It's the high season for amusement-park pleasures — even, it seems, on stage. Two rides worth the price of their tickets are cheerily whipping around with expert timing.
Tina Packer and Nigel Gore sit in a booth in a Boulder restaurant discussing "Women of Will." Packer's five-play cycle about William Shakespeare's female characters begins a run at the Colo…
Sirens blared at a surprisingly opportune moment. Dragonflies zipped above the audience as dusk gave way to dark.
There's something a bit off about Sarah Goldman's apartment in "Beau Jest," currently onstage at the John Hand Theater in Lowry through June 30. Her place doesn't resemble the digs of a youn…
The prognosis was grim — and not in a way that would have macabre duo Gomez and Morticia Addams smirking with delight.
It's clear from the zippy opening number of "Legally Blonde" — at the Arvada Center through July 1 — that the gals of the UCLA chapter of Delta Nu harbor some pretty old no…
Before we ever see the newlyweds of the tender, engaging one-act play "Sweet Storm" — playing now at Miners Alley Playhouse in downtown Golden — we hear the young pair in…
Viewed from afar, Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge" still resonates nearly seven decades after it opened in 1955, first as a one-act on Broadway and then a year later in London, as
The ridiculous gets the sublime once over as Buntport Theater Companyperforms its devilishly original play "The Roast Beef Situation," through June 16.
"The Roast Beef Situation" Buntport Theater, May 25-June 16 Buntport is arguably Denver's most eclectic theater troupe.
It is not unusual to emerge from a LIDA Project production scratching one's head or stroking one's imaginary beard and letting out a long, often satisfied "Hmmm.
In the dark of the Arvada Center's Black Box Theater, a comedy's a-brewing as winds whip, distressed voices call out and a ship's timbers are heard shivering, cracking, smashing against a …
Plays are often about listening, about the ebbs and flow of language. With its rich, ideas-laden writing, "Red" — John Logan's Tony Award-winning drama about artist Mark Rothko and an…
An amusing moment comes early in Vintage Theatre's solid staging of "The Joy Luck Club" at the their new digs off of Colfax Avenue in Aurora. Jing-Mei Woo's mother, Suyuan, has died. An aneu…
Two fine works currently on Denver stages suggest that love is an undertaking for amateurs: The Aurora Fox's "Amateur Night at the Big Heart" and Off-Center's "Date."
It's always a bit strange coming late to a popular-culture party. "The X-Files"? Had to play catch-up when the hit TV series' lesser big-screen spinoffs arrived in the multiplex. "Lost"? …
Lovers of Jane Austen mark your calendars. Aficionados of spanking new musical theater, ditto. Fans of the Denver Center Theatre Company's burgeoning New Play Summit, you do the same.
Sniffling and dozing, flirting and rebuffing, pontificating and pouting — such are the moods and states found in George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," onstage at the Denver
Superfan Mike Meko of Denver will mark his 15th and 16th viewings of the Broadway musical "Wicked" when it returns to Denver's Buell Theatre Wednesday through May 20.
It is not apples and oranges, writing about the Arvada Center's regional premiere of "Chess, A Musical" and the Denver Center Theatre Company's revue "Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash."
Review: The anxieties coursing through Lloyd Suh's "Great Wall Story," about three reporters cooking up a fake story, feel mighty contemporary for a romp set in Denver in 1899. Lisa Kenn…
Two of Denver's most visionary theater companies are taking on plays that embrace but also push forward their creative ambitions: The handicapped company PHAMALy is performing "The Elephant…