John Moore column: Denver's ballyhooed launch of the "Book of Mormon" national tour here should have been a cause for celebration, but its measly three-week visit amounts to little more tha…
A look in photos at the Sept. 9 opening night of LIDA Project's new theater space at an artist collective called the Laundry on Lawrence, 2701 Lawrence St. The opening production is called "…
Review" Anyone who thinks we live in a post-racial America is in for a rude — and often riotous — awakening with Curious Theatre Company's compelling "Clybourne Park." The Pulit…
For theater, September is like college football's bowl season, with a proliferation of offerings to suit any taste. And it all starts now. More than a dozen major openings mark the tradition…
Veteran actor Mary Louise Lee took on a new role when she became Denver's first lady in June. But she didn't take on a new name. "I come with my own identity," said Lee, who plans to use he…
If you love "Annie," the ubiquitous musical about that irrepressible little orphan who solved the Great Depression, unemployment, crumbling infrastructure, collapsed financial markets, hunge…
Denver Center president Randy Weeks said today he expects about half of the 53,000 available seats to highly anticipated launch of the "The Book of Mormon" national tour will eventually beco…
Check out our thoughts on Broadway productions of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," "The Book of Mormon," "War Horse," "Catch Me If You Can," "Jerusalem," "The Normal Heart" and "The Mother(e…
They are the unlikely kings of pop-culture subversion, these two snickering goofballs who bonded more over breaking wind than breaking barriers in a 1992 University of Colorado film class.
The Denver Center's much-anticipated launch of the Broadway darling "The Book of Mormon" will happen Aug. 14-Sept. 2, 2012. But unless you buy a subscription to the Denver Center's entire 20…
Review: The second-year Afterthought Theatre Company's modest new production of "The Wiz" is attracting a lot of attention and fostering much goodwill because of Denver first lady Mary Louis…
The Denver Center Theatre Company will offer three distinct slices of American life this fall with the classic courtroom tale "To Kill a Mockingbird" (opening Oct. 6), the naturalization com…
The opening weekend of the fall theater season brings 15 new local offerings, including the first homegrown staging of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "Next to Normal," along with Tennes…
Review: "The Guys," written in just a week, is not in itself an important play. But its importance in bringing theater back to life in a ruined neighborhood still caked in ash and smelling …
White flight. Gentrification. Integration. Why does the idea of difference strike such perpetual and predictable fear among those already living on the block? Curious Theatre's season-opener…
The new 25th-anniversary production of "Les Miserables" is built for the road — meaning 2,800-seat houses like Denver's Buell Theatre, which is nearly three times bigger than the vener…
The new 25th-anniversary production of "Les Miserables" is built for the road — meaning 2,800-seat houses like Denver's Buell Theatre, which is nearly three times bigger than the vener…
After months of caring for his parents, actor John Lithgow just could not cheer his aging father up. Then the idea hit him like a bolt: He told his father bedtime stories, "and he came back…
"Les Miserables" has visited Denver many times, but the touring production coming to the Buell Theatre next week marks the 25th anniversary of the world's longest-running musical.
This week's theater openings Afterthought's "The Wiz" Opening Friday, Aug.
The 2011 Colorado Walk for Hemophilia was held today, Aug. 13, around Sloan's Lake just west of downtown Denver. The event rose $40,000 for a foundation dedicated to preventing the complicat…
No matter how you look at it, it's tough out there for a playwright. So just imagine what it must be like for writers of new musicals, which cost exponentially more to stage. Melissa Faith H…
Now that it is growing into its own body, the Boulder International Fringe Festival is proudly behaving like a lot of impetuous 7-year-olds: careless, impudent and defiantly knocking up agai…
Review: There's something different about the 1960s romantic comedy "A Touch of Spring." It's not all that romantic, and, with the exception of one key player, not much of a comedy. And tha…
Summer is the busiest time of year in Colorado theater thanks to its many top-notch mountain companies, the majority of which perform only in the sweltering months.