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Denver Center for the Performing Arts CEO Daniel L. Ritchie's personal matching challenge has exceeded its goal, raising more than $1 million in donations for the Denver Center. That and oth…
Review: Here's a guaranteed formula for staging a successful comedy: Cast Eric Mather, wind him up like a child's toy, and just let him go. Rating: ***
Idina Menzel, hero to theater geeks and "Gleeks" worldwide, will be performing in concert with Marvin Hamlisch and the Colorado Symphony on Sunday at Red Rocks.
Review: Clearly, they didn't have in-vitro fertilization in 1594. Because the mere existence of twins in Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors" somehow turns every single person on the island…
Friends in New York and company members from the new Colorado Repertory Theatre are fearing for the safety of visiting actor and choreographer Lawrence Street, who went missing in Denver ear…
Joey Wishnia, who will receive the Colorado Theatre Guild's lifetime achievement award July 18, is for the fourth straight summer performing in a play staged in the lobby of the downtown Bar…
Denver mayor-elect Michael Hancock won't be the first to be doing some serious swearing in the Buell Theatre at his swearing-in ceremony on Monday. Not by a long, 3-point hoops shot.
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By staging a professional play in the lobby of the downtown Barth Hotel each summer, Senior Housing Options has raised $160,000 above its costs to help pay for the essential services it prov…
Review: Jenny Sutter is taking the long way home from Iraq. But in playwright Julie Marie Myatt's timely and troubling portrait of a damaged U.S. Marine just home from war, it's clear she's…
Review: It's impossible to see John Kolvenbach's play as anything but a deliberate homage to Sam Shepard's seminal "True West." Both are violent, relentless and booze-soaked tales of estran…
Review: The Colorado Shakespeare Festival's stage adaptation of "The Lirttle Prince," one of the best-selling books of all time, is stunning in its simplicity. Kateri McRae's rating: ***
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Here is our special Denver Post photo salute to all 107 nominees for 2011 Henry Awards, presented by the Colorado Theatre Guild to celebrate the best in metro-Denver…
Facebook claims 500 million active users, scores of whom die every day. The social networking phenomenon has fundamentally changed the way we mourn as individuals, families and communities, …
This year, only 37 percent of the productions offered by the 10 leading Shakespeare festivals in North America were written by their namesake. Festival leaders are responding to the times, c…
For at least the next year, Su Teatro is giving the embattled Shadow Theatre Company a place to play. But don't call it a handout, Anthony Garcia says: It's a business plan.And a favor retur…
Our series of video podcasts with Colorado actors on New York stages concludes with Rangeview High and University of Colorado alum Elizabeth Welch, who is an ensemble member and the Christin…
Review: We know this tale in our bones; it's "Twilight," it's "True Blood," it's any emo song ever written. Like a lovesick miasma hanging in the cultural air we breathe, the story of "Rome…
Review: The Avenue Theater's "The Divine Sister" is funnier if you're drunk. Seriously. They tell you so going in. Rating: ***
Review: "The Awakening of Angel DeLuna" is a promising new musical now getting its first wings at the Dairy Center in Boulder. It's far more realized than most new works at this stage of de…
Parker's new $21.8 million arts center will open Oct. 28 with a new-generation lighting concert called "Luma." The slate includes an unusual partnership with the Aurora Fox Theatre.
Review: The Arvada Center's high-octane, heavyweight staging of the aerosol musical "Hairspray" is blowing a beehive-shaped hole in the ozone layer above Arvada. Rating: ****
At the Colorado Shakespeare Festival — at 54, the second-oldest Bard fest in the nation — the marquee event this summer will be a cross-cultural presentation of Nikolai Gogol's 1…
