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 › Coming Attraction: Colorado New Play Summit
Posted: November 20, 2012 10:45 AM
 › Sweet Charity
Date: 1347672600 - 1350271800

Here is a play for anyone who knows what it’s like to climb the clumsy ladder of success. Charity, a young woman in New York works as a dancer in a Times Square music hall. She remains fearlessly dedicated to her dreams of becoming a star of the stage, despite numerous life's attempts to knock her down.

 › In the Heights
Date: 1347580800 - 1352689200

People in a community are always connected. Follow three days in the lives of several characters in a vibrant New York City Dominican-American neighborhood. Discover how 12 people from the same cross streets can take such different life paths in this 13-time Tony-nominated Pulitzer-Prize winning musical.  Thu-Sun 6 p.m.

 › Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Date: 1348795800 - 1351468800

Getting a little sick of the same right versus left media coverage? This play examines the role of the presidency with a grotesque, cynical attitude. A rocking musical score underlines the play, while sardonic characters ravage the nation’s political history.

 › The Belle of Amherst
Date: 1342834200 - 1346038200

It is impossible for even the most learned scholars to say they know Emily Dickenson. Playwright William Luce takes on the task of describing this complicated, literary legend in this one woman play. Using material from her poems, diaries, and letters, he conveys the inner agony caused by Dickenson’s seclusion while also showing her unlikely optimism towards life.

 › Treasure Island
Date: 1345167000 - 1345260600

Forget vampires, swashbucklers are still where it's at. Set sail with Long John Silver in an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s original pirate adventure. Accompanied by a barrage of wild goons on a mission to find the buried treasure the young hero battles with buccaneers and brandishes foes with his swordplay while discovering the man within himself. Thu-Fri 7:30 p.m.

 › Mystery of the Wizard's Wand
Date: 1343062800 - 1343070000

Somebody has swiped Shazam’s magic wand! Help sniff out the culprit in this interactive play set in a historic mansion, where the mansion itself is a stage. The day starts out with a scavenger hunt to get the kids warmed up to look for clues and ends when the thief is apprehended. Hints will be planted all over the building and your little detective is free to roam and inspect.

 › Best Bet: See "Date*" at Jones Theatre
Posted: May 7, 2012 10:00 AM
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