Colorado’s arts funding is down, but the state is in the middle of a theatre boom, with new projects sprouting everywhere. “The 20 projects range in cost from the city of Denver’s taxpayer-authorized, $75 million renovation of the Auditorium Theatre to the $75,000 it is costing John Ashton to turn a fur-storage shop into a new, 99-seat home for his 16-year-old Avenue Theater.”