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Review: The Denver Center Theatre Company tells "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" in the spirit of an exciting bedtime story. There's never a dull moment, but neither is there a jaw-dropping o…
Thousands of middle-school students will be see Denver Center Theatre Company's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Maybe one of them will be the next Laura Eason, the Cherry Creek High School gr…
Review: At Germinal Stage-Denver, what might have been another ho-hum trolley ride on "A Streetcar Named Desire" is instead a runaway train of delusion, violence and self-loathing. Rating: …
Review: A lot has to go right for the little Vintage Theatre to do full justice to Colorado's first homegrown staging of "Avenue Q." And pretty much everything does. Rating: ****
John Moore's column: Actor Bill Pullman returns to Denver on Dec. 8 to perform excerpts from his newest project, "The Healing Wars," as a benefit for a new professional actors training stu…
Some people just never grow up. Thank goodness. Denver comedian Dave Shirley is a grown-up kid who loiters in the lobby of the Avenue Theater before his one-man stage comedy, wearing an old-…
You already know how to get to Sesame Street, but the route to Avenue Q is straight down 17th Avenue, where the little Vintage Theatre is about to stage Colorado's first homegrown version of
Review: The premise could not be more earth-shaking — or anachronistic: A wild, comic romp set against the horror of the 2007 Minneapolis bridge disaster that killed 13 and inju…
Review: You wouldn't expect the Longmont Theatre Company to be the first Colorado company to stage Peter Morgan's celebrated Broadway play "Frost/Nixon," but this underdog production wins o…
Review: Just when you're sure you've grown impervious to the visceral joy and underlying gravitas that is "The Lion King" ... you see it again, through the wide eyes of a captivated 8-year-…
There are grants, and there are six-figure grants for a program that's only a month old. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation believes enough in the Denver Center Theatre Company's new alter…
In large numbers, Colorado nonprofit arts and culture organizations have gone the way of airlines and hotels — charging prices that automatically rise as available seats decline. And w…
Review: Dudes are such tools. Shakespeare knew it 400 years ago when he wrote one of his ickiest plays, "Two Gentlemen of Verona" But by taking a collegial approach to the troubling stories…
Like a giant, saffron sun emerging from the Saharan savannah, "The Lion King" was the dawn of a new day for live theater in 1997.
Theater openings"Accomplice"
In this comic mystery thriller by Rupert Holmes, Janet and her lover plan to murder her husband, Derek.
Reviews: A look at two wild Colorado premiere stagings. What they lack in precision, they make up for in passion and attitude. Dangerous Theatre's political satire "Whacking the Turkey," an…
Review: When a playwright scripts an interactive revival meeting as a play, you assume you're in for a comic parody. But Young Jean Lee wrote "Church" as an earnest and open-minded attempt …
Last week, while attending a quiet play called "The Road to Mecca," a theatergoer's cell-phone vibration went off. Not unusual, and not as bad as a ring, but noticeable enough to anyone in t…
Call it the Bard Bout of the Centuries: Shakespeare vs. Fakespeare. While the new film "Anonymous" makes an audacious case against the Bard, a local panel of experts just don't buy it.
1.5 stars (out of four). Comedy. PG-13. At area theaters.
By Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel
Renaissance fairs are the ultimate expressions of fandom.
John Moore, the Denver Post's theater critic for a decade, has been named one of the 12 most influential theater critics by American Theater magazine, in part for the multimedia innovations …
Welcome to "Vox PHAMILIA: Quadrapalooza" — PHAMALy's fourth annual fall comedy catharsis, an evening when 13 performers have a whole lot of fun at your expense. And their own.
Review: "The Road to Mecca" is a long and patient one, and not everyone who embarks will make it to journey's end. A few antsy audience members invariably walk out of this deliberate play o…
In 1967, a dozen student actors from the University of Kansas came to Creede and saved this dying old mining town by starting a professional, seasonal theater company on the boarded-up Main …
Review: "The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley" is a cheerful, kid-pleasing musical based on Jeff Brown's series of popular books. And it makes for another wonderful, family-friendly offer…
