214 stories by "John Moore"
Review: At Germinal Stage-Denver, what might have been another ho-hum trolley ride on "A Streetcar Named Desire" is instead a runaway train of delusion, violence and self-loathing. Rating: …
Review: A lot has to go right for the little Vintage Theatre to do full justice to Colorado's first homegrown staging of "Avenue Q." And pretty much everything does. Rating: ****
John Moore's column: Actor Bill Pullman returns to Denver on Dec. 8 to perform excerpts from his newest project, "The Healing Wars," as a benefit for a new professional actors training stu…
Some people just never grow up. Thank goodness. Denver comedian Dave Shirley is a grown-up kid who loiters in the lobby of the Avenue Theater before his one-man stage comedy, wearing an old-…
Review: You wouldn't expect the Longmont Theatre Company to be the first Colorado company to stage Peter Morgan's celebrated Broadway play "Frost/Nixon," but this underdog production wins o…
Review: When a playwright scripts an interactive revival meeting as a play, you assume you're in for a comic parody. But Young Jean Lee wrote "Church" as an earnest and open-minded attempt …
Last week, while attending a quiet play called "The Road to Mecca," a theatergoer's cell-phone vibration went off. Not unusual, and not as bad as a ring, but noticeable enough to anyone in t…
Call it the Bard Bout of the Centuries: Shakespeare vs. Fakespeare. While the new film "Anonymous" makes an audacious case against the Bard, a local panel of experts just don't buy it.
Welcome to "Vox PHAMILIA: Quadrapalooza" — PHAMALy's fourth annual fall comedy catharsis, an evening when 13 performers have a whole lot of fun at your expense. And their own.
Review: "The Road to Mecca" is a long and patient one, and not everyone who embarks will make it to journey's end. A few antsy audience members invariably walk out of this deliberate play o…
In 1967, a dozen student actors from the University of Kansas came to Creede and saved this dying old mining town by starting a professional, seasonal theater company on the boarded-up Main …
Review: "The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley" is a cheerful, kid-pleasing musical based on Jeff Brown's series of popular books. And it makes for another wonderful, family-friendly offer…
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival will become the third company in the world to stage Tina Packer's full, five-part exploration of Shakespeare's female characters, "Women of Will." See the f…
The tiny Lake Dillon Theatre Company is about to launch a $3 million- $4 million capital campaign to move out of its 60-seat cabin theater and into a two-stage performing-arts center it plan…
For any arts organization, curating a board of directors is as important as curating any million-dollar work of art. Just going after the richest, the most wanted and most famous can backfir…
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is going back to producing five plays in 2012 — nine if you count "Women of Will," an extraordinary, five-part tour of Shakespeare's female characters…
Review: I don't know what takes more bravery: Asking someone on a blind date, or being asked to go on one. No, it's got to be this: Being asked on a blind date that will play out right then…
Theater review: It was obvious by the collective hoot that went up as the lights were going down that Su Teatro's first-ever stage adaptation of Sonia Nazario's Pulitzer-winning "Enrique's …
Reviews: In Boulder, "Mauritius" is a shout-a-thon that starts out unpleasant and just gets nastier from there. In Lakewood, "Some Girl(s)" at least gives us someone to root for. Four of the…
Denver's Chicano theater company, Su Teatro, is calling its world-premiere adaptation of Sonia Nazario's 2006 Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, "Enrique's Journey," the most significant producti…
Shadow Theatre Company has been in a period of rebuilding, but it's not taking one small step back into the light. It's taking three large leaps — at once. It's trilogy, "The Final Mil…
Review: The Denver Center Theatre Company's comic history mash-up shows how the powers that control America often respond to perceived threats to the status quo: Broken promises. Fire hoses…
A few hours after and just down the street from the opening performance of the Denver Center Theatre Company's "American Night," officers in riot gear cleared out the Occupy Denver encampment
Looking for love in show places? Every night, it seems, is Date Night at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. But the Denver Center's two newest romantic offerings — the similarly title…
Review: Undoubtedly informed by the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, Jez Butterworth's "Parlour Song" is about how maddeningly easy it is to destroy in seconds what it took years to build u…
