Our Mainstage Shows
“Cry It Out” by Molly Smith Metzler
August 1-3 at The Savoy Denver
August 8-24 at the Dairy Arts Center
A smart comedy about two newly minted moms who are both feeling isolated and trapped at home with their new babies. In the yard between their houses, they bond over sleep deprivation, unreliable childcare and “having it all.”
(Please note: this special summer offering is not included in a BETC subscription.)
“The Thin Place” by Lucas Hnath
September 12-28 at The Savoy Denver
October 3-26 at the Dairy Arts Center
Can we communicate with the dead if we try hard enough? Lucas Hnath’s brilliant, New York Times Critic’s Pick play transforms the theater into a riveting seance, putting all of us who meet there into a very spooky state of mind.
“Every Brilliant Thing” by Duncan MacMillan, with Jonny Donahoe
December 5-28 at the Dairy Arts Center
Every Brilliant Thing is a deeply funny, life-affirming play that begins with a child grappling with his mother’s attempt to take her own life. The child makes a list of brilliant, joy-giving things and leaves it on Mom’s hospital pillow. Number six on the list? “Me.” This award-winning delight of a show lifts up the good in all of us.
“Brooklyn Laundry” by John Patrick Stanley
January 30-February 15 at The Savoy Denver
February 20-March 15 at the Dairy Arts Center
A new play about three sisters, a guy who operates a laundromat and the random tricks life plays on them for better or worse. This deeply romantic story will remind you what is important in life and the joy and sorrow of fully embracing adulthood.
“Mary Jane” by Amy Herzog
May 1-24 at the Dairy Arts Center
The highly acclaimed story of a mother’s unbounded love and the makeshift circle of women who support her as she cares for her chronically ill child, Mary Jane is a beautiful testament to endurance and human kindness in the face of tragedy.
Special Engagements / Events
“Elizabeth I: In Her Own Words” by Carole Levin in collaboration with Tammy Meneghini
August 12-13 and 19-20 at the Dairy Arts Center
This passionate and revealing play – threaded throughout with the monarch’s own words and passages from Shakespeare’s plays –shares the humanity, demands, and deep complication of being a woman and a leader nearing the end of her life.
(Please note: this special summer offering is not included in a BETC subscription.)
“A New Year’s Eve Spectacular”
December 31 at the Dairy Arts Center
Prepare to ring in the New Year with BETC and the comedy of the King Penny Radio Show, snacks, champagne, live music and dancing.
“Fireflies” by Matthew Barber
February 14 at the Dairy Arts Center
The perfect Valentine’s outing – champagne, roses, and a staged reading of Matthew Barber’s Fireflies, featuring stellar actors. The perfect date.
Comedy for Kids & Families
“MAD LIBrarians”
Weekends at The New Local Annex
Watch top-notch improvisers light up the stage, while your kids’ faces light up!
At each one-of-a-kind show, kids in the audience make up new book titles and then the MAD LIBrarians hilariously off-the-cuff stories to go with the kids’ titles.
