theater "Color Purple" changes hues A book, a movie, a musical: Original story has evolved 01/04/2009 Despite its signature title, "The Color Purple" has engendered every color of emotional response as it morphed from page to screen to stage.
In hard times, theater companies facing an uncertain future 01/04/2009 - John Moore's column: Nonprofit theater companies continue to grow at an unprecedented rate, according to a new study by the National Endowment for the Arts. At least before the crash.
Vic puts home in "home theater" 01/02/2009 - There's no theater experience in Colorado like a night at the Victorian Playhouse, carved in 1911 out of the basement of a hallowed home in northwest Denver.
Video: Running Lines at OUT Spoken 01/04/2009 - This week, Denver Post theater critic John Moore reports from a panel discussion following a recent performance of Curious Theatre's "Speech & Debate," featuring teens talking about being openly gay, lesbian and bisexual in area high schools. Run time: 14 minutes.
Wendy Ishii: Colorado's 2008 Theater Person of the Year 12/28/2008 - There's a saying that goes around Fort Collins, and it goes like this: "One can never say no to Wendy Ishii." The acclaimed actress and co-founder of Fort Collins' Bas Bleu Theatre is up to her neck with a love for theater.
2008 Denver Post Ovation Awards: All the winners 12/28/2008 - Curious Theatre wins best season and the Arvada Center's "Les Miserables" leads all productions with five awards in The Denver Post's annual recap of the year in Colorado theater. Here is the complete list, and more: Our package includes slideshows, reader's choice voting breakdowns, and previous winners.
2008 Ovation Award winners honoring the best in Colorado theater.
Fort Collins theaters don't face imminent shutdown 12/27/2008 - An email circulating this morning claims two of Colorado's premiere theater companies face imminent shutdown without immediate public assistance. The founders of both OpenStage and Bas Bleu say their financial problems are real, but called the unauthorized entreaty an overreaction. Neither wanted their problems -- manageable, they say -- to be presented to the public in this way.
Pinter's words won Nobel 12/26/2008 - Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winning playwright who addressed the isolation, fear and brutality of life in an original style that changed the face of 20th-century theater, has died. He was 78.
Truth or 'Doubt?' Our film, theater critics weigh in 12/19/2008 - Film critic Lisa Kennedy and theater critic John Moore offer their views on "Doubt," one of the most successful plays of the past decade, which re-emerges as a theatrical movie this week with Meryl Streep in the lead role.
"Swing!" isn't from the traditional musical theater school of boy meets girl, boy sings about girl, boy gets girl and then loses girl — but then gets her back. Ricardo Baca's rating: **
Read 10 pages from Marisela Treviño Orta's "Braided Sorrow," a brutal and poetic look at the hundreds of young women who are disappearing from their jobs at American factories in Juarez. It was recently performed by El Centro Su Teatro. Click here.
Here are your Denver Post 2008 Ovation Award nominations honoring the best in Colorado theater. You can vote in more than 30 designated "reader's choice" categories by simply clicking right here
