Thursday, February 24, 2022
“In the Upper Room” ends in much the way it begins. To say more would be to spoil a bold gesture, one that had an audience member exclaim loudly, “Oh, my God!”
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:12AMMonday, February 7, 2022
In 2019, Neyla Pekarek, the former singer and cellist in the indie-rock band the Lumineers, released “Rattlesnake,” a solo album celebrating the restlessness and boldness. Now, she's tur…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:12AMFriday, January 21, 2022
A revival worth its salt should always bring fresh revelations, even when it’s set in a bygone era. In “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” at the Denver Center, that discovery comes by…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:42AMThursday, November 11, 2021
Listening to the first three songs on Van Halen’s self-titled debut album will tell you much of what you need to know heading into “Eddie and Dave,” a gender-bent play about the foundi…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:32AMThursday, November 4, 2021
They didn’t see the Broadway production of “American Son” together, but Jada Suzanne Dixon and Chip Walton had the same response as each watched the drama about an estranged interracia…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:12AMThursday, October 14, 2021
“Mama.” that’s the first word spoken in Benchmark Theatre’s riling and deftly performed world premiere of “Elephant.” Actually, "spoken" is inaccurate: "cried out" is more like i…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:48AMThursday, September 30, 2021
In the sweetly unique musical “Hundred Days” -- on stage at the Aurora Fox -- two lovers cycle through their years as a couple not by growing old in front of the audience but by cramming…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:03AMThursday, September 23, 2021
There’s a telling moment that comes late in the “The Lifespan of a Fact” on stage -- make that on stage! -- at the Curious Theatre Company, through Oct. 16.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:03AMMonday, September 20, 2021
Alicia Young had a dream. (Actually, she had a few.) The actor-activist-director-theater maven was sitting at a cafe in Denver’s Whittier neighborhood recently talking about the inspiratio…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:42AMWednesday, September 8, 2021
The curtain rises. (Or the laptop warms up, hitched to a nice-sized monitor.) The theatergoers gather, masked and in-person. (Or sit at home, feet on the coffee table and no protocols to kee…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:42AMFriday, September 3, 2021
"Before You Go" at Miners Alley Playhouse runs through Sept. 19. There's a burst of energy before it settles into something often clever and at times quietly commanding.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:32AMThursday, August 12, 2021
It seems so obvious in retrospect, the pairing of a talented Denver-based rapper with an ace local theater company on an original production. But then, that’s how the best no-brainers ofte…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:48AMMonday, August 9, 2021
“Wild Fire” is the latest addition to a growing number of productions foregrounding the stories of Coloradans by conducting fresh interviews, mining oral histories and/or diving into arc…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:36AMThursday, December 6, 2018
Created in collaboration with local playwright Ellen K. Graham, Buntport's latest "Coyote. Badger. Rattlesnake" brings drama and laughs.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:04PMMonday, February 19, 2018
In Lauren Yee's world premiere production directed by Eric Ting - punctuated with Saul's (BOB ARI) and Manford's (LINDEN TAILOR) bluster - "The Great Leap" asserts a quiet, beautifully unexp…
SOURCE: theknow.denverpost.com at 05:04PMTuesday, February 6, 2018
"Zoey" has some tart-funny dialog but the cleverness seldom stretches beyond sit-com ease.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:37PMThursday, December 21, 2017
Desi Oakley brings a big and lush voice to the role of the waitress working in a small Southern town who has dreams of escaping if not her hometown, her brute of a husband, Earl (Nick Bailey…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:18PMWednesday, May 17, 2017
It's a family drama, so everyone can relate on some level.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:33PMFriday, April 14, 2017
A keenly engaging work about three murdered women whose ghostly recollections get at something more vital than a mere whodunit.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:31PMSaturday, March 18, 2017
"Constellations" is an engaging and melancholy affair.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:12PMThursday, February 23, 2017
It won't change the course of your politics, but "Two Degrees" harbors an undeniable emotional resonance.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:24PMThursday, February 16, 2017
Oh ye citizens of area metropoles, it is time to get your Greek on.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:48PMTuesday, February 14, 2017
The writer-director made a film that is cinematically striking but also maddeningly superior. We Coloradans tend to be prickly about films that take mass shootings as their “inspiration.”
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:30AMThursday, January 26, 2017
The magic carpet ride has come to an end -- and a new adventure has begun.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:12PMSunday, December 11, 2016
Interviewers have been asking Emma Stone for audition horror stories ever since “La La Land” first began wowing audiences at the Venice Film Festival in August. (It opens Friday.) And wh…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:00AMThursday, November 10, 2016
In her new role, Garrett will work closely with the company's artistic team.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:01PMFriday, September 23, 2016
A melancholy and still potent mix of compassion and judgment.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:58AMWednesday, July 20, 2016
The saga of one of the 20th century’s most successful pop songwriters was spun into “Beautiful: The Carol King Musical” and has a full-circle sweetness. The national tour of the Tony-n…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:39PMFriday, June 17, 2016
Actor-playwright Martin Moran returns to his hometown this week with his book “All the Rage: a Quest” (Beacon Press), a deeply personal yet expansive exploration of anger — but also o…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:47AMWednesday, April 6, 2016
The Colorado-based band with a fondness for accordion and mandolin has tweaked Stephen Sondheim’s diabolically crafted musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:51PMFriday, July 31, 2015
There was a nightclub in Weimar-era Berlin called The Blue Stocking. Soldiers wounded during World War I would hook up there with prostitutes who might be missing an arm or a leg.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:28AM 
