ten-venue arts campus (DCPA, Colorado Symphony, Opera Colorado, Colorado Ballet) · $$$ · since 1978
Denver Performing Arts Complex
Four blocks of theaters under one glass canopy, a five-minute walk from Larimer Square.
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The Arts Complex is the second-largest performing arts center in the country: the Buell Theatre for touring Broadway, the Ellie Caulkins Opera House for Opera Colorado and Colorado Ballet, Boettcher Concert Hall for the Colorado Symphony, and the Denver Center Theatre Company's stages in the Bonfils complex, all strung along a covered galleria between 14th and Speer. Curtain is usually 7:30, which sets the rhythm for early dinners on Larimer Square. Our calendar picks up its shows through the ticketing feeds where they publish machine-readable schedules.
Why go. Broadway, opera, symphony and serious theater within a ten-minute walk of every LoDo restaurant.
Park once in the Arts Complex garage and walk to Larimer Square for dinner; the galleria is covered, which matters in January.
A short walk from Denver Performing Arts Complex
Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre
$$$Where the touring Broadway shows land, 2,800 seats under the glass galleria.
Downtown, a few blocks over · 1350 Curtis Street
Garner Galleria Theatre
$$A 210-seat cabaret room with table service and long-running comedies.
Downtown, a few blocks over · 1400 Curtis Street
Boettcher Concert Hall
$$The Colorado Symphony's home, built in the round so nobody sits far back.
Downtown, a few blocks over · 1000 14th Street
Ellie Caulkins Opera House
$$$Opera Colorado and Colorado Ballet play inside the 1908 Municipal Auditorium shell.
Downtown, a few blocks over · 1385 Curtis Street
Dazzle
$$Denver's serious jazz room, now at the foot of the Arts Complex.
Downtown, a few blocks over · 1080 14th St
Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex
$$The round brick building holding four of the Denver Center's working stages.
Downtown, a few blocks over · 1101 13th Street