Friday, September 30, 2022
With the recent openings of "The Children" and "Dry Land," area theaters continue to launch their seasons on a high note -- or, depending on how you look at it, a culturally attuned "low" no…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:37AM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2022
Audience members have grown used to the clever ways that theaters make requests to silence all devices, unwrap candies and otherwise zip it in a show's prologue. But the Denver Center Theatr…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:33AM[SHARE]The word this summer out of a pandemic-bruised Broadway was promising. The Encores! production of "Into the Woods" wowed and charmed. The news closer to home is even more welcome.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:33AM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2022
Audiences might find "Heroes of the Fourth Turning" --Â at the Curious Theatre Company through Oct. 15 -- rattling. And not merely because a few times during the drama, an ear-splitting n…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Something feels different -- dare we say assured? -- about this fall's theater season. At the opening night of the thrilling "Hadestown" at the Denver Performing Arts Complex on Tuesday, the…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:03AM[SHARE]Monday, August 29, 2022
There's an art to letting go, and Curious Theatre's Chip Walton and Dee Covington are deep into the practice of it.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2022
Colorado Springs-based playwright Jon Marcantoni Rosa based his drama in part on writer Manuel Suarez's book "Two Lynchings on Cerro Maravilla."
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:24AM[SHARE]Friday, July 22, 2022
For the briefest moment these girls -- and one boy -- from Liverpool, Ohio, do their darndest in a studio where camaraderie can be true but also mercurial.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:03AM[SHARE]Friday, June 3, 2022
It's tempting to say that Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Don Quixote never gets old. But aging is very much the point in playwright Octavio SolÃs' "Quixote Nuevo" on stage at the Denver …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:42AM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2022
Tarell Alvin McCraney, co-writer of Oscar-winning feature "Moonlight," brings his Broadway play to the Denver Center.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2022
When Local Theater Company launches the 11th installment of its Spring Lab this weekend at Boulder's Dairy Arts Center, the three-day festival of staged readings of new works, conversations …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:42AM[SHARE]Friday, April 15, 2022
Just how vulnerable the pursuit of happiness could be for Blacks during Reconstruction is on aching and wry display in Pearl Cleage's "Flyin' West." So, too, is the tenacity of the liberated.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:42AM[SHARE]Friday, March 25, 2022
In "Refuge," the haunting and grounded new play at Curious Theatre Company, someone we care about will die. That is not a spoiler so much as an acknowledgment that the territory on which the…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2022
Friday, March 4, 2022
Two days before the start of this year's Colorado New Play Summit in late February, the Denver Center's Robert & Judi Newman building downtown was a hive of creativity. Four studios hous…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 24, 2022
"In the Upper Room" ends in much the way it begins. To say more would be to spoil a bold gesture, one that had an audience member exclaim loudly, "Oh, my God!"
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:12AM[SHARE]Monday, February 7, 2022
In 2019, Neyla Pekarek, the former singer and cellist in the indie-rock band the Lumineers, released "Rattlesnake," a solo album celebrating the restlessness and boldness. Now, she's turned …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:12AM[SHARE]Friday, January 21, 2022
A revival worth its salt should always bring fresh revelations, even when it's set in a bygone era. In "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" at the Denver Center, that discovery comes by way of …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 11, 2021
Listening to the first three songs on Van Halen's self-titled debut album will tell you much of what you need to know heading into "Eddie and Dave," a gender-bent play about the founding, ri…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 4, 2021
They didn't see the Broadway production of "American Son" together, but Jada Suzanne Dixon and Chip Walton had the same response as each watched the drama about an estranged interracial coup…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 14, 2021
"Mama." that's the first word spoken in Benchmark Theatre's riling and deftly performed world premiere of "Elephant." Actually, "spoken" is inaccurate: "cried out" is more like it. "Mama!!!"
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 30, 2021
In the sweetly unique musical "Hundred Days" -- on stage at the Aurora Fox -- two lovers cycle through their years as a couple not by growing old in front of the audience but by cramming as …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 23, 2021
There's a telling moment that comes late in the "The Lifespan of a Fact" on stage --Â make that on stage! --Â at the Curious Theatre Company, through Oct. 16.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:03AM[SHARE]Monday, September 20, 2021
Alicia Young had a dream. (Actually, she had a few.) The actor-activist-director-theater maven was sitting at a cafe in Denver's Whittier neighborhood recently talking about the inspiration …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 8, 2021
The curtain rises. (Or the laptop warms up, hitched to a nice-sized monitor.) The theatergoers gather, masked and in-person. (Or sit at home, feet on the coffee table and no protocols to kee…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:42AM[SHARE]Friday, September 3, 2021
"Before You Go" at Miners Alley Playhouse runs through Sept. 19. There's a burst of energy before it settles into something often clever and at times quietly commanding.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 12, 2021
It seems so obvious in retrospect, the pairing of a talented Denver-based rapper with an ace local theater company on an original production. But then, that's how the best no-brainers often …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:48AM[SHARE]Monday, August 9, 2021
"Wild Fire" is the latest addition to a growing number of productions foregrounding the stories of Coloradans by conducting fresh interviews, mining oral histories and/or diving into archiva…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 6, 2018
Created in collaboration with local playwright Ellen K. Graham, Buntport's latest "Coyote. Badger. Rattlesnake" brings drama and laughs.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:04PM[SHARE]Monday, February 19, 2018
In Lauren Yee's world premiere production directed by Eric Ting - punctuated with Saul's (BOB ARI) and Manford's (LINDEN TAILOR) bluster - "The Great Leap" asserts a quiet, beautifully unexp…
SOURCE: theknow.denverpost.com at 05:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 6, 2018
"Zoey" has some tart-funny dialog but the cleverness seldom stretches beyond sit-com ease.
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