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Wake-Up Call: Pony up for the Arts

Fresh from shmoozing with Barack Obama, John Hickenlooper will be at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House tonight, presenting the 2008 Mayor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts to Charles Burrell, the Denver Young Artists, Su Teatro and the Bloomsbury Review, as well as a Mayor's Cultural Legacy Award t ... More >>

Mi Teatro, Su Teatro

The Chicano theater group turns a page and looks to the future.

A Christmas Tale

The Chicano theater group turns a page and looks to the future.

Paradise Lost

Tony Garcia revisits the old neighborhood with El Corrido del Barrio.

Colorado Navidad

Su Teatro and Tish Hinojosa unite to celebrate the season.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… a pig?

Su Teatro and Tish Hinojosa unite to celebrate the season.

Today's bonus featured event: Celebrate bilingual bards at the Neruda Poetry Festival

National Poetry Month is for everyone, and so is El Centro Su Teatro's tenth-annual Neruda Poetry Festival, which begins today, smack dab in the middle of the nation's bardish celebration of metered, arranged, improvised and performed verbiage. And you'll enjoy some of each during this three-day e ... More >>

Viva Mexico

National Poetry Month is for everyone, and so is El Centro Su Teatro's tenth-annual Neruda Poetry Festival, which begins today, smack dab in the middle of the nation's bardish celebration of metered, arranged, improvised and performed verbiage. And you'll enjoy some of each during this three-day e ... More >>

Holy Tamale

El Centro Su Teatro starts a new holiday tradition.

Stinking Stereotypes

El Centro Su Teatro starts a new holiday tradition.

Now Playing

Brief reviews of current shows

Now Playing

Brief reviews of current shows

Now Playing

Brief reviews of current shows

Near Myth

Su Teatro's El Sol Que Tú Eres is an uneasy marriage of styles.

Rising Sun

El Sol Que Tú Eres revisits ancient mythology with a Chicano twist.

High and Low Show

Cordell Taylor gets a shot at Red Reel

Growing Concerns

Su Teatro's Papi, Me and Cesar Chavez cultivates an audience.

Offbeat Big Top

Sensory Circus seeks to juggle creative circuits

Birdland

Roosters sometimes moves slowly, but magic realism shines through.

The Basement Tapes

For Linda Chavez, the devil was in the details.

All the World's an Empty Stage

For the locked-out founder of Eulipions, the play’s still the thing.

Cause and Effect

For the locked-out founder of Eulipions, the play’s still the thing.

Casa Bernarda

For the locked-out founder of Eulipions, the play’s still the thing.

Thrills for the week

For the locked-out founder of Eulipions, the play’s still the thing.

COMMUNITY CHESTNUT

For the locked-out founder of Eulipions, the play’s still the thing.

DOUBLE FEATURE

For the locked-out founder of Eulipions, the play’s still the thing.

THRILLS

For the locked-out founder of Eulipions, the play’s still the thing.

Su Teatro Goes Home

For the locked-out founder of Eulipions, the play’s still the thing.

War and Peace

For the locked-out founder of Eulipions, the play’s still the thing.

Su Teatro is safe in the Denver Civic, but what happens to Elyria?

​One of the best moves of the year -- both literally and figuratively -- was the city's last-second save of the Denver Civic Theatre for Su Teatro, which just opened its first production in the heart of Denver's historic Santa Fe Drive area. Su Teatro was already in the process of creating a ... More >>

Heating Up With Salsa Wars

​One of the best moves of the year -- both literally and figuratively -- was the city's last-second save of the Denver Civic Theatre for Su Teatro, which just opened its first production in the heart of Denver's historic Santa Fe Drive area. Su Teatro was already in the process of creating a ... More >>

Mi Casa es Su Casa

​One of the best moves of the year -- both literally and figuratively -- was the city's last-second save of the Denver Civic Theatre for Su Teatro, which just opened its first production in the heart of Denver's historic Santa Fe Drive area. Su Teatro was already in the process of creating a ... More >>

Veterans' Day

​One of the best moves of the year -- both literally and figuratively -- was the city's last-second save of the Denver Civic Theatre for Su Teatro, which just opened its first production in the heart of Denver's historic Santa Fe Drive area. Su Teatro was already in the process of creating a ... More >>

Jeff Peckman's UFO-friendly Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission could be ready for blast off

Jeff Peckman.​Jeff Peckman, who spoke to Westword last week about a rash of recent UFO sightings, waited a long time to get his proposal for Denver to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission on the ballot -- but the time might finally be right for Initiative 300. Because in this crazy C ... More >>

