Stephen Sondheim

Camp still rules Tim Burton's Dark Shadows

Opera on Tap taps the popular, tonight at Bender's

The opera singers who regularly let their hair down at Opera on Tap, the up-close-and-personal monthly bar night at Bender's Tavern, will further reveal their inner selves during tonight's installment, the Musical Month of March. And though opera is inherently musical, this "musical" refers to what ... More >>

Laurents's updated West Side Story comes to Denver

The opera singers who regularly let their hair down at Opera on Tap, the up-close-and-personal monthly bar night at Bender's Tavern, will further reveal their inner selves during tonight's installment, the Musical Month of March. And though opera is inherently musical, this "musical" refers to what ... More >>

Something's Coming, Something Good

The opera singers who regularly let their hair down at Opera on Tap, the up-close-and-personal monthly bar night at Bender's Tavern, will further reveal their inner selves during tonight's installment, the Musical Month of March. And though opera is inherently musical, this "musical" refers to what ... More >>

Five musicals based on weirdly tragic true stories

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 >>

Today's featured event: Go, man, go, but not like a yo-yo, tonight at Forest Room 5

​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 >>

Sweeney Todd

A stripped-down approach revitalizes an already brilliant musical.

Beyond Playlist: The All-Soundtrack Edition

A stripped-down approach revitalizes an already brilliant musical.

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.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

A musical Roman holiday.

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Brief reviews of current shows

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Brief reviews of current shows

Do I Hear a Waltz?

Arvada Center creates passable music.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Swing! Has Zing

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

They Feel Pretty

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

Wedding Bell Blahs

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

Suffer the Children

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

Mama Tried

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

Stalk Soup

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

Thrills for the week

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

Stuff and Nonsense

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

Encore

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

Slaves to Love

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

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