Stage and Comedy

Sound Hound: DCTC Dialect Coach Specializes in Global Accents

Sound Hound: DCTC Dialect Coach Specializes in Global Accents

Kathy Maes prepped a group of more than 10 actors for battle. She wasn’t bracing the cast of the Denver Center Theatre Company’s production of …

Debra Winger stars in the David Mamet play "The Anarchist," at the John Golden Theatre in New York. (AP Photo)

Searching for Debra Winger? Easy, look on Broadway

"Maybe that is the problem — that people think they have to write women instead of human beings."

On the set of the Aurora Fox production of “A Christmas Carol.”  for this season(Courtesy photo)

Theaters run what’s popular, even if that means the same show. But how do you add something new?

“It’s really difficult to find something that’s going to be satisfying to your regular subscribers as well as those who go to the theater once a year,” said Charles Packard, executive producer at the Aurora Fox theater.

Denver Center caters to a different crowd with ‘Drag Machine’

Denver Center caters to a different crowd with ‘Drag Machine’

Five drag queens, a drag king and a go-go dancer aren’t necessarily common sights at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Maybe that’s the …

Jack Wefso stars in “Constantine Aboard the Constantine,” an original sci-fi comedy running at the Aurora Fox studio theater for the next two weeks. (Courtesy)

Director, actor and writer takes developing story to the stage at Fox

The story, which takes place entirely on the deck of a futuristic starship, offers the kind of dry, British humor that made the television series “Red Dwarf” a cult classic

‘Spider Woman’ spins careful and satisfying thread throughout Vintage production

The central narrative comes in the relationship that develops between Molina, a gay man entrapped and imprisoned for his sexuality, and Valentin, a Marxist revolutionary interred for his activism

Rhonda Brown plays journalist Molly Ivins in “Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins.” The LIDA Project production will run at the Aurora Fox theater this weekend, following sold-out performances in Denver last month. (Photo courtesy LIDA Project)

One-woman show at Fox about columnist Ivins takes long look at popular columnist

“If you look at it as a lead-up piece, it’s incredibly potent ... The biggest motivating message is that you have a voice, and the voice happens to coincide with your power to elect,” Freeland said

Aisha Spencer (far right) rehearses a scene Oct. 25 at the Community College of Aurora. "Glimpses – The Rising Dawn" will feature stories and anecdotes from a cast of nearly 20 Community College of Aurora theater students. CCA Theater Director Stacey D'Angelo organized the production as a creative response to the Aurora Century 16 shootings, but the show's final form includes input about the students' personal lives and struggles. (Marla R. Keown/Aurora Sentinel)

From catastrophe, a conversation: College students use stage to explore emotions from Aurora massacre

“It’s moments in our lives that have made us become a better person. It’s our fears, our dreams. It’s a way to show that we are strong as humans and we will find hope and strength no matter what.”

With nuance and nuisance, ‘Todd’ takes the stage at the Fox

The Ignite Theatre company’s production of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” does its best to be genuinely eerie, unnerving and just plain scary.

Any Language: Deaf theater company opening production of ‘Some Girl(s)’ at Aurora’s Vintage

Any Language: Deaf theater company opening production of ‘Some Girl(s)’ at Aurora’s Vintage

AURORA | Nicki Runge had access in mind when she founded the Rocky Mountain Deaf Theatre company a year ago. It wasn’t simply a question …