In “Hotter Than Egypt,” American businessman Paul fancies himself a culturally astute traveler. He’s been to Cairo before and respects the local customs, a fact he makes a point of whe…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:00AMJake Brasch is talking about how growing up in Denver shaped him as a playwright. The 31-year-old will return to his hometown from New York this week to begin rehearsals for the staged readi…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:00AMIn one play, a woman of formidable intellect navigates two catastrophic losses. In the other, a woman of formidable frankness allows herself a glimmer of romantic feeling.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:00AMThe show fills out a past in ways that will be illuminating to even those who know some of the high points of the Rossonian and Five Points.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:00AMFunny. Funnier. Funniest. How you arrange these apt adjectives will hinge on your own taste in wit.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:00AMThis is the final weekend of “Acts of Faith,” and you might consider rearranging your plans to catch it before Faith and her vital lessons vanish.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:00AMNot long ago, Kyle Abraham returned to the city that shaped him as an artist. The renowned choreographer and MacArthur Fellow visited his hometown of Pittsburgh for the local premiere of “…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:00AMSpring looks likely to awaken Colorado theatergoers’ hearts and minds with entertaining and ambitious fare.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:00AMMichelle "'Shells” Hoffman won’t be home for Christmas or Hanukkah or even Chrismukkah for that matter. Instead, the self-identified “bi-religious” daughter of Ronkonkoma, N.Y. -- pl…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:24AMIn the play “Franklinland,” Benjamin Franklin is a man of many ideas and ideals. He is an avid inventor and a fellow with no shortage of appetites.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:06AMIn October 2020, Nepi’s husband of 30 years, Mark, was rushed to Littleton’s Adventist Hospital with life-threatening complications from COVID-19.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:06AMThe production is so very ambitious that this viewer was left with the sense that its makers are trying to say even more than I could grasp with confidence on one sitting.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:48AMThe fight choreography is gorgeous, even though no punches connect. A thump on a chest or stomp on the canvas signals a dazing blow, a blinding jab.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:48AMSome of that wink and nudge is, of course, the work of William Shakespeare. But there is also a drollness to the staging of the Bard’s comedy.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:37AMThis indie-rock musical celebrates the imagination, which can be a gateway to invention, a portal to escape, a window into the future
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:33AMHeritage can come in waves, carried by the stories mothers and fathers and grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins share.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:19AMIn attending Phamaly productions, audiences of shared and varied abilities can’t help but be changed or at least challenged.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:25AMWith 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 …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:37AMAudience 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 Thea…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:33AMThe 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 09:33AMAudiences might find “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” -- at the Curious Theatre Company through Oct. 15 -- rattling. And not merely because a few times during the drama, an ear-splitting…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:55AMSomething 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 Tuesda…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:03AMThere’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 09:03AMColorado 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 09:24AMFor 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 09:03AMIt’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 Solís’ “Quixote Nuevo” on stage at the…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:42AMTarell Alvin McCraney, co-writer of Oscar-winning feature “Moonlight," brings his Broadway play to the Denver Center.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 10:12AMWhen 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, conversation…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:42AMJust 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 l…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:42AMIn “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.
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