Performing Arts

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.

Looking for free and cheap things to do in Denver Christmas weekend? Here’s your guide.

Whether you’re looking for comedy, screenings or holiday choral music, Denver’s cultural community has your needs covered – on the cheap.

With the world premiere of Resolutions, Josh Hartwell and the Edge have delivered a swift, funny, clever, 85-minute holiday treat, skillfully acted and well-paced and directed by Missy Moore.

The youth of La Alma and local artists collaborated on The Heart, the Soul, an immersive theatrical experience that debuts December 7 with free performances.

In these uncertain times, the programatic cheeriness of the holiday season can become oppressive. Fortunately Denver’s sad sacks, nothing cuts through the happy humbuggery better than standup comedy.

As we head into the holiday season, it’s grand to have a production with so much good singing, such perfectly Dickensian Christmas-card images, and all those wonderful children on stage in the Denver Center’s A Christmas Carol.

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts is joining forces with Disney Theatrical Productions to bring the Broadway musical Aladdin to Denver.