In Karen Zacarias' adaptation of Helen Thorpe's nonfiction tome about immigration, "Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America," the incursion of the journa…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:59PMNone other than doomed salesman Willy Loman shared this insight recently: "I realize Willy's not the hero, Biff is." Or rather, Mike Hartman, the actor portraying Willy in the Denver Center …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:49PMA gentlemen's wager at London's elite Reform Club leads one of its more mysterious members on a quest to circumnavigate the globe, his new manservant in tow.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:09PMAs its title suggests, Jeff Campbell's wildly funny, sharply performed one-man show "Who Killed Jigaboo Jones?" is something of a murder mystery.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:07PMWhen the immigration drama "Just Like Us" has its world premiere at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts' Stage Theatre on Oct. 10, it will in many ways mark the continuing saga of powe…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:52PMVicious parlor gatherings appear to be in vogue. Spring brought Yasmina Reza's "God of Carnage," with its uncorked hostilities between two sets of parents, to the Curious Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:53PMForget the inflammatory title. The poster for "Who Killed Jigaboo Jones?" makes people even more uncomfortable.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:36PMWant to flee the hospital waiting room at the start of "Next Fall," Geoffrey Nauffts' drama of faith and doubt, love and the spectre of wrenching loss?
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:53PM"Sister Act," the 1992 comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg, wasn't exactly a good movie. But lord, did it make a joyful, pleasing noise.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:52PMAs Mike Hartman and Lauren Klein go on stage as Linda Loman and her burdened husband, Willy Loman, in the Denver Center Theatre Company's staging of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," it…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:59PMAmy Herzog would be the first to tell you there's an explanatory density to her politically astute, personal drama "After the Revolution," having its regional premiere at Curious Theatre thr…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:57PMEven more than most classic musicals, "Camelot" leans heavily on its leads to give robust, tender, soaring voice to its story. In fact, the ensemble for Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:03PMRod Lansberry has embraced this dilemma before — and how. Last season, the Arvada Center artistic director headed into theater's cavernous vault, dug out and dusted off "Man of La M…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:49PMNo doubt about it: "Priscilla Queen of the Desert - The Musical" arrives at the Buell Theatre dressed to thrill. In 2011, the feathered, sequined, bewigged spectacle won the Tony Award for b…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:45PMTheater's equivalent to the "No Pain, No Gain" adage might be something along the lines of "without risk, there's no reward." Which is why this prelude to the fall theater season includes a …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:27PM"Watershed (Part II: Soiled)" begins with vivid grace in the desiccated farmland of the Dust Bowl years and concludes in the present, with beachgoers slathering and blathering and hardly hee…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:13PMAt Saturday's performance of "Metamorphoses," the thoughtful folk at the Aurora Fox provided theatergoers in the first rows with the thin plastic ponchos you might expect passengers on Niaga…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:35PMIn a sense, Vintage Theatre's production of the Tony-winning "In the Heights" has returned composer-lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda's street-savvy work to its roots. This is not entirely a good …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:08PMPeter Handke's aggressive and eloquent play "Offending the Audience" - at Germinal Stage Denver through Aug. 25 - strikes a challenging tone that puts one in mind of another smartly contrari…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:37PMTragedy or romance? If there is a debate about which genre Shakespeare's later play "Cymbeline" occupies, Colorado Springs' TheatreWorks has weighed in with its annual - and delightful - Sha…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:20PMA women on the lam from her marriage meets a jilted alcoholic with a wooden barrel headed to Niagara Falls.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:33PMLet's start with hope. For Senior Housing Options' play/fundraiser, hope takes root offstage.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:33PMDuring a post-performance talkback after the emotionally demanding one-woman show "The Year of Magical Thinking" — at Fort Collins' Bas Bleu Theatre through Sunday — actress W…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:49PMArtie Shaughnessy plays the piano (not so well) and composes songs (even worse). As portrayed by Tom Auclair in the Edge Theatre Company's well-performed production of John Guare's "The Hous…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:39PMThe globe-trotting performance piece "17 Border Crossings" — at Buntport through Saturday — could easily have been part of the recently concluded Biennial of the Americas.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:40PMThe Phamaly Theatre Company's "Fiddler on the Roof" soars. Directed by Steve Wilson and featuring a wise and measured turn by Mark Dissette, this production delivers a rousingly tender versi…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:40PMWhat! What the?! So went my reaction last month when I saw that the Denver Center Theatre Company's world premiere of "Sense & Sensibility The Musical" wasn't nominated for the outstand…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:59PMSophia Hummel sits in Denver's Rooster & Moon cafe wearing a delicate silver necklace and a peasant-style blouse. The blouse seems fitting, given the 19-year-old's role as the titular fiddle…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:11PMWith "Curtains," the Arvada Center isn't merely aiming to leave its audience laughing. Whistling and wanting more is more like it.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:38PMThe title of D onald Margulies' drama "Collected Stories" is descriptive but hardly does justice to his beautifully layered take on the six-year relationship between author Ruth Steiner
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:47PMWhen ex-convict Jean Valjean and a Lower East Side sweetie known as Kate Monster take the stage at New York's Minskoff Theatre on Monday night, it will not be their first time on Broadway.
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