This Month
WHEN: Thru Feb. 28, 2025
WHERE: Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities, Arvada
When Joshua and the Primm family move to East 88th Street in New York City, they find a surprise guest in their new home’s bathtub: a friendly crocodile named Lyle. He’s different, and he’s a crocodile, but the neighbors in the building begin to love him. Well, except for Mr. Grumps who would rather Lyle be at the zoo for the safety of his kitty, Loretta. But when Lyle the Crocodile saves the day, even Mr. Grumps must look past his fear of those who are different and begin to appreciate Lyle for just what he is - one friendly, tap-dancing crocodile. Based on the "Lyle, Lyle the Crocodile" and "The House on East 88th Street" books by Bernard Waber, this delightful story was adapted for the stage by Kevin Kling. It's recommended for grades K–5 and teaches about examining our assumptions and embracing what makes each of us unique.
WHEN: Thru March 1, 2025
WHERE: Miners Alley Playhouse, Golden
Meet Juan Bobo: a lovable, clumsy, and playful child who always seems to stumble into hilarious situations! Told in both Spanish and English and based in Puerto Rican folklore, this show will be a unique and exciting experience for all ages. Join us on a journey filled with laughter as Juan Bobo takes us on his many adventures, where his silly mix‐ups lead to some unforgettable lessons.
WHEN: Thru March 2, 2025
WHERE: Miners Alley Playhouse, Golden
"Morning After Grace" is a heartfelt, charming comedy that explores unexpected connections and second chances. After flirting at a funeral, Abigail and Angus wake up the next morning under the same blanket. When a neighbor suddenly knocks on the door, all bets are off for a peaceful retirement! First presented at the Purple Rose Theatre, which also developed "A Jukebox for the Algonquin," this show is perfect for those who appreciate humor and warmth in the face of life's surprises.
WHEN: Thru March 9, 2025
WHERE: Singleton Theatre
Josh’s life is a mess. He’s come home to Denver from NYU to get his life together but can’t manage to stay sober. Struggling with fogginess, memory loss, shame and regret, he finds unlikely allies in his four loveable grandparents. "The Reservoir," by Denver native Jake Brasch, left audiences buzzing at the 2023 Colorado New Play Summit. Join us for the World Premiere production of this hilarious and heartbreaking story at the DCPA next season!
WHEN: Thru May 4, 2025
WHERE: Garner Galleria Theatre
In this two-person musical spoof, a pair of aspiring playwrights perform a backers’ audition for their new, ill-advised project: a big, splashy musical about printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg. With an unending supply of enthusiasm, Bud and Doug sing all the songs and play all the parts in their crass historical epic, with the hope that one of the producers in attendance will give them that elusive Broadway contract.
WHEN: Feb. 7–March 9, 2025
WHERE: The Dorota & Kevin Kilstrom Theatre
On the morning of July 5, 1857, an eclectic group of tenants bustle about their Manhattan boarding house, arranging the final details of a clever scheme they hope to pull off in the name of the budding women’s suffrage movement. As they prepare to host an important secret gathering, they receive an unexpected visit from a constable. One of the tenants has been murdered! The odd bunch must then band together in an elaborate ruse to throw the constable off their scent. His investigation, however, reveals much more than murder motives and rabble-rousing. It becomes an examination of early American suffrage movements, the struggle to define “a woman’s place,” and the political systems that have historically sought to snuff out feminist voices.
AMERICANA Redefined with Boulder Phil
WHEN: Feb. 9, 2025
WHERE: Parsons Theatre, Parker
Founded in 1957, the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra is creating a new model for American orchestras through dynamic performances that reflect our community’s own values, creativity, and sense of place. Voted “Best of Boulder” for the past eight years in a row, today’s Boulder Phil is bucking national trends with growing, enthusiastic audiences, and an imaginative vision for new forms of engagement. Today, the Boulder Phil reaches audiences of more than 30,000 through concerts, the Discovery Education Program, and community engagement experiences in Boulder and across Colorado’s Front Range under the vision and leadership of Music Director Michael Butterman.
'Clybourne Park'
WHEN: Feb. 14–March 30, 2025
WHERE: Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities, Arvada
The scene is one house on Clybourne Street in Chicago’s South Side. In 1959, a Black family moves in. In 2009, a white family does. In between, everything changes: attitudes, demographics and property values. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play, "Clybourne Park" is a razor-sharp satire about the politics of race, housing and gentrification. Loosely inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," Bruce Norris's pitch-black comedy takes on the specter of gentrification in our communities, leaving no stone unturned in the process.
