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417 E. 17th Ave. Denver, CO 80203

303-321-5925

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Rodents of Unusual Size

7:30 p.m. every third week Wed.

A comedy troupe performing original sketches and game-style comedy improv based entirely on suggestions from the audience.
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12:15 p.m. third Wed. of every month

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7:30 p.m. second Wed. of every month

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Monkey's Uncle Debutante Ball

7:30 p.m. second Wed. of every month

Back in August, the funny improv folks who call themselves Monkey’s Uncle found themselves without a zoo to call home: Their longtime gig at Jazz @...
Avenue Theater Wednesday Night Series: Rodents of Unusual Size

7:30 p.m. third Wed. of every month

The local improv comedy troupe performs a new show monthly.

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2012 | Best Director

A variety show like Vox Phamalia: Quadrapalooza, presented at the Avenue Theater, required a whole different set of skills from a director. The show was intended as a place where everyone in the PHAMALY company could find a home, regardless of singing or acting talent or level of disability. To achieve this, director Edith Weiss selected stories from those sent in by cast members, edited them and did some writing of her own, along with Jeremy Palmer. She had to learn how to work with actors... More »
2011 | Best Actor in a Musical

Nick Sugar was born to play the raucous, all-stops-out part of Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. In this Avenue Theater production, he got to strut, cross-dress, belt out numbers both sexy and forlorn, boast, whine, mock and beg -- and all while he held the audience spellbound. And then he went further, reaching deep into his own soul to find a redemptive dignity amid the squalor. More »
2010 | Best Return to the Denver Stage

Who knows where Chris Whyde disappeared to for three years, but with Die! Mommie Die!, he made a sensational re-entry onto the Denver scene as Angela, a murderous Bette Davis/Joan Crawford-type diva. His was an impersonation that even those ladies might have liked: He had every intonation, queenly gesture, dignified turn of the head and changing flicker of expression down pat. When Whyde was gobsmacked, he still maintained his dignity (except for the occasional meltdown and a couple of... More »

PHAMALY's Quadrapalooza is homegrown...and very funny

By Juliet Wittman | Thu, November 03, 2011

Certain moments from the past decade of reviewing remain indelible. I can still conjure Mare Trevathan's riddling phrases in The Skriker; Nick Sugar's bravura-filled but crumbling Hedvig; Randy Moore as A Christmas Carol's Scrooge, knocked out by ... More »
Blind Ambition

By Susan Froyd | Thu, November 03, 2011

One of the primary functions of the Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical Artists League is to help normalize the way other people perceive and behave toward folks with disabilities. The handicapped actors of the PHAMALy troupe don’t want you ... More »
Greetings from Vox Phamalia!

By Susan Froyd | Fri, October 28, 2011

The whole point of Vox Phamalia: Quadrapalooza, the Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical Artists League comedy show opening tonight at the Avenue Theater for a two-weekend run, is that different... More »
Grawlix co-founder Andrew Orvedahl on the comedy series, a new web show and more

By Thorin Klosowski | Mon, October 24, 2011

The Grawlix comedy show has been selling out the Avenue Theater since it launched (it runs the last Friday of every month), so we figured it was time to catch up with one of the founding members, Andr... More »
Laughing at the Speed Of Light

By Susan Froyd | Thu, October 06, 2011

Take a colossal body of work, condense it into ninety minutes or so, drop it in the hands of the funniest cast you can find, and you’ll understand in a minute the sheer brilliance of those crazies from the Reduced Shakespeare Company, who first re... More »
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Avenue Theater

417 E. 17th Ave. Denver, CO 80203

303-321-5925

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7:30 p.m. every third week Wed.

12:15 p.m. third Wed. of every month

7:30 p.m. second Wed. of every month

7:30 p.m. second Wed. of every month

7:30 p.m. third Wed. of every month

2012 | Best Director

2011 | Best Actor in a Musical

2010 | Best Return to the Denver Stage

By Juliet Wittman | Thu, November 03, 2011

By Susan Froyd | Thu, November 03, 2011

By Susan Froyd | Fri, October 28, 2011

By Thorin Klosowski | Mon, October 24, 2011

By Susan Froyd | Thu, October 06, 2011