Ballet, Cher and The Odd Couple!
This weekend you can enjoy the ballet, a pops concert, a tribute to Cher, a play like The Odd Couple, plus art and sip classes, indie artists and comedy — with various locations in Erie and nearby Boulder, Louisville, Lafayette and Longmont.
TODAY/TONIGHT, Thursday, May 2
ART & SIP: ACRYLIC CLOUDS
Every landscape can be improved by adding clouds! There are such a huge variety of clouds, so let’s learn about how to paint a few of them as we create a “sky-scape,” in acrylic on canvas. Instructor Julie Benoit guides wanna-be and full-fledged artists in this fluffy artist endeavor.
Grab a drink and get creative with these classes designed to guide beginners as well as bring new skills to experienced artists and crafters. Beer, wine, fizzy water and snacks are available to purchase at the Atrium Bar.
Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Rd., Longmont
4:00 & 6:30 p.m.
Cost: $40
Info: 303-651-8374
BOULDER BALLET’S SPRING GALA
Boulder Ballet presents the AMPLIFY Gala, an evening of dance, fundraising, and celebration highlighting: art, wellness, and connection. Enjoy wine, cocktails, deliciously curated small plates, live and silent auctions, and of course DANCE! You won’t want to miss this one-of-a-kind event. Formal attire is encouraged!
Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
Thurs.-Sat., 7:00 p.m.; Sun., 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $125-$150
Info: 303-440-7826
MEGAN BURTT AND THE PATTI FIASCO
Megan Burtt is a performing songwriter. She has played music on almost every continent, summited Mt. Kilimanjaro and survived a gluten free diet for a decade now. She and Oprah share the same enneagram number. She wishes she’d learned music in a Southern Gospel church and dreams of becoming an olive farmer in Spain. And, you never know, life is a long time.. and longing is a great source of inspiration. Megan is working on her latest full-length record with singles set to release in fall 2023. She is a member of the all red-head Americana band Gingerbomb (eat your heart out). Megan is the winner of the Kerrville, Rocky Mountain Folks Fest Songwriter and Denver Westword Songwriting Competitions and a finalist in the Mountain New Song, Telluride Bluegrass, Great American Song Contest and Songwriter Serenade Songwriting Competitions.
Chautauqua Auditorium, 301 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder
8:00 p.m.
Tickets: $20
Info: 303-440-7666
Thursday-Saturday, May 2-5
THE ODD COUPLE
Unger and Madison are at it again! Florence Unger and Olive Madison, that is, in Neil Simon’s hilarious contemporary comic classic: the female version of The Odd Couple. Instead of the poker party that begins the original version, Ms. Madison has invited the girls over for an evening of Trivial Pursuit. The Pidgeon sisters have been replaced by the two Constanzuela brothers. But the hilarity remains the same.
Jesters Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont
Sat., 7:30 p.m; Sun., 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $22-$50
IMPROVISED SHAKESPEARE
The Improvised Shakespeare Company® proudly presents an evening of spontaneous comedy featuring the language and themes of William Shakespeare! Based on one audience suggestion (the title of a show that has never been written), the dazzling players create a brand new, fully improvised Shakespearean masterpiece right before your eyes. Nothing has been planned out, rehearsed, or written. All of the dialogue is said for the first time, the characters are created as you watch, and if ever you’re wondering where the story is going…so are they! See the show TimeOut Chicago calls “Staggeringly brilliant!,” and “Downright hilarious!” You’ve never seen the Bard like this before!
Garner Galleria Theater, DCPA Complex, 14th and Curtis St., Denver
Thurs.-Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sat./Sun., 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: Start at $45
FULL DOME FESTIVAL
Dome Fest West looks to help introduce Immersive Cinematic Content (ICC) further into the greater media landscape, popularizing the medium while championing content creators and technologies from around the Immersive Dome and Fulldome world. Check out the ONLY dedicated full dome film festival in the United States. Dive into the future of cinema with 55 groundbreaking films, intriguing panel discussions, and a keynote presentation and performance by Android Jones.
And on Saturday night, don’t miss the chance to see emerging and established filmmakers as they present their groundbreaking fulldome film concepts, vying not just for the grand prize ($5K), but for the opportunity to bring their vision to the dome screen within 12 months. Using the Fiske Planetarium’s cutting-edge projection system, finalists will bring their ideas to life in a few compelling minutes, engaging with a panel of esteemed judges in a format reminiscent of your favorite pitch shows. It’s a celebration of creativity, innovation, and the relentless pursuit of storytelling excellence.
Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Dr., Boulder
Various Times
Tickets: $15-$20
Info: 303-492-5002
Friday, May 3
MOMS UNHINGED
Join us for a night of laughter as we explore everything from motherhood, midlife crisis, marriage, divorce, online dating, and other things that irritate us. Men are welcome to the show, too.
