Shadow Theatre’s “The Sisters, Sweetwater”
Opening Thursday, Feb. 16, through March 11: This original blues-tinted play by artistic director Hugo Jon Sayles is set in 1928 and tells the epic story of two sisters: wild-child Chelsea and church-girl Oleta, born in a bordello in Silverton, Colorado. Desperately, they seek to forge their future; to force happiness to be. Thus, it eludes them, haunts them, and tantalizes them in decisions rooted in alleviating pain.
Showtimes: 7:30 Thursdays and Fridays; 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturdays; 6:30 p.m. Sundays
At Su Teatro’s Denver Civic Theatre, 721 Santa Fe Drive, 720-857-8000 or
Denver Center Attractions’ “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change”
Opening Friday, Feb. 17, through June 24: The longest-running production in Colorado theater history returns with this musical sketch comedy covering all things dating, mating and marriage. Parents who talk baby talk, men who talk and women who pretend to listen, infidelity and the injustice of long lines for the ladies room are just some of the issues that are hilariously skewed in Joe DiPietro’s hugely successful musical review. Four actors take on the lives of more than 20 characters as they face the trials and tribulations of dealing with the opposite sex. A date-night comedy for adults.
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. daily except Mondays
Galleria Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, 303-893-4100 or
Denver Center Attractions’ “Lord of the Dance”
Opening Friday, Feb. 17, through Sunday, Feb. 19: This popular blend of traditional and modern Celtic music and dance returns to Denver. The story is based on mythical Irish folklore as the Lord of Darkness, challenges the ethereal Lord of the Dance. Battle lines are drawn, passions ignite and a love story fueled by the dramatic leaps and turns of dancers’ bodies begins to build against a backdrop of Celtic rhythm. The action is played out over 21 scenes on a grand scale of precision dancing, dramatic music, colorful costumes and state-of-the-art staging and lighting.
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Buell Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, 303-893-4100 or
Town Hall Arts Center’s “Brigadoon”
Opening Friday, Feb. 17, through March 18: This heartwarming Lerner and Loewe Broadway musical is a Scottish fantasy about a mysterious village that disappears into the Highland mist and returns for only one day every 100 years. To the villagers, the magical passing of each century seems no longer than one night. A tribute to simplicity, true love and goodness.
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays; 2 p.m. most Sundays; also 6:30 p.m. March 11
2450 W. Main St., Littleton, 303-794-2787 or
Countdown to Zero’s “Uncle Rooster”
Opening Friday, Feb. 17, through March 3: Countdown to Zero is a political-theater collective dedicated to theatrical based political dialogue. The collective has committed to complete a series of 10 theatrical works (10 counting down to zero) at which time the company will disband. This offering, fourth in the series, is a politically resonant morality play, told from the perspective and style of a child’s fable. Tami Canaday’s humorous tale takes on the issue of political torture and its effects on community. The tale, both parable and fantastic spectacle, takes place in the town of Lulu’s Burg with a cast of characters such as Uncle Rabbit, Uncle Rooster, Leon The Mule, Faith the Dog, Winny the Fox and Mrs. Fennel the Rooster. The small town is beset with the real world dilemma of what is the price of freedom and security and what happens to a community when laws are broken and individuals are held above the law.
Showtimes: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays
At the Laundry on Lawrence, 2701 Lawrence St., 720-221-3821, or
Upstart Crow’s “Harvey”
Opening Friday, Feb. 17, through March 3: Elwood P. Dowd sees rabbits — a 6-foot rabbit named Harvey, in Denver native Mary Chase’s classic comedy. His sister, Veta, has him committed to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment. Problems arise, however, when Veta admits that years of living with Elwood’s hallucination have caused her to see Harvey as well.
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328 or
Westcliffe Center for the Performing Arts’ “The House of Bernardo Alba”
Opening Friday, Feb. 17, through Feb. 25: Frederico Garcia Lorca’s powerful story of a domineering woman obsessed with maintaining the honor of her family’s name against the forces of brutal small-town society. The play explores Bernarda’s iron-fisted oppression of her five daughters, transforming their home into a powder keg of tension, jealousy and fear.
Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 17, 18, 23, 24 and 25. 2 p.m. Feb. 19
At the Jones Theater, 119 Main St., Westcliffe, 719-783-3004 or westcliffe’s home page
Millibo Art Theatre’s “Ten Minutes Max”
Opening Friday, Feb. 17, through Feb. 26: The company’s annual vaudeville extravaganza featuring theater, dance, music and poetry by local fringe artists.
Showtimes: 7 p.m. Thursdays; 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays
1367 Pecan St., Colorado Springs, 719-685-4729 or
OpenStage’s “Othello”
Opening Saturday, Feb. 18, through March 18: When the Moor Othello weds the beautiful Desdemona in 16th-century Venice, he does not bargain for the invidious betrayal of his aide, Iago. Power plays and poisonous gossip come to a terrible end in this Shakespearian tragedy as Othello is consumed by love, rumor, deception and a fatal desire for revenge.
Showtimes: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, plus 2 p.m. March 11 and 18; also 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23
Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia St., Fort Collins, 970-221-6730 or
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Compiled by John Moore, Special to The Denver Post
