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Review: "Absurd" not a warm holiday antidote

play the role with the childhood wonder of an 8-year-old learning how, say, nuts go together with screws. The Denver Center Theatre Company is billing Alan Ayckbourn's "Absurd Person Singular" as an antidote to its ...

From JOHN MOORE, Denver Post,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Alan Ayckbourn,  John Hutton,  Charlie Chaplin

Are holidays ruining theater?

is always their most- attended month of the year. Some numbers: fraction of those newcomers will come back. This holiday season, there is no escape (from Santa) ...

From JOHN MOORE, Denver Post,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bleu (musician),  David Sedaris,  Macy's

Moore: Social networking, discounts move tickets for Denver Center

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts has adopted more creative and aggressive new initiatives to entice people to see its shows — and it's working, said director of marketing Jeff Hovorka. The Denver Center is popping up all over the Internet ...

From JOHN MOORE, Denver Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.,  King Soopers,  Humana Inc.,  John Moore (politician)

Interview: Brits offer window into Ayckbourn's holiday toast

and socially — in "Absurd Person Singular" without understanding the "pre-Maggie" politics of 1972 London. British playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn has said he wishes theater were ...

From JOHN MOORE, Denver Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Alan Ayckbourn,  John Hutton,  Goldman Sachs,  King Soopers,  Wells Fargo

Review: A food fight ... with words! ***1/2

"Fully Committed" is what five-star restaurants say when they mean booked-up. It's also the best possible description for actor Steven Burge's energetic and exhaustive performance in Becky Mode's one-man play of the same name. Burge plays Sam ...

From JOHN MOORE, Denver Post,  18 Nov 2009

Moore: Openstage to go nomad for year of Lincoln Center renovations

The Lincoln Center in Fort Collins will close at the end of May for a $6 million renovation, which will leave one of the state's biggest and oldest theater companies homeless for a season. OpenStage's 37th mainstage season ends May 3 with the closure ...

From JOHN MOORE, Denver Post,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ralph Nader,  Rosario Dawson,  Harvey Fierstein,  Frank Capra,  Joe Hill

Interview: A mother and daughter try to make things "Well"

all in one. A lot of fancy jargon has been tossed around to describe "Well," playwright Lisa Kron's unusual stage memoir: Meta-theatrical. Pirandellian. Deconstructionist. ...

From JOHN MOORE, Denver Post,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Samuel Beckett,  Thornton Wilder,  Tennessee Williams,  Lewis Carroll,  Moliere

Review: "Big Love" easy to fall in love with

loosey-goosey silliness, "Big Love" at first seems destined to go down as a refreshing if lightweight oracle of the obvious. Women are not all the same: Some like to take, others like to be taken. ...

From JOHN MOORE, Denver Post,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Billy Idol,  John McCain,  M. Ward (musician),  Bryan Ferry,  Frank Capra

A new language for a new American theater

bungling of it, Universes set out to do a play about fear in America. Yew convinced them to expand their vision to a national perspective. As many theater companies retrench into the ...

From JOHN MOORE, Denver Post,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Frank Capra,  Joe Hill,  Albert Finney

Review: Bad blood flows in "Anna Christie"

Opie) is the grown daughter of gruff career sailor Chris Christopherson (Tim Fishbaugh). He took off from Sweden when the girl was 5. When her mother died, Anna was sent to a family farm in Minneapolis, where cousins worked her like a dog — in ...

From JOHN MOORE, Denver Post,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Eugene O'Neill,  Greta Garbo,  David Mamet,  Martin McDonagh

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