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Aurora Opens 1400 Dallas Arts, a Rehearsal Home for Performers

By Toni TrescaDecember 26, 2025

A former police station finds new life as a city-run creative hub in the Aurora Cultural Arts District.

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A First Look at Midnight’s Dream, Denver Immersive Repertory Theater’s Debut Production

By Toni TrescaDecember 22, 2025

Denver Immersive Repertory Theater is set to open in LoDo in spring 2026 with Midnight’s Dream, a multi-level, experiential “sex comedy.”

Aurora’s Bowen Yang Leaving SNL After Tonight: His Best Bits on Weekend Update

By Teague BohlenDecember 19, 2025

The comedian got his first taste of comedy at Smoky Hill High School.

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Dairy Arts Center Buys Back Its Building from the City of Boulder

By Toni TrescaDecember 18, 2025

After 25 years of city ownership, the Dairy Arts Center has repurchased its building at 2590 Walnut Street.

Motus Theater Debuts <i>What Love Requires</i>, Sharing Stories from Parents of Trans Adults

Motus Theater Debuts What Love Requires, Sharing Stories from Parents of Trans Adults

By Toni TrescaDecember 5, 2025

Motus Theater’s sold-out debut of “What Love Requires” begins a broader effort to share parents’ stories of supporting trans and nonbinary adults.

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Top Holiday Theater and Dance Events Around Denver

By Toni TrescaNovember 21, 2025

Your guide to the season’s most festive holiday theater and dance events happening around the Denver metro area.

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Camp Christmas Expands Across Stanley Marketplace for 2025 Return

By Toni TrescaNovember 19, 2025

Lonnie Hanzon’s immersive holiday event is back, transforming the Stanley Marketplace into a sprawling (mostly free) holiday playground.

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Dinos Alive Brings Prehistoric Fun and a Bit of Science to Denver

By Toni TrescaNovember 5, 2025

The latest immersive experience at Exhibition Hub is now open.

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Gen Z Creators Dig Into How Art Survives in How to Starve an Artist

By Toni TrescaNovember 4, 2025

“Artists will keep creating no matter what, because it’s part of human nature. Whether or not that art is supported, nourished or funded is a different conversation.”

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A Clown Ballet Cabaret Brings Whimsical Dancing Clowns to Aurora

By Toni TrescaOctober 23, 2025

For creator Lavi McConaughey, the surreal story mirrors a personal escape: years of ballet’s rigid discipline giving way to the anarchic joy of burlesque and clowning.

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Brooke Shields Calls Out Casa Bonita and South Park Creators Over Treatment of Entertainment Workers

By Kristen FioreOctober 22, 2025

The actress is the president of the Actors’ Equity Association, the union that represents the Casa Bonita performers fighting for fair wages.

Ready to Go Public? Read Your Most Personal Unsent Messages on Stage

By Hannah MetzgerOctober 22, 2025

The Unsent: Death Edition show will be held on Saturday, October 25.

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The Catamounts Premiere A Town Called Harris, a Ghostly Comic Romp in a Historic Schoolhouse

By Toni TrescaOctober 21, 2025

“A Town Called Harris is like Noises Off or The Play That Goes Wrong, but immersive,” says the show’s playwright, Jessica Austgen.

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John Mulaney Is Coming to Red Rocks

By Kristen FioreOctober 20, 2025

Mulaney will make history as the first comedian ever to headline the iconic Wrigley Field in Chicago, but first he’s coming to Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

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Buntport Theater Is Buying Its Building

By Kristen FioreOctober 13, 2025

The theater is more than doubling the total square footage of space available for rehearsals, storage and productions.

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How Conspiracy Circus is Keeping Colorado Sideshow Alive

By Toni TrescaOctober 9, 2025

Denver’s Conspiracy Circus celebrates 44 shows of sideshow spectacle at the Learned Lemur on East Colfax on October 11.

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Convergence at Parsons Theatre Marks Decade of Showcasing Colorado’s Dance Diversity

By Toni TrescaOctober 9, 2025

Convergence 2025 brings ninety performers from twenty Colorado dance groups together for a cost-sharing celebration of movement.

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DCPA Off-Center Ends Development of New Immersive Theater

By Toni TrescaOctober 7, 2025

The announcement came with another blow: Charlie Miller, Off-Center’s co-founder, executive director and curator, will leave the organization in March after seventeen years.

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Denver Sketch Festival Returns to RISE Comedy For Year Two

By Toni TrescaOctober 7, 2025

Denver’s second annual sketch comedy festival welcomes 114 performers from across North America for three days of fast-paced comedy.

National Tour of <i>Shucked</i> at the Buell Features Homegrown Talent

National Tour of Shucked at the Buell Features Homegrown Talent

By Toni TrescaOctober 6, 2025

“It’s an incredible homecoming and a huge honor to be able to return to the regional touring house where I grew up seeing shows.”

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Visionbox Studio Tackles Fascism With The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

By Toni TrescaOctober 1, 2025

“It’s a political satire that layers Hitler’s rise to power with gangster movies of the 1930s and Richard III .”

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Hip-Hop Cowboy Rides Into Denver with <i>Jedidiah Blackstone</i> Premiere

Hip-Hop Cowboy Rides Into Denver with Jedidiah Blackstone Premiere

By Toni TrescaSeptember 23, 2025

Emancipation Theater’s new play blends Black history, hip-hop and Western lore in a world premiere.

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