Ahrens, Flaherty and Anastasia: Legendary songwriters revisit legendary tale
What they came up with ‘is a story that is just as transporting as the source film, but in a more grown-up way’
Dear Les Misérables: You should cast me as Gavroche
An urchin-like, thirtysomething Denver actress makes her pitch to play the boy who gets shot at the barricade in the touring production of ‘Les Misérables.’
Les Miz: Once more, with feeling
Hugo’s epic masterpiece returns to Denver bringing larger-than-life characters that are becoming more and more uncommon in our modern world
Darko Tresnjak on how Anastasia teaches men to be better men
‘The hope that one of them survived, this magical child, is very appealing’
From Pookiesnackenberger to Beer to Trash: The journey to STOMP
STOMP is the product of the long-time collaboration between two men, Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas. Though the show group was developed in Brighton, England (1991), its history begins ten years earlier when the two first worked together. Prior to STOMP, Luke and Steve met in 1981 when they were members of the street band […]
From the archives: How Fiddler on the Roof turned rags into riches
The story, deeply embedded in Jewish DNA, tells a universal story about determination and survival
STOMP Returns to Denver in All Its Explosive, Syncopated Glory
Using percussion, everyday objects and not a word of dialogue, another sweeping storm of rhythm is brewing in Denver.
1776: Redefining a Moment in History
Acclaimed director Diane Paulus’ personal mantra as an artist is to always expand the boundaries of theater – or why even bother? She did that when she reimagined the classic Broadway musicals Hair, Porgy & Bess and Pippin; the films Finding Neverland and Waitress, and even Alanis Morissette’s platinum-selling album Jagged Little Pill. And she’s done […]
The Director’s Approach: Bartlett Sher on directing the Broadway revival of Fiddler in 2015
Reprinted with permission of Fiddler on the Roof What are the differences between working on this show and some of your other past projects? Bartlett Sher: Talking about Fiddler on the Roof is actually a pretty great challenge when it comes to being a director, because the show is deeply beloved and it has a […]
Court Cases that Inspired To Kill a Mockingbird
THE “SCOTTSBORO BOYS” TRIAL: POWELL V. ALABAMA (1932) In this dramatization of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus makes reference to two US Supreme Court cases involving black boys and men accused of rape by white women. The verdicts of these two trials, Powell v. Alabama and Brown v. Mississippi, inform Atticus’s hope that […]