Just how vulnerable the pursuit of happiness could be for Blacks during Reconstruction is on aching and wry display in Pearl Cleage's "Flyin' West." So, too, is the tenacity of the liberated.
In "Refuge," the haunting and grounded new play at Curious Theatre Company, someone we care about will die. That is not a spoiler so much as an acknowledgment that the territory on which the…
The ballet comes through Denver March 29 and 30.
Two days before the start of this year's Colorado New Play Summit in late February, the Denver Center's Robert & Judi Newman building downtown was a hive of creativity. Four studios hous…
"In the Upper Room" ends in much the way it begins. To say more would be to spoil a bold gesture, one that had an audience member exclaim loudly, "Oh, my God!"
In 2019, Neyla Pekarek, the former singer and cellist in the indie-rock band the Lumineers, released "Rattlesnake," a solo album celebrating the restlessness and boldness. Now, she's turned …
A revival worth its salt should always bring fresh revelations, even when it's set in a bygone era. In "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" at the Denver Center, that discovery comes by way of …
Listening to the first three songs on Van Halen's self-titled debut album will tell you much of what you need to know heading into "Eddie and Dave," a gender-bent play about the founding, ri…
They didn't see the Broadway production of "American Son" together, but Jada Suzanne Dixon and Chip Walton had the same response as each watched the drama about an estranged interracial coup…
"Mama." that's the first word spoken in Benchmark Theatre's riling and deftly performed world premiere of "Elephant." Actually, "spoken" is inaccurate: "cried out" is more like it. "Mama!!!"
In the sweetly unique musical "Hundred Days" -- on stage at the Aurora Fox -- two lovers cycle through their years as a couple not by growing old in front of the audience but by cramming as …
There's a telling moment that comes late in the "The Lifespan of a Fact" on stage --Â make that on stage! --Â at the Curious Theatre Company, through Oct. 16.
Alicia Young had a dream. (Actually, she had a few.) The actor-activist-director-theater maven was sitting at a cafe in Denver's Whittier neighborhood recently talking about the inspiration …
The curtain rises. (Or the laptop warms up, hitched to a nice-sized monitor.) The theatergoers gather, masked and in-person. (Or sit at home, feet on the coffee table and no protocols to kee…
"Before You Go" at Miners Alley Playhouse runs through Sept. 19. There's a burst of energy before it settles into something often clever and at times quietly commanding.
It seems so obvious in retrospect, the pairing of a talented Denver-based rapper with an ace local theater company on an original production. But then, that's how the best no-brainers often …
"Wild Fire" is the latest addition to a growing number of productions foregrounding the stories of Coloradans by conducting fresh interviews, mining oral histories and/or diving into archiva…
Created in collaboration with local playwright Ellen K. Graham, Buntport's latest "Coyote. Badger. Rattlesnake" brings drama and laughs.
In Lauren Yee's world premiere production directed by Eric Ting - punctuated with Saul's (BOB ARI) and Manford's (LINDEN TAILOR) bluster - "The Great Leap" asserts a quiet, beautifully unexp…
"Zoey" has some tart-funny dialog but the cleverness seldom stretches beyond sit-com ease.
Desi Oakley brings a big and lush voice to the role of the waitress working in a small Southern town who has dreams of escaping if not her hometown, her brute of a husband, Earl (Nick Bailey…
It's a family drama, so everyone can relate on some level.
A keenly engaging work about three murdered women whose ghostly recollections get at something more vital than a mere whodunit.
"Constellations" is an engaging and melancholy affair.
It won't change the course of your politics, but "Two Degrees" harbors an undeniable emotional resonance.