The Wild Duck is the most complex and thought-provoking play of our season, and it has raised more than a few questions from our audience members. Many of these cannot and perhaps should not be answered with complete certainty, but... Continue reading

So The Wild Duck is a thrilling play; a thriller. A crime is going to be committed, a monstrous crime, perpetuated by a villain as determined and almost as persuasive as Iago, and we watch as he puts his victims in his vise and turns. They are held and squeezed, nearly suffocated, and so are we. But Ibsen's perpetuator is not, like Iago, a gleefully malevolent villain. Continue reading

We all know who is #1--in theatre, in literature and almost everywhere else. William Shakespeare is way out in front, has been for some time, and will be for the foreseeable future. No one else is close. But the fellow... Continue reading

We all know time is ticking faster these days, and we are impatient when it doesn't. I'm one of those 21st century idiots who has been saved by my iPhone, which is with me every moment. My magic phone has... Continue reading

Andrew Jackson is in town for a a few weeks, and I can tell you in person he doesn't look much like the president on your $20 bill. He looks more like this guy---younger, tougher, more crazed and charismatic. Actually,... Continue reading

We had a jolly gang on the Everyman bus last night at 8:00, and when it was all over and done with I thought maybe it was a little too jolly-- the bus felt like a Broncos shuttle. We do... Continue reading

When God talks, people listen—or they ought to, anyway. They haven’t been paying Him any attention lately, so He’s sending Death into the world to give them a bit more focus. And when Death knocks it’s a wake-up call. Out... Continue reading

A couple of years ago I went to New York City, specifically to see Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Ben Brantley of the New York Times had reported that it was the most compelling Broadway musical in years, it centered around... Continue reading

Medieval theatre was not quite theatre as we know it. It was created at time when theatre was emerging from the womb of the church, and it remains deeply bound to its mother. But it occupies a space of its... Continue reading

Many years ago I got a very mixed review for the first original work of theatre I wrote for the stage, a play about the notorious Scopes Monkey trial in Dayton, Tennessee. The reviewer said my play didn't give my... Continue reading

The great artist came to Colorado once, when he taught at Boulder for eight weeks in 1955. It was a chance to get out of town, make some extra cash and be idolized in the provinces. Continue reading

THEATREWORKS is actually closed for one full week! This never happens! We hope to use the time as we hope you use yours--eating, drinking, singing, dancing, eating Essie's candy, playing games and giving thanks. It's true this season feels less... Continue reading

We bought too many tickets for our London Tour. So THEATREWORKS now has a limited number of tickets for sale for two shows in London: Privates on Parade on January 7 and Twelfth Night on January 6, 8, 9 and... Continue reading

Bound for a full sixty minutes! As a final project, students of my Greek tragedy class have been assigned to rehearse and produce a slightly abbreviated version of Aeschylus’ PROMETHEUS BOUND. They have had a total of 5 hours on... Continue reading

Nearly everyone has heard of the great American playwrights: Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. Not so many people know George S. Kaufman, which is surprising considering how he dominated American theater during the middle of the last century.... Continue reading

You Can’t Take It With You banishes the realities of making a living and brings in the fun. It brings in the pursuits of real happiness. It gives us bad ballet, candy, great fireworks, and lots of love. What’s better than that? Continue reading

Our theater has never looked like this and never will again. The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity is a transformational work of theatre, and we have gone all out to make it amazing. Our show got rave reviews in Denver,... Continue reading

And now for something completely different. You’ve come to expect that at THEATREWORKS, at least some of the time, and now would be one of those times. We’ve stowed the Shakespeare tent and packed up our glass menagerie. The next time you come to our theater you won’t find a stage---you’ll be ringside at the latest production of THE Wrestling. Continue reading

Here's a comment from one of our favorite subscribers after seeing The Glass Menagerie: "Did we "enjoy" the play you ask? Uh, I suppose, but geez, I had to find someone to shove bamboo slivers under my fingernails to cheer... Continue reading

When Tennessee Williams was eight years old his father got a job in St. Louis, and the family moved north from their home in Mississippi. He was very close to his slightly older sister named Rose, and wary of his... Continue reading

In Spain,there was revolution. In Spain, there was Guernica. Here there was only noise, confusion and labor disturbances: The old home in East Tennessee is no longer in the family. In St. Louis, mom remembers the jonquils of yesteryear. Ands... Continue reading

For several centuries critics have been debating the merits of our summer play, Love's Labor's Lost. "If we were to part with any of the author's comedies, it would should be this," begins William Hazlitt, one of Shakespeare's best 19th... Continue reading

PROLOGUE PREVIEW by Kevin Landis In the past several months I have increasingly been hearing whispers far and wide about the Prologue Lecture Series. "Have you heard what THEATREWORKS is doing?" "I saw the greatest lecture last night at THEATREWORKS!"... Continue reading

Subscribe today (if you haven’t already)! Subscribing to THEATREWORKS is really easy. And completely painless. And totally about you. You pick the shows, you pick the dates, and we’ll build you your perfect package. The only way you can go... Continue reading

Love’s Labor’s Lost. The title alone is a bit of a tease. What about those two apostrophes, the most misused, wandering, and abandoned of all punctuation marks? Holofernes, the play’s village schoolmaster, would be delighted to explain—in fact he uses the word to mean a contraction for the very first time in English literature: “You find not the apostrophus, and so miss the accent,” he says, without making anything more clear. That’s the kind of guy he is. Continue reading