07/10/11 Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell will anoint the new Lone Tree Arts Center in suburban Denver with a performance at its grand-opening gala on Aug. 27.
07/09/11 By staging a professional play in the lobby of the downtown Barth Hotel each summer, Senior Housing Options has raised $160,000 above its costs to help pay for the essential services it provides to 500 special-needs seniors in 14 Colorado residences. That and other news of the week.
07/08/11 Review: It's impossible to see John Kolvenbach's play as anything but a deliberate homage to Sam Shepard's seminal "True West." Both are violent, relentless and booze-soaked tales of estranged brothers who reunite in a kitchen and battle over their troubled pasts. But there are far worse things than to be favorably compared to Shepard. Rating: *** Rating: ***
06/24/11 When Theatre Aspen announced Sandy Duncan would be gracing its stage this summer in the road-trip play "Becky's New Car," it seemed unlikely the wholesome star might soon be occupying the town's Charlie Sheen Memorial Jail Cell.
06/22/11 Review: The Arvada Center's high-octane, heavyweight staging of the aerosol musical "Hairspray" is blowing a beehive-shaped hole in the ozone layer above Arvada. Rating: ****
05/27/11 Review: In Curious Theatre's well-played little party game called "A Number," John Hutton and Timothy McCracken make a formidable duo playing out scenes between a father and widely varying identical sons struggling with the biggest question of all: "How did I get here?" Rating: ***
05/26/11 The Memorial Day weekend will be filled with activities through Southern Colorado as local communities hold their respective holiday observances.
05/08/11 Four boys with stories as diverse as their dancing backgrounds will take turns starring as Billy when the first national touring production of the Broadway juggernaut opens Wednesday at Denver's Buell Theatre. The message that sends? Even you can be Billy Elliot. That is, until you can't.
05/06/11 The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will grant degrees to approximately 2,800 students at commencement exercises May 6 and 7 in separate ceremonies for baccalaureate, graduate and law degrees
05/06/11 Things are getting loud on East 17th Avenue. By presenting "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and "Breach" in repertory this month, the Avenue Theater is demanding to be heard by a new kind of theater crowd: The kind that doesn't go to the theater.
05/06/11 Review: Taking in "Dangerous Liaisons" feels a bit like a dangerous liaison in itself. This debut staging by the new Spark Theater takes audiences out of their comfort zone by annihilating all distance between them and the famously cruel tale that plays out practically in their laps. Rating: **1/2
05/01/11 The Arvada Center doesn't often trade in stunt celebrity casting. And signing comedian Jim J. Bullock to play the husky Edna Turnblad in the first professional Colorado staging of "Hairspray" this summer is no exception.
04/27/11 The new Lone Tree Arts Center will introduce itself Sept. 9 with a big-name concert featuring Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp. Also coming to Douglas County: Arvada Center musicals "Ragtime" and "Chess," the Creede Repertory Theatre, magic, Celts, opera and more.
04/18/11 The U.S. Forest Service has scheduled three public meetings to take comments about a proposed land swap for a resort village below Wolf Creek Ski Area.The swap would exchange 178 acres of Texas developer Red McCombs land in a meadow below the ski area for 204 acres of national forest land with access to U.S. Highway 160.
04/15/11 Federal officials want to hear from the public as they review a proposal to swap federal land for acres owned by a Texas billionaire who has been trying for years to develop a village near the Wolf Creek Ski Area in southwest Colorado.
03/17/11 The city of Fort Morgan plans to take over the liquor part of the concessions at the city golf course again.
03/16/11 Kiah Hicks is quite the diverse athlete. The Falcon High School senior just finished a girls basketball season.
03/07/11 Posted: Monday, March 7, 2011 12:00 am | Updated: 10:41 pm, Sun Mar 6, 2011.
03/02/11 "They're even decorating the alleys in Fort Collins," said Fort Collins resident Jane Sullivan in a video introduced by Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday as he presented Fort Collins with the 2011 Governor's Arts Award.
02/25/11 Winter weather has returned to the mountains of Colorado. A prolonged period of snow will fall over the Northern, Central and Southern mountains through the weekend. Some areas will see close to 2 feet of accumulation, while areas across the Front Range will see some flurries. | 
