Performing Arts

There’s a lot of free fun in Denver this week, and that’s even before First Friday fills local galleries on November 3, 2017. Keep reading for the five best free events in town.

It’s time to get hyped for the upcoming Hallo-weekend. While there are plenty of spooky spectacles and ghoulish gatherings awaiting Denverites, many venues are dispiritingly aware that they can price-gouge partiers. Luckily, others are offering tricks, treats, frights and delights that anyone can attend for less than ten American dollars.

Smart People, Lydia R. Diamond’s play about race that’s now at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, is directed by Nataki Garrett, associate artistic director for the DCPA Theatre Company. Garrett was hired by then-artistic director Kent Thompson, who left in March, two months after she started there; Garrett…

The Foreigner, currently showing in the Arvada Center’s Black Box Theater, is a farce. Written in 1984, it has new power in Trump’s America, and shows how language can both divide and unite, while sometimes silence has even more power. And like all good farces, it’s very, very funny.

You might not want to attend the bash described by Joseph Moncure March in his 1928 poem “The Wild Party,” but you should rush to get one of the rapidly disappearing tickets to the Denver Center’s staging of The Wild Party.

Natasha Leggero, who returns to Comedy Works downtown for shows October 12 through October 14, is no stranger to the Mile High City. She recorded her comedy album Coke Money at Comedy Works back in 2011, and has returned several times in the intervening years.

We’ve all hosted an unexpected guest, someone who, as Coleridge said of old age, lingers after he “hath outstayed his welcome while/And tells the jest without the smile.” But in Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance, now at Edge Theater Company, two unanticipated guests create chaos.

The weekend is nigh, which is generally cause for jubilation – unless a person is too broke to have fun. Happily, the Mile High City’s creative community hustles to produce a litany of fantastic ways to experience Denver’s cultural scene while still pinching every possible penny.

First produced in 1970, Company feels somewhat of its time, but this Aurora Fox production is still a joyous, evening-long blast of music and talent.

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The comedian twins the Sklar Brothers have been making the stand-up rounds, producing TV shows and podcasts. Here’s what brother Randy has to say about what they’ve been up to and what’s next.

The Denver Center’s production of Macbeth gets points for originality and guts, but director Robert O’Hara needs to trust more in the words, the subtleties underlying them, and Shakespeare’s pulsating silences.

A new and wondrous week is dawning in Denver, and the local entertainment calendar is as lively as ever. With concerts, comedy shows and even a thrift-store-fashion runway, there’s a free event to suit every taste happening nearly every day this week.

Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company is showing the regional premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists, and it’s a superb production.

Rocky Mountain fans of Bill Maher have a reason to celebrate: He will be bringing his irreverent humor to Denver on Saturday, May 26 and Colorado Springs on May 27.

Another weekend approaches, and it’s time for another weekly inventory of the best events this city has to offer.

Podcast Profiles is back, with Zeke Herrera of Who Wants to be President?, which drops new episodes nearly every Monday.

Appropriate is an absorbing, ghost-haunted play, and a smart start to Curious Theatre Company’s new season.

The weekend is nigh, and many cashless Denver residents may find themselves scrambling for things to do. Fret not, destitute locals, for we have scoured the town for fun-filled events with cover charges that ring in for $10 dollars or less.

Amanda Berg Wilson has two major projects coming up: You on the Moors Now, which she directs for the Catamounts — the Boulder company she founded — opens on September 8; the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ next immersive project, The Wild Party, runs October 11 through 31 at Stanley Marketplace.

The five best free events in the Denver area this week.

As Labor Day approaches, many locals focus on getting back to business after months of summertime idleness. As a result, September can feel like a rather humdrum time. Luckily for comedy nerds, the entertainment calendar for September is packed with standup showcases, wrestling matches and even an improv show. Here are the ten best ways to laugh September away.