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The Bug Theatre The Bug Theatre is Denver's most unique live theatre and film screening room.

🎃➡️It may be spooky season, but The Bug is already dreaming of giving season!🎁While everyone else is carving pumpkins, w...
10/13/2026

🎃➡️It may be spooky season, but The Bug is already dreaming of giving season!🎁

While everyone else is carving pumpkins, we’re busy gathering treasures for the return of The 12 Days of Bug-mas: A Very Buggy Holiday Fundraiser, running Black Friday (Nov 27th) through Colorado Gives Day (Dec 8th). 🐞

As part of the fundraising festivities our online silent auction is back! Last year more than 50 local businesses, artists, and makers helped fill it with weird & wonderful goodies, and we’d love YOU to be part of this year’s lineup!

We’re gratefully accepting:
💌 Gift certificates, goods, or services from local businesses
🎨 Artwork, handmade treasures, or creative experiences
🎟️ Event tickets, lessons, or one-of-a-kind items
👻 Or whatever delightfully unexpected idea you can conjure up!

What donors receive:
💻 Recognition on our auction platform, with a link to your business
📣 A Bug-mas Donor Spotlight plus shout-outs across our social media and holiday emails
🧾 A tax-deductible donation receipt (The Bug is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit)
💖 And our eternal gratitude for helping keep the weird & wonderful thriving! 🐞

💖 Why It Matters 💖
For 32 years, The Bug has been Denver’s home for indie film, comedy, theatre, and storytelling. Every donated item helps us keep tickets affordable, support emerging artists, and keep creativity accessible to everyone in the historic Navajo Street Arts District.

👉 Want to donate? Fill out our quick form here: https://www.bugtheatre.org/silent-auction-donation
Or email us at [email protected]! 🐞

No tricks, just treats for a great cause. Thank you for helping keep The Bug buzzing! 🦇✨

✨ Together, we can light up The Bug for years to come. 🐞✨

🕯️ DenverFright: Mile High Fears EditionWhat keeps Denver up at night? Rent hikes? Blucifer? Whatever's really at the en...
10/13/2026

🕯️ DenverFright: Mile High Fears Edition

What keeps Denver up at night? Rent hikes? Blucifer? Whatever's really at the end of those DIA tunnels? 👽

Denverite's annual night of eerie, delightful and very local storytelling returns with a new theme: Denver's worst fears. Denverite staff and special guests bring true stories, true-ish tales and local lore, including climate dread, Denver's astrological chart and a peek inside the city's cemeteries. Some stories will chill you, some will crack you up, and a few might make you look twice at the big blue bear on your drive home. 👻

👉 Tonight's show is officially sold out. Missed out? Join the waitlist at the link below. Got tickets? Here’s what you need to know:

🕖 Doors at 6:00pm | Show at 6:30pm
🎟️ Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/denverfright-mile-high-fears-edition

🎬⭐ EFPalooza returns to The Bug!Join us October 15th – 17th for EFPalooza Film Festival 2026, a three-day film festival ...
10/12/2026

🎬⭐ EFPalooza returns to The Bug!

Join us October 15th – 17th for EFPalooza Film Festival 2026, a three-day film festival celebrating The Emerging Filmmaker's Project, the home of Denver’s independent film scene since 2002. Hosted at the historic Bug Theatre, the event will showcase the work of local filmmakers, featuring favorites from past years as well as several EFP premieres, with the filmmakers in attendance to take part in a spirited ‘talkback’ with the audience.

📅 Thursday, Oct 15th: Opening night with the October EFP at 7:00pm, plus free b**r (21+ w/valid ID) courtesy of Ratio Beerworks
📅 Friday, Oct 16th: Short film blocks at 6:00pm and 8:30pm
📅 Saturday, Oct 17th: Short film blocks at 12:00pm, 2:30pm, 6:00pm, and 8:30pm
🍻 Saturday Filmmaker Happy Hour: 4:30pm – 5:30pm at Acova (right across the street!)
🕢 Doors open 30 minutes before each block

🎟️ Thursday: $5 only at the door
🎟️ Friday and Saturday: $10 per block or $15 per day
🎟️ Full Festival Pass: $25 for every block, Thursday included

🔗 Tickets and info: https://thebugtheatre.simpletix.com/f/2453

⭐ SAW The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of SawLast call, Denver: SAW The Musical takes its final bows this weekend! 🎶...
10/09/2026

⭐ SAW The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw

Last call, Denver: SAW The Musical takes its final bows this weekend! 🎶

After five blood-soaked, sold-out weeks, Lawrence and Adam are leaving the bathroom trap for good. If you haven’t caught this Little Shop of Horrors meets Avenue Q horror-comedy yet, this is your very last chance, and seats are almost gone.

📅 Friday, October 9th at 7:30pm
📅 Saturday, October 10th at 5:00pm & 8:30pm
📅 Sunday, October 11th at 1:00pm & 5:00pm
🕖 Doors open 30 minutes before show
⚠️ Explicit content, strobe effects & simulated gore — mature audiences only
🎟️ Tickets: https://feverup.com/m/708466

Game over is Sunday. Grab a seat while you still can! 🪚

🦈🪚 Sharks, Saws & Storytellers (Oh My): It's Spooky Season At The Bug 🎃🐞It's 85 degrees, and our sweaters are still wait...
10/08/2026

🦈🪚 Sharks, Saws & Storytellers (Oh My): It's Spooky Season At The Bug 🎃🐞

It's 85 degrees, and our sweaters are still waiting patiently in the closet, but October is shaping up to be our weirdest month yet. 🍂👻

🪚 Closing October 11th — SAW The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw | This boundary-pushing horror-comedy musical takes its final, gory bow this weekend, so this is your very last chance to play the game. (Act fast, because tickets are just about gone!)

