Harvey Fierstein's 2014 Broadway sensation "Casa Valentina" tells the story of a discreet 1960s Catskills getaway for "the girls," that is, the men who liked to escape the city and their
Not as funny as HBO's "Veep" — nor as subtle as that unsubtle, laugh-out-loud satire of presidential politics — David Mamet's "November" is a political comedy unmoored from any p…
Poor Norma Desmond. Deluded, deranged, forgotten by her legions of long-ago fans. In Vintage Theatre's elaborate production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber warhorse "Sunset Boulevard," Norma is w…
Poor Norma Desmond. Deluded, deranged, forgotten by her legions of long-ago fans. In Vintage Theatre's elaborate production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber warhorse "Sunset Boulevard," Norma is
The unapologetically romantic musical "Death Takes A Holiday" finds humor and pathos, delivered with impressively strong vocals, in a lovely Arvada Center production smartly directed by Rod…
Su Teatro has been selected to receive a national grant for "Chicano Roots Rehab," a new music and theater project developed by Su Teatro Executive Artistic Director Anthony Jr.
"Steel Magnolias," the play by Robert Harling perhaps best remembered from the movie, achieves its emotional targets in a small-scale rendering at the John Hand Theater.
An adaptation of the well-worn love story from 1897, "Cyrano" remains relevant in 2016.
From the first shrill blast of a steam whistle, a spellbinding production of "Sweeney Todd" at the Stage Theatre launches the audience on a nightmarish descent into madness and meat pies.
Spotlight Theatre Company announced its 2016-17 season, a varied lineup of plays to launch in August, all but one at the John Hand Theater in Colorado Free University at Lowry.
There's something antiseptic about a windowless gallery housing priceless treasures. The Old Masters are to be worshipped.
The Arvada Center released its 2016-7 theater season, a slate of three musicals and four plays, including regional and world premieres.
If "madcap" is to your taste, you can't go wrong with the Miners Alley Playhouse production of "You Can't Take it With You," the 1936 Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman comedy that recently enj…
If "madcap" is to your taste, you can't go wrong with the Miners Alley Playhouse production of "You Can't Take it With You," the 1936 Moss Hart and George S.
When the Denver Center Theatre Company's production of "Sweeney Todd" opens in previews Friday night, fans of DeVotchKa will find their beloved local band not in the pit, but above the stag…
The words, rhythms and sorrows of "The Glass Menagerie" are so ingrained a part of our shared literary past, it feels as though we've just seen or read it even if it's been decades.
A vintage printing press sits center stage in a touring Broadway show that celebrates, among other things, the power of the printed word.
The smell of burning sage permeates the Aurora Fox theater before each performance of "Black Elk Speaks" as it did before every rehearsal, the producer has noted, when the cast — 80
From the start, even from the title, it's clear Kim Rosenstock's "Tigers Be Still" is a fantastical story.
Surely, the tale of three generations of Hispanic American men fighting in three different U.S. wars could shed light on a particular experience for a particular family and the men themselve…
Fortunately for theater-goers, if unfortunately for the country, Marsha Norman's 1970s play "Getting Out," about a woman just released from prison, is entirely relevant and moving today.
Local Theatre Company in Boulder plans a fresh approach to its new play fest this year: The 2016 festival will invite audience members to be part of the creative process, along with three in…
The 38th season of the Theatre Company at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts contains a mix of classics and contemporary dramas, from Charles Dickens and Tennessee Williams to two wor…
The 38th season of the Theatre Company at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, announced Tuesday, contains a mix of classics and contemporary dramas, from Charles Dickens and Tennessee
The humor is twisted, to say the least. While the audience giggled through "Heathers the Musical" at the Aurora Fox Arts Center, the balancing act is awkward: the comic sendup of teen st…