Central City Opera Festival will host its annual Girlfriends Day at the Opera Tuesday, July 23, 2013 in the mountain town of Central City, Colorado. This day is set aside for female friends to gather for an afternoon of cultural...
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Girlfriends Day and Overture Night: special events for Central City Opera (Photos)
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Review: Our Town at Central City Opera in Colorado
Thornton Wilder’s classic American play Our Town got new life as an opera when it premiered in 2006 in New York. Now Central City Opera is performing it as part of its summer season. Wilder won the Pulitzer...
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Colorado Community Theatre Festival best deal of summer theatre in Denver
Lovers of theatre in Denver—performers, behind the scenes artists, venue owners and theatre patrons—can get immersed in shows, workshops, acting competitions and networking during three days of the Colorado Community Theatre Coalition...

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Review: Central City Opera triumphs with Show Boat in Denver
Central City Opera proved its worthiness of a big city venue with its fabulous and flawless opening night performance of the musical Show Boat at the Buell Theatre at the Denver Center for Performing Arts.Venturing out of its historic...
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Review: Peter and the Starcatcher kicks off national tour in Denver (Photos)
Peter and the Starcatcher, the award-winning adult back story to the Peter Pan tale, took flight in Denver August 15 at the Denver Center for Performing Arts.Were it not for a little five-year-old girl asking her...

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Colorado Ballet’s 53rd season makes graceful entrance in Denver with Giselle
One of the most beautiful classical ballets, Giselle, opens the season for Colorado Ballet, Denver’s premier dance company in its 53rd year.The story of Giselle takes place in a village near the Rhine River during the middle...

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Review: Arvada Center's Camelot is 'shining moment' for the Colorado theatre
The Arvada Center’s Artistic Producer and Director Rod A. Lansberry has another hit on his hands with the enchanting production of Camelot, a Lerner and Loewe musical adaptation of the T. H. White’s The Once and...

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Comic Cody Lyman demystifies the sexes in Defending the Caveman in Denver
Nothing has changed in male-female relationships since Rob Becker wrote and first performed Defending the Caveman in 1991 in San Francisco. His comedic take on how men (hunters) and women (gatherers) relate to each other is still relevant; and...

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Review: American tragedy Death of a Salesman in Denver
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman has been described as the first great American tragedy. Certainly, it is a powerful play, and Willy Loman is one of theatre’s most tragic figures. Denver Center’s Mike...

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Review: Colorado Ballet performs gorgeous Giselle in Denver
Colorado Ballet has outdone itself with the hauntingly beautiful ballet Giselle. (see story here). In a nearly flawless performance on October 6, the dancers executed every move with precision and grace, drawing clapping and loud cheering after...

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Review: Sexy, sassy 'The Most Deserving' premieres at Denver Center Theatre
The outrageously cheeky comedy The Most Deserving by playwright Catherine Trieschmann made its world debut October 11 at the Denver Center for Performing Arts. It was first read at the Colorado New Play Summit last year.This hilarious adult play...

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Denver's Spark Theater grapples with 'The Gut Girls' and Victorian England
The “gut girls” were a rowdy bunch of women who worked in the gross gutting sheds of early 1900 England. Their job was to cut out the entrails of animals after they were slaughtered to ready them for...

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Triple play: Book of Mormon will return for a third run in Denver in 2015
Just as it is winding down its second record-breaking tour in the Mile High City, The Book of Mormon will be back by popular demand August 11-September 13, 2015, Denver Center Attractions announced yesterday.It seems that Denverites...

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Review: Jackie & Me hits it out of the ballpark in Denver
Denver native Steven Dietz has hit a home run with his feel-good show Jackie & Me playing at the Space Theatre in Denver through December 22.All ages will love this story about young Joey Stoshack—played with...

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Five new plays selected for reading at the 9th Colorado New Play Summit
Denver Center Theatre Company recently announced the selection of plays that will be read at the 9th annual Colorado New Play Summit at the Denver Center for Performing Arts February 7-9, 2014. The Colorado New Play Summit is...

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Evita, the musical story of Argentina's Eva Perón, opens mid-January in Denver
The fascinating rags-to-riches, poor-to-powerful life story of Eva Perón, former First Lady of Argentina during the 1940s and early 50s, is told in the Broadway musical Evita playing January 15-26 at The Denver Center...

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Opera comes to Cherry Creek Shopping Center in Denver
Opera Colorado’s Young Artists will draw attention to Denver’s upcoming opera season with a free performance at Cherry Creek Shopping Center at 1 p.m. on February 8.The Young Artists—Colleen Jackson, Louise Rogan...

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Review: World premiere of Gardley's groundbreaking Black Odyssey opens in Denver
Playwright Marcus Gardley’s brilliantly conceived black odyssey made its world debut at the Denver Center for Performing Arts January 17.Drawing upon Greek poet Homer’s epic story The Odyssey, Marcus Gardley weaves a tale in black...

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Dancing queens high step into Denver in Mamma Mia
For 15 years, audiences have gone wild over Mamma Mia! just as they did January 28 when it opened at The Buell Theatre in Denver for a short six-day run.Fun, funny and far-fetched, this the cross-generational...

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Review: Denver Center Theatre offers a captivating Hamlet set in pre-World War I
Denver Center Theatre Company’s production of Hamlet, Shakespeare’s most often performed play, opened January 24 at The Stage Theatre.To be or not to be. . .is he or isn’t he? That is the question...

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