When 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.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:36PMBrothers and sisters, can he get a witness? Can the blind man once a king, now accompanied in his exile by his loyal daughter, get a witness — a theater full of them, in fact?
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:07PMWith "Dust Storm," Theatre Esprit Asia gets its inaugural gambit just right, delivering a work that is modest and ambitious, spare and emotionally textured.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:42PMTracing circles — that may be one way to describe the goings on at Su Teatro Arts and Culture Center right now.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:56PMIf ever there was a theatrical form meant to play to the folks in the balcony, it would be the musical. The mantra often appears to be: Go big, brash, extravagant or go home.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:43PMTown Hall Arts Center's "Hair " wastes nary a nanosecond before plunging us into the Dionysian waters of James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot's ground-breaking musical.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:02PMThat Dorothy Gale, what a trouper she's become. In the Boulder's Dinner Theatre show, the girl from Kansas - made indelible by Judy Garland and 1939's movie "The Wizard of Oz," based on the …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:05PMDon't blame the stars/victims of the tremendously slight comedy "And Then There Was Nun" — the nuns of the Holy Order of the Sisters of San Andreas.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:54PMPlanning a trip this summer? Choose your dates carefully - there are more than a few reasons to stick close to home instead. Denver reaches for new heights this season with a brilliant bil…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:41PMMary Tyrone's husband and oldest son are actors. Her youngest is a writer of sorts. With those artistic temperaments butting heads in the living room of their summer house, one might imagin…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:33PMAs some of the area's most consistently satisfying theaters end their seasons, laughter — bittersweet, cruel or in the case of the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company's "Bach at Leipzig"
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:52PMIn the fast-growing, fictional Texas town of Harrison, the two elders in "Dividing the Estate" sit in the parlor of the Gordon family home, feet propped up, resting before a big family dinn…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:52PMWhen French playwright Yasmina Reza's bitterly comedic drama "God of Carnage" (translated by Christopher Hampton) went to Broadway, the living-room skirmish made itself at home for 452 perfo…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:16PMThere are many more nos than yeses uttered in the Edge Theatre Company's production of "The Shadow Box." Yet by the end of Michael Cristofer's bittersweet drama about terminal illness, the…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:49PMThe title of Buntport Theater Company's latest — "A Knight to Remember" — is a clever if mildly hazardous title.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:15AM"A musical about love.' " Sigh. At first, the tagline for "The Color Purple" seems so, well, corny. So what a revelation the boundless and deep production at the Aurora Fox proves to b…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:12PMTo tell the story of sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood properly, director Marcia Milgrom Dodge wanted a hill. On that, she said, she could not budge.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:48PMMy parents' church had a soloist whose wavering singing sounded like that of the Cowardly Lion when he holds the "king of the for-rest" notes.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:54PMJon Robin Baitz's family drama "Other Desert Cities" wastes no time acquainting us with the Wyeths.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:52PMFor one final weekend, something masterful is taking place at Boulder's Dairy Center for the Arts. Which is rich, given that one of the themes of the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company's produ…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:54PMIt is 2 in the afternoon on a Friday in the south of France, and Pablo Picasso is taking a bath. He uses an oven mitt as a washcloth. He smiles at us. He cheerily pontificates.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:49PMJane Austen wrote about baseball — or at least a game akin to it. So we're not taking liberties when we say that with the world premiere of "Sense & Sensibility The Musical…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:01AMA priest's homily gets a little personal. And though it's unlikely his parishioners recognize the serrated edge in his cautionary tale about gossip, the audience for "Doubt, a Parable" sure…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:28PMLong before a grizzled Don Quixote launches into a rumbling rendition of the indelible ballad "The Impossible Dream," the Arvada Center has already achieved the improbable task.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:27PMClinnesha Sibley's drama "Tell Martha Not to Moan" opens with octogenarians Martha and Leroy readying to attend the 40th commemoration of the 1967 Detroit riots.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:24PM"The greatest piece of writing by an American playwright under 30 in a generation or more" stated the Chicago Tribune on the occasion of a 2010 production of Tarell Alvin McCraney's "Brother…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:22PMA night spent at a honkytonk bar, listening to a has-been country singer hardly sounds like a meta outing.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:40PMThe three actors entrusted with introducing local audiences t o the work of the much-heralded young playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney sit in the back room of the converted church that is home…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:29PMCall it a glimpse into the chipper dystopian. After all, there are danceable beats, bubble-gum and neon hues and scads of youthful quirks in the Catamounts' production of the futurist ta…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:55PMMeredith Monk has been creating complex, beautiful, challenging work for more than five decades as a composer, theater director, performer, filmmaker.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:28PMThe tricky challenge of making experimental theater is often one of precision. Idea-infused plays demand particularly agile work from their performers and directors.
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