Every now and again, a show comes along that reminds us that the juke-box musical can be finely crafted theater.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:53PM[SHARE]"I think of myself as a fighter," playwright Nicky Silver said.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:44PM[SHARE]There's bound to be dickering. It's Shakespeare after all. And not just any play in the Bard's 38, but "Hamlet."
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:37PM[SHARE]When Broadway's highest honors were given out last June, "Pippin" won the Tony Award for best revival of a musical and "Kinky Boots" took the prize for best musical.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:16PM[SHARE]Currently there is more incendiary, deeper, fresher theater throughout town. But if audience reaction is a measure, then sometimes theatergoers of a certain age just want to have fun.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:18PM[SHARE]Thanks goodness for actor Chris Kendall. So went my thinking as I drove home in silence after watching the Super Bowl with a very superstitious — and demoralized — football-…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:09PM[SHARE]A movie set can resemble a construction site. Chunky electrical cables snake along floors out onto streets, slithering toward humming generators.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:11PM[SHARE]Samuel Johnson was smart but when he wrote that "puns are the lowest form of humor," he couldn't guess what delicious — and potent — meaning that form of word play might bring t…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:37PM[SHARE]Playwright Conor McPherson has been getting deserved attention on local stages recently.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:37PM[SHARE]Can 3.5 times 2 ever equal 4? Granted, I'm not good at math, but the Denver Center's world premiere of "The Legend of Georgia McBride" confirms that, yes, yes it can.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:06AM[SHARE]Last spring, there was drama aplenty as the revival of "Orphans" made its way to Broadway.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:56PM[SHARE]Some like it hot. And they have had their share of "Evita" productions suited to their hankerings. Others, we welcome a chill in the air. So the national tour of the 2012 Broadway reviva…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:05AM[SHARE]When playwright Marcus Gardley was commissioned for a new work by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in 2009, he knew what subject he would take on: the Pullman Porters.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:25PM[SHARE]"Ascendant" is a mighty fine word to characterize the Curious Theatre Company's production of "The Whipping Man."
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:20PM[SHARE]What happens when a movie beats you to the punch? Or the whip? That could have been the quandary the Curious Theatre Company faced when Steve McQueen's unrelenting drama "12 Years a Slave"
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:01PM[SHARE]Consider January Matthew Lopez month in Denver. On a recent Saturday afternoon during a rehearsal of the up-and-coming playwright's "The Whipping Man," Curious Theatre Company's artistic
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:32PM[SHARE]Two of the funniest movies of the 1970s got their Broadway gussy-up in the 2000s. And each is being staged locally.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:44PM[SHARE]With risk comes rewards. That adage will hold true for theatergoers in the upcoming months as some of the area's finest theaters mount premieres of new plays and take on other heady prod…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:42PM[SHARE]All that is missing from the hammy "Monty Python's Spamalot" at Boulder's Dinner Theatre is a holiday pineapple ring.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:49PM[SHARE]It's simple really: A memorable theater experience begins — and ends — with the feeling I wouldn't want to be anyplace else at that moment.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:06PM[SHARE]If there's a holiday production to best thus far, it's the Denver Center's "A Christmas Carol," through Dec.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:59PM[SHARE]Move over, Ebenezer, a sharp-tongued Elf named Crumpet's got you beat when it comes to tart holiday observations.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:15PM[SHARE]If perchance you grow weary of holiday visitors Ebenezer Scrooge, George Bailey or even a crackingwise elf named Crumpet — and how could you?
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:36PM[SHARE]This holiday, area theaters are offering more options than there are lift flaps on an Advent calendar.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:50PM[SHARE]Tennessee Williams' indelible Southern family is having at it — and each other — in Lakewood's Edge Theatre's revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:08PM[SHARE]When Greg suddenly brings home a stray pooch in "Sylvia," he lands in the doghouse. Any animal rescue organization will tell you that it is hard to pull off that surprise under the best of …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:03PM[SHARE]Late in the pleasingly biting living-room comedy "Rancho Mirage," I had to double-check the program for the spelling of the host couple's last name.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:06PM[SHARE]Playwright Steven Dietz was trying to find a quiet place in the Indianapolis Museum of Art on a recent Thursday afternoon.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:47PM[SHARE]The subject may be art, but there's a lot more ridiculous than sublime going on in Catherine Trieschmann's amusing comedy about a clash of ideals and agendas.
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