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The largest gathering of poets in North America has crowned a team from Denver as the new champion of its annual poetry slam competition.
The 2011 Colorado Walk for Hemophilia was held today, Aug. 13, around Sloan's Lake just west of downtown Denver. The event rose $40,000 for a foundation dedicated to preventing the complicat…
No matter how you look at it, it's tough out there for a playwright. So just imagine what it must be like for writers of new musicals, which cost exponentially more to stage. Melissa Faith H…
Now that it is growing into its own body, the Boulder International Fringe Festival is proudly behaving like a lot of impetuous 7-year-olds: careless, impudent and defiantly knocking up agai…
It was the 1960s, after all. For a small slice of just how ridiculous — or magical, depending on your perspective — that era was, try to imagine the pitch meeting for The Who's r…
Biopic. R. 1 hour, 48 minutes. At the Mayan.
Review: There's something different about the 1960s romantic comedy "A Touch of Spring." It's not all that romantic, and, with the exception of one key player, not much of a comedy. And tha…
Summer is the busiest time of year in Colorado theater thanks to its many top-notch mountain companies, the majority of which perform only in the sweltering months.
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Review: The wasted lives on display in Antov Chekhov's plays would be so, so sad ... if weren't so funny. Yes, "Uncle Vanya" is funny. Chekhov didn't put the these fools on display for you…
Review: "Dixie's Tupperware Party" doesn't fit neatly into a theatrical genre. It's part one-woman show, part stand-up comedy act and 100 percent real Tupperware party. Kateri McRae's rat…
Check out our constantly updated "role call" of former Colorado actors now gainfully employed on stages around the nation.
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice," like "The Taming of the Shrew," has become an almost impossible play to pull off for modern sensibilities: One is about breaking an independent woman …
On Aug. 26, Mary Louise Lee-Hancock will become perhaps the first actress to perform in a stage production while sitting as Denver's first lady. The mayor's wife will play the good witch Gli…
If you want to know a man, meet his family. No matter how much you may think you've changed after leaving home, your true self remains with them.
Review: Collections of women's monologues are as common in theater as weekend farmers markets, but there's something unsettlingly different about "The Great Goddess Bazaar" — and not j…
Noted cartoonist Charlie LaGreca learned a lot of words for the first time through comic books. Like "antimatter," thank you, Fantastic Four. So what better way to promote literacy and vocab…
Review: In Tina Howe's 2009 play "Chasing Manet," now showing at the Barth Hotel, we encounter two elderly ladies consigned to a nursing home who are dealing with very different problems fro…
There are youth writing programs, and there is Curious New Voices, which culminates in a three-day festival of newly spawned works from the fertile minds of writers ages 15 to 21, performed …
Essay: Colorado Shakespeare Festival audiences were treated to an unusual cross-cultural experiment last weekend in Boulder, when four actors from Russia's Maxim Gorky Theatre joined a cast…
"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" is brimming with the signature elements that for two decades have drawn both worldwide attention and curiosity to the all-handicapped theat…
Watch performances from the Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Awards' best musical nominees: Town Hall's "Chicago" and "Rent," Boulder's Dinner Theatre's "Cats," PHAMALy's "Beauty and the Beast" …
The Denver Center Theatre Company picked up eight of the 21 Henry Awards presented Monday night by hthe Colorado Theatre Guild. But the absence of a dominant play or musical allowed the nigh…
A perfect night under a blood-red moon at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre clearly took Idina Menzel's breath away - but not her signature five-octave voice.
Actress Nicki Runge calls herself not just deaf, but "deaf with a capital D." And that has nothing to do with the completeness of her hearing loss.
