Thursday, December 6, 2012
It'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 05:42PMThursday, November 29, 2012
The sitting room in J.B Priestley's farce "When We Are Married" is spacious. It needs to be. Alderman Joseph Helliwell's parlor will be the site of many an entrance and exit, some fast, so…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:22PMFriday, November 23, 2012
Megan Van De Hey doesn't mean to upstage her colleagues in Vintage Theatre's production of "Kiss of the Spider Woman," running through Dec. 2.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:00AMWednesday, November 21, 2012
Megan Van De Hey doesn't mean to upstage her colleagues in Vintage Theatre's production of "Kiss of the Spider Woman," running through Dec.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:54PMFriday, November 16, 2012
Playwright Donald Margulies has a gift for authentic gab. This talent served his Pulitzer Prize-winning marital drama, "Dinner With Friends," well.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:26PMPlaywright Donald Margulies has a gift for authentic gab. This talent served his Pulitzer Prize-winning marital drama, "Dinner With Friends," well.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:36AMThursday, November 1, 2012
Feast or famine. That might describe the rhythm of work for a theater director in this town, says Christy Montour-Larson.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:47PMThursday, October 25, 2012
Granted, the opening of the delirious musical "Sweet Tooth" and the arrival of a newly gussied up Blu-ray of "Sunset Boulevard" to my mailbox are purely coincidental. Yet, I can't help b…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:28PMFriday, October 19, 2012
Broads. Simply put, there aren't enough of them. Similar to dames — and there is nothing like one, to quote Rodgers and Hammerstein — they are "full-figured gals" metaphoricall…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:53PMThursday, October 18, 2012
It takes little time into "Avenue Q" — the charmingly wanton, puppet-populated musical by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty — to see why music man Lopez, and "The
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:08PMIn 1997, actor Eli Wallach reigned off-Broadway as the title character in Jeff Baron's two-person drama "Visiting Mr. Green."
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:38PMThursday, October 11, 2012
As soon as Felicia Boswell belts out the first number in "Memphis," it's easy to concede the hype, embrace it and even add to it.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:06PMA gritty rock musical about the nation's seventh president and an old-school, agitprop affair that teases present-day issues of immigration might not appear to have much in common.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:36PMFriday, October 5, 2012
"Memphis" opens Tuesday at the Buell. And the national tour of the Tony-winning musical about a white disc jockey whose love of black music leads him to challenge (in more ways than one) th…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:51PMThursday, October 4, 2012
When the curtain rises on the second act of the cross-dressing comedy "Is He Dead?" — written by a fellow named Mark Twain and adapted with verve by David Ives — our hero has b…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:09PMFriday, September 28, 2012
While Athos, Porthos and Aramis cross swords and teach young hero d'Artagnan a thing or two in "The Three Musketeers," now onstage at the Denver Center, a central player in bringing
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:20PMThursday, September 27, 2012
At the start of "Elijah: An Adventure," black-clad figures appear on stage. They look almost frozen in the waves of "bon voyages" that those on shore direct to loved ones on an ocean liner…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:00PMDuring the rousing curtain call for the Denver Center Theatre Company's revival of August Wilson's "Fences," it was hard not to glean in lead David Alan Anderson's face a kind of lingering…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:47PMFriday, September 21, 2012
Bloodied 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" gets sneak preview Saturday
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:42PMThursday, September 20, 2012
Don't let the handsome production of Tracy Letts' searing family drama "August: Osage County," getting its regional premiere on stage at Boulder's Dairy Center through Sept. 30, seduce you …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:15PM"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" can be a rather naughty affair. Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek's musical, now onstage at the Arvada Center, even launches an F-bomb.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:22PMThursday, September 13, 2012
Director Lou Bellamy is no stranger to the vigorous poetics of the late, great playwright August Wilson, who died in 2003 at the age of 60.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:00PMIt's possible that not everyone attending Curious Theatre Company's pumped-up production of the wrestling play "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" will be ready to rumble.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:38PMThursday, September 6, 2012
Stunt casting has its appeal — that of a box-office bump, no doubt, but also, if an audience is fortunate it comes with more authentic charms.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:27PMFriday, August 31, 2012
What a pleasure it is to listen to an actor spin a yarn, especially a performer who make his living on stage. What a pleasure it is to listen to an actor spin a yarn, especially a performer …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:39PMFall's theater season gets a kick from neophyte producers and ambitious new companies taking on critically acclaimed but challenging plays or premiering fresh works by young playwrights.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:21PMOK, to call it a smackdown might be pushing it. But the written exchange between playwright Kristoffer Diaz and New York Times theater critic Christopher Isherwood had its moments.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:11AMWednesday, August 22, 2012
Clad in white shirts and black slacks, the young men who arrive onstage in "The Book of Mormon" had me at "Hello.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:18PMClad in white-shirts and black slacks, the young men who arrive onstage in "The Book of Mormon" had me at "Hello. The clean-cut brigade embodies the slightly cartoonish phrase "bright-eyed …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:05PMMonday, August 13, 2012
Pop-culture bad boys turned Broadway luminaries, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are sitting in a place they never expected to be: the lobby of the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:15AMWednesday, August 8, 2012
A pitfall of seeing a Broadway musical for the first time as a regional premiere put on by a young theater company is that the blemishes of the work are often more glaring.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:05PM 
