Wednesday, 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 07:05PMFriday, August 3, 2012
"A horse is a horse, of course, of course," unless it's Joey, the astonishing creation of South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company and the equine-puppet star of "War Horse."
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:06PM"A horse is a horse, of course, of course," unless it's Joey, the astonishing creation of South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company and the equine-puppet star of "War Horse.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:10AMThursday, August 2, 2012
Tony Award-winning play "War Horse" will be the first Broadway show out of the gate when the Denver Center Attraction's 2013-2014 season kicks off in January.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:01PMTina Packer's intriguing five-part survey of William Shakespeare's female characters, "Women of Will," combines an amiable and thoughtful lecture with scenes from the canon. And the gang is …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:49PMFriday, July 27, 2012
Geoffrey Kent is sitting in a quiet Boulder restaurant making a face as he recounts a fall he took during the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's production of the ridiculously pleasurable farce…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:10PMThursday, July 26, 2012
It's more than simply hip that "Jersey Boys" begins with a Francophone rapper taking the stage and blowing through a cover of the Four Seasons' 1975 hit "December 1963 (Oh, What a Night)."
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:38PMFriday, July 20, 2012
The two best reasons to see PHAMALy Theatre Company's production of "Little Shop of Horrors" — about a shy, bumbling florist named Seymour and his increasingly untenable relationship …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:19PMThursday, July 19, 2012
During a summer of rebooted fairy princesses storming the multiplexes, it's strange to find how well a theatrical Cinderella holds up compared to Snow White and "Brave's" Merida.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:38PMTuesday, July 17, 2012
The Colorado Theatre Guild and its brigade of 30 plus Henry Award jurors were clearly seeing red Monday night.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:45PMThe folk involved with the Tony Award-winning musical "Jersey Boys" — about the coming together and unraveling of the rock 'n' roll super act the Four Seasons — call it "Frankie…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:28AMThursday, July 12, 2012
It may be strange to learn that one of the finest moments in Central City Opera's vibrant production of "Oklahoma!
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:51PMThursday, July 5, 2012
It's the high season for amusement-park pleasures — even, it seems, on stage. Two rides worth the price of their tickets are cheerily whipping around with expert timing.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:42PMFriday, June 29, 2012
Tina Packer and Nigel Gore sit in a booth in a Boulder restaurant discussing "Women of Will." Packer's five-play cycle about William Shakespeare's female characters begins a run at the Colo…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:58PMThursday, June 28, 2012
Sirens blared at a surprisingly opportune moment. Dragonflies zipped above the audience as dusk gave way to dark.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:30PMThursday, June 21, 2012
There's something a bit off about Sarah Goldman's apartment in "Beau Jest," currently onstage at the John Hand Theater in Lowry through June 30. Her place doesn't resemble the digs of a youn…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:44PMThe prognosis was grim — and not in a way that would have macabre duo Gomez and Morticia Addams smirking with delight.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:49PMThursday, June 14, 2012
It's clear from the zippy opening number of "Legally Blonde" — at the Arvada Center through July 1 — that the gals of the UCLA chapter of Delta Nu harbor some pretty old no…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:44PMThursday, June 7, 2012
Before we ever see the newlyweds of the tender, engaging one-act play "Sweet Storm" — playing now at Miners Alley Playhouse in downtown Golden — we hear the young pair in…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:21AMThursday, May 31, 2012
Viewed from afar, Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge" still resonates nearly seven decades after it opened in 1955, first as a one-act on Broadway and then a year later in London, as
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:54PMThe ridiculous gets the sublime once over as Buntport Theater Companyperforms its devilishly original play "The Roast Beef Situation," through June 16.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:53PMFriday, May 18, 2012
"The Roast Beef Situation" Buntport Theater, May 25-June 16 Buntport is arguably Denver's most eclectic theater troupe.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:31PMThursday, May 17, 2012
It is not unusual to emerge from a LIDA Project production scratching one's head or stroking one's imaginary beard and letting out a long, often satisfied "Hmmm.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:58PMThursday, May 10, 2012
In the dark of the Arvada Center's Black Box Theater, a comedy's a-brewing as winds whip, distressed voices call out and a ship's timbers are heard shivering, cracking, smashing against a …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:08PMPlays are often about listening, about the ebbs and flow of language. With its rich, ideas-laden writing, "Red" — John Logan's Tony Award-winning drama about artist Mark Rothko and an…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:06PMThursday, May 3, 2012
An amusing moment comes early in Vintage Theatre's solid staging of "The Joy Luck Club" at the their new digs off of Colfax Avenue in Aurora. Jing-Mei Woo's mother, Suyuan, has died. An aneu…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:55PMThursday, April 26, 2012
Two fine works currently on Denver stages suggest that love is an undertaking for amateurs: The Aurora Fox's "Amateur Night at the Big Heart" and Off-Center's "Date."
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:11PMThursday, April 19, 2012
It's always a bit strange coming late to a popular-culture party. "The X-Files"? Had to play catch-up when the hit TV series' lesser big-screen spinoffs arrived in the multiplex. "Lost"? …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:15PMWednesday, April 18, 2012
Lovers of Jane Austen mark your calendars. Aficionados of spanking new musical theater, ditto. Fans of the Denver Center Theatre Company's burgeoning New Play Summit, you do the same.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:05PMThursday, April 12, 2012
Sniffling and dozing, flirting and rebuffing, pontificating and pouting — such are the moods and states found in George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," onstage at the Denver
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:57PMSaturday, April 7, 2012
Superfan Mike Meko of Denver will mark his 15th and 16th viewings of the Broadway musical "Wicked" when it returns to Denver's Buell Theatre Wednesday through May 20.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:16PM 
