In one play, a woman of formidable intellect navigates two catastrophic losses. In the other, a woman of formidable frankness allows herself a glimmer of romantic feeling.
The show fills out a past in ways that will be illuminating to even those who know some of the high points of the Rossonian and Five Points.
Funny. Funnier. Funniest. How you arrange these apt adjectives will hinge on your own taste in wit.
This is the final weekend of "Acts of Faith," and you might consider rearranging your plans to catch it before Faith and her vital lessons vanish.
Not long ago, Kyle Abraham returned to the city that shaped him as an artist. The renowned choreographer and MacArthur Fellow visited his hometown of Pittsburgh for the local premiere of "An…
Spring looks likely to awaken Colorado theatergoers' hearts and minds with entertaining and ambitious fare.
Michelle "'Shells" Hoffman won't be home for Christmas or Hanukkah or even Chrismukkah for that matter. Instead, the self-identified "bi-religious" daughter of Ronkonkoma, N.Y. -- played wit…
In the play "Franklinland," Benjamin Franklin is a man of many ideas and ideals. He is an avid inventor and a fellow with no shortage of appetites.
In October 2020, Nepi's husband of 30 years, Mark, was rushed to Littleton's Adventist Hospital with life-threatening complications from COVID-19.
The fight choreography is gorgeous, even though no punches connect. A thump on a chest or stomp on the canvas signals a dazing blow, a blinding jab.
The production is so very ambitious that this viewer was left with the sense that its makers are trying to say even more than I could grasp with confidence on one sitting.
Some of that wink and nudge is, of course, the work of William Shakespeare. But there is also a drollness to the staging of the Bard's comedy.
This indie-rock musical celebrates the imagination, which can be a gateway to invention, a portal to escape, a window into the future
Heritage can come in waves, carried by the stories mothers and fathers and grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins share.
In attending Phamaly productions, audiences of shared and varied abilities can't help but be changed or at least challenged.
With the recent openings of "The Children" and "Dry Land," area theaters continue to launch their seasons on a high note -- or, depending on how you look at it, a culturally attuned "low" no…
The word this summer out of a pandemic-bruised Broadway was promising. The Encores! production of "Into the Woods" wowed and charmed. The news closer to home is even more welcome.
Audience members have grown used to the clever ways that theaters make requests to silence all devices, unwrap candies and otherwise zip it in a show's prologue. But the Denver Center Theatr…
Audiences might find "Heroes of the Fourth Turning" --Â at the Curious Theatre Company through Oct. 15 -- rattling. And not merely because a few times during the drama, an ear-splitting n…
Something feels different -- dare we say assured? -- about this fall's theater season. At the opening night of the thrilling "Hadestown" at the Denver Performing Arts Complex on Tuesday, the…
There's an art to letting go, and Curious Theatre's Chip Walton and Dee Covington are deep into the practice of it.
Colorado Springs-based playwright Jon Marcantoni Rosa based his drama in part on writer Manuel Suarez's book "Two Lynchings on Cerro Maravilla."
For the briefest moment these girls -- and one boy -- from Liverpool, Ohio, do their darndest in a studio where camaraderie can be true but also mercurial.
It's tempting to say that Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Don Quixote never gets old. But aging is very much the point in playwright Octavio SolÃs' "Quixote Nuevo" on stage at the Denver …
Tarell Alvin McCraney, co-writer of Oscar-winning feature "Moonlight," brings his Broadway play to the Denver Center.