Productions

The Denver Victorian Playhouse staged roughly fifty productions between its reopening in September 2005 and its closure in April 2011, counting visiting companies and children’s work alongside its own programme. This is the index. 29 productions are documented in detail; the rest are listed by title, writer and dates.

The season-by-season listings with the theatre’s own descriptions are on the season calendars page, and the first two seasons have a separate page.

How to read the listings

A production entry answers a few precise questions: what title was billed, who wrote it, where it fell in the sequence and, when a fuller page survives, who was credited. It does not describe every night of the run. Cast changes, altered performances, rehearsal choices and the feel of an audience are seldom visible in a programme listing. The absence of such detail is not evidence that nothing changed; it marks the edge of what the listing can say.

Run dates show the advertised span, not a performance count or proof that every advertised performance went ahead. A title and two endpoints alone do not record cancellations, additions or dark nights. Where the calendar notes an extension or an announced production that did not open, that distinction is explicit. Elsewhere, the modest reading is the sound one: the bill was presented as shown here.

Fuller production pages add layers without becoming complete. Cast and crew credits identify recorded participation; reviews show what a named critic chose to discuss; directors’ notes explain an approach prepared for the audience. Those forms answer different questions. A credit is not a biography, a review is not a census of opinion and a programme note is not a neutral history.

Read together, the sequence reveals repertory, rhythm and recurrence. Read individually, each entry remains a narrow doorway into one piece of work. That is enough to compare the shape of seasons while leaving room for what a programme could never hold: the nightly adjustments by performers, the view from a particular seat and the private memory carried home after the curtain.

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2005 — the reopening season

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011 — the final months

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Directors’ programme notes

Programme notes rarely survive. Five of the Vic’s were published on its website:

• The Holdup — Terry Dodd, 2006
• The Deadly Game — Patricia Goodman, 2006
• Other People’s Money — Janet DeRuvo, 2006
• Steel Magnolias — Robert Kramer, 2006
• The Weir — Terry Dodd, 2006

Awards and nominations

• Best of Denver 2006 (Westword) — Best Theatrical Resurrection, Denver Victorian Playhouse; and Best Production Based On Principle, Dead Man Walking.
• Ovation Awards 2009 finalists (The Denver Post) — Best Actress, Musical Role: Kelly Twedt, The Fantasticks; Best Actress, Comic Role: Rita Broderick, Educating Rita; Best Lighting: Karalyn Star Pytel, The Fantasticks.
• Henry Awards 2010 nominations (Colorado Theatre Guild) — Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play: Boni McIntyre, London Suite; Outstanding Sound Design: El Armstrong, Voices in the Dark.
• Best of Denver 2012 (Westword) — Best Theater Venue We Lost, awarded the year after the theatre closed.

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A note on what is not here. Separate cast-biography and production-photograph pages existed for many of these shows. The photographs were the theatre’s own pictures of real performances and cannot be reproduced; the cast pages were personal biographies of well over a hundred Denver actors, and nothing is served by republishing them. Cast lists are preserved on the production pages, which is the part that belongs to the production record.