Thursday, February 28, 2013
The tricky challenge of making experimental theater is often one of precision. Idea-infused plays demand particularly agile work from their performers and directors.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:47PMMonday, February 25, 2013
As promised, Denver Center Attractions has announced dates for the return engagement of the record-breaking, wise-cracking musical. Subscribers to the Denver Center Attractions 2013-2014 sea…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:33PMThursday, February 21, 2013
This is the note security consultant Frank W. Abagnale sends out to banks before arriving to share his peculiar wisdom about fraud, identity theft and other pesky issues and cons that bede…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:42PMThursday, February 14, 2013
"Fast Births Fugue," the first vignette of 20 in "Motherhood Out Loud," proves to be a bit of bait and switch on the part of the show's director, Bob Wells, who founded the Avenue Theater,…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:41PMBalconies? What balconies? We don't need no stinking balconies. OK, that sentiment might be a bit rough for William Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:39PMThursday, February 7, 2013
The story may sound familiar: A faithful secretary and her married boss slowly develop a relationship that begins to look a lot like love.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:37PMThursday, January 31, 2013
In order to have a real chance of captivating audiences when "Jekyll & Hyde" arrives on Broadway in late April, this revamp of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's Broadway musical needs to…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:20PMAn ambitious mingling of the cerebral and the physically demanding is underway at the Denver Center's performance-in-the-round Space Theater.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:42PMMonday, January 28, 2013
That Noël Coward. Who does he think he is ... George Bernard Shaw? So went my thinking when an usher said — or was it a warning?
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:09PMFriday, January 25, 2013
Like a number of his they-wuz-robbed "American Idol" kin, Constantine Maroulis has done quite well for himself.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:40PMThursday, January 24, 2013
Anyone who's ever peeked into a lover's journal or snooped their text messages takes a chance on getting more misery than they bargained for. Imagine the dangers of opening the Pandora's box…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:14PMIf the Denver Center's Colorado New Play Summit exists to care, feed and herald new work, then "Ed, Downloaded" doesn't disappoint. Far from it.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:37PMIn 2012, the Physically Handicapped Actors & Musical Artists League changed its name from the slightly unwieldy but sweet acronym PHAMALy to the Phamaly Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:31PMFriday, January 18, 2013
For the world premiere of Lauren Feldman's "Grace, or the Art of Climbing," a spare scaffolding of black steel beams juts up from the floor of the Denver Center's Space Theatre.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:47PMThursday, January 17, 2013
"Maple and Vine" is packed with ideas about presence and nostalgia, about what we think ails us and what we imagine might be the tonic.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:40PMRight about now, the 29-year-old playwright appears to be the type of secret everyone will soon know. His sci-fi, multimedia play "Ed, Downloaded" receives its world premiere when it opens a…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:46AMWednesday, January 16, 2013
Over coffee, playwright Michael Mitnick tells you he's fond of "what-if" scenarios. So here's one. What if, instead of famously uttering "plastics," the associate of Benjamin Braddock's fath…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:10PMThursday, January 10, 2013
During the opening-night performance of "War Horse" at the Buell Theatre, a very polite, preternaturally calm voice interrupted the pitched battlefield action to say there had been a technic…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:54PMIn the one-man show "RFK — A Portrait of Robert Kennedy," Sen. Bobby Kennedy takes a moment to share his pleasure in a train tour he's taking around California during the 1968 Democr…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:47PMNostalgia is such a tricky matter. Just ask the folks at Curious Theatre Company, who are about to plunge into that sentimental ache with the regional premiere of "Maple and Vine," opening S…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:43PMFriday, January 4, 2013
What do a national state of emergency, a hyena and a twig have in common with "War Horse," the astounding play by Nick Stafford and the Handspring Puppet Company set during World War I?
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:54PMThursday, January 3, 2013
At one point in Ignite Theatre's impressive production of the rock musical "Next to Normal," Diana Goodman (Margie Lamb) shares a dance with her teenage son, Gabe.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:02PMFriday, December 28, 2012
In 2012, Colorado saw somewhere between 450 and 500 stage productions. So our friends at the Colorado Theatre Guild tell us. This daunting number does not include shows the state's many c…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:43PMThursday, December 27, 2012
While January may be catch-up month for filmgoers bent on winning Oscar pools, fresh local theater offerings hurtle into the New Year like a pent-up thoroughbred dashing head-long for the fi…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:43PMWhile January may be catch-up month for filmgoers bent on winning Oscar pools, fresh local theater offerings hurtle into the New Year like a pent-up thoroughbred dashing head-long for the fi…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:02PMFriday, December 21, 2012
2012 was a defining year in Colorado culture.It was a year of dazzling art exhibits. Thrilling musical moments. Triumphant theater. Inspiring filmmaking. Galvanizing television events. Bril…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:07PMThursday, December 20, 2012
How do you not like a problem like Maria? Ever since Julie Andrews made Rodgers and Hammerstein's heroine indelible and yearly TV broadcasts made her part of our family, Maria's journey …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:44PMBoulder's Dinner Theatre's production of the musical comedy "42nd Street" proves that you don't need tinsel, Christmas carols and faux snow to please an audience during the holiday season.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:41PMWednesday, December 12, 2012
It was a magical snowfall, a too-long-deferred bliss. It was the kind of beautiful fib one finds only in a theater.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:36PMThursday, December 6, 2012
Snowflakes are drifting gently down at the Buell Theatre until Christmas Eve. And it makes for a very special effect indeed. But then the Denver Center Theatre Company's "Irving Berlin's Wh…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:46PMIt's not the dance of sugar plum fairies that's required of Christmas season theater fare. No, the challenge is to pull off something akin to a minuet of the familiar and the special, the se…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:42PM 
