Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Curious Theatre announced its 19th season slate with five plays, including the regional premiere of Robert Askins' "Hand to God.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:02AMLyndon Baines Johnson was a big bear of a man whose special skill as a politician was getting in a legislator's face and applying just the right pressure to just the right vulnerability to…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:02AMFriday, January 29, 2016
Here we are, 35 years later, and it still stings: Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart" depicts the government's inaction fueled by discrimination in the HIV-AIDS crisis.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:39AM"Tell Me on a Sunday" at The Avenue Theater is a rewarding one-act, one-woman musical cycle of love and loss, soaring on the estimable talents of Megan Van de Hey.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:39AMThursday, January 28, 2016
A crowd pleaser that's more popular than substantial, "Dirty Dancing" on its national tour at the Buell Theatre is all about emulating the movie magic.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:24PMThursday, January 21, 2016
Sexy, enticing title, "Sex with Strangers." Laura Eason's "Sex with Strangers" is a deceptively simple play.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:03PMFriday, January 15, 2016
Shakespeare's problematic "The Taming of the Shrew" has been deconstructed and re arranged through the years by scholars as well as artists trying to come to terms with the most sexist play …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:09PMFriday, December 11, 2015
Super-wholesome and family focused, with a seasonal theme, the regional premiere of "Little Women: The Musical" won't leave you whistling memorable tunes as you exit the Aurora Fox Theatre, …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:18AMFriday, December 4, 2015
The entire cast of "The Wiz Live!" showed real singers work best in musicals (compared to past NBC theatrical productions).
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:41PMThursday, December 3, 2015
NBC is banking on a live retelling of the Wizard of Oz story in musical form, an adaptation of the 1975 Broadway Musical "The Wiz," to break through the clutter of broadcast, streaming and D…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:32AMFriday, November 20, 2015
Em Grosland is pixie-ish, small with delicate features, short blond hair, alabaster skin and wide eyes. Grosland prefers the pronoun "they/their." As in, today the actor is wearing their …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:28AMSunday, November 15, 2015
A madcap murder-mystery musical is playing at the Garner Galleria, a two-character feat of rapid-fire timing, piano playing and silliness.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:39AMMonday, November 9, 2015
The bold experiment in serialized storytelling by Curious Theatre that brought the first two installments of Tarell Alvin McCraney's "The Brother/Sister Plays" to Denver to rave reviews, …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:05PMFriday, November 6, 2015
"Equus" sets the scene in an instant: Teenager Alan Strang is being held in an English psychiatric hospital after savagely and inexplicably blinding six horses at the stable where he worked.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:44AMThursday, November 5, 2015
Playwright Alan Ayckbourn is famous as a master of light comedy and social satire. He has a darker side, however.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:25AMFriday, October 30, 2015
Scar, the evil force at the center of "The Lion King," is a homegrown villain in the current touring production: the prodigal son returned to remind us of our demons.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:35AMIn a messy trailer somewhere off I-90 in Northern Idaho, a couple of aging baby boomers talk shop over stacks of back copies of a newspaper for long-haul truckers.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:35AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
The great 1998 Pulitzer-Prize-winning play "How I Learned to Drive," by Paula Vogel, is having a revival at Boulder's Dairy Center with a compelling central performance.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:04PMThursday, October 22, 2015
Everyone can relate to the premise of "If/Then," the musical about ambivalence and roads not taken.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:46PMEveryone can relate to the premise of "If/Then," the musical about ambivalence and roads not taken.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:30AMThursday, October 15, 2015
The aesthetic arguments are entrenched: For the artist, creativity takes priority over tradition; art simply has to be free to express itself because it is art.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:05PMThe Theatre Company at the DCPA today announced the four playwrights for the 2016 Colorado New Play Summit.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:05PMA joyful backstage musical blended into a murder mystery that doesn't mind being corny in the service of a time step or a high kick, "Curtains" is for lovers of old-school musical theater.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:52AMStrange doings in the woods at The Space Theatre. In modern storytelling, the untamed forest is the setting for mayhem, particularly for young women venturing out alone at night, usually in…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:52AMPaper-thin but enjoyable as a fairy tale, Creede Repertory Theatre's "Good on Paper" at the Arvada Center requires a suspension of disbelief and a romantic heart.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:52AMEverything you need to know is in the title: "My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding." In an earlier time, the juxtapositions alone would have elicited laughs.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:52AMMonday, September 28, 2015
"Outside Mullingar" at the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company sets a high bar for the company's 10th season.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:13PM"Lookingglass Alice" is a mix of theater and circus, an acrobatic adaptation of Lewis Carroll's works taking audiences down a rabbit hole for 90 entertaining minutes.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:58PMFriday, September 4, 2015
Prepare to be polarized. When Annie Baker's 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Flick" opened in New York, it was so controversial, and the critics and audiences so radically divided, it q…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:19AMThursday, August 27, 2015
It's all a big, crazy mix-up. That could be the bad news. The good news is that "Relatively Speaking," the Alan Ayckbourn play from 1965, is not the door-slamming sort of farce you've seen t…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:16PMTuesday, August 18, 2015
The wildly entertaining and equally profane satirical musical "The Book of Mormon," the product of Colorado's "South Park" creators, is back for a third rousing run with a first-rate cast.
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