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Posts tagged "theatre"
Hindsight: SPANK! The Fifty Shades Spoof

Hindsight: SPANK! The Fifty Shades Spoof

The novels exploded, with word-of-mouth alone traveling so fast, even those not into the romance section, Fabio-style reads jumped on the book-wagon. And America is the place to splurge: when the consumers can’t get enough of a good thing, our gluttonous nation continues to please. In this case, with SPANK! The Fifty Shades Parody, a...
Behind the Curtain: ESosa's Designs for ‘Sense & Sensibility The Musical’

Behind the Curtain: ESosa’s Designs for ‘Sense & Sensibility The Musical’

“Choose love.” Enter into the romantic and comedic world Jane Austen invented of the Dashwood sisters: one woman who leads with her head (sense), and the other vulnerability for her heart (sensibility). Costume designer ESosa encapsulates these antithetical personalities as they quest for love in his costuming of the Denver Center Theatre Company’s musical adaptation...
HindSight: Catch Me If You Can

HindSight: Catch Me If You Can

The fascinating story of Frank Abagnale, Jr., makes waves again; this time, for its performance factor. Based on the 2002 film and on the fascinating true story, Catch Me If You Can steps off the big screen and onto a big stage here at our very own Buell Theatre. And for those of you uncertain...
Hindsight: Romeo & Juliet

Hindsight: Romeo & Juliet

We’ve all heard/seen/read the tale as old as time. And, like some tales go, this one never seems to get old. So, Denver Center Theatre Company has graced its audience with it again: Romeo & Juliet, playing The Stage Theater January 25-February 24, 2013. And see it again you most definitely should. This representation, modern...
Feed Me, Seymour! PHAMALY's Little Shop of Horrors Takes the Stage

Feed Me, Seymour! PHAMALY’s Little Shop of Horrors Takes the Stage

PHAMALY’s production of Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Steven Wilson, is unlike any other. Filled with excitement, laughter, and a twinge of darkness, Little Shop brought the audience to the middle of skid row for a wild ride with a very peculiar plant, with a twist. PHAMALY is an award-winning Colorado based theatre company composed entirely of performers...
CandiDates: Digital Dating

CandiDates: Digital Dating

I am calling everyone out, because you all have Internet dating under your belt. Whether you admit to it or not, whether you claim you’ve only browsed a dating website to see the “losers” that would go to such lengths to get a date, every one of us has had that lonely moment when, even...
Style Porn: Theatre Costumes Rock Catwalk

Style Porn: Theatre Costumes Rock Catwalk

Runway shows typically make for great theatre, but this was especially true at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ second production of Theatre Threads Friday, Oct. 21. The costume runway show, a benefit for Arts in Education programs at the DCPA, featured twenty-two costumes from the Denver Center Theatre Company’s thirty plus year history....

Stage Door: Billy Elliot, chatting with Susie McMonagle

Billy Elliot might just be the hottest musical touring the nation these days. I mean who doesn’t want to watch in awe as 13-year-old dancing phenomenon, Billy Elliot flies up into the sky spinning and twirling with ease and dances almost effortlessly across the stage each night. If anything it’s enough to just make your flat-out jealous. The...

Stage Advice: Blue Man Group

The Blue Man Group will tickle you pink. Although the ever-growing entertainment collective has been staging post-modern Vaudeville shows for nearly 20 years, they’ve never attempted to take their signature production on the road—until now. Blue Man’s theatrical spectacle made its Denver debut last night at The Buell. I LOL’d. I’d witnessed one incarnation of...