97 stories by "Joanne Ostrow"
Mike Nichols talks about his luck in life almost as if he weren't a creative genius.
Depending how you feel about slapstick, farce, British music hall comedy, cases of mistaken identity and high-speed alliteration, "One Man, Two Guvnors" by Richard Bean may be just your cup…
"A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder," in its national tour, is a cleverly designed, smartly directed musical romp that benefits from some fine acting talents.
Actors will roam the galaxy and dark matter will find its place in the spotlight when art and science converge in Boulder this month.
Laura Eason is one of the most prolific and successful dramatists in the country — and one of the few women who can claim as much.
Playwright Theresa Rebeck has a gift for dialogue. She showed the same deft use of language in "Smash" on NBC.
The lack of women and minorities in Hollywood is a hot topic in the media lately. At a time when television is hailed for putting a more diverse assortent of faces onscreen, the unbalanc…
The pre-Broadway debut of "Frozen," a new film-to-stage Disney musical, highlights the 2016-17 Broadway season for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
A pre-Broadway version of Disney's "Frozen" will highlight the Denver Center for the Performing Arts 2016-17 season, the center announced Thursday.
Curious Theatre announced its 19th season slate with five plays, including the regional premiere of Robert Askins' "Hand to God."
Curious Theatre announced its 19th season slate with five plays, including the regional premiere of Robert Askins' "Hand to God.
Lyndon Baines Johnson was a big bear of a man whose special skill as a politician was getting in a legislator's face and applying just the right pressure to just the right vulnerability to…
Here we are, 35 years later, and it still stings: Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart" depicts the government's inaction fueled by discrimination in the HIV-AIDS crisis.
"Tell Me on a Sunday" at The Avenue Theater is a rewarding one-act, one-woman musical cycle of love and loss, soaring on the estimable talents of Megan Van de Hey.
A crowd pleaser that's more popular than substantial, "Dirty Dancing" on its national tour at the Buell Theatre is all about emulating the movie magic.
Sexy, enticing title, "Sex with Strangers." Laura Eason's "Sex with Strangers" is a deceptively simple play.
Shakespeare's problematic "The Taming of the Shrew" has been deconstructed and re arranged through the years by scholars as well as artists trying to come to terms with the most sexist play …
Super-wholesome and family focused, with a seasonal theme, the regional premiere of "Little Women: The Musical" won't leave you whistling memorable tunes as you exit the Aurora Fox Theatre, …
The entire cast of "The Wiz Live!" showed real singers work best in musicals (compared to past NBC theatrical productions).
NBC is banking on a live retelling of the Wizard of Oz story in musical form, an adaptation of the 1975 Broadway Musical "The Wiz," to break through the clutter of broadcast, streaming and D…
Em Grosland is pixie-ish, small with delicate features, short blond hair, alabaster skin and wide eyes. Grosland prefers the pronoun "they/their." As in, today the actor is wearing their …
A madcap murder-mystery musical is playing at the Garner Galleria, a two-character feat of rapid-fire timing, piano playing and silliness.
The bold experiment in serialized storytelling by Curious Theatre that brought the first two installments of Tarell Alvin McCraney's "The Brother/Sister Plays" to Denver to rave reviews, …
"Equus" sets the scene in an instant: Teenager Alan Strang is being held in an English psychiatric hospital after savagely and inexplicably blinding six horses at the stable where he worked.
Playwright Alan Ayckbourn is famous as a master of light comedy and social satire. He has a darker side, however.
