Saturday, 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 03:45AMCould you pass the U.S. citizenship exam? Do you know the first three words of the Constitution? Or the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment?
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:45AMFriday, October 7, 2011
Review: Done well, "To Kill a Mockingbird" should not just move audiences. It should move lumps to their throats, coax tears from their eyes and turn their stomachs. The Denver Center The…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:20PMDone well, "To Kill a Mockingbird" should not just move audiences. It should move lumps to their throats, coax tears from their eyes and turn their stomachs.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:41PMWednesday, October 5, 2011
Boulder's Dinner Theatre's first-ever world premiere is proof of just how hard it is to create a new American musical that fires on all cylinders right off the showroom floor. It's very, ver…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:55PMReview: You could never re-create the zeitgeist that made "Hair" the most revered — and feared — musical of its generation. But through 2011 eyes, it is a welcome celebration of…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:15PMSunday, October 2, 2011
Theater review: The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center's season-opening "Assassins" should reassure anyone that new producing artistic director Scott RC Levy will not shy from controversial …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:35PMSaturday, October 1, 2011
Theater review: There are plenty of reasons to make the drive to see "Driving Miss Daisy" at the Lake Dillon Theatre, 70 miles west of Denver. Starting with Denver Center Theatre Company ve…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:50PMIn 1971, Denver police would not let the sunshine in. Or anything else to do with the pro-love, anti-war rock musical "Hair." The vice bureau invoked a seldom-used law banning public nudity,…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:31AMQ&A: Tripp Fountain is an Aquarian, natch. But he really did not make up that name just because it happens to be the perfect moniker for anyone performing in the 1968 American hippie tribal…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:56AMThursday, September 29, 2011
The Denver Center Theatre Company is talking openly about race in America — on and off the stage. "To Kill a Mockingbird" opens next week. On Saturday, an all-day forum will attempt a …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:11PMTheater eview: Anyone with a passing interest in Mary Shelley has heard the story of how created "Frankenstein" as part of a party-game challenge. But Buntport takes more of a fever-dream a…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:39PMReview: The Pulitzer-Prize winning "Next to Normal" rewrote all the rules for musical theater. Now it's rewriting the rules for dinner theater. Rating: *** 1/2 stars
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:17AMSunday, September 25, 2011
Part of the historic Oriental Theater ceiling collapsed onto the 84-year-old stage late Friday night, just seconds after Doug Kershaw and his band cleared the playing area. Witnesses were ca…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:10PMSaturday, September 24, 2011
There is often a presumption that larger theaters means larger budgets, larger production values and, therefore, larger audience satisfaction. But "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:09PMMoore: Paragon Theatre Company is about to move into its fifth home in 11 years — and co-founder Warren Sherrill promises, "We are going to stay there." That and other news of the week.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:46AMWhoever said "Never let them see you sweat" wasn't trying to sell theater tickets.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:18AMFriday, September 23, 2011
Theater review: Drew Cortese's pants are on fire. So is Matt Zambrano's precocious comic timing in "The Liar," the Denver Center Theatre Company's playful and surprisingly fun season-openin…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:06PMTuesday, September 20, 2011
Review: The great American musical "Ragtime" is a paean to what this country was and yet could be — which makes it so discombobulating seeing it now, when economic pessimism hangs ove…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:47PMSaturday, September 17, 2011
Denver loses another theater space when the Vintage Theatre is soon bounced from its home at 17th Avenue and Vine Street, ending a 28-year tradition of live theater in the neighborhood and s…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:17AMFriday, September 16, 2011
There are two solid reasons for theatergoers to check out the Creede Repertory Theatre's visiting production of "Unnecessary Farce" at the Lone Tree Arts Center.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:34PMThursday, September 15, 2011
Q&A: Daters, Amy Roeder feels your pain. The former Denverite is a member of the famed Chicago comedy factory that's taking up residence at the Galleria Theatre for the fourth time with "Lo…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:06PMReview: "Justin Bieber Meets Al Qaeda," easily the most provocative title of the fall theater season, is the only original local theatrical response to the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attac…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:27AMMonday, September 12, 2011
Review: "Completely Hollywood (Abridged)" is some seriously stupid stuff. Good thing the Avenue Theater has put together three stupidly funny actors to perform it. Rating: ***
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:55AMAny question about whether pop music had an appropriate place in how Denver would mark the 10th anniversary of the 2001 attacks was answered long before the Beach Boys took the stage for Sun…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:50AMSunday, September 11, 2011
John Moore column: Denver's ballyhooed launch of the "Book of Mormon" national tour here should have been a cause for celebration, but its measly three-week visit amounts to little more tha…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:57AMSaturday, September 10, 2011
A look in photos at the Sept. 9 opening night of LIDA Project's new theater space at an artist collective called the Laundry on Lawrence, 2701 Lawrence St. The opening production is called "…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:07PMThursday, September 8, 2011
Review" Anyone who thinks we live in a post-racial America is in for a rude — and often riotous — awakening with Curious Theatre Company's compelling "Clybourne Park." The Pulit…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:37PMFor theater, September is like college football's bowl season, with a proliferation of offerings to suit any taste. And it all starts now. More than a dozen major openings mark the tradition…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:41PMVeteran actor Mary Louise Lee took on a new role when she became Denver's first lady in June. But she didn't take on a new name. "I come with my own identity," said Lee, who plans to use he…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:51AMIf you love "Annie," the ubiquitous musical about that irrepressible little orphan who solved the Great Depression, unemployment, crumbling infrastructure, collapsed financial markets, hunge…
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