Mutiny Information Cafe moving the rebellion to Englewood | Arts & Entertainment
Mutiny Information Cafe, Denver’s iconic counter-culture home for books, music, comedy, pinball and an addictive cherry Italian soda with cream, is moving from South Broadway to South South Broadway.
Co-owners Jim Norris and Matt Megyesi announced this week that Mutiny, a longtime anchor of the Baker business district, will move from 2 S. Broadway in Denver to 3483 S. Broadway in Englewood effective Sept. 23. That’s just north and west of Hamden Avenue next to the Fellow Traveler restaurant.
“Our current building is for sale, and we are priced out of staying,” the owners said in a social post. “Our new location is beautiful, and the neighborhood is great.”
When they go on to say, “We have loved every minute here in Denver,” you can just feel the sarcasm dripping off their typing fingers.
Mutiny has never been far from the headlines since Norris and Megyesi bought what was then called Mutiny Now! in 2013. Life-threatening illnesses. Random cars driving through the front window. Most spectacularly: Mutiny was shut down by the city in 2022 for nonpayment of $35,000 in back taxes. The community donated nearly twice that amount in less than a week.
“We have more than a decade of tales to tell, but we are looking forward to all the new stories we’ll have in Englewood,” the statement continues.
All Denver shows and events scheduled through Sept. 22 will take place as planned.
Trailer for “Detained,” co-written by Parker’s Jeremy Palmer. It is a thriller now available on AppleTV and Prime Video.
Jeremy Palmer’s film debut
The promotional poster for Jeremy Palmer’s “Detained.”
Parker-born actor Jeremy Palmer, once the longtime leadingest leading man at Denver’s disability-affirmative Phamaly Theatre Company, abandoned us in 2015 for film school at the University of Southern California. And his dreams are now coming true.
Palmer is the co-writer of a new film called “Detained” that is presently enjoying its theatrical release in Beverly Hills. It’s a thriller about a woman who wakes up in a police interrogation room with no memory of the night before. And something is definitely not right in this police station.
“Detained” stars Aussie actor and rapper Abbie Cornish (Amazon’s “Jack Ryan”) and is available for you to stream right now on Prime Video and AppleTV.
The trailer for “National Anthem,” directed by Luke Gilford of Evergreen.
Specialty screenings at the Sie
Colorado’s State Historian William Wei will discuss Denver’s Chinatown.
“National Anthem,” Evergreen native Luke Gilford’s feature-film directing debut, is running through Aug. 15 at the Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave. It’s the story of a soft-spoken, 21-year-old construction worker (played by Charlie Plummer) who is welcomed by a vibrant community of rodeo performers openly exploring their identities and sexuality. …
In advance of the upcoming release of “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” Denver Film is also hosting a mini-Winona Ryder festival this month with screenings of “Reality Bites” (Aug. 12), “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” (Aug. 15-16) and “Heathers” (Aug. 17-18 and 21).
In partnership with History Colorado, Denver Film will also screen “The Farewell” at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 13 as part of its ongoing “Reel to Real” series at the Sie. State Historian William Wei will talk afterward about Denver’s lost Chinatown …
In partnership with Biennial of the Americas, Denver Film will also show a free outdoor screening of the 1973 action-horror film “Santo vs. Dr. Death” on Aug. 15 at Levitt Pavilion. A pre-show concert by Yugs starts at 7 p.m.
Adam Cayton-Holland has been honing his one-man play “Happy Place” with an eventual goal of performing it at a New York theater. He’s performing it Aug. 17 at the Bug Theatre.
C’mon, get to ‘Happy Place’
One of the perks of this job is that I get to champion the works you really need to see, and I will type you into submission until you do. One is “Happy Place,” a modest yet miraculous one-man play in which stand-up comedian Adam Cayton-Holland creates a safe space for audiences to try navigating the wrenchingly choppy waters of suicide.
I’ve seen about 3,500 plays and musicals since 2001, and “Happy Place” is among the most moving and meaningful. Not to mention funny. “Happy Place” is laced with Cayton-Holland’s trademark acerbic comedy, astute in the knowledge that before you can hit people with unimaginable sorrow, maybe you should ease them in with some comic insight into clubbed figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
Cayton-Holland wrote an award-winning memoir called “Tragedy Plus Time” that explores his sister’s suicide, and in 2019, he started to develop it into a one-man play. The eventual goal is Off-Broadway in New York. But until then, you get these occasional little opportunities to see it grow. Next up: Aug. 17 at the Bug Theater.
Earlier this year, Cayton-Holland performed “Happy Place” to a sold-out house at the Comedy Fort in Fort Collins. More recently, a smashing one-off in L.A. has attracted the attention of some investors who might help the play get to New York.
“Performing ‘Happy Place’ has been a really strange, painful, challenging, yet utterly satisfying experience,” Cayton-Holland said. “Doing this as a one-man show in the theatrical world has really allowed me to open up about this really tragic thing that happened to me and my family. For me, there’s a normalization that comes with that.”
Kate Moore as TB (or Tuberculosis) in Band of Toughs’ “Gin & Gothic: A Brontë Rocktale,” at the Denver Performing Arts Complex.
Bad to the Brontë-bone
Every once in a while, a renegade artist collective called Band of Toughs takes over the Denver Performing Arts Complex with some super-cool immersive storytelling experience. Last time, it was a mashup of Nirvana and “Hamlet.”
Through Aug, 24, it’s “Gin & Gothic: A Brontë Rocktale,” which shows the rebel sisters conceiving some of the most influential literature of the 19th century set against the Riot Grrrl movement and modern rock ‘n roll. You move with the action under the arch, into the parking lot and the basement of the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. Think of it as cardio-theatergoing at its best. Tickets and info at axs.com or bandoftoughs.org.
Briefly …
Whether the city of Boulder advances to the final three in the sweepstakes to land the Sundance Film Festival will be announced on or shortly after Aug. 20 …
The popular band Mt. Joy is encouraging everyone attending their Red Rocks concerts Thursday and Friday to bring non-perishable food items to donate via Sharing Excess …
PBS has scrapped plans to air a filmed performance of Sara Bareilles starring in the wildly popular Broadway musical “Waitress” (she wrote the score). It was set for Nov. 15 as part of PBS’ “Great Performances” series. Something about “unforeseen contractual circumstances.” But you can still be among the first to see “Waitress” performed live by a Colorado theater company when the Arvada Center opens its regional premiere production from Aug. 30-Oct. 13.
And finally …
Motus Theater monologist Brandon Marlow Wainright died on July 30.
Lee Kathryn Gash-Maxey, executive director of the Colorado Black Chamber of Commerce, died July 30 at age 71. Gash-Maxey won a local Emmy Award while working for a Denver TV station, was president of her own media production company, and was the sister of noted theatrical director and fellow George Washington High School grad Kent Gash, who is presently director of the New Studio on Broadway at Tisch School of the Arts in New York. A service will be held at 11 a.m. Aug. 13 at People’s Presbyterian Church, 2780 York St. …
Likewise, Boulder’s Motus Theater is mourning monologist Brandon Marlow Wainright, who in 2019 worked with the company to develop personal stories about the criminal legal system, then stayed on to help advocate for local and national reforms. Wainright, affectionately known as “B-Dub,” died July 30 in what his family is calling “a tragic accident.” He leaves a wife and three children. A GoFundMe has been launched, and a celebration is planned for 1 p.m. Aug. 10 at Chapel of Memories, 829 S. Hancock Ave. in Colorado Springs.
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