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BWW Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC Soars at The Buell Theatre
We live in the Alps during the summer, in a little chalet with a magnificent view of the Dolomites. There is something majestic about those snow-capped peaks. From our hotel in Denver, we can see a similar view of the Rockies. When I saw that SOUND OF MUSIC was playing at the Buell I just had to see...
BWW Review: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Takes Over the Denver Center
Beauty and the Beast, a "tale as old as time," has landed at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. The beloved Disney musical adaptation, based on the studio's animated 1991 Best Picture Oscar nominee, still has the ability to enchant an audience of children. And, apparently, plenty of pare...
BWW Review: INTO THE WOODS at Candlelight Dinner Playhouse
Sondheim. A name which can instill both fear and awe in the mind of any actor. Of the three shows with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, Into the Woods has always been the most popular with theatres across the country, and also the most problematic. Many people would...
BWW Reviews: LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL at Town Hall Arts Center
Sometimes I forget how many things can rhyme with 'OMIGOD YOU GUYS.' If you need some ideas, look no further than the opening number of Town Hall's current production of Legally Blonde The Musical....
BWW Review: ONCE Settles in Nicely at the Denver Center
Once is definitely not your typical Broadway musical. It does not implement nor does it require the razzle dazzle that is usually typical of musical theatre. Instead there is a subtle intimacy and ease to the storytelling. From the moment you enter the theatre, you are transported to another place, ...
BWW Review: FAC's 9 TO 5 a Couple Hours of Light Entertainment
9 to 5: The Musical takes place in 1979-a fact the Fine Arts Center hammers home with an abundance of geometric, high-contrast design, bell-bottoms, and loud shirts-but the story it tells feels oddly contemporary: hostile work environments, wage inequality, sexual harassment. About the only thing di...
BWW Review: REALISH HOUSEWIVES OF CHERRY CREEK at The Garner Galleria
There's a place in pop culture for ritzy housewives. Unfortunately, I'm not too sure that place is in Cherry Creek just yet....
BWW Review: SUNSET BOULEVARD at Vintage Theatre
Often when we think of the glamour that is Hollywood we think of the money, fame, and perks that come with it currently. But I can remember being a young child and my great grandmother telling me about how things were back in the old days. How glamour meant many other things and how Hollywood was a ...
BWW Review: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN at Aurora Fox
Catch Me If You Can The Musical, currently playing at the Aurora Fox Arts Center, has the perfect mix of an exciting score and stellar design team with a cast sparkling with talent....
BWW Review: DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY at Arvada Center
The musical Death Takes a Holiday, currently playing at the Arvada Center, doesn't just breathe a little life into Death-it makes him out to be a hopeless romantic....
BWW Review: GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST at Theatreworks
I admit it, melodrama is something of a guilty pleasure of mine. I don't mean 'melodrama' in the way you're thinking, with audiences booing and hissing the mustache-twirling villain as he ties some dewy blonde to the railroad tracks. I mean stories where everything-the characters, the situations, th...
BWW Reviews: THE WILD PARTY at Ignite Theatre
Ignite Theatre is known for taking on edgier shows, so it's no surprise when the cast of their current production struts onto the stage baring skin with sexy attire. And this isn't the first time....
BWW Review: SWEENEY TODD with Denver Center Theatre Company
Ladies and gentlemen, you can't imagine the rapture in store for you with Denver Center Theatre Company's killer production of Sweeney Todd....
BWW Review: PETER AND THE STARCATCHER at FAC
Is there any staple of children's literature more existentially tragic than Peter Pan? Beneath the tale of the eternal boy who flies with faeries and battles with pirates lies a story about the bittersweet inevitability of growing old, and of a child destined to be forever left behind by a world tha...
BWW Review: DIXIE'S NEVER WEAR A TUBE TOP WHILE RIDING A MECHANICAL BULL...rides into Denver
What happens when you put an Alabama hurricane, a broken mechanical bull and a cardboard cutout of Dame Julie Andrews in the same show? A rip roaring good night, that's what! Dixie's Never Wear a Tube Top While Riding a Mechanical Bull... has ridden triumphantly into Denver....
BWW Review: 4000 MILES at Miners Alley Playhouse
A finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles is currently playing at Miners Alley Playhouse in downtown Golden....
BWW Review: John Douglas Thompson as SATCHMO AT THE WALDORF
Bringing to life an iconic personality like Louis Armstrong is always something of a tightrope walk: the mannerisms must be there, yet the performance must not descend into caricature. It is a balancing act that John Douglas Thompson is remarkably adept at, and he is aided by Satchmo at the Waldor...
BWW Review: A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER at Denver Center
There are a few places in downtown Denver where you can learn to murder someone, probably. I'd recommend you go with the one where there's singing and dancing. A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder is playing at the Buell Theatre through the end of February. The other options probably aren't quite as...
BWW Review: THE NORMAL HEART at Vintage Theatre
'The Normal Heart' by Larry Kramer is not a light-hearted piece of theatre. It is a heavy drama about the terrifying 'new cancer' that ravaged the gay community in the early 1980s. It is dark and frustrating, and beautiful, and the script demands a lot of a cast. It seems that Vintage Theatre Compan...
BWW Review: MRS. MANNERLY at Arvada Center Black Box Theatre
Keep your elbows off the table. Always hold a door for a lady. Remember to say 'please' and 'thank you'. These are just some of the commandments of Mrs. Mannerly's manners class, and in her classroom, you'd better follow the rules....
BWW Review: University of Northern Colorado's THE PIANO LESSON
The Piano Lesson is an important part of American theater. August Wilson wrote a story that needs to be told, now more than ever. And a story which asks the important questions like, What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use? Are we forced to live in the shadows of our...
BWW Review: THE ADDAMS FAMILY at BDT Stage
The Addams Family has been playing BDT Stage in Boulder since November, but even though death is just around the corner for this show's run, it still manages to be everything but neat, sweet and petite. (Which is exactly what an homage to the classic family deserves.)...
BWW Review: I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE at Midtown Arts Center
Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit.' This tagline sums up I Love You, Your Perfect, Now Change, the charming revue that is currently playing at Midtown Arts Center's black box theatre. The show ...
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Violet co-produced with Phamaly Theatre Company Aurora Fox Arts Center (6/05-6/28) |
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Feeding Beatrice Aurora Fox Arts Center (10/02-11/01) |
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Cole Swindell Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, (9/10-9/10) |
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Hank Williams: Lost Highway Aurora Fox Arts Center (12/04-1/03) |
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Never Can Say Goodbye: The 70s Beehive Musical Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre (9/04-10/03) |
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The Prom SoL Summer Theatre (7/16-7/26) |
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Working: A Musical Creede Repertory Theatre - Ruth Humphreys Brown (6/20-9/05) |
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Hard Candy - 18+ Summit Music Hall (7/18-7/18) |
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Creede Repertory Theatre - Mainstage Theatre (5/30-9/06) |
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