Stephen Sondheim

Beyond Playlist: The All-Soundtrack Edition

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Swing! Has Zing

A peppy musical production revels in the pure, uplifting power of dance.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A musical Roman holiday.

Sweeney Todd

A stripped-down approach revitalizes an already brilliant musical.

Do I Hear a Waltz?

Arvada Center creates passable music.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Tim Burton’s gorgeously gruesome Sweeney Todd.

Bragging Rights

Stephen Sondheim receives the award of a lifetime.

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Brief reviews of current shows

Now Playing

Brief reviews of current shows

Now Playing

Brief reviews of current shows.

Hail to the Chief

Next Stage's Assassins is a grand musical look at America's killer instinct.

Altered States

Sufjan Stevens is a singer-songwriter who takes history personally.

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Sufjan Stevens is a singer-songwriter who takes history personally.

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Sufjan Stevens is a singer-songwriter who takes history personally.

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Sufjan Stevens is a singer-songwriter who takes history personally.

Missing the Point

Heritage Square's Cyrano strains for a serious tone.

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Heritage Square's Cyrano strains for a serious tone.

Cast Perfect

The Country Dinner Playhouse breathes life into Gypsy.

Single-Minded

Young CU actors wrestle with the thirty-something yearning in Company.

Sing, You Sinners!

The sounds of silence at CU.

Women's Voices

Vox Feminista takes on racism

Dots Right

Trouble Clef gets points for reviving the ambitious Sunday in the Park.

They Feel Pretty

Trouble Clef gets points for reviving the ambitious Sunday in the Park.

Wedding Bell Blahs

Trouble Clef gets points for reviving the ambitious Sunday in the Park.

Suffer the Children

Trouble Clef gets points for reviving the ambitious Sunday in the Park.

Mama Tried

Trouble Clef gets points for reviving the ambitious Sunday in the Park.

Stalk Soup

Trouble Clef gets points for reviving the ambitious Sunday in the Park.

Thrills for the week

Trouble Clef gets points for reviving the ambitious Sunday in the Park.

Stuff and Nonsense

Trouble Clef gets points for reviving the ambitious Sunday in the Park.

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Trouble Clef gets points for reviving the ambitious Sunday in the Park.

Slaves to Love

Trouble Clef gets points for reviving the ambitious Sunday in the Park.

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Trouble Clef gets points for reviving the ambitious Sunday in the Park.

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​Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim probably didn't have a literary reading in mind when they wrote "Cool" for West Side Story. But I can't help hearing those high-tension lyrics in my head -- Breeze it, buzz it, easy does it. Turn off the juice, boy! -- when I imagine what things will be ... More >>

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Laurents's updated West Side Story comes to Denver

You sure about this, guys?​Although the musical -- one of the sillier holdouts from an era when theater was more, you know, theatrical -- is mostly exploited these days for its camp potential (see: The Book of Mormon), it's still not quite dead as a study of human emotion, either. And although ... More >>

Something's Coming, Something Good

You sure about this, guys?​Although the musical -- one of the sillier holdouts from an era when theater was more, you know, theatrical -- is mostly exploited these days for its camp potential (see: The Book of Mormon), it's still not quite dead as a study of human emotion, either. And although ... More >>