Summer Ticket Special
Tomfoolery
is a smash hit! By audience demand we've added 2 addtitional
weekends, now running through Sat Sept 11. Reserve your
seats today! As a summer treat to our patrons, we're
offering a special discount for
Tomfoolery,
all seats are only $18. Call
(303) 433-4343
for reservations or
click
here to buy tickets online.
"Tomfoolery" crammed with Lehrers of fun
"There was no American era quite as perfect as the
1950s and early '60s for a satirist such as Tom
Lehrer (who) wielded his songs like a scalpel...
The cast and director have treated Lehrer's work
with love and enthusiasm, bringing to life the work
of a beloved American humor icon in a show that
will amuse old fans and new. "
Kurt
Brighton - The Denver Post
***1/2 (out of 4)
Tireless satire: For Tomfoolery, don't leave
your brain at home
Tomfoolery isn't a big, complicated show:
just four charming performers...singing the brilliantly
savage songs of Tom Lehrer...This is that rare event:
a lighthearted good time that doesn't require you
to leave your brain at home."
Juliet
Wittman, Westword
"The Denver Victorian Playhouse is currently
tickling the daylights out of its audience with
a rollicking evening of joyously irreverent pandemonium.
You may either hop skip or jump to see it, but see
it you must! The cast of four is adorable, enthusiastic
and milks Mr. Lehrer's irreverent lyrics to funny
bone shattering perfection...a perfect fit for this
intimate venue."
David
Marlowe, Colorado Theatre Guild
'Tomfoolery' - A Clever, Foolish Time
"... it’s great for an evening of nostalgia (with
a cynical edge)... some extraordinarily intelligent
rhymes (and) real poignancy... The entire audience
was laughing along to this quick and quirky show,
and we think you’ll leave with a smile on your face
and tune in your head"
Mile
High Critics
Hat's off to our Henry Award nominees!
We are very pleased to have two of
our favorite people nominated for the
Colorado Theatre Guild 2010 Henry Awards.
Boni and El have done so much to make our little theatre
the success it is, thanks to both of you for your energy
and creativity!
Nominee, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play
Boni McIntyre, London
Suite
Nominee, Outstanding Sound Design
El Armstrong, Voices
in the Dark
Congratulations to our 2009 Ovation Award Finalists
We had a very memorable season in
2009, and we are proud to have been nominated for the
Denver Post Ovation Awards
for the year. Congratulations to our finalists, and thanks to all the actors, artists,
designers and builders that make our theater what it is.
Finalist, BEST ACTRESS, MUSICAL ROLE:
Kelly Twedt, The Fantasticks
Finalist, BEST ACTRESS, COMIC ROLE:
Rita Broderick, Educating Rita
Finalist, BEST LIGHTING:
Karalyn Star Pytel, The Fantasticks
Vic put the home in "home theater"
Basement stage that brought Shakespeare to the West in the 1900s remains
Denver's intimate experience
By
John Moore
Denver Post Theater critic 1/2/09
"There's no theater experience in Colorado like a night at the Victorian Playhouse,
carved in 1911 out of the basement of a hallowed home in northwest Denver."
Click here to read the full article
The Vic announces online ticketing!
We've teamed up with
OvationTix
to provide fast and easy online ticketing for all our shows here at the Denver Victorian Playhouse.
Online tickets are available now,
click here to see the calendar.
Westword "Best of Denver" 2006
BEST THEATRICAL RESURRECTION
Denver Victorian Playhouse
The story of this theater, like much
of Denver's history, was shaped by tuberculosis. At
the turn of the previous century, George Swartz, a tuberculosis
patient and Shakespeare aficionado, moved to the area
for its dry, sunny climate and bought a house. He built
a theater into his basement and presented all of Shakespeare's
plays there. During its existence, the theater has gone
through periods of use and periods of darkness. Paul
Willet ran it from 1964 to shortly before his death
in 1984, using the quaintly old-fashioned setting to
present uncompromising plays. Wade and Lorraine Wood
purchased the Victorian this year and are presenting
an interesting and eclectic roster of plays. True to
the gracious spirit of the place -- and the ghost of
Paul Willet -- they serve tea, coffee and cookies during
intermissions.
BEST PRODUCTION BASED ON PRINCIPLE
Dead Man Walking
Denver Victorian Playhouse
The men on America's death rows, their lingering, useless days,
the terror of the hours until countdown: Most of us
rarely think about them, but like the mad aunt in the
attic, they are always there, haunting the fringes of
consciousness. University of Denver's Sturm College
of Law, in conjunction with Alliance Stage, brought
the issue into the daylight recently, staging Tim Robbins's
Dead Man Walking, based on the book by Sister
Helen Prejean. The book and the play make the inhumanity
of state-sanctioned execution clear while taking into
account the rage and grief of victims' families. Dead
Man Walking is, in part, agitprop, but it's agitprop
in the most thoughtful and honorable tradition. The
production at the Victorian was effective, sustained
in large part by the beautiful and committed work of
Terry Ann Watts as Sister Helen and Michael Richman's
understated, passionate performance as convicted killer
Matt Poncelet.
