Audio By Carbonatix
Keep Westword Free
We’re $1,500 away from our spring campaign goal!
We’re aiming to raise $20,000. Your support ensures Westword can continue watching out for you and our community. No paywall. Always accessible. Daily online and weekly in print.
There is nothing traditional about the programming at Off-Center@The Jones — including how this interactive sendup of oft-stuffy theater announces its programming every year: with a big bash. Tonight’s Off-Center Season Release Party promises to be a wild evening of live trailers, costumes, surprises and plenty of free beer.
“It’s the fun, interactive element that makes Off-Center what it is; as much as it is great to go to the theater for a show, it’s great for the audience to be involved in a more casual atmosphere,” says Denver Center Theatre Company spokeswoman Hope Grandon. Curated by Emily Tarquin and Charlie Miller, the offbeat series’s new season will bring long-form improv show Cult Following back for another year, alongside a monthlong engagement of The Santaland Diaries, making its Off-Center debut after a successful 2013 run at the Garner Galleria; the rest of Off-Center’s off-the-wall shows will be a secret until tonight’s big reveal. But previous seasons have brought to the stage live storytelling, Double Dare-like game shows, and a drag history lesson turned dance party, among other things.
Off-Center will celebrate its fourth season tonight at the Jones Theatre, in the Denver Performing Arts Complex. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and festivities begin at 8; admission is free. For more information, visit denveroffcenter.org or call 303-893-6090.
Fri., Sept. 12, 8 p.m., 2014
