Arts & Entertainment

Mona Wood-Patterson has a simple bit of advice for anyone embarking on a career in theater.“If you find a good tech director, you should marry that person,” she told a crowd Dec. 10 at the Denver...

Tickets are on sale for all shows in the Denver Center Attractions 2012 season, which will feature an A-list of recent Broadway hits on tour.Highlights for the coming year include 2010 Best Musical...

Turns out Santa’s reindeer are toting a lot more baggage than a sleigh full of toys.It’s been a few years since director Theresa Carson put Jeff Goode’s “The Eight: Reindeer Monologues” on a local...

Women beware. On Saturday morning, the handsome bass-baritone René Pape will sing the role of Méphistophélès. He’s witty, cynical and oh so charming. Second warning: The beguiling tenor Jonas...

Imagine the pressure of playing party planner for the birth of Jesus Christ.That’s essentially what young, wannabe angel Neville is faced with in the Durango Lively Arts Company’s holiday...

And you thought your family was dysfunctional.At the beginning of G.F. Handel’s opera “Rodelinda,” the put-upon queen of an 18th-century Italian kingdom, is in a pile of trouble. Loosely based on a...

So you think your family is dysfunctional during the holidays? I can almost guarantee they’ve got nothing on the Plantagenets.The family gathered in 1183 at a castle in the English-ruled French...

Chances are you’ve heard more music composed by Philip Glass at the movies than at the opera. This Saturday, you have a chance to do both. Glass’ mesmerizing opera about Mahatma Gandhi,...

No matter what Professor Laurie Jameson does, people and events interfere. No matter how hard this smart, successful, Harvard-educated academic tries to advance her feminist agenda, the world is...