"The greatest piece of writing by an American playwright under 30 in a generation or more" stated the Chicago Tribune on the occasion of a 2010 production of Tarell Alvin McCraney's "Brother…
A night spent at a honkytonk bar, listening to a has-been country singer hardly sounds like a meta outing.
The three actors entrusted with introducing local audiences t o the work of the much-heralded young playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney sit in the back room of the converted church that is home…
Call it a glimpse into the chipper dystopian. After all, there are danceable beats, bubble-gum and neon hues and scads of youthful quirks in the Catamounts' production of the futurist ta…
Meredith Monk has been creating complex, beautiful, challenging work for more than five decades as a composer, theater director, performer, filmmaker.
The tricky challenge of making experimental theater is often one of precision. Idea-infused plays demand particularly agile work from their performers and directors.
As promised, Denver Center Attractions has announced dates for the return engagement of the record-breaking, wise-cracking musical. Subscribers to the Denver Center Attractions 2013-2014 sea…
This is the note security consultant Frank W. Abagnale sends out to banks before arriving to share his peculiar wisdom about fraud, identity theft and other pesky issues and cons that bede…
"Fast Births Fugue," the first vignette of 20 in "Motherhood Out Loud," proves to be a bit of bait and switch on the part of the show's director, Bob Wells, who founded the Avenue Theater,…
Balconies? What balconies? We don't need no stinking balconies. OK, that sentiment might be a bit rough for William Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet.
The story may sound familiar: A faithful secretary and her married boss slowly develop a relationship that begins to look a lot like love.
In order to have a real chance of captivating audiences when "Jekyll & Hyde" arrives on Broadway in late April, this revamp of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's Broadway musical needs to…
An ambitious mingling of the cerebral and the physically demanding is underway at the Denver Center's performance-in-the-round Space Theater.
That Noël Coward. Who does he think he is ... George Bernard Shaw? So went my thinking when an usher said — or was it a warning?
Like a number of his they-wuz-robbed "American Idol" kin, Constantine Maroulis has done quite well for himself.
Anyone who's ever peeked into a lover's journal or snooped their text messages takes a chance on getting more misery than they bargained for. Imagine the dangers of opening the Pandora's box…
If the Denver Center's Colorado New Play Summit exists to care, feed and herald new work, then "Ed, Downloaded" doesn't disappoint. Far from it.
In 2012, the Physically Handicapped Actors & Musical Artists League changed its name from the slightly unwieldy but sweet acronym PHAMALy to the Phamaly Theatre Company.
For the world premiere of Lauren Feldman's "Grace, or the Art of Climbing," a spare scaffolding of black steel beams juts up from the floor of the Denver Center's Space Theatre.
"Maple and Vine" is packed with ideas about presence and nostalgia, about what we think ails us and what we imagine might be the tonic.
Right about now, the 29-year-old playwright appears to be the type of secret everyone will soon know. His sci-fi, multimedia play "Ed, Downloaded" receives its world premiere when it opens a…
Over coffee, playwright Michael Mitnick tells you he's fond of "what-if" scenarios. So here's one. What if, instead of famously uttering "plastics," the associate of Benjamin Braddock's fath…
During the opening-night performance of "War Horse" at the Buell Theatre, a very polite, preternaturally calm voice interrupted the pitched battlefield action to say there had been a technic…
In the one-man show "RFK — A Portrait of Robert Kennedy," Sen. Bobby Kennedy takes a moment to share his pleasure in a train tour he's taking around California during the 1968 Democr…
Nostalgia is such a tricky matter. Just ask the folks at Curious Theatre Company, who are about to plunge into that sentimental ache with the regional premiere of "Maple and Vine," opening S…