Arvada Center’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”
Opening Tuesday, Jan. 24, through Feb. 19: Oscar Wilde’s classic period comedy of budding romance and feigned identity is a humorous exposé on British society and pokes gentle fun at pretense, all in the context of well-crafted language and delightful repartee. Still as witty, engaging, and relevant as when it first premiered in 1895 London.
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Matinees 1 p.m. Wednesdays; 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
In the black box theater, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200 or
Denver Center Theatre Company’s “Two Things You Don’t Talk About at Dinner”
Opening Thursday, Jan. 26, through Feb 19: Lisa Loomer’s very funny world-premiere comedy is set at an annual Passover Seder in Los Angeles that draws a multicultural mix of family and friends. Things threaten to implode when the two things you don’t talk about at dinner – politics and religion – hijack the conversation. Written by Lisa Loomer. Directed by Wendy C. Goldberg. Says artistic director Kent Thompson: “Lisa has a fearless but compassionate ability to draw satiric characters that are based on American people that we know.”
Showtimes: Note new performance schedule: 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays; 7:30 p.m. Fridays; 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturdays; 1:30 p.m. Sundays.
Space Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, 303-893-4100 or
Byers-Evans House Museum’s “The Turn of the Screw”
Opening Thursday, Jan. 26, through Feb. 18: Henry James’ famous ghost story has a young governess journeying to a
lonely English manor house to care for two recently orphaned children.
She has become convinced that the brother and sister are somehow
possessed by the ghosts of two former servants, a pair of now-dead
lovers. Now the new governess has begun to see the specters haunting the
children, and she must find a way to stop them before it is too late.
But are the ghosts real … or are they the product of her own fevered
imagination?
Showtimes: 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays
At the Byers-Evans House Museum, 1310 Bannock St., 303-620-4933 or
Aurora Fox’s “Crumbs from the Table of Joy”
Opening Friday, Jan. 27, through Feb. 19: From Lynn Nottage (“Ruined”) explore the turbulence of changing convictions and the hidden possibilities obscured by ridged preconceptions. Set in 1950s Harlem, race, religion, politics and community ties are challenged as one family navigates the changing times and redefines itself as it tries to make room for its various members to find their own joy. “The 1950s was such a moment in American history in which I felt so much change,” said Nottage. “Everything I had seen was in black and white, and I wanted to make it colorful. I started writing ‘Crumbs from the Table of Joy’ to try to understand that era.”
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays
9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora, 303-739-1970 or
Su Teatro’s “Enrique’s Journey” ***1/2
Opening Friday, Jan. 27, through Feb. 4: Su Teatro reprises what may be the most significant production in its history, last year’s world premiere of artistic director Tony Garcia’s adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning “Enrique’s Journey.” The story, by Sonia Nazario, recounts the gritty odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. Enrique travels through hostile, unknown worlds, and each step of the way, he and other migrants, many of them children, are hunted like animals. Gangsters control the tops of the trains. Bandits rob and kill migrants up and down the tracks. Corrupt cops all along the route are out to fleece and deport them. To evade Mexican police and immigration authorities, they must jump onto and off the moving boxcars they call El Tren de la Muerte – The Train of Death. But Enrique pushes on, taking the epic journey 48,000 immigrant children attempt each year.
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays
Su Teatro’s Denver Civic Theatre, 721 Santa Fe Drive, 303-296-0219 or and here’s and here’s
LIDA Project’s “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep”
Opening Friday, Jan. 27, through Feb. 11: This original epic is a series of six plays examining health, care, mortality and dying in the United States. It was created and devised through a unique collaborations between the LIDA Project, community leaders and six guest directors. The result is a broad and diverse theatrical examination of one of today’s most debated social issues. The work is environmentally designed and will be performed in private residences with limited seating for each work. Each part will be performed separately, with up to two simultaneous performances per evening.
