Friday, September 5, 2014
The word "Orwellian" got quite the workout at the recent 41st Telluride Film Festival.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:18PMSaturday, August 30, 2014
Playwright/Performer Martin Moran returns to his hometown with a reprise of his Obie award-winning, one-man show, "The Tricky Part," about confronting the church counselor he had a "relation…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:10PMIt wasn't quite the toppling of a monarch. But it came awfully close. Stephen Schwartz and Roger Hirson's 1973 Broadway musical "Pippin" recounts the tale of a restless young prince named P…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:50PMFriday, August 29, 2014
Vintage Theatre has returned to the New Orleans apartment of Stanley Kowalski and wife Stella in a solid and subtle production of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:54PMThursday, August 14, 2014
The Denver Center Theatre Company has unveiled the final show of its 2014-2015 season.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:10PMWednesday, August 6, 2014
It may be an overstatement to declare this but what the heck: Classical musical opera-style * * * ½ If a theater company — or in this instance the Central City Opera &mdas…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:31PMThursday, July 31, 2014
For many, Neil Simon's famous divorced duo Oscar Madison and Felix Ungar came by way of TV, not the stage, when Jack Klugman and Tony Randall inhabited the roles on the 1970s sitcom.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:46PMThursday, July 24, 2014
It was a resonant and rending weekend lineup. First up, the opening of the one-woman play "Who Will Sing for Lena?
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:01PMWednesday, July 23, 2014
One thing became clear by the end of the 9th Annual Henry Awards: Playwright Matthew Lopez is the real deal.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:19PMSaturday, July 19, 2014
There they were: George and Martha snarling, snapping, gnawing on each other's emotional limbs.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:27PMFriday, July 18, 2014
The timeless tale of a orphaned boy adopted by an ape mother — complete with vine swinging!
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:30PMWednesday, July 16, 2014
It's a small miracle that can happen at rock concerts and Sunday worship services. Yes, the shared voice of the crowd can be a thing of transcendent wonder.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:54PMThursday, July 10, 2014
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Roxxy Duda stepped onto the University Theatre stage one recent Sunday to introduce a matinee performance of "I Hate Hamlet.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:45PMSaturday, July 5, 2014
It's almost too easy to say that the Arvada Center's production of the Disney musical "Tarzan" won't mean a thing if it ain't got some swing.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:46PMWednesday, July 2, 2014
A son is sent packing by his parents with the upbeat promise that there's a "Big Bright Beautiful World" out there.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:50PMThursday, June 26, 2014
It's probably a few years yet before Abby Noble and Conner Kingsley feel the need to thank agents, managers, publicists from an awards gala podium.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:12PMIn "I Hate Hamlet," successful actor Andrew Rally arrives in New York from Los Angeles after the end of his TV series, "L.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:22PMFriday, June 20, 2014
There's some mighty fine two-stepping taking place in the intimate musical "Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky," having its Colorado premiere at Colorado Springs' Fine Arts Center (thro…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:24PMThursday, June 19, 2014
As often as "The Tempest" is performed, it still comes as a surprise how truly strange a work it can be.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:46PMSaturday, June 7, 2014
Broadway's biggest party — the American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards — is set to sashay into Radio City Music Hall tonight.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:24PMFriday, June 6, 2014
It's OK if you detect a trace of Walter White and a touch of "American Hustle " in "Peggy Jo and the Desolate Nothing," onstage at Bunport though June 21.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:41PMWednesday, June 4, 2014
Musicals are treated at times as if they are built solely for belting. So each year, when the Cherry Creek Theatre presents its summer musical, it offers up-close-and-personal lessons…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:04PMThursday, May 29, 2014
For four weekends, Buntport and Square Product Theater have joined forces to consider the tale of cross-dressing bank robber Peggy Jo Tallas, as only two of the area's most creatively heads…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:02PMFriday, May 23, 2014
Two of the area's most inspired, zany theater companies — Denver's Buntport and Boulder's Square Product Theatre — team up for the final work of their seasons.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:33PMThursday, May 22, 2014
So ferocious were the cultural appetites — from painting to music to literature — that the 1920s rightly earned the moniker the Roaring Twenties.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:38PMFriday, May 16, 2014
The fog insinuating itself above the stage before the Curious Theatre Company's "Venus in Fur" plunges the audience into questions of eros and power and speaks to both the chill and smold…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:42PMFriday, May 9, 2014
Should a play be taken to task for the news cycle it arrives in? Probably not. Unless that work actually invites the scrutiny.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:37PMThursday, May 8, 2014
An original love story deserves an equally unique telling. The Tony-winning musical "Once" — at the Buell for too fleeting a moment — is just that.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:57PMSaturday, May 3, 2014
"The Great Gatsby" gang — Jay and Nick, Tom and Daisy — are still on invitation lists this season.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:36AMThursday, May 1, 2014
A storm is lashing the night sky outside a honky-tonk bar in Mobile, Ala. Thunderclaps occasionally punctuate the fast and furiously funny business taking place at the Garner Galleria,
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:21PM 
