A look at some of the great venues in the state, our Top 10 Colorado Headliners for the week and a conversation with ‘Banned’ composer April Alsup

This week on the OnStage Colorado Podcast, Toni Tresca and I take a virtual ride around the state to talk about some of our favorite places to see theatre. It’s not about our favorite theatre companies, but the venues themselves. How comfortable are they? How’s the parking? How about the bar?

Later in the podcast we have Toni’s interview with April Alsup, a composer whose new show Banned is a modern-day musical that follows a group of gender misfits through the events leading up to their debut at a local performing arts festival. Banned will be presented at Aurora’s Vintage Theatre July 25-28 before it goes on to more dates at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August. *Note: The July 25 performance has been canceled due to COVID.

As usual we also have our Colorado Headliners, our weekly Top 10 list of the shows or other events we think you should check out.

This week’s Colorado Headliners:

  1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch – Give 5 productions at The Arch in RiNo Aug 1-17
  2. Wicked – Denver Center Buell Theatre July 24-Aug. 25
  3. We the People, Democracy Cycle, Local Theater + Gunnison Theatre Festival and Curious Theatre Company. July 27 at Boulder Library, Free.
  4. Rise Comedy Festival – July 26-Aug. 3 – Denver
  5. A Manny for Us, Wheat Ridge Theatre Company – July 26-Aug. 11
  6. Underground Music Showcase: July 26-28.
  7. 4000 Miles – Insight Colab at Vintage Theatre, Aurora – July 25-Aug. 4
  8. School of Rock – The Musical – Miners Alley Playhouse, Golden – July 26-Sept. 15
  9. Mile High Dance Festival – Cleo Parker Robinson, Denver – July 27
  10. Til Death Do Us Part … You First! – Lakewood Cultural Center, Aug. 1–18

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Favorite theatre venues discussed in this episode:

  • Arts HUB in Lafayette
  • Arvada Center
  • Aurora Fox
  • Breckenridge Backstage Theatre
  • Buntport
  • Candlelight
  • Colorado’s historic opera houses
  • Comedy Works South
  • CU-Boulder Roe Green and Mary Rippon theatres
  • Denver Center, particularly the Kilstrom Theatre and Ellie Caulkins Opera House
  • Denver Savoy
  • ENT Center for the Arts in Colorado Springs
  • Evergreen Players Black Box Theatre, Evergreen Center Stage
  • Meow Wolf – The Perplexiplex
  • SilCo Theatre
  • Su Teatro
  • Thunder River Theatre
  • Vintage Theatre
  • Wheat Ridge Theatre Company
  • Wonderbound

*Mentioned in the episode: John Moore’s story in the Denver Gazette about shuttered theatre spaces

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