Denver’s Curious Theatre Company is putting its longtime home at the Acoma Center in the Golden Triangle up for sale, supporters were told Saturday by email.

The announcement casts further uncertainty on the future of perhaps Denver’s most respected homegrown theater company of the past three decades, which has presented more than 110 plays at 1080 Acoma St. since 1998.

“To continue our vital role in Colorado’s creative ecology, we are taking a daring step: putting our cherished Acoma church home on the market,” the company wrote in an email attributed to Artistic Director Jada Suzanne Dixon and Managing Director Jeannene Bragg.

“We did not come to this decision lightly. It allows us to tap into the significant equity we’ve built, and in this challenging time for regional theaters nationwide, allows us to explore innovative models for Curious … free from the challenges of maintaining a 100-year-old building.”

Curious bought the Acoma Center from real-estate magnate and company booster Mickey Zeppelin in 2007 for just $800,000. Records obtained by the Denver Gazette estimate the present market value of the building at a very conservative $2.3 million.

Today’s disquieting development comes three months after the company announced that it is in an existential fight for its financial life. On March 1, Curious took the extraordinary step of launching a public emergency giving campaign that said the company must raise $250,000 by July – with the fate of the company potentially hanging in the balance. About six weeks ago, officials said the “Fund the Future” campaign had raised about $75,000. Today’s email included the news that “we plan to remain in our current home for our 27th season,” which starts in the fall.

The announcement laid out several potential outcomes, including selling to a buyer who would then lease the building back to the theater company. Another would be “a sale to supportive investors.” A third would be partnering with a developer that would scrape the present structure and build a new theater in its place. A fourth imagined “a potential new space in Denver” for the company.

But in the present market, it is highly unlikely that any buyer would keep the Acoma Center operating as a theater – in part because the nearly 100-year-old building is falling apart. Dixon has said it presently costs the company $9,500 a month to simply turn the lights on.

Most likely would be a sale to a buyer who would redevelop the property, which has become fully tied to Curious’ identity. In that case, Curious could become, like most other Colorado theater troupes, a company that performs as a tenant on other peoples’ stages.

“The question, ‘Are we willing to walk away from this building?’ is absolutely on the table,” Dixon said.

The final show of Curious’ current season is a play called “Cullud Wattah,” by Erika Dickerson Despenza, running through June 15. It explores the ongoing contaminated water crisis in Flint, Mich., from the perspective of several generations of Black women.

Last month, the much more grassroots Benchmark Theatre announced that it is leaving its seven-year home in Lakewood “because of ever-rising overhead costs.”