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NEW YORK (AP) — The musicals "An American in Paris" and "Fun Home" each received a leading 12 Tony Award nominations on Tuesday, showing two very different sides of this Broadway seaso…
MONROEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee has started a nonprofit company that will produce a play about the book, ending a dispute that threatened to derail t…
In a fluorescent-blasted rehearsal room in the Arvada Center, a group of actors are having a kinetic go at a jig.
It was — and fortunately remains — quite the weekend for intriguing theater.
The Metropolitan Opera's live HD broadcasts finish up the 2014-15 season with a crowd-pleaser.
"Funnier than I remember," said a man at one of last weekend's performances of Germinal Stage's "The Cherry Orchard," and he wasn't kidding.
After relocating two years ago into the now thriving art district on West Colfax Avenue, the Edge Theater has garnered a handful of regional awards while drawing larger audiences.
Three guys enter an apartment through an open window via a fire escape. Once each takes his place — at a piano, a drum set, an upright bass — a vivacious flapper slips in fr…
Something visceral and vivid is taking place at the Denver Center, where the musical "The 12" is receiving its world premiere. Robert Schenkkan wrote the book and Neil Berg the music. The tw…
Noah Baumbach has pulled off a minor miracle. Twice. In the 2010 dramedy "Greenberg" and now in the deliciously observed "While We're Young," the writer-director has taken Ben Stiller's oft …
If you're in the mood for foolish fun, a trip to the Lone Tree Arts Center may be in order, where you'll find the clever romp "The 39 Steps."
This year marks Arthur Miller's centenary. So it makes sense that last weekend saw the Miller baton passed from one local theater to another when "All My Sons" closed at the Cherry Cre…
There are more than 40 hits jammed into the jukebox pleasure "Motown the Musical," at the Buell Theatre through April 19.
Pip, pip, hooray!That might be the easy response to the national tour of "Pippin," which had its dazzling launch Wednesday.
No spoiler, but in the original 1960 Broadway production of "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," the tale of Denver's indomitable survivor of the Titanic, the iceberg came late in the second act.
At area theaters. By Lisa KennedyDenver Post Film CriticNovelist Dennis Lehane is no stranger to the tricky terrain between books and movies.
Theater Openings Adams Playhouse Dinner Theatre's "Hard Rock Homicide" Sept. 12-13: An '80s rock band tries to get back together but finds itself in the middle of a murder mystery.
The Arvada Center's exuberant, muscular production of "Memphis: The Musical" celebrates the black roots of rock 'n' roll through a story tackling the stuttering process of integration in 19…
LONE TREE —Forty percent of Lone Tree households have come to the Lone Tree Arts Center in its first three years, as the facility continues to sell out more and more shows.
Singer-songwriter SuCh tells the audience gathered at Jazz @ Jack's on a Sunday night more than once that she loves them.
The word "Orwellian" got quite the workout at the recent 41st Telluride Film Festival.
Equinox Theatre's production of "Bug" is as disconcerting as it is engaging, bouncing so rapidly between reality and neurosis that it's never entirely clear where that line is drawn.
Theater openings Arvada Center for the Arts' "Memphis" Sept. 9-28: Inspired by actual events, radio DJ Huey Calhoun teams up with a club singer who is on the verge of changing the rock 'n'
Just over two years ago, local actresses Maria Cheng and Tria Xiong were celebrating the conclusion of "The Joy Luck Club" performance at the Vintage Theater in Aurora, and simultaneously
