When Local Theater Company launches the 11th installment of its Spring Lab this weekend at Boulder's Dairy Arts Center, the three-day festival of staged readings of new works, conversations …
Just how vulnerable the pursuit of happiness could be for Blacks during Reconstruction is on aching and wry display in Pearl Cleage's "Flyin' West." So, too, is the tenacity of the liberated.
In "Refuge," the haunting and grounded new play at Curious Theatre Company, someone we care about will die. That is not a spoiler so much as an acknowledgment that the territory on which the…
The ballet comes through Denver March 29 and 30.
Two days before the start of this year's Colorado New Play Summit in late February, the Denver Center's Robert & Judi Newman building downtown was a hive of creativity. Four studios hous…
"In the Upper Room" ends in much the way it begins. To say more would be to spoil a bold gesture, one that had an audience member exclaim loudly, "Oh, my God!"
In 2019, Neyla Pekarek, the former singer and cellist in the indie-rock band the Lumineers, released "Rattlesnake," a solo album celebrating the restlessness and boldness. Now, she's turned …
A revival worth its salt should always bring fresh revelations, even when it's set in a bygone era. In "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" at the Denver Center, that discovery comes by way of …
Listening to the first three songs on Van Halen's self-titled debut album will tell you much of what you need to know heading into "Eddie and Dave," a gender-bent play about the founding, ri…
They didn't see the Broadway production of "American Son" together, but Jada Suzanne Dixon and Chip Walton had the same response as each watched the drama about an estranged interracial coup…
"Mama." that's the first word spoken in Benchmark Theatre's riling and deftly performed world premiere of "Elephant." Actually, "spoken" is inaccurate: "cried out" is more like it. "Mama!!!"
In the sweetly unique musical "Hundred Days" -- on stage at the Aurora Fox -- two lovers cycle through their years as a couple not by growing old in front of the audience but by cramming as …
There's a telling moment that comes late in the "The Lifespan of a Fact" on stage --Â make that on stage! --Â at the Curious Theatre Company, through Oct. 16.
Alicia Young had a dream. (Actually, she had a few.) The actor-activist-director-theater maven was sitting at a cafe in Denver's Whittier neighborhood recently talking about the inspiration …
The curtain rises. (Or the laptop warms up, hitched to a nice-sized monitor.) The theatergoers gather, masked and in-person. (Or sit at home, feet on the coffee table and no protocols to kee…
"Before You Go" at Miners Alley Playhouse runs through Sept. 19. There's a burst of energy before it settles into something often clever and at times quietly commanding.
It seems so obvious in retrospect, the pairing of a talented Denver-based rapper with an ace local theater company on an original production. But then, that's how the best no-brainers often …
"Wild Fire" is the latest addition to a growing number of productions foregrounding the stories of Coloradans by conducting fresh interviews, mining oral histories and/or diving into archiva…
"The Treasurer" is at times funny. It is also consistently smart -- as in intelligent, but also as in this is going to hurt some.
Productions "The War of the Flowers" and "After the Flood" from Su Teatro and Control Group deliver local history with vision and verve.
In the early 1900s, after the death of his only child, Louis Shoenberg funded the building of a sanatorium and farm for tuberculosis patients at the behest of National Jewish Hospital.
"I think a true artist takes what they're given at any given moment and is able to use it to craft something profound. Lucy was a true artist."
"'Are we just a building with some objects in it? Or are we more than that? Are we a conversation? Are we a lifestyle? Are we a cultural engine?' That's what I came in with. So then when we …
One of the most gentle (but profoundly painful)Â moments in the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company's omnibus piece "CO2020" comes when musician Jukka La Pert Pawley talks about how the kill…
"The best way to signal that we really do stand with the community is we do the work to transform ourselves. We do the work from the inside out. So that when we can turn the lights back on o…