AFTER THE REVOLUTION, VENUS IN FUR and More Set for Curious Theatre's 2013-14 Season

Curious Theatre Company has announced its 2013/14 Season. Including a World Premiere and three Regional Premieres, Season 16 introduces Denver audiences to the work of award-winning playwrights Amy Herzog and Matthew Lopez, and continues our long-standing artistic relationship with Denver-born playwright Steven Dietz.

"Our 16th season at Curious is an exhilarating ride -with twists, turns and unexpected surprises around every corner," says Producing Artistic Director Chip Walton. "The season includes some of Broadway's most recently acclaimed plays, as well as another World Premiere from one of our most produced playwrights at Curious, Steven Dietz. Stay tuned for some exciting announcements about participating artists for next season, drawn from our newly expanded artistic company."

The 2013/14 season carries on Curious' tradition of bringing the best new plays in American theatre to Denver, featuring After the Revolution by Amy Herzog (winner of the New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award), the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere Rancho Mirage by Steven Dietz, Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man (winner of the John Gassner Playwriting Award by the New York Outer Critics Circle), Good People (Tony Award nominated for Best New Play), and Venus in Fur (Tony Award nominated for Best Play).

2013/14 SEASON

Regional Premiere
AFTER THE REVOLUTION
By Amy Herzog

September 7 - October 19, 2013

Previews September 5 -6, 2013

The passionate, brilliant Emma Joseph proudly carries the torch of her family's long-held Marxist traditions by devoting her life to the memory of her legendary blacklisted grandfather. When a stunning revelation uncovers a dark secret, each member of the family must reconcile everything they thought they stood for with the shadowy truth of history.

National New Play Network
Rolling World Premiere
RANCHO MIRAGE
By Steven Dietz

November 2 - December 7, 2013

Previews October 31 - November 1, 2013

From the playwright of Yankee Tavern comes a Rolling World Premiere of hilarious proportions. When six longtime friends gather for a one final dinner party, the evening unfolds with sidesplitting surprises, alarming secrets, and shocking bombshells that none of them will soon forget. Dietz's dark comedy asks what remains between us when our youth, our dreams and our last bottle of wine is gone?

Regional Premiere
THE WHIPPING MAN
By Matthew Lopez

January 11 - February 15, 2014

Previews January 9 - 10, 2014

In the aftermath of the Civil War, a Jewish Confederate soldier returns home to discover his two former slaves living in the ruins of his family's once grand plantation. Bound together by faith, they reunite to celebrate Passover and confront their past, present and future. The Whipping Man is a hauntingly powerful drama about newfound freedom and the painful legacy of slavery.

Regional Premiere
GOOD PEOPLE
By David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Artistic Company Member Christy Montour-Larson

March 8 - April 19, 2014

Previews March 6 - 7, 2014

In South Boston, good people lean on their neighbors in tough times, nights are spent playing bingo at the local church, and they live from paycheck to paycheck. Falling on hard times, Margie looks up a former boyfriend hoping to turn her luck - and her life - around. Pulitzer Prize Winning playwright David

Lindsay-Abaire explores how a twist of fate can change your life and whether you can ever escape your circumstances without abandoning your roots in this humor-filled story about society and class.

Regional Premiere
VENUS IN FUR
By David Ives
Directed by Producing Artistic Director Chip Walton

May 3 - June 14, 2014

Previews May 1 - 2, 2014

In this darkly seductive tale, a sexy and mysterious actress shows up hours late for her audition, and knows that she may have blown her chances at the role of a lifetime. But she slowly turns the tables into an erotic and electrifying game of cat and mouse that changes all the rules. Nominated for the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play, award-winning playwright David Ives' new play blurs the lines between fantasy and reality, seduction and power, and love and sex.

Save up to 30% off the single ticket price when you subscribe - prices range from $75 - $210. 2013/14 Season subscriptions will be on sale starting March 1, 2013 at curioustheatre.org. Performances are held at Curious Theatre Company, at 1080 Acoma Street, Denver, 80204.

Chip Walton (Producing Artistic Director) is the co-founder of Curious Theatre Company. Named Denver's "2005 Theatre Person of the Year," his directing work has garnered more than 50 local and national awards. In 2008, Curious was honored with the Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Walton recently served as the President of the National New Play Network, a network of 26 theatres across the country dedicated to the development and production of new plays for the American theatre. Walton was also selected in the inaugural class of Livingston Fellows, as one of five individuals from across Colorado selected by the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation as exceptional non-profit leaders with significant potential for contribution, change and leadership in Colorado's non-profit sector. He has directed in the National New Play Network Showcase of New Plays as well as the Kennedy Center's MFA Playwriting Festival in Washington, D.C. Most recently, he accepted a National Theatre Company Award for Curious from the prestigious American Theatre Wing in New York.

Curious Theatre Company was founded by a group of artists who met 16 years ago while mounting Tony Kushner's Angels in America (produced by Hunger Artists) in the 19th-century church the theatre still calls home, a few blocks south of the Denver Art Museum and State Capitol. Known for bringing provocative new shows to Denver, Curious has received many awards over the years, including the 2011 Denver Post Ovation Award for Best Year by a Theatre Company, 5280 Magazine 2011 Top of the Town Editor's Choice for Best Theatre Company, and Westword's Reader's Choice for Best Theatre in 2012. Under the artistic leadership of Producing Artistic Director Chip Walton, Curious produces up to five mainstage shows per season, the award-winning Curious New Voices education program, the fun and innovative Denver Stories (honoring area luminaries) and myriad of events and interactions that extend and enrich the experience of our audiences.

Pictured: Steven Dietz

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