Author: Beki Pineda

THE MOUSETRAP – Written by Agatha Christie; Directed by Lynne Collins.  Produced by the Arvada Center (6901 Wadsworth Boulevard, Arvada) through October 12.  Tickets available at 720-898-7200 or arvadacenter.org.  You can’t call yourself a passionate playgoer unless you have seen at least two or three productions of both THE MOUSETRAP and THE FANTASTICKS, two of the longest-running scripts […]

THE SHARK IS BROKEN – Written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon; directed by Tim Muldrew.  Produced by Springs Ensemble Theatre (SET) (Fifty-Niner Speakeasy, 2409 West Colorado Boulevard, Colorado Springs) through September 14.  Tickets available at Springsensembletheatre.org.  You might think, “What could be entertaining about three grown men sitting around in a boat killing time?” Consider, however, […]

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, […]