What’s on in Denver this week

Where to go in Denver: events, concerts, games and shows worth your night

Denver has the most famous outdoor venue in the world fifteen miles from downtown and a music scene that has grown up around it: a mile-high city of theaters in one complex, four major-league teams, a brewery on every corner of the RiNo district, and a summer of shows under a sky that stays light until nine. Below is where to go in Denver for a night out, with addresses, and what tends to be on when.

Concerts and live music in Denver: Red Rocks and downtown

Red Rocks Amphitheatre (18300 W Alameda Parkway, Morrison, redrocksonline.com), 9,500 seats between two sandstone monoliths, runs from April to October and is the reason touring bands route through Colorado; book the shuttle from downtown. In the city, the Fillmore Auditorium (1510 Clarkson Street) and the Mission Ballroom (4242 Wynkoop Street) in RiNo take the mid-sized tours, the Ogden and the Bluebird on Colfax the smaller ones, and the Gothic in Englewood the rest. Arena tours play Ball Arena, and the Paramount on 16th Street the seated shows.

Denver nightlife: RiNo, LoDo, Capitol Hill and South Broadway

RiNo (River North) has the breweries, the Mission Ballroom and the murals; LoDo the bars near the ballpark; Capitol Hill along Colfax the venues and dive bars; South Broadway the record shops and the Hi-Dive. Bars close at 2 a.m. The light rail runs until about 1.

Theater, opera and dance in Denver

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (14th and Curtis) is the second-largest performing arts complex in the country: Opera Colorado, the Colorado Ballet and the Colorado Symphony at Boettcher Concert Hall, the Denver Center Theater Company’s own plays, and the Broadway tours at the Buell. Comedy Works in Larimer Square is one of the best clubs in America.

Sports in Denver

The Broncos at Empower Field at Mile High on fall Sundays, the Nuggets and the Avalanche at Ball Arena from October to April, the Rockies at Coors Field in LoDo from April to October, and the Rapids in Commerce City. A Rockies game at sunset with the mountains behind the outfield is the city’s postcard.

Museums and galleries in Denver

The Denver Art Museum (100 W 14th Avenue Parkway), in Libeskind’s titanium building, has free days through the year; the Clyfford Still Museum next door holds the painter’s whole estate; the Museum of Contemporary Art in LoDo is open late on Fridays. The Santa Fe Arts District opens on the first Friday of the month.

Denver festivals and events by season

• Winter: the National Western Stock Show in January, the Nuggets and Avalanche, and skiing an hour west.
• Spring: Red Rocks opening in April, Rockies opening day, and Denver Day of Rock in May.
• Summer: the Underground Music Showcase on South Broadway in July, the Red Rocks season at its peak, Denver PrideFest in June, and the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival.
• Fall: the Great American Beer Festival in October, the opera and symphony seasons opening, and Broncos Sundays.

Things to do in Denver tonight and this weekend

The listings above are the live version of all this: every concert, show, game, club night and exhibition on in Denver tonight, tomorrow and this weekend, with times, prices and tickets, updated every hour.