Stage and Comedy

LIGHT AND DEATH: ‘Estate’ at Arvada takes grim, sardonic look at death in Texas family

LIGHT AND DEATH: ‘Estate’ at Arvada takes grim, sardonic look at death in Texas family

Planning a funeral or battling over an inheritance with relatives can be the truest test of character and the most reliable measurement of motives.

(From left to right) Daniel Traylor plays Seymor, Kathi Wood plays Audrey, and Don Mauck is the voice of Audrey II in PHAMALY's summer musical "Little Shop of Horrors" July 12 through August 5 at the Space Theatre in the Denver Performing Arts Complex. The Aurora-based PHAMALY Theatre Company was one of more than 800 national arts organization to receive an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The troupe will use the money for its upcoming production of "Fiddler on the Roof," which is set to run at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in July. PHAMALY is the only theater company in the country composed entirely of performers with a wide variety of physical, cognitive and emotional disabilities.  (Marla R. Keown/Aurora Sentinel)

Phantastic news: Disabled PHAMALY theater troupe scores federal grant

“We thought it was just going to be a political call,” Silberman said, seated at a table at PHAMALY’s administrative offices on Dallas Street in north Aurora. “It was the great news of the day. Then we had to keep it secret for about three weeks.”

Spirited musical premier of ‘Sensibility’ has bright future

Spirited musical premier of ‘Sensibility’ has bright future

The production stays true to all of Austen’s careful character studies and subtle themes, even as it adds plenty of verve for the stage.

WORTHWHILE ONE-NIGHT STAND: Vintage’s ‘Whorehouse’ is a raucous romp through old tale

WORTHWHILE ONE-NIGHT STAND: Vintage’s ‘Whorehouse’ is a raucous romp through old tale

Amid all of the off-color jokes, innuendos and raunchy tunes, the Vintage production of “Whorehouse” remains rooted in characters.

(From left to right) Actors De Thomas, Krisangela Washington and SuCh kick off dress rehearsal of "The Color Purple" starts up April 10 at Fox Theatre. The musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel will be showing from April 12 through May 12 at Aurora's Fox Theatre.  (Marla R. Keown/Aurora Sentinel)

‘Purple’ paints powerful message at Fox

Fox’s presentation of dramatic slave tale offers new lessons for actors, audience

Blue Man Group

Blue tube: A conversation with a Blue Man veteran and newbie

We’ll throw in some pretty hard rocking stuff, and depending on how the Blue Men relate to the audience, it’s a real back and forth thing.

Q&A: Denver poet Ken Arkind

Q&A: Denver poet Ken Arkind

Poet keeps roots in Denver despite growing popularity

Tracy Weil, an artist and co-founder of the RINO Arts District in Denver, will start as the new managing director of the Aurora Cultural Arts District this week. Weil’s newly formed position in his hometown is just one of many recent change-ups at the Aurora Cultural Arts District, shifts that ACAD leaders and local business managers say hint at a new era for the neighborhood.  (Marla R. Keown/Aurora Sentinel)

New Colfax district head says future of arts district will come in accessibility

“I can actually see stuff happening,” said Charles Packard, executive producer at the Aurora Fox theater. “This is the first time that I’m involved in the push, and just being closer to it gives me more optimism ... For me, having been here for 13 years, this feels like the real deal.”

Arvada Center makes the impossible possible with ‘La Mancha’

Arvada Center makes the impossible possible with ‘La Mancha’

There’s something impossible about the Arvada Center’s production of the nearly 50-year-old musical “Man of La Mancha.” For any devoted theater fan, the 1964 musical …

Q&A with Herbert Siguenza, ‘A Weekend with Pablo Picasso’

Q&A with Herbert Siguenza, ‘A Weekend with Pablo Picasso’

AURORA | It took more than 40 years for Herbert Siguenza to fully connect with Pablo Picasso. Siguenza, a California-based artist and actor, said his concept of a one-man show exploring the personal life of the Spanish artist stretches back to his childhood, when he saw a book devoted to Picasso’s home life in a dentist’s office.