🕯️ Tuesday, October 13th & Wednesday, October 14th — DenverFright: Mile High Fears Edition | Denverite's annual night of eerie, delightful and very local storytelling returns with a new theme: Denver's worst fears.

🎞️ Thursday, October 15th - Saturday, October 17th — EFPalooza Film Festival 2026 | Three days, a stack of short films, and some of Denver's best indie filmmakers under one roof.

💛 Sunday, October 18th — Gather: A Storytelling Event Benefiting The Delores Project | Storytellers, poets and musicians from our community will take the stage with original works that are personal, joyful, complicated and unexpected.

📝 Tuesday, October 20th — WIFMCO’s Annual Screenplay Contest Table Read | Three scripts. One $1,000 prize. Your vote picks the winner.

🌹 Thursday, October 29th — The Room + Big Shark: Tommy Wiseau Double Feature | Tommy Wiseau's cult double feature is back by popular demand! Includes a costume contest with fabulous prizes!

There's a ton more happening this month, so we're also giving you a sneak peek at the second half of October (hopefully the sweaters will be out by then). Come get spooky with us. 🐈‍⬛🎃 Read the latest Bug Buzz now! 🐞

🔗 https://mailchi.mp/bugtheatre/october-2026-bug-buzz-1

📺 We're going on TV, Denver!Today at 11:40am, EFPalooza programmer John Williams and The Bug's Executive Artistic Direct...
10/08/2026

📺 We're going on TV, Denver!

Today at 11:40am, EFPalooza programmer John Williams and The Bug's Executive Artistic Director Alex Weimer will be live on 9NEWS (airing on My20/KTVD) to talk all things EFPalooza 2026: the festival's accidental beginnings, what's in store this year, and why Denver's indie film scene is worth celebrating. 🎬

How to watch:
💻 Stream live: 9news.com/watch
📡 Antenna: Channel 20.1
📺 Comcast Xfinity: Channel 5 (SD) or 657 (HD)
📺 CenturyLink Prism: Channel 20 or 1020
📱 Or on the 9NEWS app & 9NEWS+ (Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV)

Then join us October 15th – 17th for EFPalooza Film Festival 2026!
🔗 Tickets and info: https://www.simpletix.com/e/2026-efpalooza-film-festival-tickets-295148

🍿 Tonight: Movie Night with Adam and Rory and BenThree funny guys, one movie, zero respect for the plot.Adam Cayton-Holl...
10/07/2026

🍿 Tonight: Movie Night with Adam and Rory and Ben

Three funny guys, one movie, zero respect for the plot.

Adam Cayton-Holland, Rory Scovel and Ben Roy (comedians and certified heartthrobs) are taking over The Bug to talk over an entire movie. Which movie? Exactly. Grab a drink or a snack from concessions, settle in, and let these three ruin cinema in the best way possible.

🕖 Doors 7:00pm | Show 7:30pm
🎟️ SOLD OUT, but a few tickets may be available at the door

Feeling lucky? Swing by early and try your luck at the door. ⭐

⭐ SAW The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw— Two Shows!Would you follow the rules? 🪚Two strangers wake up in a bat...
10/04/2026

⭐ SAW The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw— Two Shows!

Would you follow the rules? 🪚

Two strangers wake up in a bathroom with no memory of how they got there, a body between them, and a very clear set of instructions... except this time, they sing about it.

SAW The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw is on stage at the Bug tonight — Little Shop of Horrors meets Avenue Q, with all the horror, all the heart, and way more fluids than you'd expect from a musical.

Direct from New York, this strictly limited 5-week run wraps up October 11, so don't wait around like you're in the movie.

📅 Two Shows: 1:00pm & 5:00pm
🕖 Doors open 30 minutes before showtime
⚠️ Explicit content, strobe effects & simulated gore — mature audiences only
🎟️ Tickets: https://feverup.com/m/708466

Get your tickets before the game's over.

🪚 SAW The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw — Two Shows Today!This boundary-pushing horror-comedy musical hilariou...
10/03/2026

🪚 SAW The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw — Two Shows Today!

This boundary-pushing horror-comedy musical hilariously reimagines the iconic bathroom trap scene from the original Saw film — think Little Shop of Horrors meets Avenue Q, with explicit humor, simulated gore, and a twisted love story fans of the franchise will eat up. Direct from New York, back by popular demand for 5 weeks only this Halloween season.

📅 Two Shows: 5:00pm & 8:30pm
🕖 Doors 30 minutes before show
⚠️ Explicit content, strobe effects & simulated gore — mature audiences only
🎟️ Tickets: https://feverup.com/m/708466

Expect a wild ride blending horror, humor, and heartfelt moments, perfect for fans who want to laugh their way through this classic’s legacy. Runs through October 11th — grab your tickets before they're gone! 🔪

⭐ SAW The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of SawWould you follow the rules? 🪚Two strangers wake up in a bathroom with n...
10/02/2026

⭐ SAW The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw

Would you follow the rules? 🪚

Two strangers wake up in a bathroom with no memory of how they got there, a body between them, and a very clear set of instructions... except this time, they sing about it.

SAW The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw is on stage at the Bug tonight — think Little Shop of Horrors meets Avenue Q, with all the horror, all the heart, and way more fluids than you'd expect from a musical.

Direct from New York, this strictly limited 5-week run wraps up October 11, so don't wait around like you're in the movie.

🕖 Doors at 7:00pm | Show at 7:30pm
⚠️ Explicit content, strobe effects & simulated gore — mature audiences only
🎟️ Tickets: https://feverup.com/m/708466

Get your tickets before the game's over. ⏳

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3654 Navajo Street
Denver, CO
80211

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