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The Denver Center Theatre Company continues its evolution into a significant developer of American plays with two new titles set to appear on its stages next season.
Less than a month after inaugurating its new digs in Denver's RiNo district, the Paragon Theatre ensemble has announced that it will close permanently after the final performance of its curr…
NEW YORK—Director Julie Taymor has hit back at her former creative partners in "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark," arguing in court papers that she was the victim of a conspiracy to unfai…
A scene from West High School, when about 150 Latino students walked out in 1969 after enduring racist remarks and were met with tear gas, is one of several that will be featured in a perfor…
The weekend ahead has guilty pleasure "Xanadu" at the Aurora Fox Theater; an all-star "Proof" in Cherry Creek; Broadway stars gathering in Fort Collins; "Six Degrees of Separation" at Vintag…
Denver's Spark Theater announced its 2012-2013 season today. The ambitious South Broadway theater is doubling the number of shows for the coming season, from 4 offerings to 8.
"I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change," the longest-running production in Colorado theater history, returns to the Garner-Galleria Theatre. The script shows its age around the edges, but i…
There's always good reason to be skeptical when a new play comes along recycling pop hits into a staged musical.
"Miss Julie" inaugurates Paragon Theatre's agreeable new digs in the RiNo district, an evolving neighborhood that, like this classic Strindberg play, knows the frisson between the privilege…
Here comes Emmy and Tony award winner Kristin Chenoweth, performing for one night only at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in Denver, May 18.
A lucky few — actually, a lucky 22 — people will get to sit in the front two rows of "American Idiot" when it plays in Denver starting next week.
Making Peter Pan fly is the easy part of any stage production based on J.M. Barrie's 1902 story about the boy who never grows up.
For 14 years, the Curious Theatre Company has gifted Denver with its own gift for programming. Curious specializes in presenting the sort of plays you've heard about, and wanted to see, but …
In the pantheon of human emotions, love must be considered the most magical of all. Cliches abound ascribing its magical powers: Love is blind; love conquers love conquers all; love is, of c…
NEW YORK—When Julian Erskine last saw the American touring company of "Riverdance," he had to smile.
Ten varied openings, from the return of the longest-running show in Colorado theater history - "I Love You, You're Perfect. Now Change" at the Galleria - to "Othello" in Fort Collins to a ne…
Scored by an Austrian, set in Spain, sung in Italian, and based on a French play, no opera could be more European than Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro," and yet there's a reason it is the m…
A new Pulitzer-nominated played called "In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)," now being staged in Colorado Springs, is proof enough that, when it comes to pop-culture titles, times &mdas…
Review: The Denver Center Theatre Company imagines "The Taming of the Shrew" in a late-1950s diner. The leads all are superb, but how far director Kent Thompson goes with his Americanizatio…
A busy weekend of live theater openings ranges from Boulder Ensemble's "Shipwrecked" to Springs Ensemble Theatre's hard-hitting nuclear-testing drama "The Land Southward" to Performance Now…
San Diego theater audiences are learning what fans of Denver's local handicapped theater company hve known for years: Regan Linton has a way of wrenching people out of their comfort zones.
"Smash" is not exactly "Glee" for adults. It's much better than that."Smash," debuting Monday at 9 p.m. on Channel 9, is the most exciting TV pilot in years. More dramatically grounded than …
To tweet or not to tweet, that is the question facing arts organizations trying to engage audiences in a social-media-obsessed world. More and more arts troupes across the nation are setting…
Ben Vereen is crazy about public television. Saying the actor-singer-dancer is passionate about PBS stations might even be an understatement.