We do clean (ish) comedy and this is a fun night out with your girlfriends, drinking club (I mean book club), neighborhood group, or your own mom. Adult themes and language – 21+
Gordon Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
7:00 p.m.
Tickets: $28
Info: 303-440-7826
KNOWER LIVE
Knower is a searing hot music group from Los Angeles spearheading a new musical movement. The LA duo represent the best of drummer-producer Louis Cole and singer Genevieve Artadi. Currently touring their fourth album ‘Life’ [2016], they opened for The Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2017 and continue to entertain with their hard-hitting funk, cool chords, deep melodies and funky vocals into an incredibly imaginative off-world experience. Their all star 5-piece rotates Thundercat’s sideman Dennis Hamm (Keys), Sam Wilkes (Bass), Rai Thistlethwayte (Keys), Jacob Mann (Keys), Sam Gendel (Sax), and Thom Gill (Guitar). Combined with Louis Cole (Drums/Vox) and Genevieve Artadi’s iconic hot funk vocal style, everyone likes KNOWER because they never hold back and they never settle.
The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder
8:00 p.m.
Tickets: Start at $30
Info: 303-447-0095
SAM BUSH WITH FOGGY MOUNTAIN
On a Bowling Green, Kentucky cattle farm in the post-war 1950s, Bush grew up an only son, and with four sisters. His love of music came immediately, encouraged by his parents’ record collection and, particularly, by his father Charlie, a fiddler, who organized local jams. Charlie envisioned his son someday a staff fiddler at the Grand Ole Opry, but a clear day’s signal from Nashville brought to Bush’s television screen a tow-headed boy named Ricky Skaggs playing mandolin with Flatt and Scruggs, and an epiphany for Bush. At 11, he purchased his first mandolin.
He’s released seven albums and a live DVD over the past two decades. In 2009, the Americana Music Association awarded Bush the Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist. Punch Brothers, Steep Canyon Rangers, and Greensky Bluegrass are just a few present-day bluegrass vanguards among so many musicians he’s influenced. His performances are annual highlights of the festival circuit, with Bush’s joyous perennial appearances at the town’s famed bluegrass fest earning him the title, “King of Telluride.”
“With this band I have now I am free to try anything. Looking back at the last 50 years of playing newgrass, with the elements of jazz improvisation and rock-&-roll, jamming, playing with New Grass Revival, Leon, and Emmylou; it’s a culmination of all of that,” says Bush. “I can unapologetically stand onstage and feel I’m representing those songs well.”
Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder
8:00 p.m.
Tickets: Start at $25
Phone: 303-786-7030
Friday-Sunday, May 3-5
EMMA
A delightfully unconventional and fun adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic comedy! Ever the romantic, Emma Woodhouse prides herself on being the best matchmaker in town. Goaded by her friend George Knightley, she sets out on a quest to set up the adorable ingénue Harriet with a fitting suitor. But love has its own agenda with plenty of twists and turns in store – including a few for Emma herself.
This rendition of Emma is a joyous, irreverent take in conversation with the Regency novel. In a new adaptation that’s a bit zany and refreshingly contemporary, playwright Kate Hamill infuses the language and perspectives of today into Austen’s beloved characters. You may be surprised by who says what — and how. One thing’s for sure, you’ll never see Emma the same way again.
“With screwball comedy and surprises aplenty, this fresh, fast-paced [production] interprets the Jane Austen classic with delightfully unconventional flair.” –BroadwayWorld
Wolf Theatre, DCPA Complex, 14th and Curtis St., Denver
Fri., 7:00 p.m.; Sat./Sun., 1:30 p.m.
Tickets: $35-$77
THE CHER SHOW
For six straight decades, only one unstoppable force has flat-out dominated popular culture-breaking down barriers, pushing boundaries and letting nothing and no one stand in her way. THE CHER SHOW is the Tony Award®-winning musical of her story, and it’s packed with so much Cher that it takes three women to play her: the kid starting out, the glam pop star, and the icon.
THE CHER SHOW is 35 smash hits, six decades of stardom, two rock-star husbands, a Grammy® , an Oscar® , an Emmy® , and enough Tony Award-winning Bob Mackie gowns to cause a sequin shortage in New York City, all in one unabashedly fabulous new musical that will have audiences dancing in the aisles.
Buell Theatre, 1350 Curtis St., Denver
Fri.-Sun., 7:30 p.m.; Sat./Sun., 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $35-$110
INFO: 720-865-4220
INHERIT THE WIND
“An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man’s knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!”
