Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Clad in white shirts and black slacks, the young men who arrive onstage in "The Book of Mormon" had me at "Hello.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:18PM[SHARE]Clad in white-shirts and black slacks, the young men who arrive onstage in "The Book of Mormon" had me at "Hello. The clean-cut brigade embodies the slightly cartoonish phrase "bright-eyed …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:05PM[SHARE]Monday, August 13, 2012
Pop-culture bad boys turned Broadway luminaries, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are sitting in a place they never expected to be: the lobby of the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 8, 2012
A pitfall of seeing a Broadway musical for the first time as a regional premiere put on by a young theater company is that the blemishes of the work are often more glaring.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:05PM[SHARE]Friday, August 3, 2012
"A horse is a horse, of course, of course," unless it's Joey, the astonishing creation of South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company and the equine-puppet star of "War Horse."
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:06PM[SHARE]"A horse is a horse, of course, of course," unless it's Joey, the astonishing creation of South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company and the equine-puppet star of "War Horse.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 12:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 2, 2012
Tony Award-winning play "War Horse" will be the first Broadway show out of the gate when the Denver Center Attraction's 2013-2014 season kicks off in January.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:01PM[SHARE]Tina Packer's intriguing five-part survey of William Shakespeare's female characters, "Women of Will," combines an amiable and thoughtful lecture with scenes from the canon. And the gang is …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:49PM[SHARE]Friday, July 27, 2012
Geoffrey Kent is sitting in a quiet Boulder restaurant making a face as he recounts a fall he took during the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's production of the ridiculously pleasurable farce…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2012
It's more than simply hip that "Jersey Boys" begins with a Francophone rapper taking the stage and blowing through a cover of the Four Seasons' 1975 hit "December 1963 (Oh, What a Night)."
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:38PM[SHARE]Friday, July 20, 2012
The two best reasons to see PHAMALy Theatre Company's production of "Little Shop of Horrors" — about a shy, bumbling florist named Seymour and his increasingly untenable relationship …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 19, 2012
During a summer of rebooted fairy princesses storming the multiplexes, it's strange to find how well a theatrical Cinderella holds up compared to Snow White and "Brave's" Merida.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2012
The Colorado Theatre Guild and its brigade of 30 plus Henry Award jurors were clearly seeing red Monday night.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:45PM[SHARE]The folk involved with the Tony Award-winning musical "Jersey Boys" — about the coming together and unraveling of the rock 'n' roll super act the Four Seasons — call it "Frankie…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2012
It may be strange to learn that one of the finest moments in Central City Opera's vibrant production of "Oklahoma!
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 5, 2012
It's the high season for amusement-park pleasures — even, it seems, on stage. Two rides worth the price of their tickets are cheerily whipping around with expert timing.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:42PM[SHARE]Friday, June 29, 2012
Tina Packer and Nigel Gore sit in a booth in a Boulder restaurant discussing "Women of Will." Packer's five-play cycle about William Shakespeare's female characters begins a run at the Colo…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 28, 2012
Sirens blared at a surprisingly opportune moment. Dragonflies zipped above the audience as dusk gave way to dark.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2012
There's something a bit off about Sarah Goldman's apartment in "Beau Jest," currently onstage at the John Hand Theater in Lowry through June 30. Her place doesn't resemble the digs of a youn…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:44PM[SHARE]The prognosis was grim — and not in a way that would have macabre duo Gomez and Morticia Addams smirking with delight.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2012
It's clear from the zippy opening number of "Legally Blonde" — at the Arvada Center through July 1 — that the gals of the UCLA chapter of Delta Nu harbor some pretty old no…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2012
Before we ever see the newlyweds of the tender, engaging one-act play "Sweet Storm" — playing now at Miners Alley Playhouse in downtown Golden — we hear the young pair in…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 31, 2012
Viewed from afar, Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge" still resonates nearly seven decades after it opened in 1955, first as a one-act on Broadway and then a year later in London, as
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:54PM[SHARE]The ridiculous gets the sublime once over as Buntport Theater Companyperforms its devilishly original play "The Roast Beef Situation," through June 16.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:53PM[SHARE]Friday, May 18, 2012
"The Roast Beef Situation" Buntport Theater, May 25-June 16 Buntport is arguably Denver's most eclectic theater troupe.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 17, 2012
It is not unusual to emerge from a LIDA Project production scratching one's head or stroking one's imaginary beard and letting out a long, often satisfied "Hmmm.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 10, 2012
In the dark of the Arvada Center's Black Box Theater, a comedy's a-brewing as winds whip, distressed voices call out and a ship's timbers are heard shivering, cracking, smashing against a …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:08PM[SHARE]Plays are often about listening, about the ebbs and flow of language. With its rich, ideas-laden writing, "Red" — John Logan's Tony Award-winning drama about artist Mark Rothko and an…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 3, 2012
An amusing moment comes early in Vintage Theatre's solid staging of "The Joy Luck Club" at the their new digs off of Colfax Avenue in Aurora. Jing-Mei Woo's mother, Suyuan, has died. An aneu…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 04:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2012
Two fine works currently on Denver stages suggest that love is an undertaking for amateurs: The Aurora Fox's "Amateur Night at the Big Heart" and Off-Center's "Date."
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2012
It's always a bit strange coming late to a popular-culture party. "The X-Files"? Had to play catch-up when the hit TV series' lesser big-screen spinoffs arrived in the multiplex. "Lost"? …
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