Thursday, September 8, 2011
If you love "Annie," the ubiquitous musical about that irrepressible little orphan who solved the Great Depression, unemployment, crumbling infrastructure, collapsed financial markets, hunge…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:49AMTuesday, September 6, 2011
Denver Center president Randy Weeks said today he expects about half of the 53,000 available seats to highly anticipated launch of the "The Book of Mormon" national tour will eventually beco…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:19PMCheck out our thoughts on Broadway productions of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," "The Book of Mormon," "War Horse," "Catch Me If You Can," "Jerusalem," "The Normal Heart" and "The Mother(e…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:55PMThey are the unlikely kings of pop-culture subversion, these two snickering goofballs who bonded more over breaking wind than breaking barriers in a 1992 University of Colorado film class.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:53PMThe Denver Center's much-anticipated launch of the Broadway darling "The Book of Mormon" will happen Aug. 14-Sept. 2, 2012. But unless you buy a subscription to the Denver Center's entire 20…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:32PMMonday, September 5, 2011
Review: The second-year Afterthought Theatre Company's modest new production of "The Wiz" is attracting a lot of attention and fostering much goodwill because of Denver first lady Mary Louis…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:11AMSaturday, September 3, 2011
The Denver Center Theatre Company will offer three distinct slices of American life this fall with the classic courtroom tale "To Kill a Mockingbird" (opening Oct. 6), the naturalization com…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:33PMThe opening weekend of the fall theater season brings 15 new local offerings, including the first homegrown staging of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "Next to Normal," along with Tennes…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:31PMThursday, September 1, 2011
Review: "The Guys," written in just a week, is not in itself an important play. But its importance in bringing theater back to life in a ruined neighborhood still caked in ash and smelling …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:36PMWhite flight. Gentrification. Integration. Why does the idea of difference strike such perpetual and predictable fear among those already living on the block? Curious Theatre's season-opener…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:52PMWednesday, August 31, 2011
The new 25th-anniversary production of "Les Miserables" is built for the road — meaning 2,800-seat houses like Denver's Buell Theatre, which is nearly three times bigger than the vener…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:23PMThe new 25th-anniversary production of "Les Miserables" is built for the road — meaning 2,800-seat houses like Denver's Buell Theatre, which is nearly three times bigger than the vener…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:52PMSaturday, August 27, 2011
After months of caring for his parents, actor John Lithgow just could not cheer his aging father up. Then the idea hit him like a bolt: He told his father bedtime stories, "and he came back…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:02PMThursday, August 25, 2011
"Les Miserables" has visited Denver many times, but the touring production coming to the Buell Theatre next week marks the 25th anniversary of the world's longest-running musical.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:58PMSaturday, August 20, 2011
This week's theater openings
Afterthought's "The Wiz"
Opening Friday, Aug.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:07PMSaturday, August 13, 2011
The 2011 Colorado Walk for Hemophilia was held today, Aug. 13, around Sloan's Lake just west of downtown Denver. The event rose $40,000 for a foundation dedicated to preventing the complicat…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:16PMNo matter how you look at it, it's tough out there for a playwright. So just imagine what it must be like for writers of new musicals, which cost exponentially more to stage. Melissa Faith H…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:44AMNow that it is growing into its own body, the Boulder International Fringe Festival is proudly behaving like a lot of impetuous 7-year-olds: careless, impudent and defiantly knocking up agai…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:43AMSunday, August 7, 2011
Review: There's something different about the 1960s romantic comedy "A Touch of Spring." It's not all that romantic, and, with the exception of one key player, not much of a comedy. And tha…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:09PMSaturday, August 6, 2011
Summer is the busiest time of year in Colorado theater thanks to its many top-notch mountain companies, the majority of which perform only in the sweltering months.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:27PMThursday, August 4, 2011
Review: The wasted lives on display in Antov Chekhov's plays would be so, so sad ... if weren't so funny. Yes, "Uncle Vanya" is funny. Chekhov didn't put the these fools on display for you…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:27PMMonday, August 1, 2011
Check out our constantly updated "role call" of former Colorado actors now gainfully employed on stages around the nation.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:01AMSunday, July 31, 2011
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice," like "The Taming of the Shrew," has become an almost impossible play to pull off for modern sensibilities: One is about breaking an independent woman …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:50PMSaturday, July 30, 2011
On Aug. 26, Mary Louise Lee-Hancock will become perhaps the first actress to perform in a stage production while sitting as Denver's first lady. The mayor's wife will play the good witch Gli…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:21AMThursday, July 28, 2011
Review: Collections of women's monologues are as common in theater as weekend farmers markets, but there's something unsettlingly different about "The Great Goddess Bazaar" — and not j…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:57AMThursday, July 21, 2011
There are youth writing programs, and there is Curious New Voices, which culminates in a three-day festival of newly spawned works from the fertile minds of writers ages 15 to 21, performed …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:07PMEssay: Colorado Shakespeare Festival audiences were treated to an unusual cross-cultural experiment last weekend in Boulder, when four actors from Russia's Maxim Gorky Theatre joined a cast…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:35AMWednesday, July 20, 2011
"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" is brimming with the signature elements that for two decades have drawn both worldwide attention and curiosity to the all-handicapped theat…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:52PMMonday, July 18, 2011
The Denver Center Theatre Company picked up eight of the 21 Henry Awards presented Monday night by hthe Colorado Theatre Guild. But the absence of a dominant play or musical allowed the nigh…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:13PMA perfect night under a blood-red moon at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre clearly took Idina Menzel's breath away - but not her signature five-octave voice.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:20PMSaturday, July 16, 2011
Actress Nicki Runge calls herself not just deaf, but "deaf with a capital D." And that has nothing to do with the completeness of her hearing loss.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:30PM 
