Thursday, June 11, 2015
In Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical play "Brighton Beach Memoirs" — at Golden's Miners Alley Playhouse through June 28 — a family occupies a crowded Brooklyn, N.Y., home.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:10PMSunday, May 31, 2015
Wellington and Wilma Webb are hardly strangers to the public's gaze.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:52AMFriday, May 22, 2015
Creede knows how to throw a party — this time for itself. This season marks the box-canyon theater's 50th year, and the company commissioned a play about its founding in 1966.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:15AMWhen the Bobby G. Awards take place at the Buell Theatre Thursday night, some unnervingly poised teen thespian would do well to hoist the award and say, "This one's for Randy!"
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:45AMTuesday, May 19, 2015
In the program notes for the engaging and subtle "Fermata," playwright and actress Maria Cheng names three artists who influenced her play about three generations of women accomplished in
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:24PMFriday, May 15, 2015
In Lisa D'Amour's "Detroit" — currently at the Curious Theatre Company — married couple Ben and Mary invite new younger neighbors Sharon and Kenny over for a backyard mea…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:02PMThursday, May 14, 2015
If you're one of those people who likes a title to reveal its meaning quickly, then Lisa D'Amour's "Detroit" may gnaw at you as you watch newish neighbors Ben and Mary, Sharon and Ken…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:17PMFriday, May 8, 2015
In "Hysteria," an urgent knock on the garden doors of his London study stirs Sigmund Freud from his ruminations.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:57PMThursday, May 7, 2015
For decades now, the pipeline from Park City to a place called summer has been the condiut to channel smart, funny, challenging (all of the above) fare into arthouses and to give moviegoers …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:55PMThursday, April 30, 2015
Lakewood's Edge Theater Company has been on a roll this year, already mounting regional premieres of two vexingly named, compelling plays.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:04PMFriday, April 24, 2015
In a fluorescent-blasted rehearsal room in the Arvada Center, a group of actors are having a kinetic go at a jig.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:45PMThursday, April 23, 2015
It was — and fortunately remains — quite the weekend for intriguing theater.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:25PMThursday, April 9, 2015
Something visceral and vivid is taking place at the Denver Center, where the musical "The 12" is receiving its world premiere. Robert Schenkkan wrote the book and Neil Berg the music. The tw…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:24PMNoah Baumbach has pulled off a minor miracle. Twice. In the 2010 dramedy "Greenberg" and now in the deliciously observed "While We're Young," the writer-director has taken Ben Stiller's oft …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:09AMTuesday, April 7, 2015
If you're in the mood for foolish fun, a trip to the Lone Tree Arts Center may be in order, where you'll find the clever romp "The 39 Steps."
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:02PMThis year marks Arthur Miller's centenary. So it makes sense that last weekend saw the Miller baton passed from one local theater to another when "All My Sons" closed at the Cherry Cre…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:20PMThursday, April 2, 2015
There are more than 40 hits jammed into the jukebox pleasure "Motown the Musical," at the Buell Theatre through April 19.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:28PMFriday, September 12, 2014
Pip, pip, hooray!That might be the easy response to the national tour of "Pippin," which had its dazzling launch Wednesday.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:45PMSaturday, September 6, 2014
Singer-songwriter SuCh tells the audience gathered at Jazz @ Jack's on a Sunday night more than once that she loves them.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:57PMFriday, 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 07:54PM 
