17 stories by "John Wenzelthe Denver Post"
When Netflix rolled out its "Characters" half-hour specials in March, there was a good reason the streaming network put Lauren Lapkus' episode first.
Eschewing his usual Denver shows this time around, mega-comic Jerry Seinfeld will play a rare show at the Pikes Peak Center in Colorado Springs on July 29.
High-class art theft is afoot in "Art Dog," a new production from Denver Children's Theatre based on Thatcher Hurd's popular children's book of same name.
Despite its embrace of theater, film and music, the Highland neighborhood's Bug Theatre has enjoyed some of its best attendance in recent years with comedy events.
Possibly the most shocking thing about "Heathers," the 1988 dark comedy that gave us such eternal lines as "Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?
Bing Crosby was the first to popularize Irving Berlin's song "White Christmas," both on record and in the 1942 film "Holiday Inn," so it makes sense that he played the lead in the 1954 film …
Tim McGrath felt a sick, familiar feeling when news of the terror attacks in Paris began spreading on Nov.
Most stage productions of the classic, heavily allegorical children's tale "Red Riding Hood" hew fairly close to the established
In the grimy basement of the Bug Theatre, just south of West 37th Avenue and Navajo Street in north Denver's Highland neighborhood, Alex Weimer has unearthed ticket stubs, candy wrappers and…
The National Endowment for the Arts on Thursday announced grants totaling $2.5 million for Colorado arts nonprofits as part of the Washington, D.C.-based organization's spring round of fundi…
The National Endowment for the Arts on Thursday announced grants totaling $2.6 million for Colorado arts nonprofits as part of the Washington, D.
Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh wanted to do something special in advance of "Myopia," his first-ever gallery show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver in October.
Antonio Mercado knows a confluence when he sees one.The 39-year-old Greeley native is an actor and University of Colorado Denver theater professor who has experimented with live music and dr…
Thanksgiving week is one of the biggest of the year for going out, thanks to the influx of homesick college students and out-of-town family looking for things to do.
Denver longest-running theatrical production is offering $1,000 to anyone who can find it a new home before it loses the old one in January.
Trains are apt metaphors for all manner of kid-appropriate life lessons, as the fabulously successful people behind Thomas the Tank Engine would be happy to tell you.
