It's all a big, crazy mix-up. That could be the bad news. The good news is that "Relatively Speaking," the Alan Ayckbourn play from 1965, is not the door-slamming sort of farce you've seen t…
The Colorado Ballet takes it show up the road this weekend with an "An Evening Under the Stars" at the Arvada Center Outdoor Amphitheater.
The theater company was incorporated in 1891, eventually counting Myrna Loy, Cecil B. de Mille, Grace Kelly and Sarah Bernhardt among its headliners.
There are only two bits of good advice you need in regard to Nathan Hall's "Ghost Light" currently playing at Boettcher Concert Hall.
The wildly entertaining and equally profane satirical musical "The Book of Mormon," the product of Colorado's "South Park" creators, is back for a third rousing run with a first-rate cast.
No patch of open land is more important to Denver's history than Civic Center. Developed in the 1910s, just as the city itself was exploding, the park served as sacred space for political ra…
For a quarter century, there have been two distinct — and separate — fine arts scenes in Colorado.
The musical adaptation of "Cold Mountain" arrived at the Santa Fe Opera Saturday night with all of the expectations a very good idea provokes.
Braying and baiting, Emma Messenger is appropriately terrifying as Martha, a force of nature as the unfulfilled wife of a college history professor in Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virgini…
The Central City Opera's main events are going very well this season, with both "La Traviata" and "Man of La Mancha" winning critical raves.
There was a nightclub in Weimar-era Berlin called The Blue Stocking. Soldiers wounded during World War I would hook up there with prostitutes who might be missing an arm or a leg.
What every great soprano needs most is infrastructure. No Brünnhilde hits her high notes without the serious support system that got her up there: the vocal coaches and wigmakers; the …
Central City Opera's "Man of La Mancha" is as dark as it is sentimental, an argument for sustaining hope in a pitiless universe.
Aurora's Vintage Theatre typically chooses lively, engaging plays, which makes clunkers like "Always A Bridesmaid" stand out in painfully sharp relief.
The people of south Jeffco showed their love for William Shakespeare last year, so the Foothills Park and Recreation District is giving them some more.
Last summer actor Ben Bonenfant took to the stage as Prince Hal in Colorado Shakespeare Festival's productions of "Henry IV: Parts 1 and 2." Now the handsome 26-year-old can be found r…
Writer E.L. Doctorow, who wryly reimagined the American experience in such novels as "Ragtime" and "The March" and applied its lessons to the past and the future in fiction and nonfiction, h…
NEW YORK (AP) — Writer E.L. Doctorow, who wryly reimagined the American experience in such novels as "Ragtime" and "The March" and applied its lessons to the past and the future in fic…
In "Mr. Holmes," one of literature's great minds is in decline. His portrayer, on the other hand, shows little signs of slowing down.
When "Cabaret" opens Saturday at the Space Theatre downtown, actors Garrett Zuercher and Daniel Traylor will play the emcee of Berlin's Kit Kat Klub.
The classical arts connect the dots for every culture. The great operas, symphonies, stories, plays and dances last beyond the eras of the artists who create them, crossing generations, con…
The classical arts connect the dots for every culture. The great operas, symphonies, stories, plays, dances - they last beyond the eras of the artists who create them, crossing generations,…
The musical version of "Once," the tale of a Dublin street musician whose encounter with a young woman changes his life, has earned praise from critics and audiences alike: The show won eigh…
NEW YORK (AP) — Roger Rees, the lanky Tony Award-winning Welsh-born actor and director who made his mark onstage as Nicholas Nickleby and later played English multi-millionaire Robin C…
Spotlight Theatre Company's engaging "The Foreigner" is just about perfect summer fare, an improbable story about a painfully shy man whose impersonation of a foreigner enlivens a moribund f…