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.
From special visits to fond farewells, Denver comedy has enough entertainment in store to keep locals a-maying all month long.
William Goldman’s Misery, a dramatization of Stephen King’s horror novel, is now receiving a searing production at the Edge Theatre. You may have read the book or seen the film starring Kathy Bates and James Caan, but you have never experienced this freaky story in such an intimate environment.
Square Product Theatre founder Emily K. Harrison focuses on innovative work that has audiences talking and guessing — and perhaps feeling just a touch unbalanced by the end. Now Square Product is presenting the regional premiere of Amelia Roper’s acerbic, wonderfully-titled one-act comedy, She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange, at the Dairy Arts Center.
Juliet Wittman’s review of the Arvada Center’s Waiting for Godot — one of the best productions she’s seen of Godot, she says — inspired plenty of discussion on her Facebook page. That’s pretty good for a play in which “nothing happens, twice,” according to eminent Samuel Beckett scholar Vivian Mercer. Here’s…
Denver is positively bustling with activity all weekend long, which means thrifty locals have plenty of opportunities to enjoy everything our city arts scene has to offer without breaking the bank.
Geoffrey Kent’s Waiting for Godot at the Arvada Center is one of the best versions of this play we’ve seen: funny, lively, sad and moving, seeming simultaneously to take forever and to move rapidly along. Most important, it’s well cast.
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.
