The two main characters in Bad Jews are loathsome, but their venomous exchanges are hilarious and insanely inventive, and they’re what give this swift, weirdly exhilarating play its force and energy.

Miners Alley is presenting Broadway Bound, the third play in Neil Simon’s trilogy about the Jerome family.

Life and art are inseparable for the members of Phamaly, the first theater company in the country whose members all have some kind of physical ailment, and they show it in Annie.

Terrence McNally knows theater — as do the folks at Spotlight and Vintage Theatre — and his It’s Only a Play, which the two local companies are producing together, flays the skin off that lunatic, star-studded, crazily artificial yet deeply heartfelt profession.

Baby Boomer Baby, a one-man show written and now performed by Tommy Koenig at the Dairy Arts Center, is a musical trip from the ’60s to today. But it strikes some sour notes.

Ring of Fire is more a concert than a play: a cascade of Johnny Cash songs, along with a few that he covered by others, played by expert and enthusiastic musicians who clearly love the man and his music as much as they love playing together — and playing for…

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at BDT Stage is a must-see show, a great production of the musical warhorse.

Playwright Marisa Wegrzyn has the antidote for that outdated image of flight attendants as beautiful young women patrolling the aisles in high heels, frolicking in hotel rooms with handsome male passengers on their layovers: Mud Blue Sky, now in a regional premiere at Edge Theater.

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is fielding a female Hamlet this year, and the idea worries me.

There’s only one word that can sum up DragOn at the Garner Galleria, even if that word is a cliché: Fabulous. Fabulous in the usual sense of glam, over the top, beats all expectations. But “fabulous” is also the right word because if you go to the root — fable, myth, legend — you’re touching the show’s essence.

A huge critical hit in both London and New York, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is based on a novel by Mark Haddon that is written from the viewpoint of a fifteen-year-old boy, Christopher, who’s somewhere on the autism-Asperger spectrum. Playwright Simon Stephens introduced a twist to the plot that doesn’t make much sense: A sympathetic teacher persuades Christopher to turn an account of his sleuthing into a play — the play we’re seeing. But what we really want to know is what it’s like to be Christopher.

The Denver theater season is winding down, but there are still good productions to see around town.

I can’t remember how many productions of Cabaret I’ve seen over the last decade, but Len Matheo’s version at Miners Alley is by far the clearest, most intelligent and most exciting.

The Equinox Theatre Company has generally made a name for itself with cult, campy, genre shows, says artistic director Deb Flomberg: “Reefer Madness, Carrie, Little Shop of Horrors. Our audiences love them, and they’ve been asking for this one for quite a while.” Get ready for the Rocky Horror Show

At Buntport Theater, The Crud is Waiting for Godot as written by Edward Lear: a world of color, strangeness, mystery and nonsense that you most definitely want to enter.

Chip Walton is dedicated to bringing work by promising young playwrights to light at Curious Theatre Company. Meridith Friedman and Walton received a commission for The Luckiest People from the National New Play Network, and it’s a lucky choice.

The Secret Garden, now playing at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, is a gorgeous show, a musical version of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s children’s story, filled with visual and aural riches.