BILOXI BLUES. Written by Neil Simon; directed by Kate Gleason. Produced by Miners Alley Playhouse (1224 Washington St., Golden) through June 26. Tickets available at 303-935-3044 or www.minersalley.com. Miners Alley produced Neil Simon’s BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS last season, and the current show is the second in the Simon trilogy. I truly hope this means that
ELEMENO PEA. Written by Molly Smith Metzler; directed by Samantha Vakiener. Produced by Misfits Theater CompanyMisfits Theater Compan (Performed at the VooDoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver) through June 5. Tickets available at the door or at www.misfitstheater.com. This new company proves to its audience that all you need to create a winning theater performance
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Let the Healing Begin By Kay Turnbaugh The story of America’s Indian boarding schools remains a little-known chapter in our history. Beginning in the 1800s and continuing into the 1950s, the federal government forced Native American children from their homes and sent them to often faraway military-style residential schools, a policy that had profound effects
THE BLUE ROOM. Written by David Hare; directed by Charles Wingerter. Produced by Lost and Found Productions (Performed at the Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver) through May 22. Tickets available at 303-477-5977 or www.lostandfoundproductions.net. THE BLUE ROOM is David Hare’s 1998 modernized take on REIGEN, a play written by Arthur Schnitzler one hundred years
By Beki Pineda TIME OF MY LIFE. Written by Alan Ayckbourn; directed by Ian Gerber. Produced by Theater Company of Lafayette (Mary Miller Theater, 300 East Simpson St., Lafayette) through June 4. Tickets available at 800-838-3006 or www.tclstage.org. Alan Ayckbourne likes to play fast and loose with time in this production. The evening opens and
By Beki Pineda SUNSET BOULEVARD. Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber; book and Lyrics by Christopher Hampton; directed by Craig Bond and Evgueni Mlodik. Produced by Vintage Theatre (1468 Dayton St., Aurora) through May 29. Tickets available at 303-856-7830 or www.vintagetheatre.org. Long before I had ever seen any version of this show, I had fallen deeply
By Beki Pineda NOVEMBER. Written by David Mamet; directed by John Ashton. Produced by the Avenue Theater (417 East 17th Ave., Denver) through May 21. Tickets available at 303-321-5925 or www.avenuetheater.com. Earlier this season we went “All the Way with LBJ.” Now we get a slightly different angle on a Presidential re-election campaign. Charles Smith
By Beki Pineda SOUTH PACIFIC. Written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Josh Logan; music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; directed by Patrick Sawyer. Produced by Candlelight Dinner Playhouse (4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown) through May 8. Tickets available at 907-744-3747 or www.coloradocandlelight.com. It all started with Bloody Mary. She was the subject of
By Beki Pineda FUTURA. Written by Jordan Harrison; directed by Meridith C. Grundei. Produced by The Catamounts and performed at Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., through April 16. Tickets available at 720-468-0487 or thecatamounts.org. Futura is a typographical font—clean and lean—created by Paul Renner in 1927 in response to the frilly, serif-ridden fonts then in
By Beki Pineda ELLIOT, A SOLDIER’S FUGUE. Written by Quiara Alegria Hudes; directed by Chip Walton. Produced by Curious Theatre Company (1080 Acoma St., Denver) through April 23. Tickets available at 303-623-2349 or www.curioustheatre.org. The number three has various mystical meanings, but in all societies, it is the number of time. Past, present, future; beginning,
By Beki Pineda RAGTIME. Book by Terrance McNally; music by Stephen Flaherty; lyrics by Lynn Ahrens; directed and choreographed by Kelly Van Oosbree. Co-produced by Performance Now Theatre Company and the Lakewood Cultural Center (performing at LCC, 470 South Allison Parkway, Lakewood) through April 10. Tickets available at 303-987-7845 or www.lakewood.org. Get them before they
By Beki Pineda THE MOUNTAINTOP. Written by Katori Hall; directed by Gavin Mayer. Produced by the Arvada Center (6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada) through April 17. Tickets available at 720-898-7200 or www.arvadacenter.org. Katori Hall, the playwright of this startling script, has a vivid imagination. She pondered the interim between Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I’ve been to
By Beki Pineda THE GHOSTS OF US. Written by Rebecca Gorman O’Neill; directed by Melissa McCarl. Produced by the Athena Project (performing in the Byron Theatre at the Newman Center, 2344 East Iliff Ave., Denver) through April 10. Tickets available at 303-219-0882 or www.athenaprojectfestival.org. A word about the Athena Project first. This is a once-a-year
By Beki Pineda YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU. Written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman; directed by Jamie Billings. Produced by Miners Alley Playhouse (1224 Washington St., Golden) through May 1. Tickets available at 303-935-3044 or www.minersalley.com. The conversation around a lot of family dinner tables centers on the day’s accomplishments, college plans,
By Beki Pineda TIGERS BE STILL. Written by Kim Rosenstock; directed by John Ashton. Produced by the Avenue Theatre (417 E. 17th Ave., Denver) through April 2. Tickets available at 303-321-5925 or www.avenuetheater.com. A tale of how families pull together. A pair of sisters facing disillusionment and heartbreak find ways to get through this rough
By Beki Pineda BLACK ELK SPEAKS. Based on the book by John Neihardt, adapted for the stage by Christopher Sergel; directed by donnie l. betts. Produced by the Aurora Fox Theatre (9900 East Colfax, Aurora) through April 10. Tickets available at 303-739-1970 or www.aurorafox.org. BLACK ELK SPEAKS is a history lesson told and illustrated by
Art literally sings in a new kind of speaker: the Soundwall, a framed canvas that gives off sound.
By Beki Pineda FUDDY MEERS. Written by David Lindsay-Abaire; directed by Emily Tarquin. Produced by Phamaly Theatre Company at the Aurora Fox Arts Center through Feb. 21 (9900 East Colfax, Aurora) and the Arvada Center from Feb. 26-28 (6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada). Tickets available at the Fox at 303-739-1970 or auroragov.org or at the Arvada
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