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Wizard of Oz, Floyd and Clea in FAC 2013-14 theater plans

Todd Wallinger — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:18:00 -0600

I would guess that most of the 30-plus people who gathered in the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center's SaGaJi Theater on Wednesday wondered at first who that stranger was greeting us from the stage. It was none other than Producing Artistic Director Scott RC Levy himself, almost unrecognizable without his trademark goatee.…

TheatreWorks' 2013-2014 season is here

Edie Adelstein — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:28:00 -0600

In case you missed it, TheatreWorks recently announced its lineup for the 2013-2014 season, and as usual, it's a heady mix of classics and new works. Without further ado ...…

Immortal Solstice rescheduled

Matthew Grieson — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:46:00 -0600

If you read the March 6 issue, surely you rushed to get tickets to the March 9 stage show, Immortal Solstice.

If you got your tickets, then you also realized the show was canceled due to organizational issues with the Damon Runyon Theater.…

A peek at the Fine Arts Center's upcoming Families and more

Edie Adelstein — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:53:15 -0700

Families are such powerful subjects in art. Take any image of Abraham and Isaac for the high drama, or some Dutch Baroque-period works for serenity.…

Help TheatreWorks with RED

Edie Adelstein — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:11:56 -0700

Got an old set of brushes? Glass mason jars or paint cans?

You're probably an artist if you have ephemera like this lying around, and if you want to rid yourself of it, or help TheatreWorks, take it to the Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theatre lobby any time today, tomorrow or Monday for the company to use in its upcoming production of RED, a play about artist Mark Rothko.…

Review: You Can't Take It With You

Todd Wallinger — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:55:20 -0700

Timeless.

The word gets thrown about like confetti these days, being used to describe everything from diamonds to overpriced skin care products.…

Review: A Christmas Story

Todd Wallinger — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:07:41 -0700

"You'll shoot your eye out!

"I triple-dog dare you!"

"I can't put my arms down!"

Is there a more quotable movie than A Christmas Story? Around my house at least, it’s the one film no one ever gets tired of.…

WYNOT Radio Theatre launches Indiegogo campaign

Todd Wallinger — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:10:12 -0700

It must be exhausting, being Cory Moosman and Sammy Gleason. Not only do they write all of the material for WYNOT Radio Theatre, not only do they maintain one of the craziest performance schedules in the Pikes Peak region, hauling their 200-plus props from gig to gig, but this year they've also been hitting up regional theaters across the country, hoping to break into the big time.…

FAC seeks art-inspired plays for new festival

Todd Wallinger — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:09:00 -0700

First there was the Millibo Art Theatre's Ten Minutes Max. Then there was THEATREdART's Theatregasm.…

Review: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

Todd Wallinger — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:01:31 -0600

I could tell this wasn’t going to be a typical play as soon as I stepped into the Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater. Instead of a stage, the performance space featured a wrestling ring, loomed over by a pair of giant TV screens and lighting towers worthy of a rock concert.…

Review: The Pillowman

Todd Wallinger — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:05:15 -0600

If you’re on the hunt for Halloween chills this year, you’re probably planning to visit a haunted house, maybe catch a slasher flick or two. Theater may be the last thing on your mind.…

Review: Memphis

Todd Wallinger — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:31:41 -0600

Memphis is that rarest of Broadway musicals. It’s not a jukebox musical.…

Review: God of Carnage

Todd Wallinger — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:45:22 -0600

Whatever happened to yuppies?

Those affluent, self-absorbed professionals seemed to be everywhere in the 1980s. Then sometime in the 1990s, they became a joke.…

Review: The Glass Menagerie

Todd Wallinger — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:02:00 -0600

When writers first start out, they rarely think beyond themselves, cranking out insular, navel-gazing works about their own lives and concerns. Only when they get this out of their systems and begin to wrestle with the greater world around them do they find success.…

Review: La Cage Aux Folles

Todd Wallinger — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:11:49 -0600

I suppose there was time when La Cage Aux Folles seemed cutting-edge, maybe even shocking. But that time wasn't last Tuesday, when the national tour opened a three-week run at the Buell Theatre in Denver.…

Review: The Book of Mormon

Todd Wallinger — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:50:01 -0600

I drove up to Denver's Ellie Caulkins Opera House on Sunday convinced there was no way The Book of Mormon could live up to the hype.

I mean, the show won nine — count 'em, nine — Tony Awards.…

Theater review: Love's Labor's Lost

Todd Wallinger — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:27:44 -0600

Tolstoy once wrote, "All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

The plays of William Shakespeare are kind of like that. While each of the Bard's tragedies is tragic in its own way, his comedies tend to run together, blending varying amounts of mistaken identity, misdirected messages, cross-dressing and, somewhere toward the end, a clumsily performed play within a play.…

Review: Jersey Boys

Todd Wallinger — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:45:01 -0600

Of all the recent trends on Broadway, the rise of the jukebox musical may be the most odious. Digging up a bunch of old songs, crowbarring them into a thin, contrived plot, and then marketing the show as something fresh and new has got to be the laziest possible way to make a musical.…

THEATREdART goes insane with new season

Todd Wallinger — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:41:13 -0600

Avant-garde theater company THEATREdART has always taken pride in doing plays you can't see anywhere else in town. And in its sixth season, announced at its annual fundraiser on Saturday, the company will be continuing that tradition with a tantalizing menu of both the rare and the weird.…

Review: The Addams Family

Todd Wallinger — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:59:04 -0600

One of my biggest gripes with musicals these days is that all too often the characters seem straight out of cartoons. I mean, who wants to watch a show filled with tired stereotypes spouting hackneyed dialogue?…

Beauty and the Beast tickets discount

Edie Adelstein — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:40:24 -0600

From the listings desk: Nancy Holaday, the instructor behind the University School of Colorado Springs' production of Beauty and the Beast, says that through this Friday, reserved tickets for the show will be $10 off.

As the Indy covered in this week's article, the show is a benefit for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, with prices regularly $20 to $35.…

Review: The Underpants

Todd Wallinger — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:55:22 -0600

Steve Martin and I go way back.

No, I've never met him, but over the last 30-some years, I've followed his career so closely that I almost feel like I have.…

Review: Hairspray

Todd Wallinger — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:26:12 -0600

Anyone who believes a musical can't be both splashy and smart has missed one of the best shows to come out of Broadway in the last 10 years.

I'm talking about Hairspray, the 2002 musical based on the 1988 movie by John Waters.…

WYNOT Radio Theatre releases their first CD

Todd Wallinger — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:28:17 -0600

If you've ever seen the WYNOT Radio Theatre in action, you know how frantic and fast-paced their shows can be. So fast-paced, in fact, that you might find yourself wishing you could replay the show so you can catch all the one-liners and double entendres you missed the first time.…

Review: Mary Stuart at TheatreWorks

Todd Wallinger — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:51:02 -0600

Queen Elizabeth I has been represented on screen so many times, we might be tempted to think we really know her. From Dame Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love to Helen Mirren in Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen is consistently portrayed as ruling England with an iron will and an imperious charm.…