The first seasons, 2005–2007

The original site kept a separate archive page for the theatre’s earliest seasons under the Wood management, covering the reopening in autumn 2005 and the two years that followed. This page preserves that division. The complete index, running through to the theatre’s closure in 2011, is in the main production archive.

2005 — reopening

The theatre had been closed since 2000. It reopened on 9 September 2005 with The Voice of the Prairie, John Olive’s play about the early days of radio, directed by Terry Dodd. The Denver Post reviewed it warmly and described the room as one in which magic was again being made. Three productions ran before the end of the year.

2006 — the first full season

Eight productions between January and Christmas, opening with the regional premiere of Marsha Norman’s The Holdup and including Dead Man Walking, which brought the theatre its widest notice. Westword named the Vic Best Theatrical Resurrection in its Best of Denver awards that spring.

2007

The Bard returned to the Bungalow with Twelfth Night in January, closing a loop about ninety-five years long: the room had been built so that Shakespeare could be read aloud in it. The year ran to eight productions and ended with Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, which took over the December slot from the Durang parody and kept it.

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Four of the theatre’s five surviving directors’ programme notes come from the 2006 season, which makes it the best-documented year in the archive. Later seasons, and the closure, are covered in the main archive and on the season calendars.