While January may be catch-up month for filmgoers bent on winning Oscar pools, fresh local theater offerings hurtle into the New Year like a pent-up thoroughbred dashing head-long for the fi…
While January may be catch-up month for filmgoers bent on winning Oscar pools, fresh local theater offerings hurtle into the New Year like a pent-up thoroughbred dashing head-long for the fi…
2012 was a defining year in Colorado culture.It was a year of dazzling art exhibits. Thrilling musical moments. Triumphant theater. Inspiring filmmaking. Galvanizing television events. Bril…
How do you not like a problem like Maria? Ever since Julie Andrews made Rodgers and Hammerstein's heroine indelible and yearly TV broadcasts made her part of our family, Maria's journey …
Boulder's Dinner Theatre's production of the musical comedy "42nd Street" proves that you don't need tinsel, Christmas carols and faux snow to please an audience during the holiday season.
It was a magical snowfall, a too-long-deferred bliss. It was the kind of beautiful fib one finds only in a theater.
Snowflakes are drifting gently down at the Buell Theatre until Christmas Eve. And it makes for a very special effect indeed. But then the Denver Center Theatre Company's "Irving Berlin's Wh…
It's not the dance of sugar plum fairies that's required of Christmas season theater fare. No, the challenge is to pull off something akin to a minuet of the familiar and the special, the se…
The sitting room in J.B Priestley's farce "When We Are Married" is spacious. It needs to be. Alderman Joseph Helliwell's parlor will be the site of many an entrance and exit, some fast, so…
Megan Van De Hey doesn't mean to upstage her colleagues in Vintage Theatre's production of "Kiss of the Spider Woman," running through Dec. 2.
Megan Van De Hey doesn't mean to upstage her colleagues in Vintage Theatre's production of "Kiss of the Spider Woman," running through Dec.
Playwright Donald Margulies has a gift for authentic gab. This talent served his Pulitzer Prize-winning marital drama, "Dinner With Friends," well.
Playwright Donald Margulies has a gift for authentic gab. This talent served his Pulitzer Prize-winning marital drama, "Dinner With Friends," well.
Feast or famine. That might describe the rhythm of work for a theater director in this town, says Christy Montour-Larson.
Granted, the opening of the delirious musical "Sweet Tooth" and the arrival of a newly gussied up Blu-ray of "Sunset Boulevard" to my mailbox are purely coincidental. Yet, I can't help b…
Broads. Simply put, there aren't enough of them. Similar to dames — and there is nothing like one, to quote Rodgers and Hammerstein — they are "full-figured gals" metaphoricall…
It takes little time into "Avenue Q" — the charmingly wanton, puppet-populated musical by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty — to see why music man Lopez, and "The
In 1997, actor Eli Wallach reigned off-Broadway as the title character in Jeff Baron's two-person drama "Visiting Mr. Green."
As soon as Felicia Boswell belts out the first number in "Memphis," it's easy to concede the hype, embrace it and even add to it.
A gritty rock musical about the nation's seventh president and an old-school, agitprop affair that teases present-day issues of immigration might not appear to have much in common.
"Memphis" opens Tuesday at the Buell. And the national tour of the Tony-winning musical about a white disc jockey whose love of black music leads him to challenge (in more ways than one) th…
When the curtain rises on the second act of the cross-dressing comedy "Is He Dead?" — written by a fellow named Mark Twain and adapted with verve by David Ives — our hero has b…
While Athos, Porthos and Aramis cross swords and teach young hero d'Artagnan a thing or two in "The Three Musketeers," now onstage at the Denver Center, a central player in bringing
At the start of "Elijah: An Adventure," black-clad figures appear on stage. They look almost frozen in the waves of "bon voyages" that those on shore direct to loved ones on an ocean liner…
During the rousing curtain call for the Denver Center Theatre Company's revival of August Wilson's "Fences," it was hard not to glean in lead David Alan Anderson's face a kind of lingering…