THE CHERRY ORCHARD – Written by Anton Chekhov; Directed by Len Matheo. Produced by Miners Alley Performing Arts Center (1224 Washington Avenue, Golden) through November 5. Tickets available at 303-935-3044 or minersalley.com. While Chekhov gets the credit for the original idea in 1904 of writing a play about the pre-Revolutionary decay of the aristocracy through […]
NAUGHTY BITS – Written and Directed by Buntport Theatre Company Members. Produced by Buntport Theatre Co (717 Lipan, Denver) through October 22. Tickets available at 720/946-1388 or buntport.com. You can always count on the wacky crew at Buntport to provide its audiences with a good time. They make you laugh, first and foremost, but they […]
WOLF AT THE DOOR – Written by Marisela Trevino Orta; Directed by Micaela Garcia De Benevidez. Produced by Su Teatro (721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver) through October 29. Tickets available at 303/296-0219 or Suteatro.org. Playwright Trevino Orta has taken the theme from traditional Latinx folk tales about shape-changers such as La Lechuza (in which a woman […]
YOU ENJOY MYSELF – Written by Topher Payne; Directed by Betty Hart. Produced by Local Theatre Company (Presented at the Dairy Center, 2590 Walnut St, Boulder) through October 14. Tickets available at 303/444-7328 or the dairy.org. What a delightful script! Topher Payne is a genius at creating the strings of a plot, revealing them in […]
MIDGE AND THE BUTCHER – Written by Quinn Smola; Directed by Sarah Sheppard Shaver. Produced by Springs Ensemble Theatre (Presented at the Fifty-Niner Speakeasy, 2409 West Colorado Avenue, Colorado Springs) through October 15. Tickets available at 719/357-3080 or SpringsEnsembleTheatre.org. Quinn Smola who wrote this monstrous missive is a college student, not far from the age […]
THE REVOLUTIONISTS – Written by Lauren Gunderson; Directed by Matthew Schultz. Produced by 11 Minutes Theatre Company (presented at the People’s Building, 9995 East Colfax, Aurora) through October 21. Tickets available at 11MinutesTheatre.com. Lauren Gunderson is fast becoming one of my favorite playwrights after having seen at least five of her scripts performed in the […]
THE LARAMIE PROJECT – Written by Moises Kaufman and the Members of Tectonic Theatre Project; Directed by Kate Gleason and Rodney Lizcano. Produced by the Arvada Center (6901 Wadsworth Boulevard, Arvada) through November 5. Tickets available at 720/898-7200 or arvadacenter.org. Entering the theatre, you observe a set as wide open and breezy as Wyoming itself. […]
THE PASTISSERIE – Written by Tiffany Ogburn, Buba Basishvili, Meghan Frank, Nicole Dietz; Music by David Rynhart. Produced by Theatre Artibus (Present at the Savoy Event Center, 2700 Arapahoe, Denver) through October 15. Tickets available at 303-476-5902 or Savoydenver.com. How refreshing to see something so new and original! This is a sparkling little petit four […]
ALL SHOOK UP – Music written for Elvis Presley; Book by Joe Pietro; Directed by Kris Graves and Rebekah Ortiz; Musical Direction by Andrew Fischer; Choreographed by Christopher Languich. Produced by Town Hall Arts Center (2450 West Main St, Littleton) through October 15. Tickets available at 303/794-2787 or townhallartscenter.org. A memory: In 1956, one Saturday […]
THE MINUTES – Written by Tracy Letts; Directed by Christy Montour-Larson. Produced by Curious Theatre Company (1080 Acoma, Denver) through October 14. Tickets available at 303-623—524 or boxoffice@curioustheatre.org. I was married to a Denver police officer for 16 years; I understand the whole US versus THEM mentality that arises within groups that feel isolated by […]