11 stories by "John Moore Denver Post Theater Critic"
Idina Menzel, hero to theater geeks and "Gleeks" worldwide, will be performing in concert with Marvin Hamlisch and the Colorado Symphony on Sunday at Red Rocks.
Joey Wishnia, who will receive the Colorado Theatre Guild's lifetime achievement award July 18, is for the fourth straight summer performing in a play staged in the lobby of the downtown Bar…
Last updated July 10, 2011
Review: Jenny Sutter is taking the long way home from Iraq. But in playwright Julie Marie Myatt's timely and troubling portrait of a damaged U.S. Marine just home from war, it's clear she's…
Review: It's impossible to see John Kolvenbach's play as anything but a deliberate homage to Sam Shepard's seminal "True West." Both are violent, relentless and booze-soaked tales of estran…
This year, only 37 percent of the productions offered by the 10 leading Shakespeare festivals in North America were written by their namesake. Festival leaders are responding to the times, c…
Review: The Avenue Theater's "The Divine Sister" is funnier if you're drunk. Seriously. They tell you so going in. Rating: ***
Review: "The Awakening of Angel DeLuna" is a promising new musical now getting its first wings at the Dairy Center in Boulder. It's far more realized than most new works at this stage of de…
At the Colorado Shakespeare Festival — at 54, the second-oldest Bard fest in the nation — the marquee event this summer will be a cross-cultural presentation of Nikolai Gogol's 1…
Interview: It's been 20 years since Tom Sutherland was released from 6½ years of captivity in Beirut. And as the retired Colorado State University professor was reminded watching the…
When Theatre Aspen announced Sandy Duncan would be gracing its stage this summer in the road-trip play "Becky's New Car," it seemed unlikely the wholesome star might soon be occupying the to…
