cabaret theater · $$
Garner Galleria Theatre
A 210-seat cabaret room with table service and long-running comedies.
The smallest of the Denver Center's houses and the only one where you drink at your table. Two hundred and ten seats at cocktail tables, a public bar off the lobby, and programming that runs to open-ended comedies and musical revues rather than a fixed subscription season. Shows here stay up for months or years rather than two weeks. Most run around ninety minutes without an intermission, which makes it the sane option on a night when the Buell's three-hour tour feels like a commitment. It sits at 14th and Curtis under the Arts Complex galleria.
Why go. Theater you can watch with a drink in front of you and still be home by ten.
It is a separate lobby from the Buell despite being in the same complex; allow ten extra minutes to find the right door.
A short walk from Garner Galleria Theatre
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