Thursday, November 14, 2013
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]Thursday, November 7, 2013
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]Thursday, October 31, 2013
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.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:52PM[SHARE]Friday, October 25, 2013
Geez, gosh, golly, what can we say? "The Book of Mormon" makes it far too easy to become a repeat offender.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 24, 2013
In 1974, Atlantic Records released Chicano singer-songwriter Daniel Valdez's album "Mestizo." As the first (and only) album of its kind, it was a landmark moment for Chicano arts.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 17, 2013
In Karen Zacarias' adaptation of Helen Thorpe's nonfiction tome about immigration, "Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America," the incursion of the journa…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:59PM[SHARE]Friday, October 11, 2013
None other than doomed salesman Willy Loman shared this insight recently: "I realize Willy's not the hero, Biff is." Or rather, Mike Hartman, the actor portraying Willy in the Denver Center …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 10, 2013
A gentlemen's wager at London's elite Reform Club leads one of its more mysterious members on a quest to circumnavigate the globe, his new manservant in tow.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:09PM[SHARE]As its title suggests, Jeff Campbell's wildly funny, sharply performed one-man show "Who Killed Jigaboo Jones?" is something of a murder mystery.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:07PM[SHARE]Friday, October 4, 2013
When the immigration drama "Just Like Us" has its world premiere at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts' Stage Theatre on Oct. 10, it will in many ways mark the continuing saga of powe…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2013
Vicious parlor gatherings appear to be in vogue. Spring brought Yasmina Reza's "God of Carnage," with its uncorked hostilities between two sets of parents, to the Curious Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:53PM[SHARE]Forget the inflammatory title. The poster for "Who Killed Jigaboo Jones?" makes people even more uncomfortable.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 26, 2013
Want to flee the hospital waiting room at the start of "Next Fall," Geoffrey Nauffts' drama of faith and doubt, love and the spectre of wrenching loss?
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:53PM[SHARE]"Sister Act," the 1992 comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg, wasn't exactly a good movie. But lord, did it make a joyful, pleasing noise.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2013
As Mike Hartman and Lauren Klein go on stage as Linda Loman and her burdened husband, Willy Loman, in the Denver Center Theatre Company's staging of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," it…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 19, 2013
Amy Herzog would be the first to tell you there's an explanatory density to her politically astute, personal drama "After the Revolution," having its regional premiere at Curious Theatre thr…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:57PM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2013
Even more than most classic musicals, "Camelot" leans heavily on its leads to give robust, tender, soaring voice to its story. In fact, the ensemble for Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2013
Rod Lansberry has embraced this dilemma before — and how. Last season, the Arvada Center artistic director headed into theater's cavernous vault, dug out and dusted off "Man of La M…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 5, 2013
No doubt about it: "Priscilla Queen of the Desert - The Musical" arrives at the Buell Theatre dressed to thrill. In 2011, the feathered, sequined, bewigged spectacle won the Tony Award for b…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:45PM[SHARE]Friday, August 30, 2013
Theater's equivalent to the "No Pain, No Gain" adage might be something along the lines of "without risk, there's no reward." Which is why this prelude to the fall theater season includes a …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 29, 2013
"Watershed (Part II: Soiled)" begins with vivid grace in the desiccated farmland of the Dust Bowl years and concludes in the present, with beachgoers slathering and blathering and hardly hee…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 22, 2013
At Saturday's performance of "Metamorphoses," the thoughtful folk at the Aurora Fox provided theatergoers in the first rows with the thin plastic ponchos you might expect passengers on Niaga…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:35PM[SHARE]In a sense, Vintage Theatre's production of the Tony-winning "In the Heights" has returned composer-lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda's street-savvy work to its roots. This is not entirely a good …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2013
Peter Handke's aggressive and eloquent play "Offending the Audience" - at Germinal Stage Denver through Aug. 25 - strikes a challenging tone that puts one in mind of another smartly contrari…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:37PM[SHARE]Tragedy or romance? If there is a debate about which genre Shakespeare's later play "Cymbeline" occupies, Colorado Springs' TheatreWorks has weighed in with its annual - and delightful - Sha…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2013
A women on the lam from her marriage meets a jilted alcoholic with a wooden barrel headed to Niagara Falls.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:33PM[SHARE]Let's start with hope. For Senior Housing Options' play/fundraiser, hope takes root offstage.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2013
During a post-performance talkback after the emotionally demanding one-woman show "The Year of Magical Thinking" — at Fort Collins' Bas Bleu Theatre through Sunday — actress W…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:49PM[SHARE]Artie Shaughnessy plays the piano (not so well) and composes songs (even worse). As portrayed by Tom Auclair in the Edge Theatre Company's well-performed production of John Guare's "The Hous…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 25, 2013
The globe-trotting performance piece "17 Border Crossings" — at Buntport through Saturday — could easily have been part of the recently concluded Biennial of the Americas.
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