Having fun and experiencing all that Denver has to offer needn’t be the lone purview of bourgeois weekenders. Our city is too vibrant, too filled with the creations of odd characters to let something like pricey tickets keep you home-bound.
Sondra Blanchard, the artistic director of the Public Works Theatre Company was visiting the Montreal Biodome, when she met a friendly puffin. That encounter served as the inspiration for her new play, Flight of Fancy, a gentle conversation starter about ecological collapse and mass extinction.
Lauren Gunderson’s Silent Sky deals with an important topic — the ignored contributions of women scientists — but it feels more like a young-adult novel than a living dramatic work.
Frozen fans, delight! The Broadway musical Frozen, based on the Disney cartoon, will be staged in Denver August 17-October 1, and the producers have just announced the principal cast.
I’ve been trying to moderate my immediate reaction to Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced: that it’s a nasty, mean-spirited, dangerous and anti-Muslim piece of work, and I have no idea why a Pulitzer committee would have awarded it the 2013 prize for drama. But I can’t. The play falls into the general…
To conclude its 46th season, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance will perform excerpts from Porgy and Bess and Sergei Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.
Robert Schenkkan composed Building the Wall during the run-up to the election last fall, horrified by what he was hearing and seeing — “a fundamental assault on American values,” he calls it. This Curious Theatre Company production is part of a five-city rolling world premiere.
A Skull in Connemara is the second in Martin McDonagh’s award-winning Leenane Trilogy. The title comes from Lucky’s nonsensical, despairing monologue in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, and it falls between The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Lonesome West. All three were written in a frenzy of creative energy…
Playwright Robert Schenkkan’s response to the election was swift and fierce.
Sean Patrick Cassidy will be directing his first play, Good Men and True, under his new theater company, Gypsy Buffalo, at the Fort Greene bar in Globeville, on Monday, April 3, at 8pm.
Despite what the grey skies above belie, Spring has begun in earnest and dampened Denverites have reasons to hope. As per usual, the comedy scene continues to flourish, with laughter ringing from our clubs, theaters and even VFW halls.
Avatar Movement may not be as big of a name as Colorado Ballet, but it is just as much of a vital force in the Denver arts community, commanding a presence through a DIY philosophy.
Chinglish, a play about an American businessman struggling to win a commission in China, has good intentions. So does this Aurora Fox production. But sadly, the show isn’t very good.
Disenchanted, which satirizes the cultural assumptions, historical distortions and masculine obtuseness behind the perfect Disney princess image in a series of tuneful, lively and often very funny songs, is a delightful way to spend an evening.
Comedian Dave Chappelle, who just released two Netflix specials, Deep in The Heart of Texas and The Age of Spin, will be hosting the biggest show of his career, this summer, in Colorado.
Take the Edwardians’ morbid fascination with death, murder and the macabre early in the twentieth century, then add black humor, some woman-to-woman celebration, a bit of mockery and touches of real sorrow, and you have The Drowning Girls, a regional premiere at the Arvada Center’s Black Box Theater.
Nick Payne’s Constellations, now in its Denver premiere at Curious Theatre Company, got raves in New York — but we’re having trouble getting beyond the fake British accents.
The Denver comedy community is still coming to grips with the loss of local comedian, lawyer, father and friend Frank Schuchat, who passed away on Tuesday, February 28. The CU Boulder and Georgetown-educated founder of Schuchat International Law Firm served as a judicial law clerk on the D.C. Court of…
Douglas Carter Beane’s The Nance, now seeing its regional premiere at Edge Theater, is a play about burlesque in 1930s New York; it’s a fascinating slice of history, and an equally fascinating character study.
Once a year, Colorado Ballet gives its dancers an opportunity to choreograph their own works. This Friday, March 10, performances will be held at the Armstrong Center for Dance. Audience members will be treated to works in an intimate setting in the Black Box Theater, right next to where the…
They say March comes in like a lion, and Denver comedy has enough treats in store to keep you roaring with laughter all month long. From home-brewed showcases on local stages to top-notch headliners performing all over the Front Range, this month’s calendar is replete with shows to tickle your…
Bus Stop, currently showing at the Arvada Center, was written in 1955, and it creaks a bit. A group of people are stranded at a bus stop restaurant in a small town west of Kansas City by a howling blizzard. What follows is a character study of this disparate gathering,…