A science teacher in a small Southern town defies the law when he teaches the theory of evolution to his students. His case prompts a renowned fundamentalist politician/lawyer, Matthew Harrison Brady, to offer his services as the prosecuting attorney. To combat this, Brady’s idealistic rival, Henry Drummond, arrives in town to defend the teacher and to ignite a media frenzy.
“Inherit the Wind” is a fictionalized account of the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” Trial, which resulted in John T. Scopes‘ conviction for teaching Charles Darwin‘s theory of evolution to a high school science class, contrary to a Tennessee state law. Performances this weekend and next.
Carsen Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
Fri./Sat., 7:00 p.m.; Sun., 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $28
Info: 303-440-7826
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME
During its 2019 run on Broadway, What the Constitution Means to Me received a tidal wave of critical praise, two Tony Award nominations, and ultimately became a Pulitzer finalist. The New York Times hailed Schreck’s boundary-breaking show as “. . . not just the best play to open on Broadway so far this season but also the most important.”
In this smart and timely comedy, Schreck resurrects her 15-year-old self who traveled the country competing in American Legion speech competitions to save money for college. Unearthing her perspective on the Constitution then and now, she delves into four generations of women in her family and how the founding document shaped their lives. BETC is honored to premiere this NY Times Critics Choice comedy in Denver and Boulder.
Grace Gamm Theatre, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $15-$50
Info: 303-440-7826
WHERE DID WE SIT…?
Nine-year-old Bee Quijada sits in a suburban classroom. During a history lesson on Rosa Parks, she asks, “Where did Latinos sit on the bus?” What follows is a theatrical mixtape of Bee’s life. It’s a one-person show that immerses the audience in elaborate, layered soundscapes by fusing Latin rhythms, hip-hop, and spoken word poetry. And it’s all made, in-person, in real time, through the magic of live music and storytelling.
Where Did We Sit on the Bus? captures both the innocence of youth and the pressures that come with being the child of immigrants. It asks, “What is my place? Where do I fit in?” It builds from the ground up, one step at a time, taking audiences on a soulful musical journey as its hero finds hope and meaning through art.
Singleton Theatre, DCPA Complex, 14th and Curtis St., Denver
Fri.-Sat., 7:00 p.m.; Sun., 1:30 p.m.
Tickets: Start at $35
THE LEHMAN TRILOGY
Hailed as “a genuinely epic production” by The New York Times (original New York run), The Lehman Trilogy follows three German-Jewish immigrant brothers, and their descendants, as they navigate fire, flood, war, and panic to build a financial behemoth that changed America.
In 1847, the Lehman brothers open a modest clothing shop in Alabama. But they have big dreams. They evolve as new opportunities arise. They capitalize on railroads, oil booms, personal computers, and, eventually, capital itself. They become so intertwined with the U.S. government, and in the daily lives of millions of stakeholders, that some begin to believe that Lehman Brothers, the institution, is too big to fail.
This extraordinary feat of storytelling (winner of the 2022 Tony Award for Best Play) uses only three actors to trace 163 years of family history and business. Until one day, in 2008, when it all comes crashing down…
Kilstrom Theatre, DCPA Complex, 14th and Curtis St., Denver
Fri.-Sat., 7:00 p.m.; Sun., 1:30 p.m.
Tickets: Start at $35
SOFT SCULPTURE WORKSHOP
Explore and experiment with various fiber-art techniques by transforming two-dimensional fabric drawings and paintings into three-dimensional, soft sculptures inspired by nature, abstraction, and whatever inspires. Based on simple and accessible techniques, create your own hand-painted textiles then turn them into three-dimensional works of art. This is an experimental approach to soft sculpture where students are free to explore, play, and try new techniques all while being introduced to the basics of fabric painting, drawing, and sewing.
Please reach out with any accessibility concerns, the workshop can be augmented for anyone!
The Vandeveer Workshop, Rm. 220, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Tickets: $50-$65
Info: 303-440-7826
Saturday, May 4
START MAKING SENSE: TALKING HEADS TRIBUTE
If David Byrne is one of the geniuses of modern times, then Start Making Sense is a tribute to genius. The musicians in this seven-piece Talking Heads Tribute take pride in faithfully recreating the music of Talking Heads’ entire career, including songs Talking Heads never performed live! Together they bring much of the Heads unique live show to the stage, with front man Jon Braun as a spot-on David Byrne, some have said this is the closest thing you’ll get to seeing Talking Heads again.
The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder
8:00 p.m.
Tickets: Start at $20
THE POPS CONCERT
John Williams composed the theme for Star Wars in the late 1970s. Williams has also written the theme for seemingly hundreds of other movies, including Jaws, E.T., and Superman. Williams’ 1977 recording of the Star Wars theme with the London Symphony Orchestra hit the No. 10 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. That same year, Meco put out a disco version of the song—”Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band”—which was a global hit and hit No. 1 on the charts.
