54 stories by "Claire Martin"
Colorado Shakespeare Festival's poor, hapless buffoon Falstaff is played to a frustrated fare-the-well by Michael Winters.
The Wit Theatre Company's "The Aliens," staged at the Crossroads Theater in Five points, is a meditative play, a series of languorous vignettes that measure love, death and the powerful …
Vintage Theatre's excellent production of "Lobby Hero" starts as slowly as time passing on a graveyard shift, but launches into hyperspace once the first salvo launches.
Billy Recce was 11 years old on Oct. 15, 2009, when he, along just about everyone with access to a TV, raptly followed the perilous flight of a runaway weather balloon believed to contain
WESTMINSTER — Germinal Stage's "Six Characters in Search of an Author" was written in 1921, long before Richard Dawkins coined the word "meme" as shorthand for an interwoven
The premise of " A Round-Heeled Woman" — 66-year-old retired English teacher Jane's deliberate forays into sex with strangers — sounds awkward and uncomfortable, and it is, but i…
For more than 80 years, the celebrated Colorado artist John E. Thompson's luminous Art Nouveau Shakespeare mural languished under countless layers of cheap paint slapped on by stage cr…
"Grey Gardens" is surprisingly merry for a story about a couple of aging recluses who, by their initial description, lived in squalor more reminiscent of "Hoarders: Buried Alive!" than the…
AURORA — Ignite Theatre's "35MM: A Musical Exhibition" is a multi-media revue, 22 songs strung together like beads on a necklace, with a powerful vocal ensemble and a gifted band.
"Frozen," utterly unlike the merry Disney animated movie, is a chilling journey through the psyches of a serial killer, the mother of a 10-year-old victim, and a criminal psychologist.
"Frozen," utterly unlike the merry Disney animated movie, is a chilling journey through the psyches of a serial killer, the mother of a 10-year-old victim, and a criminal psychologist.
"The Road to Mecca," in a taut production at Miners Alley Playhouse, is profound in what it says, and what it implies, about society, aging, love, art and race in apartheid-era South Africa.
When a young woman questions the totalitarian aphorisms that govern a futuristic America, her family reacts by treating her as a criminal.
Su Teatro's revival of "Ludlow: El Grito de las Minas" ("Cry of the Miners") tackles an ambitious goal: to illustrate the unspeakable attack of Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel &…
First, "The Book of Moron" has absolutely nothing to do with "The Book of Mormon" (neither the prayer book nor the immensely popular musical), apart from cadging a ride on its coattails.
"The Beauty Queen of Leenane" begins with Mag Folan, a surly, gray-haired woman in a rocking chair, her suspicious eyes peering from a bulldog face just anticipating its next complaint.
Let's call Ignite Theatre's regional premiere of "See What I Wanna See" a Millenial musical, spare and confrontational, with a subtle backbeat that recalls Ting Ting's "Great DJ."
With its misanthropic, often viciously accurate take on love, fear and loss, Silhouette Theatre's "Dogs Barking" is not date-night material, unless the relationship is already deep in the w…
Buntport's "Electra Onion Eater" is smart, tight and witty, easily within the reach of people who've never studied Sophocles' "Electra" and enormously rewarding for anyone who tackled clas…
Just about everyone thinks "The Book of Mormon" is a play about Mormons. But actually, it could be about the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Global Volunteers, United Planet or any cause th…
"Vigil" is the darkly funny nightmare that every aging Baby Boomer should be fearing: dwindling days dominated by a bitter caretaker.
Patsy Cline nominally is the star in "Always ... Patsy Cline," but it's her exuberant friend, a housewife with a Texas-sized personality, who steals the show.
As the co-founder of the six-person collective Buntport Theater, Evan Weissman, 34, tackles issues in unexpected ways.
In a show that sets a new bar for innovation, insight and breathtaking equality — the Buntport ensemble has figured out a way to let everyone, and no one, star in "Tommy Lee Jones Go…
Like so many people, Alicia Ramirez knew little about her parents' lives until she was well into adulthood. Ramirez, a nun with the Sisters of Loretto, was 40 when someone asked her mother …