Knee-jerk reactions to the debate between Tom Tancredo and "Ask a Mexican" Gustavo Arellano

Tancredo and Gustavo.​By our count, about 1,600 people watched the debate on immigration between almost-Colorado governor Tom Tancredo and Gustavo Arellano, who writes the "Ask a Mexican" column that appears in Westword each week, on Tuesday night at Su Teatro on Santa Fe. That of course, incl ... More >>

Joe's Buffet, home of the Mexican hamburger, lives on in legend

Joe's Buffet once occupied this Santa Fe storefront.​The space at 753 Santa Fe Drive -- most recently occupied by Club 753 -- is once again dark. But the address deserves some time in the spotlight for one very good reason: It was here that the Mexican hamburger, a major Colorado contribution ... More >>

Cheap movie time: Ora sĂ­, Tenemos que Ganar

​Regardless of what it did for Mexico, the Mexican revolution of the early 20th century spawned some of the most badass figures in history: You might remember Pancho Villa, maybe the most famous bandit/revolutionary ever, or Emiliano Zapata, the guy who said "it is better to die on your feet t ... More >>

Funny Bunny

​Regardless of what it did for Mexico, the Mexican revolution of the early 20th century spawned some of the most badass figures in history: You might remember Pancho Villa, maybe the most famous bandit/revolutionary ever, or Emiliano Zapata, the guy who said "it is better to die on your feet t ... More >>

Story Time

​Regardless of what it did for Mexico, the Mexican revolution of the early 20th century spawned some of the most badass figures in history: You might remember Pancho Villa, maybe the most famous bandit/revolutionary ever, or Emiliano Zapata, the guy who said "it is better to die on your feet t ... More >>

No Day-O

​Regardless of what it did for Mexico, the Mexican revolution of the early 20th century spawned some of the most badass figures in history: You might remember Pancho Villa, maybe the most famous bandit/revolutionary ever, or Emiliano Zapata, the guy who said "it is better to die on your feet t ... More >>

Ousted from its former digs, Shadow Theatre Company will share space with Su Teatro

Moved.​After two months of bankruptcy proceedings, an eviction and at least one accusation of looting, the embattled Shadow Theatre Company opens its first production since it moved An Evening with Nina mid-run from its former space at 1468 Dayton Street to the Aurora Fox in January. The show, ... More >>

Meeting of the Mentes

Moved.​After two months of bankruptcy proceedings, an eviction and at least one accusation of looting, the embattled Shadow Theatre Company opens its first production since it moved An Evening with Nina mid-run from its former space at 1468 Dayton Street to the Aurora Fox in January. The show, ... More >>

Tell Me a Story

Moved.​After two months of bankruptcy proceedings, an eviction and at least one accusation of looting, the embattled Shadow Theatre Company opens its first production since it moved An Evening with Nina mid-run from its former space at 1468 Dayton Street to the Aurora Fox in January. The show, ... More >>

Journalist Sonia Nazario and Su Teatro shed light on the horrors and the uplifting moments of migrant life

James Denton​ The play Enrique's Journey, adapted by Su Teatro artistic director Anthony Garcia from the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nazario, debuted last weekend in Denver, bringing to light the harrowing story of Central American immigrants who risk life and limb riding the top ... More >>

The Long Road Home

James Denton​ The play Enrique's Journey, adapted by Su Teatro artistic director Anthony Garcia from the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nazario, debuted last weekend in Denver, bringing to light the harrowing story of Central American immigrants who risk life and limb riding the top ... More >>

A Long Time Coming

James Denton​ The play Enrique's Journey, adapted by Su Teatro artistic director Anthony Garcia from the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nazario, debuted last weekend in Denver, bringing to light the harrowing story of Central American immigrants who risk life and limb riding the top ... More >>

What Goes Around

James Denton​ The play Enrique's Journey, adapted by Su Teatro artistic director Anthony Garcia from the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nazario, debuted last weekend in Denver, bringing to light the harrowing story of Central American immigrants who risk life and limb riding the top ... More >>

Short and Sweet

James Denton​ The play Enrique's Journey, adapted by Su Teatro artistic director Anthony Garcia from the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nazario, debuted last weekend in Denver, bringing to light the harrowing story of Central American immigrants who risk life and limb riding the top ... More >>

(Updated) Ryan Adams survival guide: Things to know before you go

Pax-Am Records Update (12:53 p.m.): So check this out: A couple more things you should know here. First of all, the show has been postponed until tomorrow night due to inclement weather (shocker, we know). Secondly, whatever sensationalist malarkey you've read about Ryan Adams being some sort of up ... More >>