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Review" Anyone who thinks we live in a post-racial America is in for a rude — and often riotous — awakening with Curious Theatre Company's compelling "Clybourne Park." The Pulit…
For theater, September is like college football's bowl season, with a proliferation of offerings to suit any taste. And it all starts now. More than a dozen major openings mark the tradition…
Original "Rent" co-stars Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp will be back in Colorado on Friday, Sept. 9, for a concert performance at the new Lone Tree Arts Center that will include songs and stor…
Veteran actor Mary Louise Lee took on a new role when she became Denver's first lady in June. But she didn't take on a new name. "I come with my own identity," said Lee, who plans to use he…
If you love "Annie," the ubiquitous musical about that irrepressible little orphan who solved the Great Depression, unemployment, crumbling infrastructure, collapsed financial markets, hunge…
Denver Center president Randy Weeks said today he expects about half of the 53,000 available seats to highly anticipated launch of the "The Book of Mormon" national tour will eventually beco…
Check out our thoughts on Broadway productions of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," "The Book of Mormon," "War Horse," "Catch Me If You Can," "Jerusalem," "The Normal Heart" and "The Mother(e…
They are the unlikely kings of pop-culture subversion, these two snickering goofballs who bonded more over breaking wind than breaking barriers in a 1992 University of Colorado film class.
The Denver Center's much-anticipated launch of the Broadway darling "The Book of Mormon" will happen Aug. 14-Sept. 2, 2012. But unless you buy a subscription to the Denver Center's entire 20…
Review: The second-year Afterthought Theatre Company's modest new production of "The Wiz" is attracting a lot of attention and fostering much goodwill because of Denver first lady Mary Louis…
Brian Stokes Mitchell, a Broadway star that The New York Times once described as "a bona fide matinee idol," brought the wow factor to last Saturday's black-tie gala that celebrated the comp…
The Denver Center Theatre Company will offer three distinct slices of American life this fall with the classic courtroom tale "To Kill a Mockingbird" (opening Oct. 6), the naturalization com…
The opening weekend of the fall theater season brings 15 new local offerings, including the first homegrown staging of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "Next to Normal," along with Tennes…
Review: "The Guys," written in just a week, is not in itself an important play. But its importance in bringing theater back to life in a ruined neighborhood still caked in ash and smelling …
White flight. Gentrification. Integration. Why does the idea of difference strike such perpetual and predictable fear among those already living on the block? Curious Theatre's season-opener…
The new 25th-anniversary production of "Les Miserables" is built for the road — meaning 2,800-seat houses like Denver's Buell Theatre, which is nearly three times bigger than the vener…
The new 25th-anniversary production of "Les Miserables" is built for the road — meaning 2,800-seat houses like Denver's Buell Theatre, which is nearly three times bigger than the vener…
After months of caring for his parents, actor John Lithgow just could not cheer his aging father up. Then the idea hit him like a bolt: He told his father bedtime stories, "and he came back…
Review: In its 2011 season, Vintage Theatre has boldly embraced full frontal nudity, waterfront locales and being trapped with friends you hate to love. "Love! Valour! Compassion!" is a one…
"Les Miserables" has visited Denver many times, but the touring production coming to the Buell Theatre next week marks the 25th anniversary of the world's longest-running musical.
The Boulder International Fringe Festival is an always-interesting collection, ranging from the off-beat to the downright strange.
This week's theater openings
Afterthought's "The Wiz"
Opening Friday, Aug.
Paul "P.K." Worley, who spent 25 years with the Evergreen Players in many capacities, most as a director, died Wednesday night in Evergreen.
What does it mean to be faithful? At first, Chazz Palminteri's "Faithful" seems like a trite, forced exploration in search of the answer to that question.
Since 2006, "Running Lines" has offered an ongoing series of conversations between Denver Post theater critic John Moore and members of the local and national theater community.