Showtimes: 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays
Public performances of six rotating plays at various private residences, 720-221-3821, or and here’s
PACE Center’s “Country is … The Music of Main Street”
Opening Friday, Jan. 27, through Feb. 12: This world-premiere musical concert conceived and directed by Rick Seeber follows in genre-capturing pop-music footsteps of “Beehive, the ’60s Musical” and “8-Track, the Sounds of the ’70s,” this time focusing on our love of country music. The score consists of simple, honest stories of yearning, love, joy, hard-working, hard-living, hard-playing people with a cast of three and a five-piece live band. Musical arrangements by Michael Gribbin, with choreography by Melissa McCarl.
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. Also 2 p.m. Feb. 4 and 11.
20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker, 303-805-6800 or
Longmont Theatre Company’s “Fools”
Opening Friday, Jan. 27, through Feb. 11: This Neil Simon comedy is set in a village cursed with a plague of stupidity, where common sense is uncommon and intelligence is unintelligible. To the rescue comes Leon, the new schoolteacher, who must break the curse in one day or become hopelessly stupid himself. But is there even a curse to be broken? Are the villagers really this stupid? Or have they simply believed in the curse for too long? With characteristic wit and imagination, Simon’s farcical fable spins hilarity from stupidity.
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays.
513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200 or
73rd Avenue Theatre Company’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”
Opening Friday, Jan. 27, through Feb. 19: Oscar Wilde’s classic period comedy of budding romance and feigned identity is a humorous exposé on British society and pokes gentle fun at pretense, all in the context of well-crafted language and delightful repartee. Still as witty, engaging, and relevant as when it first premiered in 1895 London.
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2:30 p.m. Sundays
7287 Lowell Blvd., Westminster, 720-276-6936 or
Spark Theater’s “Casual Encounters/Missed Connections”
Opening Friday, Jan. 27, through Feb. 26: Millions of people use Craigslist every day to find jobs, apartments, used furniture, cars, free events … and anonymous action. This original play by Sean Paul Mahoney, based on real-life posts, is a comic and touching look at the desperation people post online every day.
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays; plus Feb. 13.
240 S. Broadway, 303-319-1342 or
Theatre ‘d Art’s “The Show Trial”
Opening Friday, Jan. 27, through Feb. 12: In this original, intentionally nonsensical theatrical adventure by Jeffery Keele and Jordan Mathews, a prisoner is sentenced to die onstage in a play within a play within a play within a play. The producers promise: “One free ‘theater riot’ with every admission.” This experimental piece bends the laws of theater.
Showtimes: 8 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays
At Osborne Studio Theatre on the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs campus. 719-357-8321, or email info@theatredart.org
Star Bar Players’ “An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf”
Opening Friday, Jan. 27, through Feb. 12 On one hot July night in 1961, the staff of the Café du Grand Boeuf awaits the imminent arrival of Victor, the Café’s owner and sole patron. But when Monsieur returns from the bullfights in Madrid, he brings with him news that sends his adoring staff into a race to save their jobs … and their master’s life. A “comic tragedy in seven courses” celebrating the joys of food, sex, bullfighting and the collected works of Ernest Hemingway.
Showtimes: 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays; 4 p.m. Sundays
At Watch This Space, 128 N. Nevada St., Colorado Springs, 719-357-5228 or
Bas Bleu’s “Trying”
Opening Saturday, Jan. 28, through March 4: The play is based on the relationship between playwright Joanna McClelland Glass and Francis Biddle, the scion of a wealthy Philadelphia family who served as attorney general under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and later as Chief American Judge of the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials. Sarah Schorr, a recent arrival from the Canadian prairie, meets Judge Biddle’s crustiness with her own determined nature. “Trying” is both a compelling exploration of a human relationship and a reflection on one of the most consequential periods in American history.
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays; also 2:30 p.m. Sundays
401 Pine St., Fort Collins, 970-498-8949 or
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Compiled by John Moore, Special to The Denver Post
