Christmas and holiday shows are roaring back this year in Denver, but not without their challenges. We talk to Denver Gay Men's Chorus, Wonderbound, the Camp Christmas creator and others abo…
John Waters' one-man performances are the stuff legend -- provided your legends arrive with a heaping side of filth. The cult-director's latest show to visit to Denver, "A John Waters Christ…
The 2021 holiday season brings back shows after a year off, including "A Christmas Carol" and "The Nutcracker," but also touring drag-queen variety shows and "A John Waters Christmas."
The upcoming "Nutcracker" performances at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House will be the first time in 16 years the company has refreshed its production so thoroughly with new costumes, sets.
After more than 20 months of fears, frustrations and postponements, Denver's Broadway fans are finally getting the chance to step back into theaters. But will audiences return en masse to pr…
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…
Denver Arts Week's Night at the Museums, Tattered Cover's 50th birthday, the Affordable Arts Fest and more free and cheap things to do around Denver in November.
"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!!!"
Ready, set, red carpet: The Denver Film Festival is back in action.
If you watched Sunday's Tony Awards, you'd know that Broadway is coming back. And so is the Broadway series at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, which today announced that tickets w…
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 …
"Moulin Rouge! The Musical," a jukebox adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's hyperactive 2001 movie, won the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on a Sunday night when Broadway looked back to h…
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 …
Five years ago, Connor Hall and Paul Twarowski first stepped into Denver's improv scene with performances at the Bovine Metropolis Theater. Now, the duo is reopening the space as The Jester'…
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.
Denver's marquee performing arts companies, including Colorado Ballet, Opera Colorado, Colorado Symphony and Denver Center for the Performing Arts, will require masks and proof of vaccinatio…
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…
I had never heard of Creede Repertory Theater until the name came up after Googling "most remote theater in the United States" one day. My curiosity was piqued.
At the Vail Fest, there is no hierarchy. The fine art and the street art and the made-for-TV art are equal.
"The Treasurer" is at times funny. It is also consistently smart -- as in intelligent, but also as in this is going to hurt some.
How to get tickets for rescheduled shows from Denver Center for the Performing Arts, including "Hamilton," "The Lion King," "My Fair Lady," "A Christmas Carol," "Camp Christmas," "Mixed Tast…