Author: Beki Pineda

ELIZABETH I; IN HER OWN WORDS – Written by Carol Levin; Directed by Sabin Epstein.  Presented by BETC (Performed at the Dairy Center, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder and the Historic Elitch Theatre, 4600 West 37th Place, Denver) through September 21.  Tickets available at Historicelitchtheatre.org.  It starts with a woman – tall, majestic, imposing, stately but weathered.  She pauses in […]

ASSASSINS – Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; Book by John Weidman; Directed by Warren Sherrill; Music Direction by David Nehls.  Produced by Miners Alley Playhouse (1100 Miners Alley, Golden) through September 14.  Tickets available at 303-935-3044 or minersalley.com.  A recent poll of fans of Sondheim listed ASSASSINS in the fifth slot out of the 20 […]

PIPPIN – Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; Book by Roger O. Hirson; Directed by Robert Michael Sanders; Musical Direction by Heather Iris Holt; Choreography by Jessica Hindsley.  Produced by Phamaly Theatre Company (Presented at Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 15th and Curtis, Denver) through August 24th.  Tickets available at 303-893-4100 or Phamaly.org.  Maybe your “favorite time of the […]

TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE – Written by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom; Directed by Ray Brown.  Produced by Funky Little Theatre Company (Presented in the Palmer Lake Town Hall, 42 Valley Crescent Street, Palmer Lake) through August 23.  Tickets available at FunkyLittleTheater.org.  Have you ever been to Palmer Lake?  I hadn’t until a recent Saturday afternoon to get Funkified.  Palmer Lake is […]

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG – Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields; Directed by Mark Walden.  Produced by Shark Box Theatre Company (Presented at Stage Door Theatre, 25797 Conifer Road, Conifer) through August 23.  Tickets available at Sharkboxtheatre.com.  How ironic for a theatre company that professes on their website mission statement that they “work day and […]

CRY IT OUT – Written by Molly Smith Metzler; Directed by Candace Orrino.  Produced by BETC (Presented at the Dairy Center, 2590 Walnut, Boulder) through August 24.  Tickets available at 303-444-7328 or thedairy.org.  Some people can write plays.  Good plays.  Others put people on stage and open a window to their world.  Molly Smith Metzler […]

DIXIE’S TUPPERWARE PARTY – Written and performed by Kris Andersson.  Presented by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (Garner Galleria Theatre, 14th and Curtis, Denver) through August 17.  Tickets available at 303-893-4100 or denvercenter.org.  Anyone who has ever been to Dixie Longate’s little party, no matter how long ago, will never forget her.  My first dip into […]

RICHARD II – Written by William Shakespeare; Directed by Tim Orr.  Produced by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (Roe Green Theatre, CU campus, Boulder) through August 10.  Tickets available at 303-492-8008 or cupresents@colorado.edu.  If you think about it, in 1595 when Shakespeare was writing about Richard II who reigned from 1377 to 1399 two hundred years in the past, […]

FLYIN’ WEST – Written by Pearl Cleage; Directed by Marisa D. Hebert.  Produced by the Ent Center for the Arts (Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theatre, 5225 North Nevada Avenue, Colorado Springs) through July 27.  Tickets available at 719-255-8181 or tickets@uccs.edu.  This Pearl Cleage classic is based on a real-life experiment by freed African Americans creating […]

ANASTASIA – Book by Terrence McNally; Music by Stephen Flaherty; Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens; Directed by Shelly Gaza; Music Direction by Katie Hughes; Choreography by Kate Vallee Maclaren.  Produced by Candlelight Dinner Playhouse (4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown) through August 31.  Tickets available at 970-744-3747 or ColoradoCandlelight.com.  Months ago, when the touring company of ANASTASIA played […]