The Colorado Shakespeare Festival will become the third company in the world to stage Tina Packer's full, five-part exploration of Shakespeare's female characters, "Women of Will." See the f…
The tiny Lake Dillon Theatre Company is about to launch a $3 million- $4 million capital campaign to move out of its 60-seat cabin theater and into a two-stage performing-arts center it plan…
For any arts organization, curating a board of directors is as important as curating any million-dollar work of art. Just going after the richest, the most wanted and most famous can backfir…
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is going back to producing five plays in 2012 — nine if you count "Women of Will," an extraordinary, five-part tour of Shakespeare's female characters…
Review: I don't know what takes more bravery: Asking someone on a blind date, or being asked to go on one. No, it's got to be this: Being asked on a blind date that will play out right then…
Theater review: It was obvious by the collective hoot that went up as the lights were going down that Su Teatro's first-ever stage adaptation of Sonia Nazario's Pulitzer-winning "Enrique's …
Reviews: In Boulder, "Mauritius" is a shout-a-thon that starts out unpleasant and just gets nastier from there. In Lakewood, "Some Girl(s)" at least gives us someone to root for. Four of the…
Su Teatro's move from the old Elyria School to the Denver Civic Theater has raised the profile of the city's only Chicano theater company and introduced it to a wider audience.
Denver's Chicano theater company, Su Teatro, is calling its world-premiere adaptation of Sonia Nazario's 2006 Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, "Enrique's Journey," the most significant producti…
Shadow Theatre Company has been in a period of rebuilding, but it's not taking one small step back into the light. It's taking three large leaps — at once. It's trilogy, "The Final Mil…
After a month of performances of "Twelfth Night" in 25 schools across Colorado, which were followed by workshops where kids talked about the characters in the play, the results surprised the…
Review: The Denver Center Theatre Company's comic history mash-up shows how the powers that control America often respond to perceived threats to the status quo: Broken promises. Fire hoses…
A few hours after and just down the street from the opening performance of the Denver Center Theatre Company's "American Night," officers in riot gear cleared out the Occupy Denver encampment
Looking for love in show places? Every night, it seems, is Date Night at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. But the Denver Center's two newest romantic offerings — the similarly title…
Denver's Chicano theater company, Su Teatro, opens its 40th season with artistic director Tony Garcia's adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Enrique's Journey," which recounts the …
Review: Undoubtedly informed by the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, Jez Butterworth's "Parlour Song" is about how maddeningly easy it is to destroy in seconds what it took years to build u…
If you've always wanted to dress as Lady Macbeth or the donkey in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for Halloween, now's your chance.
The most evident trend in local theater this year has been the proliferation of shared productions between companies, and it's on full display right now, with the Arvada Center's four-star p…
Could you pass the U.S. citizenship exam? Do you know the first three words of the Constitution? Or the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment?
Review: Savyon Librecht's award-winning "Apples from the Desert" isn't the first to tell a story of teenage rebellion from a Jewish perspective, but the tale is has crafted artfully. Kater…
Review: Done well, "To Kill a Mockingbird" should not just move audiences. It should move lumps to their throats, coax tears from their eyes and turn their stomachs. The Denver Center The…
Done well, "To Kill a Mockingbird" should not just move audiences. It should move lumps to their throats, coax tears from their eyes and turn their stomachs.
Boulder's Dinner Theatre's first-ever world premiere is proof of just how hard it is to create a new American musical that fires on all cylinders right off the showroom floor. It's very, ver…
Review: You could never re-create the zeitgeist that made "Hair" the most revered — and feared — musical of its generation. But through 2011 eyes, it is a welcome celebration of…
Theater review: The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center's season-opening "Assassins" should reassure anyone that new producing artistic director Scott RC Levy will not shy from controversial …