97 stories by "Joanne Ostrow"
Scar, the evil force at the center of "The Lion King," is a homegrown villain in the current touring production: the prodigal son returned to remind us of our demons.
In a messy trailer somewhere off I-90 in Northern Idaho, a couple of aging baby boomers talk shop over stacks of back copies of a newspaper for long-haul truckers.
The great 1998 Pulitzer-Prize-winning play "How I Learned to Drive," by Paula Vogel, is having a revival at Boulder's Dairy Center with a compelling central performance.
Everyone can relate to the premise of "If/Then," the musical about ambivalence and roads not taken.
Everyone can relate to the premise of "If/Then," the musical about ambivalence and roads not taken.
The aesthetic arguments are entrenched: For the artist, creativity takes priority over tradition; art simply has to be free to express itself because it is art.
The Theatre Company at the DCPA today announced the four playwrights for the 2016 Colorado New Play Summit.
A joyful backstage musical blended into a murder mystery that doesn't mind being corny in the service of a time step or a high kick, "Curtains" is for lovers of old-school musical theater.
Strange doings in the woods at The Space Theatre. In modern storytelling, the untamed forest is the setting for mayhem, particularly for young women venturing out alone at night, usually in…
Paper-thin but enjoyable as a fairy tale, Creede Repertory Theatre's "Good on Paper" at the Arvada Center requires a suspension of disbelief and a romantic heart.
Everything you need to know is in the title: "My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding." In an earlier time, the juxtapositions alone would have elicited laughs.
"Outside Mullingar" at the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company sets a high bar for the company's 10th season.
"Lookingglass Alice" is a mix of theater and circus, an acrobatic adaptation of Lewis Carroll's works taking audiences down a rabbit hole for 90 entertaining minutes.
Prepare to be polarized. When Annie Baker's 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Flick" opened in New York, it was so controversial, and the critics and audiences so radically divided, it q…
It's all a big, crazy mix-up. That could be the bad news. The good news is that "Relatively Speaking," the Alan Ayckbourn play from 1965, is not the door-slamming sort of farce you've seen t…
The wildly entertaining and equally profane satirical musical "The Book of Mormon," the product of Colorado's "South Park" creators, is back for a third rousing run with a first-rate cast.
No spoiler, but in the original 1960 Broadway production of "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," the tale of Denver's indomitable survivor of the Titanic, the iceberg came late in the second act.
Music is having a tough time on TV lately while musicals may be resurgent. Even as pop sensation "American Idol" has fallen flat, the live NBC telecast of the stage version of "The Sound of …
House of Lannister, House of Stark, House of Targaryn, House of Baratheon...and some six million other houses tuned in.
Need a refresher before the new season of "Game of Thrones"? Haven't yet encountered "Orphan Black"?
"Smash" is not exactly "Glee" for adults. It's much better than that."Smash," debuting Monday at 9 p.m. on Channel 9, is the most exciting TV pilot in years. More dramatically grounded than …
The table is set for an exploration of prejudice and bigotry in Lisa Loomer's play "Two Things You Don't Talk About at Dinner," running through Feb. 19 at the Space Theatre inside the Denve…
