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Tony-winning musical about a daughter-dad reckoning gets an inspired production
White sheets shroud the furniture at the opening of Vintage Theatre’s inspired production of “Fun Home” This momentary emptiness evokes images of a summer house closed for the season and shadowy...
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Seduction, sex and WWII: Espionage drama “Rubicon” premieres at the Denver...
International relations get the double-entrendre treatment in the history-inspired espionage drama “Rubicon.” In playwright Kirsten Potter’s debut work, spy Betty Thorpe leverages her charms — both...
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In light of Alexei Navalny’s death, Colorado producer revisits Oscar-winning...
In a scene from the 2022 documentary “Navalny,” Russian dissident Alexei Navalny’s oldest daughter, Dasha, recalls that when she was 13, she began thinking about her father dying. As she speaks, she...
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How DCPA used a psychotherapist to flesh out characters in its new WWII spy...
It began with the “Demon Barber of Fleet Street” — which only seems right. While working on a production of “Sweeney Todd” at Portland Center Stage theater, director Chris Coleman was puzzled about...
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The aristocratic machinations and foxy dancing of pre-revolutionary Russia |...
Can a musical be a sexy beast? Especially if it’s infused with the yearning and even melancholy of the pre-revolutionary Russian sort? If the goings on at the Arvada Center are any measure, the answer...
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5 reasons you should see Phamaly’s “The Cost of Living” at Curious Theatre
What if your theater review were fractured? Broken apart and rearranged to get at something new about a staged work, to get at something different about the experience? To celebrate worthy work but in...
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10 things to know about Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson
On stage at the Aurora Fox Arts Center sits the house at 1839 Wylie Avenue in Pittsburgh’s polyglot Hill District. The year is 1904. In that slat-wooden home, its front door opens on a wide room where...
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What makes Denver theater audiences different? (Hint: It starts with a sense...
An Iranian son channels his mother — robes of lamé fabric and all. A high school student wrestles with parental and cultural expectations after her sister’s death. A murderer hides amid a boarding...
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Nothing is black and white about “MJ: The Musical”| Review
UPDATE: This story was corrected at 1:20 p.m. on Friday, April 12. On opening night, swing Rajané Katurah played Katherine Jackson. A patron rocked an impressively just-so mustache and black velvet...
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Denver Center’s offbeat “Emma” will delight fans of rom-coms, Austen’s novel
The rhythms of Jane Austen’s novels are so persuasive, their challenges and resolutions so familiar, that playwright Kate Hamill can merrily tease our knowledge again and again in her winking...
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