Fat Tuesday Festa
WHEN: Feb. 15 & 16, 2025
WHERE: Newman Center for the Performing Arts
The sun cracks through the haphazardly sealed curtains of your hotel window. Your vision comes into focus as the pounding in your head slowly but steadily increases in intensity. Your memories of Mardi Gras last night are hazy now; the places you saw, the strangers you toasted in the streets, the many, many (maybe too many) drinks you drank. One memory is clear, though: Denver Brass and Festa Bateria kept the good times rolling all night long with red-hot horns, blistering trumpet solos, and the infectious rhythms of New Orleans and Brazil.
Limón Dance Company: Migrant Mother
WHEN: Feb. 18, 2025
WHERE: Newman Center for the Performing Arts
The Limón Dance Company has been at the vanguard of American modern dance since its inception in 1946. The Company’s repertory will include classic works and Migrant Mother, a new piece by award-winning Mexican choreographer Raúl Tamez.
David Gray
WHEN: Feb. 18, 2025
WHERE: Buell Theatre in the Denver Performing Arts Complex
97.3 KBCO Presents British singer-songwriter David Gray on his Past & Present Tour live at the Buell Theatre.
Le Patin Libre
WHEN: Feb. 22, 2025
WHERE: Newman Center for the Performing Arts
In an attic in the Parisian Latin Quarter, the chateau is petite, but the personalities are grand. A group of artists live the bohemian lifestyle full of complicated relationships and nights at the café on a starving artist’s budget. Through the tumultuous relationships between Mimì and Rodolfo and Marcello and Musetta, Puccini’s best-known opera encourages you to fully appreciate the fragility of life and love.
WHEN: Feb. 22, 25 & 28, March 2, 2025
WHERE: Ellie Caulkins Opera House
In an attic in the Parisian Latin Quarter, the chateau is petite, but the personalities are grand. A group of artists live the bohemian lifestyle full of complicated relationships and nights at the café on a starving artist’s budget. Through the tumultuous relationships between Mimì and Rodolfo, and Marcello and Musetta, Puccini’s best-known opera encourages you to fully appreciate the fragility of life and love.
WHEN: Feb. 25–March 2, 2025
WHERE: Buell Theatre in the Denver Performing Arts Complex
Direct from Broadway, "Mean Girls" is the hilarious hit musical from an award-winning creative team, including book writer Tina Fey (“30 Rock”), composer Jeff Richmond (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”), lyricist Nell Benjamin ("Legally Blonde") and original director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw ("The Book of Mormon"). Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. Soon, this naïve newbie falls prey to a trio of lionized frenemies led by the charming but ruthless Regina George. But when Cady devises a plan to end Regina’s reign, she learns the hard way that you can’t cross a Queen Bee without getting stung.
Coming Soon
WHEN: March 1–2, 2025
WHERE: Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex
At the Colorado New Play Summit, meet some of theatre’s most ambitious writers while helping them fine-tune their newest works. Listen to play readings by fabulous actors, give your feedback on where you think the story should go, and enjoy two fully produced Theatre Company productions: the world premieres of "The Reservoir" and "The Suffragette’s Murder," both of which were featured readings at the 2023 Summit. The inspiration doesn’t stop with the plays. Talk with the featured playwrights, directors, actors and other creatives over tasty meals and at special events like the Summit Wrap Party. It’s your chance to meet the brightest minds in the craft and play an integral part in the future of Colorado theatre.
WHEN: March 18–30, 2025
WHERE: Buell Theatre in the Denver Performing Arts Complex
Based on the novel that sold more than 15 million copies and became a worldwide phenomenon, "Life of Pi" is an epic story of perseverance and hope that speaks to every generation and “gives new life to Broadway” (“The Today Show”). After a shipwreck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi survives on a lifeboat with four companions: a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Royal Bengal tiger. Told with jaw-dropping visuals, world-class puppetry and exquisite stagecraft, "Life of Pi" creates a breathtaking journey that will leave you filled with awe and joy.
WHEN: March 28–May 11, 2025
WHERE: Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities, Arvada
Getting away with murder is just so much fun. Charming and cunning, Monty Navarro discovers he’s in line for an earldom in the aristocratic D'Ysquith family. Eighth in line, to be exact. Monty plots to speed up the line of succession through any means necessary — all while juggling his mistress, his fiancee, his reputation, and an increasing body count that’s raising suspicions of the law. Each of the eight heirs stand on the chopping block of Monty’s ambitions, hilariously played by one scene-stealing actor swapping from role to role. This Tony Award-winning musical romp gleefully tells the story of wrongfully getting what is rightfully yours.
