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Buzz about "The
Fantasticks "
"The poetic book and breezy, hummable score, includes
such familiar songs as "Try to Remember," and
has endeared the show to audiences for almost 50 years...
This production takes place at the Denver Victorian Playhouse,
one of the best intimate theaters in town... Denver has
a stellar talent pool in the theater community and this
one is another knockout cast..."
Robert Michael Sanders, ColoradoMusicBuzz.com

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 for Educating
Rita , click
here to see the calendar.

Denver
Post Ovation Awards honor The Vic
We
are extremely pleased to recognize the achievements of the
2007 Ovation Award nominees that have
worked with us here at The Vic. Congratulations to you all,
and all the other exceptional artists and designers who
made our theatre such a success. Well done!
BEST YEAR BY A DIRECTOR:
Terry Dodd: Victorian's "Twelfth
Night" and "Jacob
Marley's Christmas Carol," Miners Alley's "Lobby
Hero," Modern Muse's "thom pain (based on nothing),"
Crossroads' "Three Viewings," Bas Bleu's "The
1940s Radio Christmas Carol"
BEST
ACTRESS IN A DRAMA:
Terry Ann Watts "Dead
Man Walking"
BEST
SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY:
*Seth Maisel "No
Sex Please, We're British
*
Winner of the reader's choice award

2006
Denver Post Ovation Award
BEST SEASON FOR A DIRECTOR
Terry Dodd
The
Holdup, The Smell of the Kill, Private Eyes, The Caretaker,
The Man From Nebraska,
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, The Weir
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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.

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