Exhibit
- Regina Taylor
- Jada Suzanne Dixon
- May 10-25, 2025
- May 8-9, 2025
- Buy Now
World Premiere
Written by and Starring Regina Taylor
EXHIBIT is a powerful exploration of erasure, memory, and the battle to preserve African American history. At the center of the story is Iris, an artist whose work is being removed from museums and whose biography is vanishing from databases. Faced with the threat of cultural erasure, Iris begins to recall fragments of her own martyred childhood—memories of integrating a school during the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
These flashbacks are windows into a sharply divided America, a nation at a crossroads—caught between progress and regression. Iris grapples with the haunting question: Are we moving forward, or are we moving backward?
Written by and starring Regina Taylor—actress, director, playwright, educator, and activist—EXHIBIT is a poignant reminder of the ongoing fight to keep history alive and to honor the stories that have shaped this country.
Find the playbill for Exhibit here.
CONTENT ADVISORY: Curious offers a public advisory about any stage effect of potential concern to patrons’ health, such as strobe lights, theatrical fog or smoking. This production of EXHIBIT does not contain any of these effects:EXHIBIT is best suited for ages 12 and up. Curious also offers voluntary advisories about subject matter. If you would like to read the content advisory for EXHIBIT, click the “Details” arrow below.
Details
Details for EXHIBIT:This production contains radicalized language.
If you have any questions about content, age appropriateness, or stage effects (such as strobe lights or theatrical fog) that might impact your experience, please contact the box office at 303-623-0524
Dates & Times
| Date | Time | Additional Information | |
| Thu, May 15, 2025 | 7:30 PM | Buy now | |
| Fri, May 16, 2025 | 7:30 PM | Teen Night & Post-Show Conversation | Buy now |
| Sat, May 17, 2025 | 7:30 PM | Buy now | |
| Sun, May 18, 2025 | 2:00 PM | Director's Cut: Tea and Talk with Regina Taylor (additional ticket required) | Buy now |
| Wed, May 21, 2025 | 7:30 PM | Post-Show Conversation | Buy now |
| Thu, May 22, 2025 | 7:30 PM | Buy now | |
| Fri, May 23, 2025 | 7:30 PM | Buy now | |
| Sat, May 24, 2025 | 7:30 PM | Post-Show Conversation | Buy now |
| Sun, May 25, 2025 | 2:00 PM | Closing Night | Buy now |
Cast
Production Team
- Tina Anderson, Scenic Designer
- Wayne Breyer, Props Designer
- Katie Hopwood, Props Designer
- Lara Maerz, Stage Manager
- Jon Olson, Lightning Designer
- Caden Pazo, Assistant Stage Manager
- Sabrina Abbott, Assistant Sound Designer
- Janice Benning Lacek, Costume Designer
- CeCe Smith, Sound Designer
- Evette Srouji, Assistant Director
- Heidi Schmidt, Dramaturg
EXHIBIT BY REGINA TAYLOR. lives as a play that is PRESENTED live BY CURIOUS THEATER COMPANY includes slides and film projections as well as actual objects holding central character Iris’ history and memory. On display, on the stage, and through a QR code that takes audiences beyond.
An exhibit goes throughout the Curious Theater in the lobby, enclaves, and in the Sanctuary, of Iris work/history/memory
in the form of photos, collages, paintings, and video. For this premiere of Exhibit at Curious Theater the writer has created interviews and video portraits of Denver’s Trailblazers. Shown at the theater and accessed online are videos of Carlotta Walls Lanier, Leslie Herod, Nicholle Harris, Dianne Briscoe-McKenzie, Dzirae Gold, Wilma J. Webb, Cleo Parker Robinson, and Vanessa Blacknall-Jamison .
Taylor has an open invitation for Denver creatives to share their work on this space in whatever medium you choose to express what is on your mind about the times we’re moving through right now. Because now is not the time to be silent
Please send to Curious Theater Marketing Manager, Emily Whalen at emily@curioustheatre.org.
PLEASE continue to browse this page – Regina Taylor’s Exhibit presented by Curious Theater to see the work of the Author/IRIS SPEARS as well as Denver and collaborators across this nation.
“Am I too old to switch forms-
To learn a new language-
to pass down these stories
with a new tongueTo take from my past
And create new ways
For our stories to escape
I now write down each day
Speak out loud
The moments-
attach to the cloud
-record on air-
To somehow make these times concrete
somewhere-
As plans move forward
to silence and erase
Our history
I keep trying to find
as many ways
to preserve and share
how we got from there
To Here
So we can make it
over-“– Iris Spears
VIDEO PORTRAITS OF TRAILBLAZERS
INTERVIEWS
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Cleo Parker Robinson
Dianne Briscoe-McKenzie
Dzirae Gold
Leslie Herod
Nicholle Harris
Vanessa Blacknall-Jamison
Wilma J. Webb
January 6
Deja Vu by Regina Taylor
“I Can’t Erase This” – Kai Warrior