{"id":1989013,"date":"2025-08-30T23:27:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1989013"},"modified":"2025-08-30T23:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:27:21","slug":"this-fall-see-something-new-on-metro-stages-arts-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/this-fall-see-something-new-on-metro-stages-arts-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"This fall: See something new on metro stages | Arts & Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There was a time when I could not have written a column recommending 10 live theater offerings that are new to Denver. Are you kidding? Ten new plays opening in one month? There have been entire years without 10.<\/p>\n

New plays are a marketing nightmare. You haven\u2019t heard of the title. There is no built-in audience. Audiences are notoriously risk-averse. Experts say staging any new play costs an average of about 30% more to put on than an established play.<\/p>\n

At a time when local arts groups, which exist on razor-thin margins even in the most flush of times, are struggling to bring audiences back up to pre-COVID levels, we are entering this particular September with a swath of new stories. Why?<\/p>\n

Well, why not?<\/p>\n

At Curious Theatre Company<\/a>, producing new plays is the reason for its existence. Season 28 opens next week with \u201cEureka Day<\/a>,\u201d described as a razor-sharp comedy about a progressive utopia that implodes with a measles outbreak at a private school in Berkeley, Calif. Director Christy Montour-Larson believes there is a hunger right now for fresh, thought-provoking stories that resonate with today\u2019s audiences.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPlays like \u2018Eureka Day\u2019 are essential, even when familiar titles might seem like a safer bet,\u201d Montour-Larson said. \u201cWe program newer work because it invites our community to sit together, laugh together and tackle complicated questions together.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Eureka Day\u2019 mirrors debates happening in Denver\u2019s homes and classrooms. We need these kinds of voices to keep the art form alive, relevant and meaningful in a time when we need it most.\u201d<\/p>\n

With that, here is our uncommonly bounteous rundown of 10 new-play recommendations that are all opening in the Denver metro area in the next month, listed by opening date. But make your plans now: Some will be done as soon as Sept. 20.<\/p>\n

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Thge Broadway cast of ‘Eureka Day’ included, from left: Bill Irwin, Thomas Middleditch, Jessica Hecht, Amber Gray and Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz. A different team from Curious Theatre will bring the show to Denver audiences for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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