theater complex · $$ · since 1979
Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex
The round brick building holding four of the Denver Center's working stages.
The drum-shaped brick building on the west side of the Arts Complex, and the actual home of the Denver Center Theatre Company. Four stages live inside: the Wolf, the Kilstrom, the Singleton and the Jones, running from a large thrust down to a black box that gets rebuilt for each production. This is where the Denver Center makes its own work instead of importing a tour, and where the Colorado New Play Summit lands every February with readings of scripts nobody has staged yet. If your ticket names one of those four rooms, this is the building you want.
Why go. It is where the Denver Center premieres its own plays rather than renting someone else's.
The Colorado New Play Summit runs in February; it is the weekend to come if you want to see work before anyone else has.
A short walk from Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex
Dazzle
$$Denver's serious jazz room, now at the foot of the Arts Complex.
Downtown, a few blocks over · 1080 14th St
Boettcher Concert Hall
$$The Colorado Symphony's home, built in the round so nobody sits far back.
Downtown, a few blocks over · 1000 14th Street
TheaterDenver Performing Arts Complex
$$$Four blocks of theaters under one glass canopy, a five-minute walk from Larimer Square.
Downtown, a few blocks over · 1400 Curtis St
Garner Galleria Theatre
$$A 210-seat cabaret room with table service and long-running comedies.
Downtown, a few blocks over · 1400 Curtis Street
Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre
$$$Where the touring Broadway shows land, 2,800 seats under the glass galleria.
Downtown, a few blocks over · 1350 Curtis Street
Ellie Caulkins Opera House
$$$Opera Colorado and Colorado Ballet play inside the 1908 Municipal Auditorium shell.
Downtown, a few blocks over · 1385 Curtis Street