In this expanded edition, Denver Post theater critic John Moore goes to New York to talk with Colorado-connected actors such as Annaleigh Ashford, Heather Hach, Andy Kelso, Mara Davi, John Behlmann, Gary Culig and Bill Christ. Sundays through June 17 at 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Cast includes Jude Moran, Cajardo Lindsey and Susan Scott. “LOBBY HERO” Miners Alley Playhouse stages the tale of a luckless security guard who is drawn into a murder investigation. Sundays through June 3 at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 30 W. “INTO THE WOODS” New Fine Arts Center Theatre Company boss Alan Osburn directs Stephen Sondheim’s acclaimed musical that blends four classic fairy tales with the story of a childless baker and his wife who set out on a journey to reverse a family curse. Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays (dinner 90 minutes before) through July 8 at 6875 S. “EVITA” Boulder’s Dinner Theatre has loaned favorite Joanie Brosseau-Beyette to the Country Dinner Playhouse to star there in a new staging of the Eva Peron musical. through May 26 Industry Night, 8 p.m., Monday|2 hours, 15 minutes|$12-17|30 Corwin Christie, Todd Webster, Susie Leiser, Dell Domnik|Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m. First Place (near Quebec Street)|Written by Michael Hollinger|Directed by Christopher Leo|Starring Trina Magness, Ed Cord, L. He has a musician’s sense of dynamics and orchestration, an ear for the disarming phrase and a sense of humor that cuts to the heart of cultural pomposity.īob Bows also reviews theater for Variety, for KUVO/89.3 FM, and for his own website, He can be reached at Herring”ĭRAMA|Firehouse Theater Company, John Hand Theater, 7653 E. is in dire need of a playwright who can write a good farce, and Hollinger is off to a flying start. Susie Leiser’s disarming straight-talk and comedic timing. Dell Domnik’s dry delivery and caustic wit. Webster’s blinding grin and devious eyes. Christie’s hyperbolic effervescence and improbable voice. Cord’s true-blue heart and level-headed persistence. Magness’ rich mezzo delivery and saintly patience. Corwin Christie) is engaged to a freelance spy (Todd Webster) who sweet talks her into making a drop – a microfilm of atomic secrets – to a Kremlin plant (Dell Domnik) who is having an affair with the duplicitous Mrs. Trina Magness and Ed Cord get things rolling with a scintillating, pulp-fiction dialogue that sends us back to the early ’50s. Then life interrupts with the murder of a Soviet spy, and the game is afoot. She’s got him on the wagon, and he’s bought a pair of tickets on a honeymoon cruise to Havana. Maggie, a high-heeled flatfoot, and Frank, a flat-topped G-man, are good for each other. There’s all that and more in Firehouse Theater’s regional premiere of Michael Hollinger’s “Red Herring,” a film noir, Cold War spy-thriller send-up directed by Christopher Leo at Colorado Free University’s John Hand Theatre (in the new Lowry). The dialogue must be smart and snappy a breakneck pace of antics, mistaken identities and misunderstandings must be maintained the blackouts must be minimal and the actors must deliver a seamless series of multiple characterizations, changing their costumes and their attitudes in the time it takes to move a couple of set pieces and advance the lighting board. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĪ good farce is the rarest of theatrical achievements.
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