Thursday, May 8, 2014
The premise of " A Round-Heeled Woman" — 66-year-old retired English teacher Jane's deliberate forays into sex with strangers — sounds awkward and uncomfortable, and it is, but i…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:03PMFriday, May 2, 2014
For more than 80 years, the celebrated Colorado artist John E. Thompson's luminous Art Nouveau Shakespeare mural languished under countless layers of cheap paint slapped on by stage cr…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:43PM"Grey Gardens" is surprisingly merry for a story about a couple of aging recluses who, by their initial description, lived in squalor more reminiscent of "Hoarders: Buried Alive!" than the…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:28PMTuesday, April 22, 2014
AURORA — Ignite Theatre's "35MM: A Musical Exhibition" is a multi-media revue, 22 songs strung together like beads on a necklace, with a powerful vocal ensemble and a gifted band.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:04PMTuesday, April 8, 2014
"Frozen," utterly unlike the merry Disney animated movie, is a chilling journey through the psyches of a serial killer, the mother of a 10-year-old victim, and a criminal psychologist.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:14PM"Frozen," utterly unlike the merry Disney animated movie, is a chilling journey through the psyches of a serial killer, the mother of a 10-year-old victim, and a criminal psychologist.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:23PMTuesday, April 1, 2014
"The Road to Mecca," in a taut production at Miners Alley Playhouse, is profound in what it says, and what it implies, about society, aging, love, art and race in apartheid-era South Africa.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:31PMThursday, March 27, 2014
When a young woman questions the totalitarian aphorisms that govern a futuristic America, her family reacts by treating her as a criminal.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:38PMFriday, March 21, 2014
Su Teatro's revival of "Ludlow: El Grito de las Minas" ("Cry of the Miners") tackles an ambitious goal: to illustrate the unspeakable attack of Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel &…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:12PMThursday, March 13, 2014
First, "The Book of Moron" has absolutely nothing to do with "The Book of Mormon" (neither the prayer book nor the immensely popular musical), apart from cadging a ride on its coattails.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:54PMThursday, March 6, 2014
"The Beauty Queen of Leenane" begins with Mag Folan, a surly, gray-haired woman in a rocking chair, her suspicious eyes peering from a bulldog face just anticipating its next complaint.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:49PMThursday, February 27, 2014
Let's call Ignite Theatre's regional premiere of "See What I Wanna See" a Millenial musical, spare and confrontational, with a subtle backbeat that recalls Ting Ting's "Great DJ."
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:50PMThursday, January 23, 2014
With its misanthropic, often viciously accurate take on love, fear and loss, Silhouette Theatre's "Dogs Barking" is not date-night material, unless the relationship is already deep in the w…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:57PMThursday, November 21, 2013
Buntport's "Electra Onion Eater" is smart, tight and witty, easily within the reach of people who've never studied Sophocles' "Electra" and enormously rewarding for anyone who tackled clas…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:24PMFriday, October 18, 2013
Just about everyone thinks "The Book of Mormon" is a play about Mormons. But actually, it could be about the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Global Volunteers, United Planet or any cause th…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:22PMThursday, October 17, 2013
"Vigil" is the darkly funny nightmare that every aging Baby Boomer should be fearing: dwindling days dominated by a bitter caretaker.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:00PMThursday, April 18, 2013
Patsy Cline nominally is the star in "Always ... Patsy Cline," but it's her exuberant friend, a housewife with a Texas-sized personality, who steals the show.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:44PMWednesday, March 20, 2013
As the co-founder of the six-person collective Buntport Theater, Evan Weissman, 34, tackles issues in unexpected ways.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:07PMThursday, March 22, 2012
In a show that sets a new bar for innovation, insight and breathtaking equality — the Buntport ensemble has figured out a way to let everyone, and no one, star in "Tommy Lee Jones Go…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:09PMThursday, March 8, 2012
Like so many people, Alicia Ramirez knew little about her parents' lives until she was well into adulthood. Ramirez, a nun with the Sisters of Loretto, was 40 when someone asked her mother …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:35PMTuesday, March 6, 2012
Less than a month after inaugurating its new digs in Denver's RiNo district, the Paragon Theatre ensemble has announced that it will close permanently after the final performance of its curr…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:26PMThursday, March 1, 2012
"Miss Julie" inaugurates Paragon Theatre's agreeable new digs in the RiNo district, an evolving neighborhood that, like this classic Strindberg play, knows the frisson between the privilege…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:50AMFriday, January 27, 2012
The Arvada Center's superlative production of Oscar Wilde's timeless social satire, "The Importance of Being Earnest," proves the adage that there are no small parts:
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:17PMThursday, January 12, 2012
The new musical version of "Bring It On," playing at the Buell Theatre through Jan. 21, is as determinedly animated as a pep rally, full of kinetic energy and nearly relentless optimism &md…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:30PM 
