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NEW YORK—Wedding bells are in the cards for Tick and Bess. Audra McDonald, the Tony Award actress who currently stars as half of Broadway's "Porgy and Bess," and Will Swenson, who …
NEW YORK—Hugh Jackman liked his record-setting Broadway run so much this winter that he's handcuffing himself to a future musical about Harry Houdini.
Winter is traditionally when our local theater companies take their greatest artistic risks. And this could be a season of very high reward for the Denver Center Theatre Company. Here's our …
Charles Ross' "One Man Star Wars Trilogy," and Jesters Dinner Theatre's "Forever Plaid."
How does the Creede Repertory Theatre draw an audience of 47,500 to a town of 400 residents? That's one reason artistic director Maurice LaMee is The Denver Post's 2011 Theater Person of the…
A roundup of this week's live theater openings, from "Irving Berlin's White Christmas" in Lone Tree, to Theatre Aspen's "Annie."
Overheard at Tuesday's opening of "West Side Story" at the Buell Theatre: "I've seen the movie but I've never seen the play," a woman confided to her companion a few minutes before Leonard …
Theater is full of conceits, and that's the reason we keep going back for more. Audiences know those star-crossed lovers on stage don't really fall upon their daggers, that 225-pound soprano…
Curious Theatre capped perhaps its best year by garnering an impressive 21 finalists for the 2011 Denver Post Ovation Awards, which honor the best in live theater from around the state. Vot…
The 2011 Denver Post Ovation Award winners honoring the best in Colorado theater will be announced on Dec. 25. How will our winners compare with your favorites? Click here to take our survey…
A complete list of all Denver Post Ovation Award winners from 2001-10
In 1957, four rising artistic giants created a groundbreaking stage production that rewrote every rule of musical theater — but one. A revival visiting Denver beginning Tuesday gave su…
The LIDA Project, a 17-year-old experimental theatrical collective, is presenting an unprecedented series of six separate plays that examine health, care, mortality and dying in the United S…
Review: The Denver Center Theatre Company has been producing "A Christmas Carol" every holiday season for 19 years. And if any story is worth revisiting once a year, it's this one. Kateri…
Before the first note was played Thursday evening at the Lakewood Cultural Center, it was obvious that the featured group was no ordinary classical ensemble.
Reviews: There are two amiable area theater productions about the importance of home that are particularly meaningful at the holidays — without ever even mentioning the holidays: Ba…
The Denver Center Theatre Company will bring a reading of a new musical based on Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," two fully produced main stage world premieres and a multimedia worksho…
The disbanded Denver band Five Iron Frenzy asked fans for $30,000 to fund a new recording on the trendy website kickstarter.com. That fans already have given nearly four times that amount po…
The last time the Denver band Five Iron Frenzy played a note in 2003, there was no such thing as social media. But that's exactly what is bringing the Christian ska band back to life.
A 20-year-old Northwestern University student has been watching the Adams-Meryl Streep film "Julie & Julia" every day for a year, and blogging about it. The Denver Center will be hosting…
Review: Boulder's Dinner Theatre's artfully presented and elegantly performed production of "Phantom" is a return to what it does best — telling rich, sophisticated stories with dram…
With more than 30 holiday productions to choose from, there's plenty of both sugar and spice for theatergoers to savor this season. Here's a complete rundown.
Review: The Auroa Fox serves up the final chapter in comedian Jeff Daniels' "Escanaba" trilogy, the well-known comic actor's labor of love about a Michigan family and its beloved hunting l…
"The Muppets," is a generally charming exercise in nostalgia. The musical comedy whimsically and often cleverly revisits the characters, their shtick and and the TV show and movies that made
For the second straight year, nonprofit theaters contributed $1.9 billion to the national economy. But does anyone care? That and the news of the week.