A friend of legendary director Steven Spielberg, Williams was recommended by his pal to the young filmmaker George Lucas, who needed a composer for his space epic. In this tribute to John Williams you’ll enjoy familiar favorites including Flying Theme from ET, Across the Stars from Star Wars Episode II, and much more!
Vance Brand Civic Auditorium
600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont
7:00 p.m.
Tickets: $10-$26
Next Week: Tuesday-Sunday, May 7-12
THE LEHMAN TRILOGY
Hailed as “a genuinely epic production” by The New York Times (original New York run), The Lehman Trilogy follows three German-Jewish immigrant brothers, and their descendants, as they navigate fire, flood, war, and panic to build a financial behemoth that changed America.
In 1847, the Lehman brothers open a modest clothing shop in Alabama. But they have big dreams. They evolve as new opportunities arise. They capitalize on railroads, oil booms, personal computers, and, eventually, capital itself. They become so intertwined with the U.S. government, and in the daily lives of millions of stakeholders, that some begin to believe that Lehman Brothers, the institution, is too big to fail.
This extraordinary feat of storytelling (winner of the 2022 Tony Award for Best Play) uses only three actors to trace 163 years of family history and business. Until one day, in 2008, when it all comes crashing down…
Kilstrom Theatre, DCPA Complex, 14th and Curtis St., Denver
Tues.-Sat., 7:00 p.m.; Sun., 1:30 p.m.
Tickets: Start at $35
Wednesday, May 8
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB
Bombay Bicycle Club have been writing songs for Saturday nights and songs for Sunday mornings since their mid-teens. That they’re now barely in their thirties and remain one of the most inventive, insistent and, arguably, influential British guitar bands of the past generation says much to their powers of reinvention.
But it also speaks to the band’s effortless ear for a melody and the masters of its deployment.
Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder
8:00 p.m.
Tickets: Start at $35
Phone: 303-786-7030
Friday-Saturday, May 10-11
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Fiddler on the Roof is a musical based on Tevye and his Daughters and other tales by Sholem Aleichem. Set in the little village of Anatevka, the story centers on Tevye, a poor milkman, and his five daughters. With the help of a colorful and tight-knit Jewish community, Tevye tries to protect his daughters and instill them with traditional values in the face of changing social mores and the growing anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia. Rich in historical and ethnic detail, Fiddler on the Roof’s universal theme of tradition cuts across barriers of race, class, nationality and religion, leaving audiences crying tears of laughter, joy and sadness.
Longmont Theater Company, 513 Main St., Longmont
Fri./Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $35
BEAUTY & THE BEAST
“A Tale as Old as Time.” Come experience the beloved fantasy “Beauty and the Beast” through aerial dance! Frequent Flyers’ Aerial Dance Youth and Teen Student Companies, ages 8-18, showcase their amazing aerial skills in choreography led by their teachers with creative input from the students.
Join these timeless characters as they work together to break an enchantress’s spell through the power of love and friendship, and experience this classic fairytale like never before through the exciting arts of dance and circus!
Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
Fri., 7:00 p.m.; Sat., 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $18-$22
Info: 303-440-7826
Saturday, May 11
FREQUENT FLYERS’ INTENSIVE TRAINING
The talented aerialists in Frequent Flyers’ Intensive Training Program present original solo, trio, and group pieces that began with the theme of “in•ter•fer•ence” as a jumping-off point. The idea of constructive interference: when two waves are in phase and destructive interference: when two waves are completely out of phase is illuminated through collaboration, struggle, dichotomy, and resolution in the pieces for this beautiful new show.
Performances on aerial fabric, horizontal lyra, dance trapeze, rope, and invented apparatus by: Chandler Chamberlain, Emily Clemson, Paige Horil, Nina McElveen, Kalei Richwine, Elle Sockrider, James Tindle,
Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
7:00-7:45
Tickets: $18-$22
Info: 303-440-7826
Saturday-Sunday, May 11-12
BLUEY’S BIG PLAY
When Dad feels like a little bit of Sunday afternoon time out, Bluey and Bingo have other plans! Join them as they pull out all of the games and cleverness at their disposal to get Dad off that bean bag. Bluey’s Big Play is a brand-new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy® award-winning children’s television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music by Bluey composer, Joff Bush. Join the Heelers in their first live theatre show made just for you, featuring brilliantly created puppets, this is Bluey as you’ve never seen it before, brought to real life. Bluey’s Big Play is presented by BBC Studios and Andrew Kay in association with Windmill Theatre Co.
Buell Theatre, 1350 Curtis St., Denver
Sat./Sun., 10:00 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.; Sat., 5:00 p.m.
Tickets: $20-$70
INFO: 720-865-4220
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