Boulder Theater

Music, Comedy, and Movies in a Historic Venue

Description

In 1907, the Curran Opera House opened its doors to Boulder art lovers, featuring not only opera performances, but other musical acts, and silent films. In 1927, it screened the very first talkie "The Jazz Singer," and didn't look back. From 1927 through 1978 it operated purely as a movie house, but thanks to several renovations since then, Boulder residents today enjoy both live acts and films, and everything in between. The building's primary styling is as Robert Boller designed it in 1936, with art deco decor, huge murals, Terra Cotta, colored glass, and black glass tiles. The interior features cabaret style seating, so one night it might have wide open dance spaces, and the next, multiple lines of seating for a lecture. There's almost always something going on at the theater; E-Town, the nationally broadcast, weekly variety show, tapes most of their shows there, and big name musical acts, from Aimee Mann to The String Cheese Incident, make regular stops at the theater.