Performing Arts

Peter Morgan is fascinated by the British monarchy, and his play at Vintage Theatre proves in.

While the topic may be subversive, this Off-Center production just isn’t.

This weekend, Denver bookworms, music aficionados, and nerds of every stripe are spoiled for choice as shows, readings, concerts and screenings abound.

The production at Curious Theatre Company is one huge, nourishing and gut-punching wallop of an evening.

Tickets cost $100 and neither phones nor cameras are permitted.

Local standups Nolawee Mengist and John Davis use their pithy persuasion to review hip-hop albums on As the Rhyme Goes on.

You’ll fall to pieces over Always…Patsy Cline at BDT Stage.

The powerful cast is more than a match for Arthur Miller’s powerful play.

Get ready to laugh all month long.

Real Women Have Curves focuses on immigration and the fear that immigrants live with daily.

Daniel Pearle’s A Kid Like Jake is getting its regional premiere as Benchmark Theatre’s opener for the fledgling company’s second season.

The Electric Baby goes from delight to dud in its regional premiere at the Arvada Center.

Rajiv Joseph’s Guards at the Taj, currently in a regional premiere with the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company, is often compared both to Tom Stoppard’s work and to Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.

Beneath Fun Home’s lightness of touch, there’s profound emotional depth — and this beautiful production does every moment full justice.

Despite a lengthy on-camera career that began back in 1987 as the host of MTV’s Remote Control, Colin Quinn generally seems most comfortable when he’s telling jokes or gently roasting fellow comics.

“As a playwright, it’s my job to present a complex narrative and write about things that are complicated for me and the people who’ll see it,” she says.

February brings 28 days of mirth and merriment with it. Here are ten shows where you’ll be sure to laugh.

Kate Hamill’s Sense and Sensibility, now at the Arvada Center’s Black Box Theatre, isn’t the Jane Austen you’re used to.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, now at the Aurora Fox, is a defiant, ninety-minute mix of stage play and glam-rock concert.

Tickets for the August 6 event go on sale Friday, January 26.

The title alone should prepare you for sadness, fear and violence: Dominique Morisseau’s award-winning Detroit ’67, now in its regional premiere at Curious Theatre Company, is set during the uprising in that city 51 years ago that took the lives of 43 people, 33 of them black.

Denver comedy is in fighting shape for 2018, and the city’s clubs, theaters and DIY venues all plan to put their best foot forward in the month ahead. These ten shows are our picks for January.