ART
THRU MARCH 28: “Claiming the Crown,” SA Bennett Solo Exhibition– Pulse Visual Art Pulse Visual Art at 3256 Walnut Street in RiNo, presents “Claiming the Crown,” a solo exhibition featuring works by local Jamaican artist SA Bennett. As a biracial artist, she finds profound inspiration in the evolution of African heritage across different times and cultures. This is reflected in her work as it celebrates the African diaspora. The show is inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat’s use of the three-tiered crown, representing the denial of the humanhood of black people, and of society taking gifted people for granted. The collection is a reminder that we should all claim our crowns. Bennett’s work reflects a rich tapestry of subjects including her son, loved ones, and reflections of various characters from her communities, both in Denver and Jamaica. Among them, the esteemed Denver artist Bob Ragland, along with portraits that capture the essence of Black Lives Matter movement and other social justice causes, which are deeply connected to her identity and life experiences. Her artistic process is deeply rooted in an appreciation for the vibrant and forgiving nature of acrylic painting. However, in her more recent work, she has explored ink resist, cold wax, and oil painting techniques. She works on canvas, wood panel, and found objects. The public is invited to view the show during regular gallery hours or by appointment.
NOW ON VIEW: DEBORAH JACK: THE HAUNTING OF ESTUARIES…AN (AFTER)MATH OF CONFLUENCE – MCA Deborah Jack’s solo exhibition (her first in Colorado) includes a dynamic, six-channel video installation featuring tumbling waters and fauna from the shorelines of four geographically distant places: Maine, Louisiana, Brazil (Belém), and the island of St. Maarten. Entitled a sea desalts, creeping in the collapse… in the expanse…a rhizome looks for reason… whispers an elegy instead, 2024, this installation offers a meditation on the dynamic nature of coastlines and humanity’s relationship to water. Jack is a multidisciplinary artist whose artistic practice includes video installation, photography, and text. She engages a variety of strategies for mining the intersections of histories, cultural memory, ecology, and climate change. For her exhibition at MCA Denver, Jack’s photography and videos combine footage from the coastline of Jack’s home of St. Maarten with the shores of York, Maine and the shorelines of Louisiana’s Lake Peigneur (a lake created by a man-made disaster), as well as Louisiana’s Neptune Pass and Quarantine Bay (areas of the Mississippi delta where the land made from river sediment continues to rebuild despite human interventions). These shifting edges of where the water meets the land underscores the limitations of humans’ ability to control nature.
NOW ON VIEW: Southwest Impressions: Prints from the Barbara J. Thompson Collection – Denver Art Museum Southwest Impressions: Prints from the Barbara J. Thompson Collection, on view in the Western American Art galleries, highlights works on paper by artists who lived or traveled in the American Southwest during the late 1800s and first half of the 1900s, drawing inspiration from the region’s unique landscapes, people, architecture, and animals. The exhibition celebrates Barbara J. Thompson’s collection of over 100 prints gifted to the Petrie Institute of Western American Art (PIWAA) in 2024 in honor of her grandfather, the printmaker C. A. Seward. Southwest Impressions acknowledges the important role of printmaking in western American art, particularly during the first half of the 20th century. Presented in two rotations of around fifty prints each, visitors will be guided through a range of print processes including intaglio, block printing, lithography, and serigraphy.
NOW ON VIEW: OPENING EXHIBITION – Space Gallery Featuring work by Jared Hankins: Alpenglow, Michael Burnett: Memories of a Foreign Land, Yvette Weijergang: Ingrained By Nature. Space Gallery – 400 Santa Fe Drive. 303-993-3321 www.spacegallery.org
MUSIC
MARCH 13: Jeff Tweedy with Lian Kazar – Ogden Theatre Jeff Tweedy’s Twilight Override tour is a collaborative, family-centric affair, featuring a tight, multi-instrumental band that brings the 30-song album to life with intimate, “acousticish” arrangements and rich harmonies. Critics praised the show for its warm, conversational tone.
MARCH 30: Indie 102.3 FKA twigs: Body High Tour – Fillmore Auditorium FKA twigs live shows are high-concept, avant-garde performance art, blending exceptional, visceral dance—including pole dancing and sword work—with, intimate vocals. Her performances feature themes of somatic healing and emotional vulnerability, transforming, intimate, experimental pop into a, captivating spectacle.
APRIL 2: The Wood Brothers – Mission Ballroom If there’s one way to describe The Wood Brothers, it’s as a quintessentially American band. They draw on the rustic traditions of folk, which brothers Chris and Oliver were introduced to by their father around campfires when they were growing up, the lyricism of singer-songwriters, the aching mournfulness of country-blues, and the muscle of roots rockers, with a touch of jazzy improvisation.
COMEDY
AVAILABLE NOW: Taylor Tomlinson: Prodigal Daughter – Netflix Taylor Tomlinson takes her fans to church with hilarious confessions about dating in her 30s, growing up sheltered and why she refuses to use AI.
FILM
NOW PLAYING: The Bride – In Select Theatres In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein asks Dr. Euphronius to help create a companion. They give life to a murdered woman as the Bride, sparking romance, police interest, and radical social change. The Bride reimagines the myth of Frankenstein’s bride as a haunting, female-centered gothic tale, following a woman brought to life who must define herself beyond the intentions of her creator. Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, the film explores power, identity, and autonomy through a darkly intimate lens. It stars Jessie Buckley, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Christian Bale in a bold, atmospheric retelling that blends horror with psychological depth.
