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The Denver Post has been in my DNA since the moment of conception. Literally. My dad was a Denver Post sports writer, and my mom provided a weekly hard-news roundup from Jeffco. (But because…
The Arvada Center has announced the cast for “The Importance of Being Earnest,” by Oscar Wilde, running Jan. 24 through Feb. 19, 2012: Scott Bellot (John "Jack" Worthing) Jake Wa…
On Nov. 19, Bas Bleu Theatre christened its playing space as the Tom Sutherland Stage at the Bas Bleu Theatre Company, in honor of the former Beirut hostage, Colorado State University profes…
At Thanksgiving, the family of Rivertree Theatre co-founder Pat Mahoney would like his friends to know Mahoney has moved into the Sunrise at Orchard assisted-living facility, where he is rec…
The University of Northern Colorado presents “Harvey,” while Colorado State University takes on “The Kafka Project.” Here’s more on each project: University of …
Stephen Sondheim can make a hit, but even after all these years, he still can’t take one. In a short essay today for The Guardian that is filled with contempt and contradiction, Sondhe…
After a three-year dormancy, Colorado’s first and longest-running theater company dedicated to telling gay stories is coming back to life as Theatre Out Denver. For 37 years, Theatre G…
Two National Theatre Conservatory grads have written plays that will be staged next summer as part of the Creede Repertory Theatre’s 47th season, it was announced tonight. The plays ar…
The re-dawning of the Age of Aquarius is showing no signs of un-dawning. The Evergreen Players, seizing on the momentum of a recent Broadway revival, a national tour and a pretty great 2010 …
Last week, I let it fly with my latest mini-rant calling out escalating bad behavior at live theater performances, which was really just a follow-up to my initial major-rant on the subect ti…
The University of Colorado Department of Theatre & Dance presents the musical comedy, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” Nov. 4-13 on the university’s mains…
The University of Denver Theatre Department presents Neil LaBute’s “Some Girl(s)” as its fall mainstage production Nov. 3-13. “Some Girl(s),” is the “High…
Richard Thieriot, a National Theatre Conservatory grad and alum of both the Denver Center Theatre Company and Colorado Shakespeare Festival, made his off-Broadway debut on Friday in the TACT…
That “South Park” would devote an episode this season to Colorado creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s triumphant summer vacation conquering Broadway was a consummation de…
It’s an honor, and a humbling one, to be sure, to be included in American Theatre’s new list of the 12 most influential theater critics in America. I’m especially grateful …
Rising experimental playwright Young Jean Lee, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow from Pullman, Wash., and founder of New York’s acclaimed Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, recorded this j…
The Edge Theatre’s second season of tough-talking theater will include classics by David Mamet and Arthur Miller, while introducing regional premieres by Adam Bock and Peter Sinn Nacht…
Curious Theatre is introducing “Clues and Brews,” a part-bar crawl, part-bridge crawl and part-scavenger hunt, from 5-8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 24. “The clues are centered on our…
Fort Collins – Colorado State Opera Theatre presents “Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street” by Stephen Sondheim at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, 22 and 28, 7:30 p.m.…
A quick update on the upcoming move of the Vintage Theatre from its longtime home at 2119 E. 17th Avenue, from artistic director Craig Bond: “Our landlords are extending our lease unti…
The University of Colorado’s department of theater and dance is set to open John Cameron's new memory play “14,” which looks into the controversial and horrific "reparative…
OK, so this item has absolutely nothing to do with theater, but whenever I merely mention “John Denver” in my theater blog, the hits go through the roof. So, thanks, “John …
The Aurora Fox has announced casting for its next four productions: “Escanaba: 1922,” “Crumbs from the Table of Joy,” “Xanadu” and “Amateur Night at…
The Arvada Center has announced its cast for the holiday musical “The 1940s Radio Hour,” written by Colorado State theater professor Walton Jones, to run Nov. 29-Dec. 23, at 6901…
Kay Marie Mirich was everyone's Auntie Mame. Mame was the eccentric, bohemian Roaring '20s socialite character whose motto was, "Life is a banquet – and most poor suckers are starving …
