Tag: theater
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Broadway musical ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ makes stop in Colorado Springs
Comedian Robin Williams delighted us as a wise and athletic Scottish nanny in the 1993 film “Mrs. Doubtfire.” He starred as Daniel, an out-of-work actor who loses custody of his three kids in a messy divorce. To stay in their lives, he creates the character Euphegenia Doubtfire, whom his ex-wife hires to care for the…
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Drama, comedy, dance fill up Colorado Springs stages this weekend
– “Metamorphoses” by Colorado Springs Conservatory: The play is a collection of Greek myths symbolic of psychological or spiritual journeys. In each tale, the characters are transformed into birds, trees, rivers and other such non-human entities, 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Colorado Springs Conservatory, 420 N. Nevada Ave., $22.50; coloradospringsconservatory.org. – “Picasso…
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New Colorado Springs theater company starts season with ‘Shrek’
Some ogres live under a bridge. Others are swoon-worthy. Shrek, the large, grumpy, green ogre, star of a children’s book, Disney movie, and musical, is the latter. Third House Arts, a new community theater group, will mount “Shrek: The Musical” Thursday through Saturday in their host theater at Colorado Springs Christian School. “The movie representation…
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Award-winning musicals, plays coming to Colorado stages this spring
Through April 5: “The Phantom of the Opera”Denver Center for the Performing Arts In Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award-winning tragic musical, based on the 1920 novel by Gaston Leroux, a mysterious, disfigured musical genius who lives in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Paris Opera House develops an obsession with a singer. April 2-19: “Frozen” by…
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Theatreworks’ new season in Colorado Springs includes Tony Award-winning ‘Sweeney Todd’
A barber who goes to ghastly ends to enact revenge kicks off Theatreworks’ 2026-2027 season. The new five-show season at Ent Center for the Arts begins Sept. 10 with Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” It also includes the popular Noël Coward play, “Private Lives”; “Sweat,” by the Pulitzer Prize-winning…
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Popular board game comes to life in Colorado Springs
“Clue” is one of the few board games to make the jump to film and stage. Actor Adam Brett, who grew up playing the board game and watching the 1985 movie that boasted a bevy of stars, including Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn and Christopher Lloyd, is now getting the chance to put his own spin…
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New Colorado Springs play filled with literal, metaphorical ghosts
Your theatrical mission, should you choose to forgo leaving a performance with everything tied up in a cheery bow, is to attend August Strindberg’s 1907 play, “The Ghost Sonata,” with an open mind. The new production, by students in the University of Colorado Colorado Springs Department of Visual and Performing Arts, opens Thursday at Ent…
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Back on the big screen: Catch ‘Sinners,’ ‘F1’ and other Oscar-nominated films at Cinemark this week
The red carpet isn’t the only place to catch this year’s Oscar buzz. Before Hollywood crowns its winners, Cinemark is bringing the celebration to the big screen nationwide. Starting Monday and continuing for a week, movie lovers can experience this year’s most acclaimed films again in Cinemark auditoriums. Presented as part of the annual Oscars…
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Wide variety of comedians set to take the stage in Colorado Springs
JEFF DUNHAM: ‘ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE’: The hilarious ventriloquist and his cast of puppets, including Walter, Peanut and Bubba J, are coming to The Broadmoor World Arena. Known for blending sharp stand-up with outrageous puppet banter, Dunham delivers rapid-fire punchlines. 7 p.m. Wednesday, 3185 Venetucci Blvd., $77-$231; broadmoorworldarena.com. TREVOR WALLACE: ‘THE ALPHA BETA MALE’: The stand-up comedian…
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Denver Restaurant Week, Monte Vista Crane Festival and Leadville Skijoring top busy slate around Colorado
MONTE VISTA CRANE FESTIVAL: The 43rd annual festival gives visitors a front-row seat to thousands of sandhill cranes, ducks, geese and raptors migrating through the San Luis Valley. Tours embark from the Ski Hi Complex (2335 Sherman Ave.) in Monte Vista, where attendees can learn about birds. Friday through Sunday from 7 a.m. to 4…