Wednesday, November 23, 2011
With more than 30 holiday productions to choose from, there's plenty of both sugar and spice for theatergoers to savor this season. Here's a complete rundown.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:05PMReview: The Auroa Fox serves up the final chapter in comedian Jeff Daniels' "Escanaba" trilogy, the well-known comic actor's labor of love about a Michigan family and its beloved hunting l…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:43PMSaturday, November 19, 2011
For the second straight year, nonprofit theaters contributed $1.9 billion to the national economy. But does anyone care? That and the news of the week.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:33AMReview: The Denver Center Theatre Company tells "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in the spirit of an exciting bedtime story. There's never a dull moment, but neither is there a jaw-dropping o…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:23AMThursday, November 17, 2011
Thousands of middle-school students will be see Denver Center Theatre Company's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Maybe one of them will be the next Laura Eason, the Cherry Creek High School gr…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:10PMReview: At Germinal Stage-Denver, what might have been another ho-hum trolley ride on "A Streetcar Named Desire" is instead a runaway train of delusion, violence and self-loathing. Rating: …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:17PMWednesday, November 16, 2011
Review: A lot has to go right for the little Vintage Theatre to do full justice to Colorado's first homegrown staging of "Avenue Q." And pretty much everything does. Rating: ****
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:57PMSaturday, November 12, 2011
John Moore's column: Actor Bill Pullman returns to Denver on Dec. 8 to perform excerpts from his newest project, "The Healing Wars," as a benefit for a new professional actors training stu…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:03PMFriday, November 11, 2011
Some people just never grow up. Thank goodness. Denver comedian Dave Shirley is a grown-up kid who loiters in the lobby of the Avenue Theater before his one-man stage comedy, wearing an old-…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:08PMWednesday, November 9, 2011
Review: You wouldn't expect the Longmont Theatre Company to be the first Colorado company to stage Peter Morgan's celebrated Broadway play "Frost/Nixon," but this underdog production wins o…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:37PMSaturday, October 29, 2011
Review: When a playwright scripts an interactive revival meeting as a play, you assume you're in for a comic parody. But Young Jean Lee wrote "Church" as an earnest and open-minded attempt …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:23AMFriday, October 28, 2011
Last week, while attending a quiet play called "The Road to Mecca," a theatergoer's cell-phone vibration went off. Not unusual, and not as bad as a ring, but noticeable enough to anyone in t…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:56PMCall it the Bard Bout of the Centuries: Shakespeare vs. Fakespeare. While the new film "Anonymous" makes an audacious case against the Bard, a local panel of experts just don't buy it.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:13PMThursday, October 27, 2011
Welcome to "Vox PHAMILIA: Quadrapalooza" — PHAMALy's fourth annual fall comedy catharsis, an evening when 13 performers have a whole lot of fun at your expense. And their own.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:49PMWednesday, October 26, 2011
Review: "The Road to Mecca" is a long and patient one, and not everyone who embarks will make it to journey's end. A few antsy audience members invariably walk out of this deliberate play o…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:24PMIn 1967, a dozen student actors from the University of Kansas came to Creede and saved this dying old mining town by starting a professional, seasonal theater company on the boarded-up Main …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:24PMMonday, October 24, 2011
Review: "The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley" is a cheerful, kid-pleasing musical based on Jeff Brown's series of popular books. And it makes for another wonderful, family-friendly offer…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:13AMSunday, October 23, 2011
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival will become the third company in the world to stage Tina Packer's full, five-part exploration of Shakespeare's female characters, "Women of Will." See the f…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:01PMThe tiny Lake Dillon Theatre Company is about to launch a $3 million- $4 million capital campaign to move out of its 60-seat cabin theater and into a two-stage performing-arts center it plan…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:53AMSaturday, October 22, 2011
For any arts organization, curating a board of directors is as important as curating any million-dollar work of art. Just going after the richest, the most wanted and most famous can backfir…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:19PMFriday, October 21, 2011
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is going back to producing five plays in 2012 — nine if you count "Women of Will," an extraordinary, five-part tour of Shakespeare's female characters…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:44PMReview: I don't know what takes more bravery: Asking someone on a blind date, or being asked to go on one. No, it's got to be this: Being asked on a blind date that will play out right then…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:02PMThursday, October 20, 2011
Theater review: It was obvious by the collective hoot that went up as the lights were going down that Su Teatro's first-ever stage adaptation of Sonia Nazario's Pulitzer-winning "Enrique's …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:13PMReviews: In Boulder, "Mauritius" is a shout-a-thon that starts out unpleasant and just gets nastier from there. In Lakewood, "Some Girl(s)" at least gives us someone to root for. Four of the…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:45AMSunday, October 16, 2011
Denver's Chicano theater company, Su Teatro, is calling its world-premiere adaptation of Sonia Nazario's 2006 Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, "Enrique's Journey," the most significant producti…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:56AMSaturday, October 15, 2011
Shadow Theatre Company has been in a period of rebuilding, but it's not taking one small step back into the light. It's taking three large leaps — at once. It's trilogy, "The Final Mil…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:55AMFriday, October 14, 2011
Review: The Denver Center Theatre Company's comic history mash-up shows how the powers that control America often respond to perceived threats to the status quo: Broken promises. Fire hoses…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:16PMA few hours after and just down the street from the opening performance of the Denver Center Theatre Company's "American Night," officers in riot gear cleared out the Occupy Denver encampment
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:52PMLooking for love in show places? Every night, it seems, is Date Night at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. But the Denver Center's two newest romantic offerings — the similarly title…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:35AMThursday, October 13, 2011
Review: Undoubtedly informed by the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, Jez Butterworth's "Parlour Song" is about how maddeningly easy it is to destroy in seconds what it took years to build u…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:09PMSaturday, October 8, 2011
The most evident trend in local theater this year has been the proliferation of shared productions between companies, and it's on full display right now, with the Arvada Center's four-star p…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:45AM 