WHEN: April 8–26, 2025
WHERE: Buell Theatre in the Denver Performing Arts Complex
"The Wiz" returns “home” to stages across America in an all-new Broadway tour — the first one in 40 years! This groundbreaking twist on "The Wizard of Oz" changed the face of Broadway, from its iconic score packed with soul, gospel, rock, and 70s funk to its stirring tale of Dorothy’s journey to find her place in a contemporary world. This dynamite infusion of ballet, jazz, and modern pop brings a whole new groove to "easing on down the road." Everybody rejoice!
WHEN: April 11–May 18, 2025
WHERE: Wolf Theatre
Feast on the Denver Center’s production of a beloved sci-fi musical that has rocked the globe for generations! The meek, yet nurturing, Seymour Krelborn is perennially down on his luck. Working at a flower shop on Skid Row, he’s infatuated with his co-worker Audrey, but she is caught in a toxic relationship with a sadistic dentist. One day, Seymour chances upon a strange and mysterious new plant cutting, which he nurses back to health. When he discovers the flytrap’s appetite for human blood, it thrives and begins to sing for its supper. But when Audrey II’s bloodlust becomes insatiable, Seymour must take a stand to prevent the carnivorous plant from world domination.
WHEN: April 25–May 25, 2025
WHERE: The Dorota & Kevin Kilstrom Theatre
On the eve of the annual Hot Wang Festival in Memphis, Tennessee, Cordell Crutchfield thinks he has finally found a recipe that will land him the coveted title of Hot Wang King. He has assembled a raucous team of sous chefs, comprised of his beau Dwayne and close friends Big Charles and Isom. The four-man team is cooking with plenty of spice and innuendo on prep night until a family emergency thrusts Dwayne’s troubled nephew into the mix. With the crown, prize money, and their relationship on the line, Cordell and Dwayne are forced to reckon with what it means to be a Black man, a father figure and part of a loving family. Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize, "The Hot Wing King" by Katori Hall is a boisterous, in-your-face dramedy guaranteed to leave you salivating for a second helping.
WHEN: May 2–4, 2025
WHERE: Buell Theatre in the Denver Performing Arts Complex
A comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, "The Addams Family" is the magnificently macabre hit musical featuring everyone’s favorite creepy, kooky characters. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. A man her parents have never met. And if that weren’t upsetting enough, she confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before: Keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.
WHEN: May 6–18, 2025
WHERE: Buell Theatre in the Denver Performing Arts Complex
This outrageous hit musical comedy follows the adventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word. With standing-room-only productions in London, on Broadway and across North America, "The Book of Mormon" has truly become an international sensation. (Contains explicit language.)
WHEN: June 4–15, 2025
WHERE: Buell Theatre in the Denver Performing Arts Complex
Created by the Emmy®-winning writer for “Schitt’s Creek,” this hilarious new musical flips the script on the greatest love story ever told. "& Juliet" asks: What would happen next if Juliet didn’t end it all over Romeo? Get whisked away on a fabulous journey as she ditches her famous ending for a fresh beginning and a second chance at life and love — her way. Juliet’s new story bursts to life through a playlist of pop anthems as iconic as her name, including “Since U Been Gone‚” “Roar,” “Baby One More Time,” “Larger Than Life‚” “That’s The Way It Is“ and “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” The only thing tragic would be missing it.
WHEN: June 25–29, 2025
WHERE: Buell Theatre in the Denver Performing Arts Complex
A mother, a daughter, three possible dads, and a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget! For nearly 25 years, people all around the world have fallen in love with the characters, the story, and the music that make "Mamma Mia!" the ultimate feel-good show. Set on a Greek island paradise where the sun always shines, a tale of love, friendship and identity is beautifully told through the timeless hits of ABBA. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter’s quest to discover the father she’s never known brings three men from her mother’s past back to the island they last visited decades ago.
WHEN: July 8–20, 2025
WHERE: Buell Theatre in the Denver Performing Arts Complex
Set in Chicago when Prohibition has everyone thirsty for a little excitement, "Some Like it Hot" is the “glorious, big, high-kicking” (Associated Press) story of two musicians forced to flee the Windy City after witnessing a mob hit. With gangsters hot on their heels, they catch a cross-country train and embark on a life-changing trip of a lifetime. And what a trip it is! With its irresistible combination of heart and laughs, song and dance, "Some Like it Hot" was named Best Musical by the Drama Desk, The Drama League, and the Outer Critics Circle. No wonder Deadline calls it “a tap-dancing, razzle-dazzling embrace of everything you love about musical theater.”
WHEN: Aug. 5–10, 2025
WHERE: Buell Theatre in the Denver Performing Arts Complex
Enter a world of splendor and romance, of eye-popping excess, of glitz, grandeur and glory! A world where Bohemians and aristocrats rub elbows and revel in electrifying enchantment. Pop the champagne and prepare for the spectacular spectacular…Welcome to "Moulin Rouge! The Musical."
