Friday, August 21, 2015
The Colorado Ballet takes it show up the road this weekend with an "An Evening Under the Stars" at the Arvada Center Outdoor Amphitheater.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:29AMWednesday, April 22, 2015
The Metropolitan Opera's live HD broadcasts finish up the 2014-15 season with a crowd-pleaser.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:44PMMonday, July 7, 2014
There are a dozen good reasons to go see Central City Opera's production of "Dead Man Walking" and one good reason to hesitate.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:11PMThursday, May 29, 2014
Friday, May 23, 2014
"Dead Man Walking"Central City Opera, July 5-25 Jake Heggie's 2000 "Dead Man Walking" is the most important opera of the past 20 years, if only because it keeps getting performed in an era …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:33PMTuesday, March 18, 2014
Opera returned to Denver last weekend after nearly a year off, and it was — as they say in the business — grand to have it back.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:37AMSaturday, March 15, 2014
If you were going to reinvent dinner theater for the digital age, the first thing you'd do is get rid of the theater. Delete: singing Mormons. Insert: computer-generated animation, multichan…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:01AMThursday, October 24, 2013
When it comes to Denver Arts Week, it's difficult to separate the happenings from the hype.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:34PMThursday, October 17, 2013
The Denver Art Museum mixes a rare bit of performance into its mission with this evening's presentation of "Casualties of Modernity" by Kent Monkman, an artist/activist of Cree descent whos…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:21PMFriday, August 30, 2013
Is it dance? Maybe. Is it music? Sometimes. Is it comedy or literature, classical or modern, high art or something a little bit lower? That all depends on your personal taste. These events d…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:26PMThursday, February 7, 2013
With a guy like Romeo, you already know how the relationship is going to end. Badly. But two Romeos?
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:48PMFriday, November 30, 2012
These days the National Endowment for the Arts gives most of its $145 million in annual grants to groups, rather than individuals, that have proven track records in their communities.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:51PMThursday, March 15, 2012
"Becky Shaw" is the kind of play that reminds us why we go to theater in the first place: to see people who are just like us, only much more interesting. They've got our issues — relat…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:16PMTuesday, March 6, 2012
The Denver Center Theatre Company continues its evolution into a significant developer of American plays with two new titles set to appear on its stages next season.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:00PMThursday, March 1, 2012
There's always good reason to be skeptical when a new play comes along recycling pop hits into a staged musical.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:51PMTuesday, February 28, 2012
A lucky few — actually, a lucky 22 — people will get to sit in the front two rows of "American Idiot" when it plays in Denver starting next week.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:43PMMonday, February 27, 2012
Making Peter Pan fly is the easy part of any stage production based on J.M. Barrie's 1902 story about the boy who never grows up.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:36PMSaturday, February 25, 2012
For 14 years, the Curious Theatre Company has gifted Denver with its own gift for programming. Curious specializes in presenting the sort of plays you've heard about, and wanted to see, but …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:12PMSunday, February 12, 2012
Scored by an Austrian, set in Spain, sung in Italian, and based on a French play, no opera could be more European than Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro," and yet there's a reason it is the m…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:23PMFriday, January 27, 2012
The Denver Center's hit new play "The Whale" has a lot of things to say about contemporary life in America, but it makes a particularly keen point — and maybe not on purpose — a…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:06PMMonday, January 23, 2012
It's hard to tell who to like and who to pity in Samuel Hunter's enjoyably tragic "The Whale," a new production from the Denver Center Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:18PMTuesday, January 17, 2012
The Denver Center Theatre Company has canceled tonight's performance of "The Whale" due to the illness of a cast member.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:17PMFriday, January 6, 2012
Charlie is eating himself to death. And by the time audiences meet him at the beginning of "The Whale" he has almost completed the job. He's closing in on 600 pounds, his heart is failing, h…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:24PMThursday, January 5, 2012
Plenty of hit movies are reinvented as stage musicals these days, some neatly (like "Hairspray") and some awkwardly (like "Legally Blonde").
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:27PMFriday, December 16, 2011
Theater is full of conceits, and that's the reason we keep going back for more. Audiences know those star-crossed lovers on stage don't really fall upon their daggers, that 225-pound soprano…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:26PM 
