One of the best deals in town is free admission to featured plays at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts each season!  The Scientific & Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) provides the free admission, funded in part through the 0.1% sales and use tax.  There’s no catch.  Just come on down to the DCPA and get in line around 4:00 pm the day of the play, pick up your ticket when the box office opens at 4:30, go grab a bite to eat at one of the great restaurants in the area, and then enjoy the play at 6:30.   This week’s play is Gee’s Bend, description below.  Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to enjoy an evening at the theater for FREE! 

This week’s play is Gee’s Bend.

The women of Gee’s Bend – an impoverished and isolated community on the Alabama River – created unique, bold and sophisticated quilts out of necessity and materials at hand. Now world-renowned, their brilliantly innovative quilts are featured in leading museums across the country, including the forthcoming Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt exhibit at the Denver Art Museum. One critic dubs Wilder’s new play “a glorious piece of theatrical handiwork that uses the Civil Rights Movement as a thread for stitching together the rich emotional material of a close-knit family of quilters. With echoes of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel, Gee’s Bend is both a work of art and a bona fide crowd-pleaser.”

Additional FREE plays offered this season include:

The Merry Wives of Windsor
March 20 · 6:30pm · Stage Theatre
Doubt
April 3 · 6:30pm · Ricketson Theatre
3 Mo’Divas
May 8 · 6:30pm · Stage Theatre

A few rules, please:

• Available the day of the event at the theatre box office only
• Box Office opens two hours before performance
• House opens ½ hour before curtain
• No reservations
• First-come, first-served
• One ticket per person
• Seating is General Admission
• No children under six