Chris Arneson - Page 10

This is part 1 in a two-part review of Cock, featuring both The Edge and Avenue Theater's concurring productions.

Everything's coming up daffodils at the Aurora Fox—but you'll have to catch Big Fish to really get what I mean.

When you see a show at Town Hall Arts Center, you expect to be immersed in the production with such an intimate space. For a show with the emotional depth of Next to Normal, you're reminded just how necessary that can be.

Lakewood's Performance Now is now performing the classic My Fair Lady, and the production is as loverly as it can be.

The last time Denver audiences saw any incarnation of Forbidden Broadway was about two decades ago, and a return was long overdue. 'Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking!' is currently in the midst of a several month run at the Denver Center's Garner Galleria Theatre.

Jersey Boys has worked its way back for a third visit to Denver, and the fellas have still got it.

You still haven't taken your seat and it's almost showtime. The lobby is packed, everyone is standing. Suddenly a guy in a leather jacket and ponytail bursts through the crowd, laying down the familiar scene of fair Verona. Following him are two punks carrying weapons, and a fight breaks out. You follow them into the theater and take your seat.

It's so easy to get wrapped up in the scripted formula of America's reality television shows, you forget there's actual reality taking place, at least to some extent.

Society seems so focused on current pop culture; it's difficult to imagine what may happen to it after an apocalyptic event. Boulder theatre company The Catamounts explores that in their current production, Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play by Anne Washburn.

Too often movies are turned into stage productions, losing that spark that made audiences fall in love. Thankfully that's not the case for Harold and Maude, playing at Vintage Theatre in Aurora.

Set in 1969, Dylan Went Electric follows seven characters' interactions in Sully's Tavern, a bar in Greenwich Village. Although he wasn't yet alive to experience it, Colorado playwright Josh Hartwell seemed to really understand the time period, its art and the types of artists who made it.