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The Best of Denver Winners: 1984

Look of the Day -- Jenna and Regan

Jamie Horton Comes Through for Modern Muse

This show really is for Girls Only.

Artsbeat

Is the OpenStage Doubt worth seeing? Beyond a doubt.

The Naked Truth

To this critic, The Balcony is a pain in the neck.

A Christmas Carol Glows

The Denver Center's supple staging is designed to delight.

Amore the Merrier

I Love You whips up an enjoyable froth from life's sweet-and-sour relationships.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A musical Roman holiday.

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Lobby Hero

The apartment has a doorman, but there’s no job security.

Ragtime

Boulder’s Dinner Theatre breathes new life into this revival.

Clue: The Musical

A production that cuts the Colonel Mustard.

Sweet Charity

Molly Ringwald makes a sweet Sweet Charity.

Listen Closely

There's little magic to the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's Tempest.

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Brief reviews of current shows

Love's Labors

The whirlwind A Flea in Her Ear spins with precise comedic timing.

Moral Bankruptcy

Arthur Miller's All My Sons gets a compelling revival at the Denver Center.

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Brief reviews of current shows

The Communicator

Kent Thompson draws on his past to chart the Denver Center Theatre Company's future.

Taking Their Lumps

Fire on the Mountain evokes the musical soul of Appalachian miners.

Present Joy

The Denver Center's annual Christmas Carol is sublime.

A Classy Classic

The Misanthrope has both vision and visuals.

Critical View

Marley's ghost may haunt the Denver Center Theatre Company.

Tapping Creativity

Female dancers click into gear

Hair Ball

Hairspray bops from the screen to the stage

Explore It

Get a manos-on experience at Machu Picchu

Gems Glittering

Jazzman Fred Hess shines on The Long and the Short of It

Laugh Track

Denver Center's Streetcar heads in the wrong direction.

Family Drama

The DCTC stages an all-black Streetcar

Welcome Back, Mr. Scrooge

A Christmas Carol retains its message of hope.

The Play's the Thing

CSF's innovative Hamlet keeps the classic vital.

Chekhov, Y'All

A Civil War-era Three Sisters focuses on the lives of the unfocused.

Call a Doctor

Grungy Saturday Night Fever leaves critic ill.

Poetry Men

The enduring power of language ignites Behind the Broken Words.

Clit Lit

The Vagina Monologues brings female genitalia out in the open.

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Scene to Screen

Season's Bleatings

Not even the thought counts in an empty production of Santaless.

Conscience Raising

Jewish Descent/Jewish Dissent opens with staging of now-famous Cradle Will Rock

Marley's Ghost

Jewish Descent/Jewish Dissent opens with staging of now-famous Cradle Will Rock

Thrills for the week

Jewish Descent/Jewish Dissent opens with staging of now-famous Cradle Will Rock

China Doll

Jewish Descent/Jewish Dissent opens with staging of now-famous Cradle Will Rock

Lemon Lime

Jewish Descent/Jewish Dissent opens with staging of now-famous Cradle Will Rock

THRILLS

Jewish Descent/Jewish Dissent opens with staging of now-famous Cradle Will Rock

LONESOME WHISTLE

Jewish Descent/Jewish Dissent opens with staging of now-famous Cradle Will Rock

KLING ON

Jewish Descent/Jewish Dissent opens with staging of now-famous Cradle Will Rock

Today's featured event: Spamalot galumphs back into the Buell Theatre

No less than an all-out love affair between British comedy and the Great White Way, Monty Python's Spamalot pairs a plot blatantly (and with blessings) stolen by Eric Idle and Mike Nichols from the screenplay for Monty Python and the Holy Grail, with music and lyrics by Idle and John Du Prez. And ... More >>