Colorado Critics Corner

NEW YORK—If either her husband or daughter is calling, Audra McDonald knows without looking at her phone. […]

Planning a trip this summer? Choose your dates carefully - there are more than a few reasons to stick close to home instead. Denver reaches for new heights this season with a brilliant bill of theater, opera, dance, classical music and art. Here is Denver Post theater critic Lisa Kennedy's summer theater preview. […]

If you are on Facebook, you can see the cast portraits above as individual photos by clicking here.   By John Moore May 20, 2013 Welcome to my ongoing, 2013 labor-of-love photo series bringing you iconic snapshots from behind the scenes on opening nights in Colorado theater. All photos by John Moore copyright 2013 for […]

Please forgive that hideous white tie. I didn’t bring one to my senior portrait session. Intentionally. But the repressive “man” who ran the studio refused to take any boy’s senior photo without a tie, and that was the only one he had on hand. I guess the lesson, kids, is that you can’t be a […]

The power of mothers — for good and ill — is a theater trope that never quite loses its potency. In Shelagh Stephenson's The Memory of Wat... […]

Dividing the Estate is a quietly incisive play about a large and contentious family. Stella Gordon, the 85-year-old matriarch, rules over a grand old ... […]

“It's Mary Poppins! It's Mary Poppins” Exclaimed the precocious four-year-old that was seated directly behind me. However, by the middle part of the first act, that enthusiasm waned and by the... […]

There is a great deal of difficulty in marketing a show. In today's difficult economic climate, theatre is a luxury item, so it is crucial that you market your shows in such a way that they stand out... […]

Planning a funeral or battling over an inheritance with relatives can be the truest test of character and the most reliable measurement of motives. […]

“We thought it was just going to be a political call,” Silberman said, seated at a table at PHAMALY’s administrative offices on Dallas Street in north Aurora. “It was the great news of the day. Then we had to keep it secret for about three weeks.” […]

God of CarnageCurious Theatre: 4/25 – 6/8     In recent seasons Curious Theatre has sometimes failed to entice this reviewer with its decisions about which plays to produce.  Probably well-intentioned decisions have depended on how much was in the coffers balanced by the desire to help young or struggling playwrights. However… when Curious gets to the linch […]

Dividing the EstateArvada Center for the Arts: 4/30 – 5/26     The Arvada Center’s production of “Dividing the Estate” is a thoroughly enjoyable evening of theatre. The magnificent direction is by A. Lee Massaro! Ms. Massaro should be in the director’s chair always in this town. This director has cast the show impeccably and paced the show at such a clip tha […]

View All Show Listings for Denver Click Here to View BroadwayWorld.com Denver Calendar THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE MEEKER HIGH SCHOOL 5/24-5/25/2013 THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE is a high-spirited musicalromp that has all of New York dancing the Charleston. It's the zany new1920's musical that has taken Broadway by storm, winning the TONY Award for BEST M […]

Vintage Theatre presents "And Then There Was Nun" by Richard T. Witter and Bruce W. Gilray, directed by Peter Hughes, running tonight, May 17 - June 16, 2013. A parody of the great Agatha Christie thrillers of the 1940's, And Then There Was Nun is a vampy cross-dressing cocktail of humor and "whodunit" as actors emulate your favorite […]

"Camelot" might have been too ambitious for CAT's first production in the Pacific Event Center. But kudos to CAT owner and director Robert Bubon for finding a new place. Certainly the performances had energy, and the story was clear. If some of the details are cleaned up and smoothed over, this might prove a very good new home. […]

If you are a fan of the pun, or of silly wordplay in general, you will get your fill in this fine production of "Bach at Leipzig" by the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. […]

Colorado ACTS presents An Alumni Production   Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day   Musical Book and Lyrics by Judith Viorst. Music by Shelly Markham   From the moment Alexander wakes up, things just don’t go his way.  A wet sweater, a bad day at school, a trip to the dentist, wrong shoes, […] […]

The cast in the Denver Center Theatre Company’s world premiere production of Sense & Sensibility The Musical. Photo by Jennifer M Koskinen You don’t have to be a fan of Jane Austen’s romances to enjoy the Denver Center Theatre Company’s world premiere production of “Sense & Sensibility The Musical,” but it helps. The lavish, yet pedestrian […] […]

At a private event for subscribers last night, the Lone Tree Arts Center (LTAC) announced its third season. With everything from Rodgers and Hammerstein to the Beatles to Celtic rock, the 2013-14 season for LTAC is jam-packed. Full of variety for all types, one common thread unites the programming. “The most important thing we want to deliver to our patrons […]

The Arvada Center opens one of the most well-known Broadway musicals tonight with Man of La Mancha. Brian Mallgrave, who is in his seventh consecutive season designing for the Arvada Center, was the scenic designer for the production. Man of La Mancha musically tells the story of Don Quixote - not directly, but as performed by prisoners during the Spanish In […]