NOW PLAYING: Heel – In Select Theatres From Academy Award® nominated director Jan Komasa, HEEL is a twisted thriller that follows 19-year-old hooligan Tommy (Anson Boon), who revels in a life of drugs, parties, and violence. One night, on a bender with his reckless friends, he becomes separated from the group and is abducted by an unknown figure (Golden Globe® winner Stephen Graham). Though he is no stranger to inflicting violence, he is enraged and horrified when he wakes to find himself chained in the basement of the isolated suburban family home of Chris (Graham), his wife Kathryn (Academy Award® nominee Andrea Riseborough), and their young son Jonathan (Kit Rakusen). The family sets out to reform Tommy’s unruly behavior, forcing him to comply with their relentless mind games or seek escape at any cost.
NOW PLAYING: Saipan – In Select Theatres On the eve of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the Irish captain Roy Keane forfeits his place in the squad at the team’s preparation base in Saipan, following a heated disagreement with the Irish manager Mick McCarthy. A curious bit of history, Saipan was quite an effective portrayal of the costs of seeing a war between men. The fury, frustration and folly of it all – and the seismic effect it has on the whole of Ireland afterwards – remains astonishing to this day. A fantastic climax to a ripping sports yarn about the mental game that’s won and lost before you ever touch a football.
OPENS MARCH 27: Forbidden Fruits – In Select Theatres Directed by Meredith Alloway in her feature debut, follows Free Eden mall employee Apple (Lili Reinhart) as she secretly leads a witchy femme cult with coworkers Cherry (Victoria Pedretti), Fig (Alexandra Shipp), and Pickle (Emma Chamberlain). When new hire Pumpkin (Lola Tung) arrives and begins to challenge the group’s performative sisterhood, long-held tensions begin to crack. With Gabrielle Union rounding out the cast in a mysterious role, Pumpkin’s questions force the coven to confront their own poisons. What begins as retail ritual soon spirals into a darkly comic reckoning where unity and identity collide with fatal consequences.
THEATRE
APRIL 17 – MAY 31: English – Singleton Theatre “English Only.” This one rule governs language instructor Marjan’s classroom, where she teaches four adult students outside of Tehran. Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning English is a disarmingly funny and tender play about the foibles of language and miscommunication. Make sure you’re marked as “present” for a work Variety calls “undeniably one of the best plays of the decade,” when it makes its Denver debut in spring 2026.
EVENTS
THRU MARCH 31: A Tavola Winter Market – Denver Design District 575 S Broadway, 108 When the snow begins to fall, Denver’s Design District comes alive with the warmth of community and the irresistible aroma of local flavor at A Tavola Winter Market. Step inside and discover nearly 50 passionate vendors, growers, makers, and culinary artisans, each bringing their craft to the table. More than just a market, it’s a seasonal celebration of connection, creativity, and the simple joy of good food shared among friends and neighbors. At A Tavola, we believe access to fresh, local ingredients shouldn’t end when summer does. Our market bridges that gap, offering a vibrant space where you can meet the people who harvest, bake, brew, and preserve the best of Colorado
MARCH 20: Heated Rivalry Nighty – Gothic Theatre Welcome to the high-energy, emotionally charged dance party inspired by the tension, obsession, and enemies-to-lovers chaos of Heated Rivalry. Built around forbidden attraction, late-night adrenaline, and messy feelings you don’t know what to do with, this party lives in the space between competition and connection. Expect to hear the show’s soundtrack alongside music from the 2010s that moves between aggressive, heart-pounding energy and dramatic, emotional release. This is a night for side-eye, screaming lyrics at strangers, locking eyes across the room, and letting the tension live a little too long.
MARCH 21: Dusk: The Rising of the Dark – Meow Wolf DUSK is a provocative burlesque and dance show. Edgy, raw, and a celebration of shadow, a ritual for the restless, the wicked, and the wild. As night falls, the veil lifts, revealing strange creatures, haunted beauties, wild spirits, and the raw, hidden desires that only come alive after dark. Sensual, creepy, and otherworldly, DUSK is a hypnotic journey through the secrets of the night.
MARCH 22: CJRO Sunday Sessions: The Beatles Songbook with Annie Booth & Marion Powers – Dazzle The Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra Quintet presents The Beatles Songbook—an intimate evening of Beatles classics reimagined through the lens of jazz. Led by internationally acclaimed pianist, composer, and arranger Annie Booth, with vocals by the dynamic Marion Powers, the program brings fresh creativity to these timeless songs.
THRU APRIL 18: Drexciya: Into the Deep – Union Hall Drexciya explores a subaqueous Afrofuturist mythology rooted in African diasporic history, music, and remembrance. While fictional, Drexciya has inspired a very real movement: the call for an ocean memorial through immersive and visual art that honors the estimated 1.8 million Africans who perished during the Middle Passage. Despite the Atlantic Ocean being the world’s largest unmarked grave of the slave trade, no international memorial exists. Through underwater photography, archives, immersive installations, projection mapping, and mixed-media works, this exhibition brings the Drexciya mythos to life, bridging the past and present for a more liberated future.
MARCH 7: No Man’s Land Film Festival – 2644 West 32nd Avenue As the premier all-women + genderqueer adventure film festival, No Man’s Land Film Festival has celebrated the full scope of athletes and adventurers by un-defining femininity in adventure, sport, conservation, and film since 2015. We are a collaboration of humans who are deeply engaged in enhancing the feminine presence in the outdoor adventure arena.
THRU APRIL 18: An Impossibly Normal Life by Matthew Finley – Colorado Photographic Arts Center (CPAC) A solo exhibition by photographer Matthew Finley. Drawing from found vintage snapshots collected worldwide, Finley constructs a fictional visual history of his potentially gay uncle’s idealized life, everyday moments of him, his friends, and lovers.