Plus, catching up with Rocky Mountain Rep’s Michael Querio and our weekly Colorado Headliners

In this episode of the OnStage Colorado Podcast, hosts Alex Miller and Toni Tresca look back on the first six months of the year. We call out some of the best productions on stage in Colorado as picked by the OSC Review Crew. Later in the podcast, we review this week’s Colorado Headliners – our Top 10 upcoming shows of note.

Michael Querio

Also in this episode, an interview with Michael Querio, long-time artistic director at Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre in Grand Lake. This summer, RMRT is doing Kinky Boots, Come From Away, The Music Man and I Left My Heart.

Colorado Headliners this week:

  1. Once Upon a Mattress at the Arts Hub Lafayette – through July 21
  2. Grounded – BETC with Anne Penner – through July 21 at the Dairy
  3. Chicago – Merely Players in Durango – through Aug. 3
  4. Emperor of the Moon – ENT Center/Theatreworks through Aug. 4
  5. Twelfth Night – Telluride town park stage through July 28
  6. The Second City: Comedian Rhapsody (Tour) – Garner Galleria Theatre, Denver Center Performing Arts Complex, from July 17-August 11
  7. Broadway Rave – the Fox Theatre in  Boulder on July 19
  8. The Vagina Monologues – Theatre Company of Lafayette/Arapaho Center in Lafayette from July 19-July 28.
  9. Colonizing America – An evening of standup with TJ. The Bug Theatre, Denver, on July 20
  10. Elizabeth I: In Her Own Words – July 21 at the Center for Musical Arts in Lafayette

The best shows on stage in Colorado so far in 2024 (in alphabetical order)

  • 237 Virginia Ave. – Local Theater Company
  • Art – Aurora Fox
  • Cheyanne – Control Group & Cipriano Ortega
  • Clink Clink – 2 Cent Lion
  • Cost of Living – Phamaly Theatre/Curious
  • Crazy For You – Candlelight
  • Emma – DCPA Theatre Company
  • Impossible Things – Catamounts
  • Jukebox for the Algonquin: Miners Alley
  • Misery – Miners Alley
  • Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 – Arvada Center
  • Othello – Theatreworks – ENT Center
  • Othello 2024 – Firehouse Theater
  • Proof – Springs Ensemble Theatre.
  • School of Rock– Veritas Productions at PACE
  • Sweeney Todd – StageDoor
  • The Bluebird – Theatre Artibus
  • The Glass Menagerie – Vintage Theatre
  • The Lightning Thief – Aurora Fox
  • Truth Be Told – Curious Theatre
  • Urinetown – Town Hall Arts Center
  • What the Constitution Means to Me – BETC

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