest.org

• Feb. 20-March 8: Songs For A New World

PARKER ARTS

At the Parker Arts Schoolhouse Theater, 19650 Mainstreet, Parker

At the PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker, parkerarts.org

• Jan. 16-Feb. 8: Shrek, the Musical 
• June 26-July 19: All Shook Up 
• Oct. 24-Nov. 16: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (at the Parker Arts Schoolhouse)

PERFORMANCE NOW

Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, 303-987-7845 or performancenow.org 

• ​Through Jan. 25: Rogers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific
• March 13-29: A Chorus Line 
• June 12-28: My Fair Lady

PHAMALY THEATRE COMPANY

303-365-0005 or phamaly.org

• March 19-April 4: Little Women (at Northglenn Arts’ Parsons Theatre, 1 E. Memorial Parkway)
• June 5-28: Violet (at the Aurora Fox, 9900 E. Colfax Ave.)
• Aug. 6-23: 504: The Musical (at the Denver Performing Arts Complex’s Kilstrom Theatre)
• Oct. 8-18: Tiny Beautiful Things (at the People’s Building, 9995 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora)
• Nov. 5-8: Pericles: An Adaptive Show for People with Cognitive Disabilities (at the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St.)
• Dec. 8: Holidays are for Phamaly and the Colorado Symphony (at the Lone Tree Arts Center)

PLATTE VALLEY THEATRE ARTS

At The Armory at the Brighton Cultural Center, 300 Strong St., 303-227-3053 or plattevalleyplayers.org

Jan. 30-Feb. 7: We Hold These Truths

ROCKY MOUNTAIN REPERTORY THEATRE

800 Grand Ave., Grand Lake, 970-627-3421 or rockymountainrep.com

• Opens June 5: Shrek, the Musical
• Opens June 19: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
• Opens July 3: Urinetown, the Musical
• Opens Sept. 4: Never Can Say Goodbye: A ’70s Beehive Musical

SHIFTED LENS THEATRE COMPANY

The People’s Building 9995 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora, shiftedlenstheatre.com

• Jan. 16-Feb. 1: Exit Pursued by a Bear, at The People’s Building 
• April 17-May 2: We are the Tigers, at the Teller 
• Aug. 14-30: Spring Awakening, at the Arts Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette

SPRINGS ENSEMBLE THEATRE

2409 W. Colorado, Colorado Springs, 719-357-3080 or springsensembletheatre.org

• Jan. 29-Feb. 15: The Children
• April 2-19: Frozen
• June 4-21: POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive (at Pikes Peak State College’s Studio West, 22 N. Sierra Madre St.)

STAGEDOOR THEATRE

25797 Conifer Road, Conifer, 303-838-0809 or stagedoortheatre.org

• Feb. 6-March 1: The Game’s Afoot
• June 5-28: Disaster!

STEEL CITY THEATRE COMPANY

611 N. Main St, Pueblo, steelcitytheatre.org

• Jan. 23-Feb. 1: Ordinary People 
• Feb. 20-March 1: Assassins 
• April 10-26: Rent

STORIES ON STAGE

At the Su Teatro Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, or

At the Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave, Boulder, CO, or

303-494-0523 or storiesonstage.org

• Feb. 15: Chock Full of Nuts, a collaboration with Buntport Theater (at Su Teatro) 
• March 14: Wild Women: Hear Us Roar! (Nomad)
• March 15: Wild Women: Hear Us Roar! (Su Teatro)
• April 19: Colorado Writers Showcase (Su Teatro) 
• May 3: Stories on Stage Greatest Hits (Su Teatro)

SU TEATRO

At the Su Teatro Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Drive, 303-296-0219 or suteatro.org

• March 12-29: Just Like Us
• June 11-28: No Se Paga, We Won’t Pay

THEATER COMPANY OF LAFAYETTE

At the Arapaho Center (formerly the Mary Miller Theater), 300 E. Simpson, 720-209-2154 or tclstage.org

• Feb. 27-March 15: Top Girls 

THEATRE SILCO

At the Silverthorne Performing Arts Center, 460 Blue River Pkwy, Silverthorne, 970-513-9386 or lakthesilco.org

• Through Jan. 22: The Bluebird (presented by Theatre Artibus)
• Jan. 30: David Nehls Sings Elton John
• Feb. 13-Dec. 17: Reply All Improv Comedy
• Feb. 27-March 15: Fully Committed
• June 19-Aug. 2: Million Dollar Quartet
• Aug. 11-Sept. 13: Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical
• Sept. 15-27: The Catastrophist
• Dec. 4-23: A Tuna Christmas

THEATREWORKS

At the Ent Center, 5225 N. Nevada Ave., Colorado Springs, 719-255-3232 or entcenterforthearts.org

• Jan. 29-Feb. 15: Where We Stand 
• April 9-May 3: Romeo and Juliet 
• June 11-28: The Garbologists

THUNDER RIVER THEATRE COMPANY

67 Promenade, Carbondale, 970-963-8200 or thunderrivertheatre.com

• Feb. 13-March 1: K2
• May 1-17: For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday 

TOWN HALL ARTS CENTER

2450 W. Main St., Littleton, 80120, 303-794-2787 or townhallartscenter.com

• Jan. 23–Feb. 22: Monty Python’s Spamalot 
• March 20-April 19: The Wiz
• May 8-June 7: Avenue Q 

TWO-CENT LION

The People’s Building 9995 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora, twocentlion.com

• Feb. 6-15: PUF (A Completely Factual and Objective History of the Publick Universal Friend)

THE UPSTART CROW

Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-442-1415 or theupstartcrow.org

• Feb. 26-March 8: The Baltimore Waltz
• April 30-May 17: Tartuffe

VINTAGE THEATRE

1468 Dayton St., Aurora, 303-839-1361 or vintagetheatre.com

• Through Feb. 15: The Shark Is Broken (Bond-Trimble Theatre)
• Feb. 14-15: Dear Jack, Dear Louise (Cabaret Stage)
• Feb. 20-March 29: 9 to 5 (Nickelson Auditorium)
• March-April: Bella, Bella (Cabaret Stage)
• March 27-May 10: Angels In America, Parts One and Two (Bond-Trimble Theatre)
• May 15-June 21: A Strange Loop (Nickelson Auditorium)
• June 12-July 19: The Book Club Play (Bond-Trimble Theatre)

WESLEY PLAYERS THEATRE COMPANY

At St. Luke’s UMC, 8817 S. Broadway, Littleton, wesleyplayers.org

Feb. 26-March 1: Shrek, The Musical

WINDSOR COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE

561 E. Garden Drive, 970-674-1790 or windsorplayhouse.org

• Jan. 23-Feb. 8: Screwball Comedy 
• May 29-June 14: South of Hope   
• March 27-April 12: Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Here