Performing Arts

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,…

You don’t need to be a Beowulf fan to get swept up in this extraordinary production by the Catamounts, now at the Dairy Arts Center.

Sure, everybody loves dad jokes. But can comedian Jim Gaffigan, the author of Dad Is Fat, pack the 1STBANK Center this summer for his Colorado stop on his Noble Ape Tour? As one of ten comedians to ever sell out Madison Square Garden, possibly. Gaffigan is known for his jokes about…

An Iliad is a version of Homer’s epic poem about the Trojan War, told in ninety minutes in a mixture of exalted language and everyday vernacular by a single lonely figure on a stage that represents somewhere blasted and unnamed — a place with dark, broken windows, bits of crumbling…

The high pitch of the national climate-change debate vibrates throughout the production of Two Degrees, a world premiere at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts after the script was workshopped at last year’s Colorado New Play Summit. No one in the audience can be unaware that all of President Barack Obama’s work on the issue is about to be undone.

Fairytale ballets like Swan Lake and The Nutcracker guarantee sold out houses for Colorado Ballet, which leans on those productions to ensure it makes budget. While coastal cities enjoy more consistent, challenging, modern repertoires, it’s an every two-years treat in Denver. In part, that’s because audiences aren’t supporting innovation. The Little Mermaid, which…

It seems that Buntport had the Trump presidency very much in mind when creating The Zeus Problem, a story about what happens when all power is invested in a single figure, particularly one as mercurial and unaccountable as Zeus. Except that Jim Hunt is a whole lot funnier than Trump.

The Christians has a interesting story, but doesn’t go deep — and the view is caught between heaven and hell.

According to America’s preeminent groundhog meteorologists, we can expect six more weeks of winter and at least four more years of rapidly encroaching fascism. Needless to say, the cathartic release of comedy is in high demand, perhaps now more than ever. Fortunately, February’s post-Super Bowl weeks are stuffed with a…