Friday, February 17, 2023
In 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 08:00AMMonday, February 13, 2023
The 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 08:00AMFriday, February 10, 2023
Funny. Funnier. Funniest. How you arrange these apt adjectives will hinge on your own taste in wit.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:00AMFriday, February 3, 2023
This 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 08:00AMMonday, January 9, 2023
Not 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 08:00AMFriday, January 6, 2023
Spring looks likely to awaken Colorado theatergoers’ hearts and minds with entertaining and ambitious fare.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:00AMFriday, December 9, 2022
Michelle "'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 09:24AMFriday, November 25, 2022
In 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 09:06AMWednesday, November 23, 2022
In 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 09:06AMFriday, November 4, 2022
The 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 08:48AMFriday, October 28, 2022
Some 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 08:37AMThursday, October 20, 2022
This 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 09:33AMWednesday, October 19, 2022
Heritage can come in waves, carried by the stories mothers and fathers and grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins share.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:19AMTuesday, October 18, 2022
In attending Phamaly productions, audiences of shared and varied abilities can’t help but be changed or at least challenged.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:25AMFriday, 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 …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:37AMFriday, 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 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 09:33AMFriday, September 16, 2022
Audiences 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 08:55AMTuesday, 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 Tuesda…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:03AMMonday, 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 09:03AMThursday, 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 09:24AMFriday, 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 09:03AMFriday, 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 Solís’ “Quixote Nuevo” on stage at the…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:42AMFriday, 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 10:12AMThursday, 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, conversation…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:42AMFriday, 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 l…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:42AMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:42AMThursday, March 17, 2022
The ballet comes through Denver March 29 and 30.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 08:03AMFriday, 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 …
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:03AMThursday, 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 
