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…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:42AMThe ballet comes through Denver March 29 and 30.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:03AMTwo 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 …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:03AM“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 08:12AMIn 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 tur…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:12AMA 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…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:42AMListening 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 foundi…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:32AMThey 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 interracia…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:12AM“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 i…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:48AMIn 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…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:03AMThere’s a telling moment that comes late in the “The Lifespan of a Fact” on stage -- make that on stage! -- at the Curious Theatre Company, through Oct. 16.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:03AMAlicia 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 inspiratio…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:42AMThe 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"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 08:32AMIt 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 ofte…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:48AM“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 arc…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:36AMCreated in collaboration with local playwright Ellen K. Graham, Buntport's latest "Coyote. Badger. Rattlesnake" brings drama and laughs.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:04PMIn 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"Zoey" has some tart-funny dialog but the cleverness seldom stretches beyond sit-com ease.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:37PMDesi Oakley brings a big and lush voice to the role of the waitress working in a small Southern town who has dreams of escaping if not her hometown, her brute of a husband, Earl (Nick Bailey…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:18PMIt's a family drama, so everyone can relate on some level.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:33PMA keenly engaging work about three murdered women whose ghostly recollections get at something more vital than a mere whodunit.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:31PM"Constellations" is an engaging and melancholy affair.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 11:12PMIt won't change the course of your politics, but "Two Degrees" harbors an undeniable emotional resonance.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 05:24PMOh ye citizens of area metropoles, it is time to get your Greek on.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:48PMThe writer-director made a film that is cinematically striking but also maddeningly superior. We Coloradans tend to be prickly about films that take mass shootings as their “inspiration.”
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:30AMThe magic carpet ride has come to an end -- and a new adventure has begun.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:12PMInterviewers have been asking Emma Stone for audition horror stories ever since “La La Land” first began wowing audiences at the Venice Film Festival in August. (It opens Friday.) And wh…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 03:00AMIn her new role, Garrett will work closely with the company's artistic team.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 06:01PMA melancholy and still potent mix of compassion and judgment.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:58AMThe saga of one of the 20th century’s most successful pop songwriters was spun into “Beautiful: The Carol King Musical” and has a full-circle sweetness. The national tour of the Tony-n…
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