Our favorite places to see a show in Colorado

A look at some of the great venues in the state, our Top 10Colorado Headliners for the week and a conversation with ‘Banned’ composer April Alsup This week on the OnStage Colorado Podcast, Toni Tresca and Alex Miller take a virtual ride around the state to talk about some of our favorite places to see theatre. It’s not about our favorite theatre companies, but the venuesthemselves. How comfortable are they? How’s the parking? How about the bar?  Later in the podcast we have Toni’s interview with AprilAlsup, a composer whose new show Banned is a modern-day musical that follows a group of gender misfits through the events leading up to their debut at a local performing arts festival. Banned will be presented at Aurora’sVintage Theatre July 25-28 before it goes on to more dates at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August.As usual we also have our Colorado Headliners, our weeklyTop 10 list of the shows or other events we think you should check out. This week’s Colorado Headliners:   Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Give 5 productions at The Arch in RiNo Aug 1-17 Wicked – Denver Center Buell Theatre July 24-Aug. 25 We the People, Democracy Cycle, Local Theater + Gunnison Theatre Festival and Curious Theatre Company. July 27 at Boulder Library, Free.  Rise Comedy Festival - July 26-Aug. 3 - Denver A Manny for Us, Wheat Ridge Theatre Company - July 26-Aug. 11 Underground Music Showcase: July 26-28. 4000 Miles - Insight Colab at Vintage Theatre, Aurora - July 25-Aug. 4 School of Rock - The Musical - Miners Alley Playhouse, Golden - July 26-Sept. 15 Mile High Dance Festival – Cleo Parker Robinson, Denver - July 27 Til Death Do Us Part ... You First! - Lakewood Cultural Center, Aug. 1–18 Favorite theatre venues discussed in this episode:  Arts HUB in Lafayette  Arvada Center Aurora Fox Breckenridge Backstage Theatre Buntport Candlelight  Colorado’s historic opera houses Comedy Works South CU-Boulder Roe Green and Mary Rippon theatres Denver Center, particularly the Kilstrom Theatre and EllieCaulkins Opera House Denver Savoy  ENT Center for the Arts in Colorado Springs Evergreen Players Black Box Theatre, Evergreen Center Stage Meow Wolf - The Perplexiplex SilCo Theatre Su Teatro Thunder River Theatre Vintage Theatre Wheat Ridge Theatre Company Wonderbound  *Mentioned in the episode: John Moore’s story in the Denver Gazette about shuttered theatre spaces